Pragmatic Research with Real-World Clinical and Community Settings: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations for Success

Brian Mittman, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Kaiser Permanente Southern California with additional affiliations at USC and UCLA, where co-leads the UCLA CTSI Implementation and Improvement Science initiative. He co-founded the IOM Forum on the Science of Quality Improvement and Implementation and the journal Implementation Science. He previously chaired the NIH peer review panel on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health and directed VA’s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. He currently serves on the PCORI Methodology Committee, AAMC Advisory Panel on Research, NHLBI Board of External Experts and advisory committees for several additional research and training programs.

Amy Huebschmann, MD, MS, FACP, began her education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a BS in Environmental Engineering. She earned her medical degree in 2000 from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Continuing her education, most recently she earned an MS in Clinical Sciences in 2015 at the University of Colorado. Dr. Huebschmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Center for Women’s Health Research. She is funded by a K23 career development award from the National Heart Lung Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and was previously funded by a KL2 award from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her overarching research goal is to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes by overcoming barriers to physical activity and by optimally controlling other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension. To achieve this overarching goal, Dr. Huebschmann seeks to work with clinics and communities to implement evidence-based programs to promote physical activity for people with Type 2 Diabetes.