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Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD, MCHES, is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine and Associate Director and Senior Implementation Scientist with the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She also is a Senior Scientific Advisor for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for dissemination and implementation science and primary care research.
Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Amy Huebschmann's, MD, MS, FACP, overarching goal is to optimize the delivery of evidence-based interventions to improve the treatment and prevention of diabetes, asthma, cancer, and other chronic diseases in randomized-controlled trials, and to adapt those interventions to be feasible for delivery in real-world primary care and community-based settings. Dr. Huebschmann is a primary care physician and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), and the Lead Scientist for Community Education and Outreach for the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research. She is the senior implementation scientist for several NIH-funded pragmatic trials, including serving as MPI for one of the 7 NHLBI-funded DECIPHeR UG3/UH3 awards to leverage implementation science to improve cardiopulmonary health inequities.
Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Dan Matlock, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative care. His research is aimed at fundamentally changing and improving how patients make decisions around invasive technologies. He has been funded under an NIH career development award, three NHLBI RO1s (two Co-I, one PI), and four PCORI projects studying shared decision making among older adults making decisions around invasive technologies. He has participated in the American College of Cardiology’s shared decision making task force and he is also an active participant of the International Patient Decision Aid Standards writing committee. Recently, he has also been named Director of Implementation Research for the Denver Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center.
Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Spero M. Manson, PhD (Pembina Chippewa) is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, and occupies the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health within the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. His programs include 10 national centers, which pursue research, program development, training, and collaboration with 225 Native communities, spanning rural, reservation, urban, and village settings across the country. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Manson has acquired $268 million in sponsored research to support this work and published 280+ articles on the assessment, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of physical, alcohol, drug, as well as mental health problems over the developmental life span of Native people. His numerous awards include the APHA Rema Lapouse Mental Health Epidemiology Award (1998) and Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of Mental Health (2019); 4 special recognition awards from the Indian Health Service (1985, 1996, 2004, 2011); 2 Distinguished Mentor Awards from the GSA (2006, 2007); AAMC’s Nickens Award (2006); George Foster Award for Excellence (2006) and Distinguished Career Achievement Award (2020) from the Society for Medical Anthropology; NIH Health Disparities Award for Excellence (2008); Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology (2019); CDC Foundation’s Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award (2021); election to the National Academy of Medicine (2002) and its Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health (2021). He is widely acknowledged as one of the nation’s leading authorities in regard to Indian and Native health.