Speakers

Rinad Beidas, PhD, is a leading implementation scientist who has published over 150 articles. She has a strong record of NIH-funded implementation research serving as MPI or PI of nine NIH grants totaling approximately 23 million dollars since 2012. Her research program is designed to improve the quality of health and mental health services through implementation science. To conduct this work, Beidas collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policymakers, to develop natural laboratories in which to answer questions of interest.

Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Division of General Internal Medicine. A practicing internist, health services researcher and philosopher, Dr. DeCamp employs both empirical and conceptual methods to identify and solve cutting edge problems at the interface of health care, policy and bioethics. Special emphases of his research include engaging patients in health care organizational decision-making, ethical issues in the use of social media, “Big Data,” and global health (with a focus on short-term global health ethics​).

Russell E. Glasgow, PhD, is Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Program of the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcome Research and Delivery Science there. His research focuses on issues of designing for implementation and sustainability, understanding and assessing adaptations to programs, and development and evaluation of pragmatic models and measures. Russell is a behavioral scientist who specializes in the development and assessment of chronic illness prevention and self-management programs.

Russell has 15 years of experience in implementation science and over 25 years of experience in intervention and health outcomes research. He has over 450 peer reviewed publications, most of them related to applied research issues, evaluating and enhancing generalizability of research, pragmatic research methods and frameworks, and ways to enhance implementation and dissemination.

R. Mark Gritz, PhD, is Director of Operations for ACCORDS, an Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Health Care Policy and Research, and the Director of Operations at the Farley Health Policy Center. He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University and has over 30 years of experience in directing and managing demonstrations, evaluations, research, and technical assistance projects designed to improve economic, health and other outcomes affecting the well-being of economically-disadvantaged and other vulnerable populations. Many of these projects have involved youth, women from low-income families, veterans, elderly, and other targeted populations, including several research and evaluation efforts examining the needs and experiences of low-income youth, unemployed workers, working single mothers, socio-economically disadvantaged populations, and disabled veterans. Before returning to Colorado he held several corporate management positions where he directed over 100 scientific and technical staff, had responsibility for the financial performance of international business units, and managed intellectual property portfolios. His current work focuses on healthcare value and its association with socio-economics factors with an eye towards rapidly responding to research and policy analysis needs of government agencies in Colorado.

Allison Kempe, MD, MPH is the founding Director of ACCORDS. She is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and has conducted health services, outcomes, and implementation/dissemination research for over thirty years. She has extensive experience in conducting pragmatic trials, in program evaluation and in the conduct of surveys, with over 200 publications focusing on improving health care and health care delivery. Finding and testing methods of improving immunization rates and other preventive care delivery and decreasing disparities in health and health care delivery for children have been the major focus of her own research. She has received numerous R01 level grants from NIH, AHRQ, and the CDC throughout her career. Additionally, Dr. Kempe has played a major mentorship role for many fellows and junior faculty. She directed two federally funded primary care research fellowships for over 10 years and developed a fellowship for surgical and subspecialty faculty who wish to become outcomes or health services researchers. Currently, she is a Co-Director of a K12 from NHLBI that focuses on implementation and dissemination science.

Rodger Kessler, PhD, MSPH, is a health psychologist practicing in Family Medicine for over 25 years. While he is often associated with integrated behavioral health, is current do is is advanced models of community and primary care integration. His work also, focuses on EHR use and patient reported outcomes,,such as quality of life, to assist decision support to promote improved care outcomes.

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2010, following a MSPH from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2005. She holds a BS in Chemistry and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University (’01). As an investigator in the University of Colorado’s Adult & Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), she conducts pragmatic, patient-centered research and evaluation on health and health care in a variety of areas. With an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and dissemination and implementation (D&I) methods, her work addresses the integration of physical and behavioral health, chronic disease self-management, improving processes and systems of care to achieve the Quadruple Aim, pragmatic trials using electronic health data, and enhancing quality of life for patients and care partners. She works with patients and other stakeholders at all phases of research, from prioritization, to design, implementation, and dissemination of research. She mentors and teaches students, trainees, and fellow faculty on Designing for Dissemination to ensure that research innovations are efficiently and effectively adopted, used, and sustained in real world settings to improve health and well-being for all. Dr. Kwan directs the ACCORDS Education program as well as the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) Dissemination & Implementation Research Core.

Cara C. Lewis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, associate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She is also a Beck Scholar with expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is Past President of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration and co-founding Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Research and Practice, a journal published in partnership with SIRC and Sage. Her research focuses on advancing pragmatic and rigorous measures and methods for implementation science and practice, and informing tailored implementation of evidence based practices across diverse settings, populations, and problem areas. She is also Co-Director of the Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET), which is a national Coordinating Center for bringing research, evaluation, and implementation support to bear across Kaiser Permanente in the service of addressing social risk among its members.

Nandita Mitra, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics and Vice-Chair of Faculty Professional Development in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Co-Director of the Center for Causal Inference at Penn. Her primary research area is causal inference with a focus on developing propensity score, instrumental variables, and sensitivity analysis methods for observational data with applications in cancer, health policy, and health economics. Dr. Mitra is Editor-in-Chief of Observational Studies and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Biostatistics. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Brad Morse, PhD, MA, earned his Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society from the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. A Masters degree in Cultural Anthropology was obtained before finishing his terminal degree. His current academic interests include user experience (UX) research, human-centered design, mHealth, qualitative research design, qualitative methods, ethnography, community engagement, and collaborative video development.

Angela Moss, MS received a Bachelor in Engineering Degree from Vanderbilt University. After working as a Chemical Engineer in both the Biotechnology and Aerospace fields she earned a Master's Degree from University of Colorado in Biostatistics. She has been working as an analyst at ACCORDS since 2014.

Wynne E. Norton, PhD, is a Program Director in Implementation Science in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Her research interests include de-implementation of ineffective interventions, evidence-based cancer care delivery, and pragmatic trials of implementation strategies. Dr. Norton serves as faculty for the NCI Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation in Cancer (TIDIRC) and is a program scientist on three NCI Cancer Moonshot(SM) Initiatives.

Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego where she also serves as the co-Director of the UC San Diego D&I Science Center. Dr. Rabin serves as the co-lead of the Implementation Core for the Triple Aim QUERI Program for Denver VA and an Implementation Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Stress and Mental Health at the San Diego VA. She is a member of the ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science Program at the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on dissemination and implementation (D&I) of evidence-based interventions, adaptations, measurement, and the evaluation and development of interactive, web-based interventions and tools with a special emphasis on tools that can support planning for D&I interventions. She designed and developed a number of web-based resources including the D&I Models in Research and Practice (www.dissemination-implementation.org) websites.

John Rice, PhD is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics and a biostatistician with the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS). He received his PhD in biostatistics in 2015 from the University of Michigan, followed by a postdoc at the University of Rochester. His methodological research is focused on missing and coarsened outcomes, longitudinal/correlated data analysis, and recurrent events. Areas of application include cancer survival, HIV screening, vaccine hesitancy, and other health outcomes.

Brittany Rudd, PhD is an Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry and the Director of the Implementation Science and System-Involved Youth Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The central theme of Dr. Rudd’s program of research is improving access to quality mental health care among vulnerable populations.

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.

Robyn Wearner, MA, RDN, enjoys helping primary care teams work on continuous quality improvement as much as I enjoy working on implementing projects as a research team member. Practice facilitation is the bridge that allows me to bring these two roles together. My background and skills as a Registered Dietitian, Instructional Designer and Project Management Professional have supported numerous programs and research projects at the University of Colorado since 2004.

Bryan Weiner, PhD, is Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Health Services at the University of Washington. Dr. Weiner’s research focuses on the implementation of innovations and evidence-based practices in healthcare. Over the past 24 years, he has examined a wide range of innovations including quality improvement practices, care management practices, and patient safety practices; as well evidence-based clinical practices in cancer and cardiovascular disease. His research has advanced implementation science by creating knowledge about the organizational determinants of effective implementation, developing new theories of implementation, and improving the state of measurement in the field.

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and implementation scientist at the VA National Center for PTSD and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is the co-director of the Stanford Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub, and has served on the boards of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration and the American Psychological Association. Her work focuses on sustainability, adaptation, fidelity and training, and has been funded by NIMH, the VA, and private foundations.

Kate Ytell, MPH, works as a PRA for the D2V initiative, where she supports various research and evaluation efforts including the Stakeholder Engagement Core and the Post-Acute Care Research and Team Science group. Her research interests include refugee health, culturally effective research, and stakeholder engagement.