Assistant Professor; Director of Dissemination and Evaluation, Psychiatry/ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
University of California, San Diego

Nicole Stadnick, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, Director of Dissemination and Evaluation of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, researcher at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center and a licensed psychologist. Her program of federally, state and privately funded research focuses on evaluating the implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices in community-based health or mental health service contexts. She has received NIH-funded fellowships from the Child, Intervention, Prevention, and Services Research Mentoring Network (2015-2016), the Implementation Research Institute (2017-2018) and the Mixed Methods Training Program for the Health Sciences (2019-2020). She currently leads community-engaged, cross-system health services and implementation research in community settings including federally qualified health centers, low-and-middle income countries, publicly-funded mental health services and HIV/AIDS care programs.

Professor of Public Health
Center for Public Health Systems Science, Washington University, St. Louis

Douglas Luke, PhD is the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. He directs the Center for Public Health Systems Science, which focuses on public health policy research and evaluation. Dr. Luke's work has focused in recent years on systems science and implementation science. He is particularly interested in increasing the use of systems science concepts and methods within implementation science.

Director, ACCORDS Education Program; Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director of Dissemination and Implementation, CCTSI
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency 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 wellbeing for all. Dr. Kwan directs the ACCORDS Education program as well as the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) Dissemination & Implementation Research Core.