Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Michael Kahn, MD, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Informatics and Data Science in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Formerly, Kahn was Medical Director of Research Informatics at Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO), Translational Informatics Core Director in the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), and formerly Director of the Health Data Compass Multi-Institutional Research Data Warehouse housed within the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM). As active faculty, I held joint appointments in the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, College of Nursing and Graduate School at the University of Colorado. He has been co-chair of the national NIH funded Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) Informatics Key Function Committee, which represents the informatics core directors for all 60 CTSA grantees.

Scientific Investigator Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

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.

Research Assistant Professor Colorado School of Public Health Meredith Fort, PhD, MPH, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health in the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy and the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health. Currently, she is a K12 scholar in the University of Colorado’s IMPACT (IMPlementation to Achieve Clinical Transformation) program. Dr. Fort is dedicated to community-engaged research aimed at improving chronic disease prevention and care and works with community, public health and primary care partners in Central America, Mexico, and the United States. Her current research focuses on: systems science approaches to design and implement multi-level and multi-sectoral interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease; hypertension control in Guatemala’s public primary care system; diabetes prevention and care in Urban Indian Health Organizations; and regenerative foodscapes that promote food sovereignty and support healthy, equitable and sustainable diets and the environment.