United States Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Center for Clinical Management Research, a VA HSR&D Center of Excellence

Investigators

  
 
barry

Kristen L. Barry, PhD, MS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC • Alcohol problem detection and brief alcohol interventions in ambulatory care settings
 • Treatment efficacy for adults with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders
 • Women’s alcohol use and mental health issue

 
Bernstein

Steven Bernstein, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Implementation and Dissemination
 • Chronic Disease
 • Quality of Care
 • Medication Use
 • Physician Behavior Change
 • Patient Behavior Change

 
Blow

Fred C. Blow, PhD, MA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC, Director
 • Serious mental illness and substance abuse

 
Bohnert

Amy Bohnert, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Mental health and substance use disorders

 
Bohnert

Kipling Bohnert, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Mental health services research
 • Psychiatric epidemiology with emphases on PTSD and substance use
 • Advanced biostatistical methods

 
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Nicholas W. Bowersox, Ph.D.
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Care disparities in persons with serious mental illness
 • Recovery
 • Improving care outcomes for persons with serious mental illness
 • Evaluation of national mental health care practices

 
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Lena Chen, MD, MS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Cost and quality of inpatient care

 
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Steve Chermack, PhD, MA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Serious mental illness and substance abuse


 
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Vineet Chopra, MBBS, MD, MSc
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
   • Hospital patient safety
 • Health information technology
 • Epidemiology and risks associated with hospital-acquired infections


 
Damschroder

Laura Damschroder, MS, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Diabetes
 • Implementation Research
 • Obesity and Physical Activity

 
Duffy

Sonia Duffy, PhD, MS, RN
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Racial/ Ethnic/Cultural Influences on End of Life Preferences
 • A Nurse Case-Managed Inpatient Smoking Cessation Intervention
 • Molecular Markers (SPORE)
 • Health Behaviors
 • Comorbidities As Predictors of Tumor Recurrence, Survival, and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer Patients, A Smoking, Alcohol and Depression Intervention for Head and Neck Cancer.

 
Fagerlin

Angela Fagerlin, PhD, MA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine [non-VA site]
 • Risk Communication
 • Use of Decision Aids
 • Use of living wills at the end-of-life

 
Forman

Jane Forman, Sc.D., MHS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Qualitative Methods
 • Physician-patient Communication
 • Bioethics

 
Hawley

Sarah T. Hawley, PhD MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Decision aids for improving patient decision making for cancer screening tests
 • Physician-patient interaction and decision making in influencing cancer screening and treatment outcomes

 
Hayward

Rod A. Hayward, MD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 


Areas of interest

 • Diabetes management
 • Methodologic issues in analysis of health care outcomes and quality of care


 
Heisler

Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Improving patient self-management of chronic conditions
 • Understanding and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in chronic disease processes of care and outcomes
 • Health and human rights

 
Hofer

Tim Hofer, MD, MsC
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Quality of care and the methodology of measurement of quality including provider profiling and medical errors

 
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Mark Ilgen, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Serious mental illness and substance abuse

 
Iwashyna

Theodore J. Iwashyna, MD, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Long-term outcomes after acute illness
 • Organization of critical care
 • Hospital outcomes

 
Kales

Helen Kales, MD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Depression and dementia
 • Racial differences in late-life mental health care
 • Late-life depression care adherence

 
Kerr

Eve Kerr, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Measuring and improving quality of care in chronic illness

 
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Amy Kilbourne, PhD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC, Associate Director
 • Measuring and improving quality of care and outcomes in bipolar disorder
 • Dissemination and implementation of health services treatment models
 • Integrated medical and psychiatric care for bipolar and other mental disorders


 
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Myra Kim, ScD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Application of statistical methods in health services and outcomes research


 
krein

Sarah Krein, PhD, RN
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Chronic illness care
 • Quality measurement
 • Organizational behavior and cost-effectiveness

 
kullgren

Jeffrey Kullgren, MD, MPH, MS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Behavioral economic interventions to promote preventive behaviors
 • Diabetes prevention
 • Consumer-directed health care
 • Impact of public reporting
 • Access to care

 
Langa

Kenneth Langa, MD, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine [non-VA site]
 • Long term care

 
levine

Deborah Levine, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Epidemiology, prevention and care of stroke and poststroke cognitive decline
 • Vascular risk factors, adherence, and health disparities

 
Lowery

Julie Lowery, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Telemedicine
 • Resource allocation methodologies
 • Implementation research

 
McCarthy

John F. McCarthy, PhD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Accessibility barriers to care
 • Long-term care for patients with mental illness
 • National Psychosis Registry
 • National Registry for Depression
 • Health system performance indicators

 
Nallamothu

Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Acute coronary syndromes and regionalization of services
 • Quality initiatives in coronary revascularization

 
Pfeiffer

Paul Pfeiffer, MD, MA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Depression Care

 
Piette

John Piette, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Program on Quality Improvement for Complex Chronic Conditions, QUICC, Director
 • Use of technology for improving care for patients with chronic illness
 • Diabetes and depression

 
Richardson

Caroline Richardson, MD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Improving physical activity in patients with chronic illness, Veterans Walk for Health

 
Rosland

Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Chronic Illness Management

 
Rubenstein

Joel Rubenstein, MD, M.Sc.
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Cancer Prevention and Control
 • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
 • Epidemiology
 • Endoscopy

 
Saini

Sameer D. Saini, MD, MS
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Endoscopy
 • Health Services Utilization
 • Quality of Care in Gastroenterologic and Hepatic Diseases

 
Saint

Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Hospital Outcomes Program of Excellence, HOPE, Director
 • Patient Safety and Enhancement Program, PSEP, Director
 • Improving patient safety

 
Sales

Anne Sales, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Implementation Science
 • Healthcare Workforce
 • Quality Improvement

 
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Philip S. Schoenfeld, M.D., MSED, MSc.
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Cancer Prevention and Control

 
Silveira

Maria Silveira, MD, MA, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Palliative care

 
skolarus

Ted Skolarus, MD, MPH
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Quality of cancer survivorship care
 • Cancer-related expenditures
 • Care coordination among specialists and primary care providers
 • Prostate cancer

 
sussman

Jeremy Sussman, MD, MSc
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Personalizing medical care
 • Evidence-based medicine
 • Decision analysis

 
Valenstein

Marcia Valenstein, MD, MS
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Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Disease management strategies for patients with depression

 
Vijan

Sandeep Vijan, MD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions and screening procedures
 • Risk assessment and stratification
 • Health care quality measurement and monitoring
 • Treatment guideline development, evaluation and dessemination

 
waljee

Akbar Waljee, MD, MSc
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Prediction modeling to risk stratify and individualize care for patients
 • Decision support systems for physicians
 • Medical and surgical outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

 
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Wyndy Wiitala, PhD
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • Quantitative Methods

 
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Kara Zivin, PhD, MS, MA
 • Publications [PubMed] [non-VA site]
 • HSR&D Publications [Internal & HSRD Citations] 
 • Curriculum Vitae

    

 

Areas of interest
 • SMITREC
 • Predictors and consequences of depression
 • Mental Health Services Research
 • Pharmaceutical policy