VA HSR&D Podcasts

Denise Hynes, PhD, MPH, Director of the VA Information Resource Center in Hines, IL; C. Leo Greenstone, MD, Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care with the VHA Office of Community Care; Michelle Mengeling, PhD, Affiliate Investigator with HSR&D's Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation in Iowa City, IA; Amy Rosen, PhD, Research Career Scientist with HSR&D's Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research in Boston, MA; Megan Vanneman, PhD, MPH, of HSR&D's IDEAS 2.0 Center of Innovation in Salt Lake City, UT; and Todd Wagner, PhD, Director of HSR&D's Health Economics Resource Center in Menlo Park, CA share a conversation about how operations and research are working together to better understand how Veterans use VA community care.

Alejandro Interian, PhD, HSR&D affiliate investigator and a staff psychologist with the VA New Jersey Health Care System, talks about neurocognitive risk factors and how they may be used to help prevent Veteran suicide.

Sonya Gabrielian, MD, MPH, and Alex Young, MD, both of HSR&D's Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles; Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc, Affiliate Investigator with HSR&D's Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research; and Tom O'Toole, MD, Director of the VA National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans address the Housing First initiative's impact on ending Veteran homelessness.

Andrea Nevedal, PhD, an investigator with HSR&D's Center for Innovation to Implementation, in Palo Alto, CA, discusses her work on using third party contractors in the implementation of the Veterans Choice Program.

Paula Schnurr, PhD, Director of the VA National Center for PTSD, discusses perspectives on implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD.

Jenny Tighe, MSPH, Project Coordinator with the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, talks about the process of supporting implementation of clinical dashboard elements necessary to improve chronic pain care.

Mark Bauer, MD; Christopher Miller, PhD; Bo Kim, PhD; Jeffrey Smith, PhDc; and Mona Ritchie, PhD participated in an AcademyHealth "Innovation Station" session, which had a heavy focus audience engagement

Anju Sahay, PhD, with the MedSafe QUERI, participated in another Innovation Station, and discusses Communities of Practice by engaging multidisciplinary and multi-level providers to implement evidence-based practices to improve the quality of healthcare.

Donna Washington, MD, MPH, Core Investigator with the HSR&D Center for Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, discusses her work about measuring the quality of care for women Veterans.

Courtney Van Houtven, PhD, with HSR&D's Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care discusses her presentation, which focused on a long-running study looking at family caregiver skills training.