Eric Hawkins, PhD, investigator with HSR&D's Center for Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, co-located in Seattle, WA and Denver, CO, talks about whether opioid and benzodiazepine co-prescribing among patients with PTSD contribute to mortality among Veterans.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Megan Vanneman, PhD, with HSR&D's IDEAS 2.0 Center of Innovation talks about the Veterans Choice Act, including how the Choice Act affects Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare, and whether the evidence base indicates success in implementation.

Melissa Garrido, PhD, an HSR&D Career Development Awardee and an investigator from HSR&D QUERI's Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource (PEPReC) discusses VA as a Learning Healthcare System, including what that means, and how partnerships between researchers and stakeholders facilitate a learning healthcare system.