Posts by Saman
C-DIAS, the Center for Dissemination & Implementation at Stanford: A New NIDA P50 Center of Excellence
Mark McGovern, PhD and Helene Chokron Garneau, PhD, MPH | September 27, 2022: This presentation will introduce the new Center for Dissemination and Implementation At Stanford (C-DIAS), a NIDA P50 Center of Excellence. C-DIAS’ overarching mission is to expand access to the most effective treatments available for addiction. It unites experts from implementation science and…
Read MoreC-DIAS innovations in research methods presented at national conference in DC
C-DIAS presented two posters at the 15th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. One poster studied participant engagement in implementation trials, and the other described a micro-costing approach to estimating the total cost to implement an evidence-based practice.
Read MoreAn examination of NIDA-funded implementation research on treatments for SUD
Written by members of the C-DIAS team, this paper assessed how implementation research has been used in the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) efforts to address the opioid and stimulant epidemics.
Read MoreA study of a procedure to expand access to addiction medication
Though significant national campaigns have been launched to expand access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), research has yet to properly address the challenges of implementing and sustaining MOUD in specialty addiction programs. This protocol paper describes a stagewise implementation-to-target (stepped “care” type) approach to implement MOUD whereby organizations engage in increasingly intensive implementation…
Read MoreC-DIAS Pre-conference Workshop
Register for C-DIAS’s pre-conference workshop! This interactive workshop will introduce key concepts and methods of implementation science. The focus will be on how to pragmatically integrate implementation research frameworks, measures, methods, and designs into typical addiction health services or intervention evaluation projects.
Read MoreKim Mount, PhD
Booil Jo, PhD
Hannah Cheng, MS
Hannah Cheng works at the Center for Dissemination & Implementation, where her work primarily focuses on implementing addiction treatments in primary care and specialty care settings. She is dedicated to understanding how to optimize implementation efforts and applying implementation science to improve equity and access to mental health services. Hannah received her BS in Psychology…
Read MoreJay Ford, PhD
Dr. Jay Ford is an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-director of the Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center. His background as a health systems engineer, combined with quality improvement experience, led to his work as a dissemination and implementation expert. In his research, Ford collaborates closely with…
Read MoreTara Beatty, MA
Tara Beatty, MA, is a research project manager at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI). For over 25 years, she has worked in health services research on a wide variety of projects. These projects have ranged from large, complex pragmatic randomized controlled trials in the health care system to small data-only studies. During the…
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