Posts by Saman

Erika Crable, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, with expertise in health policy, health services research, and implementation science. Her research focuses on improving the use of evidence in policy making and testing dissemination and implementation strategies to promote access to evidence-based substance use treatment for safety-net and…

Dr. McCollister is a Professor and Health Economist in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Division of Health Services Research and Policy in the DPHS. Dr. McCollister’s primary research focuses on economic evaluation (cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses) of…

Dr. Beth McGinty studies how health policies affect vulnerable populations with complex health and social needs, including people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, chronic pain, and others.  Her work is characterized by integrating approaches from the fields of public policy, health economics, and implementation science to understand how policies affect population health. Dr. McGinty’s…

Dr. Wagner is a professor in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University and director of the Health Economics Resource Center at the Palo Alto VA. He has worked for more than 25 years in health care delivery systems where economics and clinical care intersect, focusing his research on costs, efficiency and access. He is…

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. After an internship at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, she returned to Philadelphia for postdoctoral training, where she received an NIMH-funded K99/R00 award to study implementation and…

Alex Sox-Harris is a leader in several domains of health services research, including quality measurement, pragmatic rigorous evaluation, predictive modeling, and improvement science (implementation and de-implementation). As a VA Research Career Scientist and Professor in the Stanford Department of Surgery, he has published over 250 scientific papers, has over 15 years of continuous federal research…

Byron aims to improve the quality of health services by developing and evaluating implementation strategies and advancing implementation research methods. He is associate dean for research and associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, where he holds secondary appointments in the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine.…

Brian S. Mittman, PhD, is a research scientist. He co-leads the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Implementation and Improvement Science Initiative, and has additional affiliations with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and RAND Health Program. His research examines innovative approaches to health care delivery and improvement and efforts to strengthen learning health care…

Dr. Glass is a senior research scientist with Chestnut Health Systems and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. He studies how to reach more patients with substance use disorders using effective treatments. Trained as a…

Dr. Becker is a licensed clinical psychologist and implementation scientist dedicated to bridging the gap between research and practice. Dr. Becker studies both patient-focused dissemination (e.g., direct-to-consumer marketing, technology-assisted interventions) and provider-focused implementation (e.g., multi-level implementation approaches, workforce development) strategies. The overarching objective of her work is to increase both the demand for and supply…