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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…

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…

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…

Kira DiClemente-Bosco, PhD, is a social and behavioral scientist and community-engaged researcher. She is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and a founding faculty member of the Center for Dissemination & Implementation Science at Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. DiClemente-Bosco works in implementation science and community-engaged research across a range…

Holly Hills, PhD, is an Associate Professor of in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (CBCS) at USF. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. In addition to her teaching, research, and service duties at USF,…

Lia Chin-Purcell is a research data analyst at Center for Dissemination & Implementation (CDI) supporting C-DIAS and the RASC. She holds a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied Information Management and Systems with a focus on data science. At CDI, she applies her expertise in machine learning and data analysis…

Mia Navarro, MS, is a project coordinator for the Center for Dissemination and Implementation At Stanford University (C-DIAS). Her work at C-DIAS focuses on promoting the use of implementation science in addiction treatment research and improving patient engagement and sustainment in addiction treatment across the United States. Navarro is also pursuing a PhD in epidemiology…

Shubhi Sharma, MPH is the Project Coordinator for the Center for Dissemination & Implementation Science at Stanford (C-DIAS). Her role for C-DIAS primarily focuses on providing critical research and data analysis support for the Financing and Policy Research Core and Research Project 2. She pursued her MPH, from Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH),…

Theresa “Tessa” Matson, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a collaborative scientist at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and a second-year C-DIAS fellow. Her research focuses on integrating addiction health services into primary care in patient-centered ways that reduce disparities and help patients feel valued and better informed about treatment options. Matson is a co-investigator on National…

Bryan R. Garner, Ph.D., was a professor and director of dissemination and implementation science in the Division of General Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University and director of dissemination and implementation research at the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking (CATALYST). He served as the co-director of the NIH-funded…