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Brian S. Mittman, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation, Division of Health Services Research and Implementation Science. 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…

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…

Dr. Baumann’s research agenda focuses on identifying strategies to facilitate the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions in low-resource settings nationally and globally. She is a co-director of the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core (DIRC), a methods core at the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences that provides methodological expertise to advance translational research to…

Dr. Aarons is a clinical and organizational psychologist, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego; director of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center; co-director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center; and co-director of the IN-STEP Team Effectiveness for Children’s Mental Health Center. He also serves as co-editor-in-chief…

Lindsey Zimmerman, PhD, is a Clinical and Community Psychologist and Implementation Scientist at the National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division of the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Zimmerman is principal investigator of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Veterans Health Administration (VA) research that enlists participatory system dynamics to increase timely patient access to…

Greg Simon, MD, MPH, is a psychiatrist and senior investigator well-known for his extensive research on practical approaches to improving mental health care. He seeks to develop and evaluate effective real-world strategies that support better mental health and wellness. Current areas of emphasis include identifying and assessing suicide risk, improving care for treatment-resistant depression, and…

Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy, a Core Faculty Member at the Center for Health Policy and the Department of Health Policy, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford Center for International Development. His research focuses on complex policy decisions surrounding the prevention and management of increasingly…

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, is the inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the newly established Washington University School of Public Health, the Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health, and vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives. Dr. Sandro’s scholarship lives at the intersection of social and psychiatric epidemiology, with a focus on the behavioral…

Dr. Almirall develops methods used to form adaptive interventions, also known as dynamic treatment regimens. Adaptive interventions can be used to inform individualized treatment guidelines for the ongoing management of chronic illnesses or disorders such as anxiety, depression, autism, diabetes, obesity, or HIV/AIDS. Dr. Almirall works primarily on methods related to the design, execution, and…