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Kelli Scott, PhD, is an assistant professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also core faculty within Northwestern’s Center for Dissemination & Implementation Science. She is a clinical psychologist and implementation science methodologist focused on enhancing evidence-based practice implementation in community mental health and substance use treatment. She…

Wouter Vermeer is a research assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. He is affiliated with CE-PIM, the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology, NICO, the Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems, and the CCL, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling. He is a…

Kimberly A. Johnson, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. She is also the immediate past executive director of the International Consortium of…

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.…