DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE

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Mary Goldstein, MD, MSc (Chairperson)

HSR&D Research Associate, Center for Health Care Evaluation (CHCE),VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CPCOR), Stanford 

University School of Medicine

Palo Alto, CA

Charles Bennett, MD, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3) at Lakeside CBOC, Jesse 

Brown VAMC

Co-Director for the Cancer Control Program of the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of

Northwestern University, and Professor of Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of 

Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, and a member of the faculty of the Center for Healthcare 

Studies/Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies

Chicago, IL 

Brenda Booth, PhD

Research Health Scientist, Center for Mental Healthcare & Outcomes Research (CMHOR), North Little Rock 

VA

Professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics, DIvision of Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, 

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, AR 

Katherine Bradley, PhD

Core Investigator, Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults, and Co-Director of the VA 

HSR&D fellowship at VA Puget Sound

Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of 

Health Services at the University of Washington

Seattle, WA 

Susan Eisen, PhD

Health Science Specialist, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economic Research (CHQOER), Edith 

Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital, VA New England Healthcare System 

Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, and head of the Patient Centered Care priority area

Bedford, MA
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Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, FRCP

Section Chief of Rheumatology, Veteran’s Administration 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

West Haven, CT 

Denise Hynes, PhD, MPH, RN

HSR&D Research Career Scientist

Director, VA Information Resource Center (VIReC), Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3), 

Spinal Cord Injury QUERI, Eward Hines Jr. VA Medical Center

Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing at Loyola University Chicago

Hines, IL 

Sara J. Knight, PhD (Clin) 

Center Co-director, Program to Improve Care for Veterans with Complex Co-morbid Conditions, San 

Francisco VA Medical Center

Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California at San Francisco (Psychiatry; Urology)

San Francisco, CA 

Nancy Kressin, PhD

HSR&D Research Career Scientist, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economic Research (CHQOER), 

Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital, VA New England Healthcare System 

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, and Director of the Health Care Disparities 

Research Unit

Bedford, MA 

Melissa R. Partin, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research

Minneapolis VA Medical Center (152/2E)

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota

John Piette, PhD

HSR&D Research Career Scientist, Great Lakes HSR&D Field Program, Center for Practice Management 

and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine

Ann Arbor, MI 

Gayle E. Reiber, PhD, MPH

HSR&D Research Career Scientist, Northwest Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound HCS

Professor, departments of Health Services and Epidemiology, University of Washington

Seattle, WA
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Craig S. Rosen, PhD

Health Science Specialist, National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

Matthew H. Samore, MD

Director, Informatics, Decision Enhancement, and Surveillance (IDEAS) Center, and Chief of Epidemiology, 

Salt Lake City VA Medical Center

Professor, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Utah School of Medicine 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Paul Shekelle, MD

Investigator, Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, 

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center 

& Nursing Home, and Director, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center, RAND Corporation

Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

West Los Angeles, CA 

Mark Vander Weg, PhD

Research Specialist, Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice (CRIISP), 

Iowa City VA Medical Center

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 

Morris Weinberger, PhD

HSR&D Senior Research Career Scientist, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA 

Medical Center

Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management, Department of Health Policy and 

Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Durham, NC 

Becky Yano, PhD

HSR&D Research Career Scientist, Acting Director, Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, 

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles

Sepulveda, CA