Dr. Gierisch is also Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and a faculty associate in Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the Duke Cancer Institute. She is a core faculty member within the Center of Innovation (COIN) for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health Care System where she serves as the Director of the HSR&D postdoctoral fellowship program, is the Associate Director of the Durham VA Evidence Synthesis Program, and is the co-founder and inaugural faculty liaison of the Veteran Research Engagement Panel (VetREP). The VetREP is springboard for engaging veterans in a patient-centered innovation incubator, a space where patients and academic partners can freely collaborate on research from the roots up.