10:00am-10:15am A randomized, controlled educational intervention to reduce racial variation in elective knee replacement Said Ibrahim 10:15am-10:45 Break 10:45am-12:15pm Concurrent Workshops The Critical Role of Qualitative and Mixed Methodologies in Understanding PACT Implementation Samantha Solimeo So, you want to study OEF/OIF Veterans? A Community Engaged Research Approach Drew Helmer Building Successful VA HSR&D / CTSA Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Gary Rosenthal Agent-Based Simulation in Health Services Research Michael Current Research Applications and Future Directions in VA-CMS Data Denise Hynes Program Schedule : Time Title Faculty 10:45am-12:15pm VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) – Data Services and SAS/Grid Jonathan Nebeker 10:45am-12:15pm Applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Methods to VA Health Services Research Mark 12:15pm-1:00pm Lunch on your own
Cultivating research-operations partnerships: Using women’s health as a case example Susan Frayne Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Successful Toolkits in the VA Neale Chumbler Budget Impact Analyses in VA Research: Providing answers to our operational partners Patricia Sinnott Two Approaches to Systemic Review of Shared Medical Appointments/Group Visits David Aron Program Schedule Time Title Faculty 11:45am-12:30pm Lunch on your own 12:30pm-1:30pm Plenary: Under Secretary’s Award Presentation Robert Petzel Seth Eisen Awardee Presentation Elizabeth Yano 1:45pm-3:15pm Chronic Disease Management: Paper Sessions 1:45pm-2:00pm Physical Activity Veterans with Diabetes Erin Bouldin 2:00pm-2:15pm Effects of a Telephone Based Osteoarthritis Program on Communication with Health Care Providers Kelli Allen 2:15pm-2:30pm Do Financial Incentives for Guideline Adherence Improve HTN Care for African-American Patients? A Multi-Site RCT, Kate Simpson 2:30pm-2:45pm Correlates of Multiple Lipid Panels in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease Who Have Achieved LDL Cholesterol Treatment Goals, Virani 2:45pm-3:00pm Cardiac Risk Profile of Women Veterans Alison Whitehead 3:00pm-3:15pm Extra time for Q&A 1:45pm-3:15pm PACT: Paper Sessions
1:45pm-2:00pm Factors contributing to women Veterans’ decisions to discontinue VHA health care Alison Hamilton 2:00pm-2:15pm 2011 VHA Emergency Services For Women (ESW) Survey Kristina Cordasco 2:15pm-2:30pm Women in VHA: Who Leaves and Who Stays? Sarah Friedman 2:30pm-2:45pm Gender distribution in research Madeline McCarren Program Schedule Time Title Faculty 2:45pm-3:00pm Intimate Partner Violence and Women Veterans: The Need for a Standardized Response Melissa Dichter 3:00pm-3:15pm Changing characteristics of Veterans: Implications for VA women’s health programs and services Donna Washington 1:45pm-3:15pm Cancer: Paper Sessions 1:45pm-2:00pm Levels and Variation in Overuse of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the VHA Melissa Partin 2:00pm-2:15pm Trends in Anemia Treatment in Cancer, 2002 – 2009 Kevin Stroupe 2:15pm-2:30pm Organizational Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Cancer Screening Among VA Patients Ann Chou 2:30pm-2:45pm Long-term Cancer Survivorship Care in the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Wendy Hsiao 2:45pm-3:00pm A comparative effectiveness of pre-operative PET imaging and the reduction of unnecessary lung cancer surgery Steven Zeliadt 3:00pm-3:15pm Extra time for Q&A 1:45pm-3:15pm Statistics: Paper Sessions 1:45pm-2:00pm Comparison of Methods for Modeling Comorbidities in Health Outcomes Research Neal Axon
Program Schedule Time Title Faculty 3:00pm-3:15pm Return Visits Following Initial VHA Use by Patients with Mental Illnesses: Differences by Receipt of Primary Care – Mental Health Integration Services Kipling Bohnert 3:15pm-3:45pm PM (light refreshments) 3:45pm-5:15pm Concurrent Workshops Innovative Research-Operations Partnerships in VHA Mittman Increasing Veteran Adoption of My HealtheVet: Collaboration between the eHealth QUERI and Operational, Clinical, and Community-based Partners Carolyn Turvey Building the Plane While Flying It: Lessons from the VA Homelessness Health Services Center on Homelessness Amy Kilbourne Building Strong Research and Operations Partnerships: Strategies and Experiences of the HIV/Hepatitis QUERI and VA Office of Public Health Rani Elwy Implementing Diabetes Prevention in the VA? Expanding the Reach Caroline Richardson Partnering to Adapt PC-MHI for CBOCs Katherine Dollar Using CAPRI & VistAWeb to Augment VA National Datasets in VA Health Services Research Erika Whittier 5:30pm-7:00pm Poster Session C
Program Schedule : Time Topic or Title Faculty 1:00pm-1:15pm Community, Institutional, and Individual Issues and Access to Care Rural and Urban Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn Julia Whealin 1:15pm-1:30pm Online Interventions for Female OEF/OIF Reserve and National Guard War Veterans Anne Sadler 1:30pm-1:45pm Unmet Needs of OEF/OIF/OND Veterans and Their Families Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands Constance Uphold 1:45pm-2:00pm Coordinating Care for Returning Veterans: VA's Post-Deployment Integrated Care Initiative Tamar Wyte 2:00pm-2:15pm time for Q&A 12:45pm-2:15pm eHealth: Paper Sessions 12:45pm-1:00pm Evaluation of CCHT-Weight Management Program Implementation David Goodrich 1:00pm-1:15pm Personal Health Information Management and the Role of VA's Personal Health Record Portal among Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder Timothy 1:15pm-1:30pm The impact of store and forward teledermatology on skin disease-related quality of life John Whited 1:30pm-1:45pm Staff Acceptance of Tele-ICU Monitoring Jane Moeckli 1:45pm-2:00pm Increasing access to dermatology care for rural Veterans through VISN 20 Teledermatology education and skills training Lynne McFarland
Program Schedule : Time or Title Faculty 1:30pm-1:45pm Firearm Access and Potential Interventions to Increase Safety For VA Patients in Mental Health Treatment, Marcia Valenstein 1:45pm-2:15pm Extra time for Q&A 12:45pm-2:15pm HIV/HCV: Paper Sessions 12:45pm-1:00pm We just had to deal with [treatment] and go to work: The impact of work on patients abilities to complete hepatitis C treatment Gemmae Fix 1:00pm-1:15pm VISN-Wide Implementation of a Program to Increase HIV Testing Dorothy Plumb 1:15pm-1:30pm Barriers and facilitators to implementing a multimodal intervention to increase HIV testing Barbara Bokhour 1:30pm-1:45pm How Primary Care Providers Prioritize HIV Testing and General Preventive Care Jeffrey Solomon 1:45pm-2:15pm Extra time for Q&A 12:45pm-2:15pm Mental Health Treatment and Recovery 12:45pm-1:00pm Rate and Predictors of Tricyclic Antidepressant Monotherapy to Patients with Bipolar I Disorder Ciaran Phibbs 1:00pm-1:15pm Determinants of Antidepressant Adherence Among Older Veterans Helen Kales 1:15pm-1:30pm Measuring Veteran Recovery at Mental Health Clinics: The Mental Health Recovery Measure (MHRM) Nikki Armstrong 1:30-1:45pm A Majority of Alcohol Interventions Documented in the Medical Record are Reported By VA Patients Katharine Bradley 1:45pm-2:15pm Extra time for Q&A
Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty *Kelli Allen, Ph.D. Research Health Scientist Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care (152) VA Medical Center Durham, NC +Amos Bailey,MD FACP,FAAHPM Director, Palliative Care, VA Medical Center 700 South 19th StreetBirmingham, AL +Megan Amuan Statistician Edith Nource Rogers Memorial Hospital Bedford, MA +Mark M.D. Attending Psychiatrist, VA Boston Healthcare Boston, MA +Nikki Armstrong, Ph.D. Health Science Specialist West Los Angeles VA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA +Justin Benzer, Ph.D Research Health Scientist, Department of VA Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research Boston, MA *S. Beth Armstrong Administrative Officer, Health Services Research and Development VA Medical Center Durham, NC +Amy Bohnert, PhD.,M.H.S. Post-Doctoral Fellow University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Director, QUERI Washington, DC +Kipling Bohnert,PhD Health Science Specialist Department of VA, National Serious Mental Illness Research and Evaluation Center Ann Arbor, MI
Special Projects Coordinator, Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) Boston VA Health Care System Boston, MA Ann MI *Seth M.D. +Director, HSR&D Office of Research and Development Washington, D.C. Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty +Joe Francis, MD MPH Director, Clinical Analysis and Reporting Office of Information and Analytics Department of VA, Washington, D.C. +Russell Glasgow, PhD. Deputy Director for Dissemination and Implementation Science, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD Frayne, MD,MPH Staff Physician, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA +Mary Goldstein, MD,MS Professor of Medicine VA Palo Alto Health Care System Palo Alto, CA +Sarah Friedman Research Health Science Specialist VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Menlo Park, CA +David Goodrich, M.S. VA Health Research Science Specialist VA Ann Healthcare System Ann Arbor, MI +Walid Gellad, MD, MPH Physician VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Pittsburgh, PA +Marylou Guihan, PhD Implementation Research Coordinator (acting) Hines VA Hospital Hines, IL *Allen Gifford, M.D. HSR&D Scientific Merit Review Board(SMRB) Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Bedford, MA +Jennifer Gutierrez Program Specialist Philadelphia VA Medical Center Philadelphia, PA +Elizabeth Gifford,Ph.D. +Carmen Hall, RN, PhD
Health Science Specialist Palo Alto VAMC-Psychology Palo Alto, CA Implementation Research Coordinator Veterans Health Administration Minneapolis MN Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty +Armesh Hanchate, PhD Economist, VA Boston Healthcare System Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA *Christian Helfrich,PhD. Director, VA HSR&D VA Puget Sound Health Care System (152) Seattle, WA *Diane Hanks, MA Science Writer VA Boston Healthcare System Boston, MA +Drew Helmer, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX +Christine Hartmann, M.S.S.,PH.D. Health Services Researcher Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital Bedford, MA +Walter High, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist Lexington VA Medical Center Lexington, KY *Susan Hastings, MD, MHS Staff Physician Health Services Research and Development Durham VA Medical Center Durham, NC *P.Michael Ho, M.D.,Ph.D. Cardiologist Cardiology Section (111B) Denver VA Medical Center Denver CO +Leslie Hausmann, Ph.D. Research Health Scientist and Core Investigator VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Pittsburgh, PA +Timothy Hogan Postdoctoral Fellow, CMC3 Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital Hines, IL +Eric Hawkins, Ph.D. Acting Associate Director, Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education VA Medical Center Seattle, WA +Danielle Hoover, MD,MPH Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of General Medicine, Patient Safety Physician Ann Arbor, MI +Mark Helfand,M.D,MPH,MS,FACP Staff Physician Portland VA Medical Center
Director, CIDER VA Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) Chestnut Hill, MA Associate Director of Research Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA Medical Center Durham, NC McIvor,M.S.,M.H.S. Program Manager VA HSR&D Washington DC Veterans Affairs Washington, DC +Seshadri Mudumbai, M.D. Staff Physician VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Palo Alto, CA +Maureen Metzger,PhD,MPH Project Manager VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Ann Arbor, MI +Jeff Murawsky,MD Director, VISN 12 VA Great Lakes Health Care System Westchester, IL +Eric Principal Investigator in the Assessment Core US Department of Veterans Affairs Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System Waco, Texas +Daniel Murphy,M.D. Instructor, Baylor College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Houston, TX +Penelope Morrison,PhD Research Assistant, VHA Pittsburgh VAMC Pittsburgh, PA +Jonathan Nebeker REAP Associate Director VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System Salt Lake City, UT +Jane Moeckli,Ph.D. Research Health Science Specialist Qualitative Analyst,Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation Iowa City Veterans Administration MC Iowa City, IA *Eugene Oddone, M.D. Physician/Director HSR&D Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care (152) VAMC Durham, NC Planning Member for: Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty +Samatha Outcalt,Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center Indianapolis, IN +Cirian S. Phibbs, Ph.D. Associate Director, Geriatrics and Extended Care Data and Analysis Center Veterans Affairs, Alto Health Care System Palo Alto, CA +Richard Owen, M.D. COE Director & ACOS for Research Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Little Rock, AR +Dorothy Plumb, M.A. Research Health Scientist Bedford VA Medical Center Bedford, MA
+Melissa Partin, Ph.D. Health Science Specialist Minneapolis VA Medical Center Minneapolis, MN +Kyle Possemato, Ph.D. Clinical Research Psychologist Center for Integrated Healthcare Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY +Judi Babcock-Parziale, PhD. Research Scientist, Southern AZ VA Health Care System Tucson, AZ +Edward Post, MD,PhD National Medical Director, Primary Care- Mental Health Integration Program VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Ann Arbor, MI +Laura Peterson, MD, MPH Director,Houston Center for Quality and Utilization Studies, Michael E. DeBabey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX +Mary Jo Pugh Research Health Scientist South Texas Veterans Healthcare System San Antonio, TX +Robert Petzel, M.D. Under Secretary of Health, VHA VA Administration Washington, D.C. * Louis Ranucci, MS Ed National Project Manager, EES Northport Employee Education Resource Center Northport, NY Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty +Linda Resnik Research Health Scientist Providence VA Medical Center Providence, RI +Alissa Russ, PhD Research Scientist Roudebush VA Medical Center Indianapolis, IN +Maria Rodriguez,PhD Health Science Specialist Department of Veterans Affairs, NY Harbor Health CareSystem New York, NY +Josef Ruzek,Ph.D. Director/Chief, Dissemination and Training Division, National Center for PTSD VA Palo Alto Health Care System Menlo Park, CA +Craig Rosen,Ph.D. Deputy Director, National Center for PTSD VA Palo Alto Health Care System Menlo Park, CA +Anne Sadler, PhD Acting Chief, Psychology VA Ann Healthcare System Iowa City, IA
+Kate Simpson Research Assistant for Laura Petersen Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Houston, TX +Samatha Solimeo, PhD,MPH Health Research Science Specialist Iowa City VA Healthcare System Iowa City, Iowa +Patricia Sinnott Health Economist VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Menlo Park, CA +Jeffrey Solomon,Ph.D. Research Health Scientist Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Bedford, MA Slatore,MD Physician Portland VAMC Portland, OR +Crystal Smith-Spangler,M.D.,M.S. Physician Researcherr Palo Alto VA Health Care System Menlo Park, CA Faculty and Planning Committee Listing * Denote planning committee + Denotes faculty +Tracy Stecker,Ph.D. Patient Safety Psychologist White River Junction VA Medical Center White River Junction, VT +Pewter Toyinbo,M.B.Ch.B.,Ph.D.,CPH Biostatistician, James A. Haley VA Hospital HSR&D/RR&D Center of Excellence Tampa, FL +Greg Stewart, Ph.D. Research Health Science Specialist Iowa Health Care System Iowa City, IA +Amal Trivedi, M.D. M.P.H. Research Health Science Specialist Providence VA Medical Center Providence, RI Stockdale Research Health Scientist VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, CA +Gala True, Ph.D. Research Health Science Specialist Philadelphia VA Medical Center Philadelphia, PA *Jennifer Strauss, Ph.D. National Women’s Mental Health Program Manager, Office of Mental Health Services Department of Veterans Affairs Durham VA Medical Center Durham, NC Planning Member fort: APA +Thomas Tsai, MD Physician VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System Denver, CO +Kevin Stroupe Research Health Economist +Carolyn Turvey Research Health Science Specialist