VA HSR&D at 2022 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) - June 4-7, 2022 | Washington, DC

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VA Investigators Work Toward Science in Service of Veterans at AcademyHealth Annual Meeting

Education in Action: Laura M. Zimmerman, PhD, AAAS Fellow

Presentations

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Saturday, June 4

VA's Community Care Program: A Learning Health System in Action

This panel session engaged stakeholders in discussing program implementation, legislated policy, and research/evaluation priorities in VA Community Care. The panel included VA leaders from the Integrated Veteran Care Office, Office of Community Care, and Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), shared perspectives on the priorities and challenges of VA's expansion of its Community Care program.

• VA's Community Care Program:A Learning Health System in Action
  
  Session Chair: Michelle Mengeling, PhD, Iowa City VA Medical Center
  
  Discussant: Denise Hynes, BSN, MPH, PhD, RN, FAMIA, Senior Research Scientist, VA Portland Healthcare System
  
  Panelists:
  Mark Upton, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Health for Community Care, VA Office of Community Care
  
  Cecile Avila, MPH, Senior Policy Analyst, Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center
  
  Sachin Yende, MD, MS, Acting Chief Medical Officer, VA Office of Community Care
  
  *See also Community Care Research Evaluation & Knowledge (CREEK) Center

Monday, June 6

COVID in the VA: Researching the Effects on Health & the Health System

More than 500,000 Veterans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Understanding the long-term consequences of survivors is a critical question for patients, their clinicians, and the healthcare system. This workshop described VA COVID data infrastructure and resources, findings from recent VA research on patient outcomes and an environmental scan, and key methodologic challenges.

• COVID in the VA: Researching the effects on health & the health system
  
  Session Chair: Maciej Gonek, PhD—AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, VA Health Services Research and Development Service
  
  Panelists:
  George Ioannou, MD, MS, FAASLD Director, Hepatology, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System
  
  Yinong Yong-Xu, ScD, Director, Clinical Epidemiology, VA White River Junction
  
  Caroline Korves, ScD, Epidemiologist, Veterans Education & Research, Association of Northern New England
  
  Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD, Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research

Tuesday, June 7

How Implementation Science Can Move the Needle on Health System Quality

Implementation science supports learning health systems in achieving quality improvement through rigorous strategies to promote effective practice uptake. VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Partnered Implementation Initiatives apply implementation strategies to improve quality of care for health priorities identified by system leaders, including suicide prevention, opioid/pain treatment, and homelessness, informing use of implementation science across other health systems.

Session Chair: Lucy Savitz, PhD, Vice President, Health Research, Director, Center for Health Research Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region

Panelists

• Adapting and Implementing Caring Contacts for Suicide Prevention in VA - Sara J. Landes, PhD, Director, Behavioral Health QUERI


• Continuous Quality Improvement for Clinical Teams A Systematic Review of Reviews - Joel C. Boggan, VA Health Services Research and Development, Evidence Synthesis Program


• Implementing and sustaining Critical Time Intervention (CTI) to support housing transitions for homeless-experienced Veterans - Sonya Gabrielian, MD, MPH, Director, Housing Transitions QUERI


• Standardization of Implementation Methods for a Large-Scale Implementation Trial of Medication for Veterans Living with Opioid Use Disorder - Amanda Midboe, PhD, Director of Implementation Science, QUERI Consortium to Disseminate and Understand Implementation of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Center

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