Leadership
Co-Directors/Mentors | |
Amy Huebschmann, MD, MSCS, FACP, FSBM is the founding Director of the Graduate Certificate in Dissemination and Implementation (IS) Science, past chair of the Education, Training, and Career Development Council for the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2017-2020), a past Co-Director of this HRSA-funded Primary Care Research Fellowship (2021-2024) and an NHLBI-funded K12 IS training grant (2019-2022). Additionally, she also serves as a senior physician-scientist for the Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) and the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research. As a primary care physician and scientist, her career objective is to improve health by leveraging IS methods to tailor evidence-based interventions to real-world settings with attention to health for all people and all groups (representative benefits). To date, Dr. Huebschmann has published over 80 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, and she currently leads both a NCI-funded R01 and NHLBI-funded UG3/UH3 (R01-equivalent) as MPI and serves as the Director of the National Resource Core for the NIDDK-funded P30 Colorado Center for Diabetes Translation Research. She has mentored 17 postdoctoral trainees, almost all of whom remain in academics – several have become independent investigators (e.g., Meredith Fort, Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, Natalie Hernandez-Green). Her research focuses on the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, particularly diabetes, hypertension, asthma and cancer, corresponding to the following HHS/HRSA priority areas: Health promotion, prevention, and population health; Early detection, treatment, and management of chronic diseases; Treatment and management of behavioral health disorders including Opioid Use Disorder; and Value-based care delivery and quality improvement. |  |
| Elizabeth Bayliss, MD, MSPH is a Senior Investigator in the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Professor of Family Medicine at the CU-AMC. From 2017-2020 she was the Director for the Primary Care Health Services Research fellowship based at ACCORDS and from 2013-2016 she was a mentor for the NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship and the training portion of an infrastructure development grant for patient-centered outcomes research (R24 HS022143). Her research focuses on the systematic delivery of patient-centered care to individuals with multimorbidity and complex care needs including HHS/HRSA priority areas: Treatment and management of chronic and multiple chronic diseases, transforming the health care system through value-based care and quality improvement initiatives, strengthening health care access through telehealth, population health, and primary care delivery. |  |
| Russell Glasgow, PhD is the director of the Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Science Program of ACCORDS. He is a behavioral scientist, a Research Professor in Family Medicine, and was formerly Deputy Director for Implementation Science at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Glasgow has extensive experiencing developing and using the RE-AIM, PRISM and other implementation science frameworks and related approaches that focus on enhancing the reach, adoption, adaptation and sustainability of evidence-based programs. His research and mentoring focus on using pragmatic models and methods for numerous primary care issues including chronic illness prevention and self-management, health behavior change, diabetes self-management, cancer prevention and control, and costing of program implementation. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications, is listed among the top 1% of the most frequently cited authors in the social sciences, and has been awarded 25 NIH or AHRQ grants. Dr. Glasgow has mentored both MD and PhD trainees, including some of the current leaders in D&I science. He has been a primary developer of multiple training programs in D&I including the NIH-sponsored Training in Implementation Research in Health, the NIH-funded implementation science training program in behavioral and social science research to eliminate chronic disease disparities (IS-2) and he co-directed the ACCORDS K12 Career Development Training program in D&I science. |  |
| Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD is the former Chief Research Officer at Denver Health (DH). She previously served as the Director of the Addressing Disparities program at the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) where she provided leadership for the program’s national funding priorities. She served as the Associate Director of the AHRQ T32-Institutional NRSA Service Award and as the Education and Training Lead for an AHRQ funded P01 Center of Excellence in clinical preventive services and primary care. She has previously mentored over 20 junior investigators who went on to receive career development and extramural funding and she currently mentors 19 junior investigators at DH who have received Pilot Funding through the DH Health Pilot Funding Grant Program. Her research expertise corresponds to the following HHS/HRSA priority areas: health disparities (targeting health for all people), designing tailored interventions, and measurement of outcomes in health care organizations. |  |
| Allison Kempe, MD, MPH is the founding Director of ACCORDS and the immediate Past-Director of this ACCORDS Primary Care Research Fellowship T32 (2021-2024). She has extensive previous experience in health service and IS research methodologies, post-doctoral training, program administration and leadership. She was the Director for both the HRSA-funded Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship and the Institutional NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship between 2002 and 2012 and developed and directed a similar Fellowship for surgical and subspecialty faculty from 2013-2016. She was previously a co-Director of a K12 from NHLBI that focused on IS methods. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been the PI on 22 federal R01, Center or training grants. During her career she has mentored 83 post-doctoral trainees and has been the primary mentor for 10 funded career development awards with all completers transitioning to R funding. Dr. Kempe’s own health services research has focused primarily on optimizing the delivery of preventive care to children, addressing disparities in infant and child mortality, and telehealth, corresponding to these HHS and HRSA priority areas: health promotion, prevention and population health, early detection and treatment of acute diseases, strengthening health care access through telehealth, transforming the health care system through value-based care delivery and health disparities. | .jpg?sfvrsn=b770c6bb_1) |
Additional APCRF Faculty & Staff | |
| Kathryn Colborn, PhD MSPH is an Associate Professor the Division of Healthcare Policy and Research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health and serves as Core Lead for the Biostatistics and Analytics Core of the Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS). In this role, she leads a team of faculty biostatisticians and 13 MS data analysts. For the past 6 years, she has also led the Data Informatics and Statistics Core (DISC) of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC), a U2C funded by the NINR. In her role as DISC lead, she has mentored faculty from institutions across the US during the Clinical Trial Intensive Programs, has assisted with clinical trials in palliative care, and has led two data coordinating centers for multi-site randomized trials. Her own research focuses on development and validation of statistical methodologies for clinical prediction models, reducing infections, and health services research. She also leads research in improving statistical methodologies for cluster randomized trials. Dr. Colborn has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has mentored 18 graduate students, 7 surgical research residents, one palliative care T-32 fellow, and 4 faculty career development awardees. |  |
| Brooke Dorsey Holliman, PhD serves as the Director of ACCORDS Qualitative & Mixed Methods (QM2) Research Core and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She specializes as a Qualitative & Mixed Methodologist. She has expertise in the use of specific qualitative methodologies, including phenomenological, historical, and narrative approaches, among others, and she is skilled in health policy and program evaluation. Dr. Dorsey Holliman has expertise in community-based participatory research (CBPR), engaging with communities to co-create knowledge that promotes health solutions to target better health for all people. Dr. Dorsey Holliman’s research focuses on maternal health outcomes and representativeness of health benefits – she seeks to explore the complex determinants of health disparities. Dr. Dorsey Holliman earned her B.A. in Psychology from North Carolina Central University, an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Health and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Colorado Denver |  |
| Mark Gritz, PhD is an Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Health Care Policy and Research and the Director of Operations at the Farley Health Policy Center and at ACCORDS. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford University and has over 30 years of experience directing and managing demonstrations, evaluations, research, and technical assistance projects designed to improve economic and health outcomes for all populations, with an eye to disparities among those insured by Medicaid. His current work focuses on healthcare value and its association with socio-economic factors with the goal of rapidly responding to research and policy analysis needs of government agencies, corresponding to HHS/HRSA priority area transforming the health care system through value-based care and quality improvement. |  |
| Rebecca Speer, MA is the Research Training Program Manager at ACCORDS for the SCORE Fellowship and the ACCORDS Primary Care Research Fellowship. She has worked for the last fourteen years managing research projects and programs, and for the last seven years has been responsible for all day-to-day operations for each of the ACCORDS fellowship programs, including the K12 Dissemination and Implementation Research Training Program that ended in June of 2022. Ms. Speer is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder where she received two bachelor’s degrees in Spanish Language and Literature and in Communication. She then attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she completed a master’s degree in Communication (social science paradigm) in 2010. Prior to joining ACCORDS in 2017, she worked as the Research Project Coordinator on a multi-arm, bilingual, pragmatic obesity trial in primary care at Denver Health Medical Center. |  |
Additional Primary Care Mentors and Expertise by Site (not inclusive)
| Potential mentor | Expertise | HHS/HRSA Priorities/ HRSA Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| ACCORDS, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health | ||
| Frank DeGruy, MD, Prof. and Chair, FM | Mental health evaluation and treatment in primary care settings | Improving mental health access/care |
| Mandy Allison, MD, MSPH, Assoc. Prof. GP | Nurse-family partnership, school-based health care, social determinants | Maternal mortality; Early detection of behavior disorders |
| Perry Dickinson, MD, Prof., FM | Practice transformation, chronic care management and mental health | Improving mental health access/care; Chronic dx d/t/m |
| Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH, GIM, Dir., Addiction Medicine Service | Evidence-based opioid use disorder treatment | Opioid addiction and overdose |
| Jodi Holtrop, PhD, Assoc. Prof., FM | Primary care practice redesign, D&I research | Value-based care/QI; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Jeanne Van Cleave, MD, Assoc. Prof. GP | Mental Health in primary care; children with special healthcare needs | Improving mental health access/care; Chronic dx d/t/m |
| Carmen Lewis, MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof., GIM | Medical decision-making; Colorectal cancer screening | Value-based care delivery/QI; Prevention/population health |
| Daniel Matlock, MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof., Medicine - Geriatrics | Patient-Centered decision making, palliative care | Chronic dx d/t/m; Value-based care delivery/QI |
| Megan Morris, PhD, MPH, Assoc. Prof., FM; Qual/MM Core lead | Qualitative methods; Improving care for patients with disabilities | Value-based care delivery/QI; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Don Nease, MD, Prof. FM, PBRN & Community Engagement lead | Practice redesign, PBRN research, Community engagement in research | Value-based care delivery/QI; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Susan Moore, PhD, MSPH, Assoc. Prof., SPH, mHealth Core Lead | Mobile & digital health innovation, clinical decision support | Strengthening health care access through telehealth |
| Darcy Thompson, MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof, Peds | Reducing health disparities; Prevention of obesity in young children | Health disparities; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Stacie Daugherty, MD, MSPH, Prof. Cardiology | Defining and working to eliminate disparities in cardiovascular care | Health disparities; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Stanley Szefler, MD, Prof. Peds and Director CHCO Research Institute | Community based school-centered asthma treatment | Chronic dx d/t/m |
| Carolyn DiGuisepi, PhD, Prof., Epidemiology, SPH | Childhood injury, injury control and disease prevention | Health promotion, prevention and population health |
| Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof. Peds, Head of Pediatric PBRN | Vaccine delivery, infectious disease research, research in PBRN settings | Value-based care/QI; Prevention/population health |
| Judith Regensteiner, PhD, Prof. Med, Director Women’s Health Ctr | Cardiovascular disease and diabetes; Women’s health | Maternal mortality; Chronic disease d/t/m |
| Christopher Stille, MD, MPH, Prof. and Division Head GP | Improving care for children with special health care needs | Detection/management of chronic and multiple chronic dx |
| Institute for Health Research, KPCO | ||
| Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH, Senior Inv, Assoc. Prof. GIM | Preventing overdoses among people prescribed opioids | Opioid addiction/overdose |
| Matthew F. Daley, MD, Senior Inv., Assoc. Prof. GP | Immunization delivery; Public health surveillance | Value-based care/QI; Prevention/population health |
| Heather S. Feigelson, PhD. Senior Inv., Assoc. Prof., SPH | Breast cancer epidemiology, microbiome and cancer | Chronic dx d/t/m; prevention and population health |
| Marsha Raebel, PharmD. Senior Inv.; Clinical Professor, CUSP | Medication adherence and safety, diabetes and clinical decision support, | Value-based care/QI; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Debra Ritzwoller, PhD. Senior Investigator, Adjunct Prof. SPH | Health economics, oncology health services research | Value-based care/QI; chronic dx d/t/m |
| Denver Health | ||
| Patti Braun, MD, MPH, Prof. GP | Reducing Oral Health disparities; novel methods of oral health delivery | Value-based care/QI; Prevention/population health |
| Federico, Steven MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof., GP, Director of GP, DH | Health literacy, access to care for Latino & low-income populations | Disparities; Value-based care/QI; Prevention/population |
| Ed Havranek, MD, Prof. Med, Director DH Dept of Medicine | Cardiovascular outcomes; health disparities | Disparities; Chronic dx d/t/m |
| Shlay, Judith MD, MSPH, Prof. FM, Immunization Clinic Dir., DH | STD/HIV prevention, maternal & child health | Ending the HIV epidemic; Prevention/population health |
GP=General Pediatrics; GIM=General Internal Medicine; FM=Family Medicine; DH=Denver Health; SPH=University of Colorado School of Public Health; CUSP=University of Colorado School of Pharmacy
Chronic dx d/t/m=Early detection, treatment, and management
of chronic disease