Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistician

Health Care Policy and Research (SOM)

Dr. Zhuang is an Assistant Professor in ACCORDS and the Department of Medicine, Division of Healthcare Policy and Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. With a Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Dr. Zhuang specializes in leveraging biostatistics, data science, and artificial intelligence to advance healthcare outcomes and delivery. His research includes machine learning, statistical methods in electric health records, collaborations on NIH-funded projects and methodological innovations.

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistician

Health Care Policy and Research (SOM)

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistician

Health Care Policy and Research (SOM)

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistician

Health Care Policy and Research (SOM)

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2010, following a MSPH from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2005. She holds a BS in Chemistry and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University (’01). As an investigator in the University of Colorado’s Adult & Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), she conducts pragmatic, patient-centered research and evaluation on health and health care in a variety of areas. With an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and dissemination and implementation (D&I) methods, her work addresses the integration of physical and behavioral health, chronic disease self-management, improving processes and systems of care to achieve the Quadruple Aim, pragmatic trials using electronic health data, and enhancing quality of life for patients and care partners. She works with patients and other stakeholders at all phases of research, from prioritization, to design, implementation, and dissemination of research. She mentors and teaches students, trainees, and fellow faculty on Designing for Dissemination to ensure that research innovations are efficiently and effectively adopted, used, and sustained in real world settings to improve health and wellbeing for all. Dr. Kwan directs the ACCORDS Education program as well as the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) Dissemination & Implementation Research Core.

Amy Huebschmann's, MD, MS, FACP, overarching goal is to optimize the delivery of evidence-based interventions to improve the treatment and prevention of diabetes, asthma, cancer, and other chronic diseases in randomized-controlled trials, and to adapt those interventions to be feasible for delivery in real-world primary care and communitybased settings. Dr. Huebschmann is a primary care physician and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), and the Lead Scientist for Community Education and Outreach for the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research. She is the senior implementation scientist for several NIH-funded pragmatic trials, including serving as MPI for one of the 7 NHLBI-funded DECIPHeR UG3/UH3 awards to leverage implementation science to improve cardiopulmonary health inequities.

Allison Kempe, MD, MPH is the founding Director of ACCORDS. She is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and has conducted health services, outcomes, and implementation/dissemination research for over thirty years. She has extensive experience in conducting pragmatic trials, in program evaluation and in the conduct of surveys, with over 200 publications focusing on improving health care and health care delivery. Finding and testing methods of improving immunization rates and other preventive care delivery and decreasing disparities in health and health care delivery for children have been the major focus of her own research. She has received numerous R01 level grants from NIH, AHRQ, and the CDC throughout her career. Additionally, Dr. Kempe has played a major mentorship role for many fellows and junior faculty. She directed two federally funded primary care research fellowships for over 10 years and developed a fellowship for surgical and subspecialty faculty who wish to become outcomes or health services researchers. Currently, she is a Co-Director of a K12 from NHLBI that focuses on implementation and dissemination science.

ussell Glasgow, PhD is the Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Program of ACCORDS (https://bit.ly/2BnJzuk) and research professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is one of the original developers of the RE-AIM (www.re-aim.org), PRISM and Dynamic Sustainability frameworks and directs an NCI funded implementation science center. He is an implementation scientist whose work focuses on public health issues of studying and enhancing the reach and adoption of evidence-based programs; adaptation and context; and pragmatic research methods and measures to enhance health equity and sustainment.

Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego where she also serves as the co-Director of the UC San Diego D&I Science Center. Dr. Rabin serves as the co-lead of the Implementation Core for the Triple Aim QUERI Program for Denver VA and an Implementation Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Stress and Mental Health at the San Diego VA. She is a member of the ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science Program at the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on dissemination and implementation (D&I) of evidence-based interventions, adaptations, measurement, and the evaluation and development of interactive, web-based interventions and tools with a special emphasis on tools that can support planning for D&I interventions. She designed and developed a number of web- based resources including the D&I Models in Research and Practice (https://dissemination-implementation.org/) websites.

Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, PhD, is an Assistant Professorin the Colorado School of Public Health. She received her BS in Applied Mathematics and MSc in Statistics in Mexico, and her doctoral degree in Statistics from Simon Fraser University in Canada. Elizabeth’s areas of expertise and interest include: (i) analysis of data with dependencies at different levels including longitudinal and clustered data, which builds upon generalized linear and nonlinear mixed models, (ii) analysis of repeated events data such as pulmonary exacerbations, which evolve as extension of survival analysis methods, (iii) joint modeling of multiple outcomes, and (iv) analysis of observational data. She has been involved in the design and analysis of several health outcomes research studies, including for instance, The Scalable Architecture for Federated Translational Inquiries Network (SAFTINet) project, a pragmatic trial to assist weight loss in a low-income population, and several observational studies in surgical outcomes.

Demetria McNeal, PhD, MBA is an academically trained health communication scientist with prior corporate and clinical experience. As a Dissemination & Implementation Scientist specializing in Health Disparities in the Black American community, her interests are to reduce health disparities in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Dr. McNeal combines her business acumen and research agenda to design and implement evidence-based sustainable health interventions. Dr. McNeal is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research & Delivery Science

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

ACCORDS

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Yaxu Zhuang PhD

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH (lead PI, chair)

Amy Huebschmann, MD, MS, FACP

Allison Kempe, MD, MPH

Russell Glasgow, PhD

Borsika Rabin, PhD, PharmD, MPH

Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, PhD

Demetria McNeal, PhD, MBA

ACCORDS