- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2022-2024
Medical City Dallas Hospital
2023
University of California, Berkeley
2019
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
2015-2017
National Center for PTSD
2015-2017
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
2016
Center for Innovation
2015
ther unnecessary, of low value or wasteful (Institute Medicine, 2013).The third plenary panel brought different perspectives on the enduring and evolving challenges in dissemination evidence evidence-based practices as well opportunities emerging from innovations digital health sector.The sessions were complemented by facilitated lunchtime discussions these topics, additional research priorities, which enabled more in-depth discussions, question answer time, brainstorming future...
Introduction The Survey of the Health Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by University (UW) School Medicine and Public (SMPH) with goals (1) providing a timely accurate picture health state residents; (2) serving as an agile resource infrastructure for ancillary studies. Today, SHOW program continues to serve unique vital population research advancing public health. Methods currently includes 5,846 adult 980 minor participants recruited between 2019 four primary waves. WAVE I...
Patient-centered access to mental health describes the fit between patient needs and resources of system. To date, little data are available guide implementation services women veterans, an underrepresented minority within Department Veteran Affairs (VA) care. The current study examines care among identifies gender-related indicators perceived care.A population-based sample 6287 veterans using VA primary participated in a survey past year need for care, utilization, experiences. Subjective...
National implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides important lessons on barriers and facilitators to a large healthcare system. Little is known about complex EBP for emotional behavioral dysregulation—dialectical therapy (DBT). The purpose this study was understand VHA clinicians' experiences with barriers, facilitators, benefits from implementing DBT into routine care. This national program evaluation survey measured site...
The availability and utility of services to address recidivism risk factors among justice-involved veterans is unknown. We explored these issues through qualitative interviews with 63 Specialists from the Department Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Justice Programs. To guide interviews, we utilized risk–need–responsivity (RNR) model offender rehabilitation. reported that generally have access most RNR-based (substance abuse, lack positive school/work involvement, family/marital dysfunction, prosocial...
Context: Little is known about nonresearch training experiences of providers who implement evidence-based psychotherapies for suicidal behaviors among veterans. Evidence Acquisition: This national program evaluation identified the history training, needs, and desired resources clinicians work with at-risk veterans in a health care system. sequential mixed methods used post-only survey design to obtain needs assessment data from clinical sites (N = 59) within Veterans Health Administration...
With the current funding climate and need for advancements in implementation science, there is a growing demand grantsmanship workshops to increase quality rigor of proposals. A group-based science-focused workshop, Implementation Development Workshop (IDW), one methodology address this need. This manuscript provides an overview IDW structure, format, findings regarding its utility. The allows researchers vet projects proposal stage structured format with facilitator two types expert...
Cognitive-behavioral treatments for criminogenic thinking (i.e., antisocial cognitions, attitudes, and traits) are regarded as best practices reducing criminal recidivism among justice-involved adults. However, the barriers facilitators to implementation of these within large health care systems such Veterans Health Administration (VHA) largely unknown. To address this gap, we conducted qualitative interviews with 22 Specialists from VHA's Justice Programs who had been trained in a...
The US Latino/a population is considered to be at high risk for unintended pregnancy; some research indicates that parents are more likely express happiness about an pregnancy than other racial/ethnic groups. Associations between attitudes and factors such as religiosity nativity have also been documented in the population, but existing sparse, dated primarily focused on women of Mexican heritage. This study sought expand this literature by examining relationship acceptability assessing...
Utilization of tools to evaluate recidivism risk among justice-involved individuals is central the risk-need-responsivity model offender rehabilitation. Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Justice Programs (VJP) Specialists link veterans appropriate services, aiming reduce risk. To explore implementation potential structured assessments (SRAs) within VJP, semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with 63 VJP and qualitatively analyzed. While SRAs not reported be utilized as part...
Upper Silesia lies at the crossroads of Germanic and Slavic Europe. A part of the Polish kingdom in Middle Ages, territory spent much early modern period under Habsburg rule, falling to Prussia mid-eighteenth century. Like nearly all Central Europe time, region was ethnically mixed; population comprised mainly German-and Polish-speakers, who nonetheless considered themselves be simply Silesian. That is, for much its history, even continuing into present day, Silesians’ identity resided...