VA HSR&D Podcasts

Deirdre Quinn, PhD, MSc, with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion in Pittsburgh, PA, talks about her work supporting family planning for women Veterans receiving VA care through the expansion of access to

Ryan Sterling, PhD, research scientist with the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation, discusses the impact that VA’s electronic health record modernization rollout has had on burnout among VA physicians.

Omonyele Adjognon, DrPH (candidate) of the HSR Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research idiscusses her work with Drs. Christopher Miller and Kate Iverson on screening for intimate partner violence i

Maren Scheuner MD, MPH, investigator and provider at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, talks with Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) editor Diane Hanks at the 2023 HSR&D national meet

Denise Hynes and Matt Maciejewski, HSR Investigators, discuss their research studying COVID-19’s effects on Veterans, with the COVID-19 Observational Research Collaboratory (CORC), and the ongoing need to study the disea

Eric Apaydin, PhD, MPP, MS, talks with Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) writer Karen Jamrog at the 2023 HSR&D national meeting, about his research on burnout, employee engagement, and

Steven Dobscha, MD, Director of the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) discusses his research investigating primary care patient perspectives on VA's population-based suicide risk screening program (Ri

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD, MPH, of the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) discusses her CDA project seeking to induce family-involved initiation and completion of ps

Director Amy Kilbourne discusses the origin, milestones, current events, and future directions of the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) program.

Craig Rosen, PhD, of the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses his work researching burnout among VA clinicians, previous research that his most recent study was built on, and related topics of interes

Dr. Black discusses her experience in the CONDUIT QUERI Eval, and working with Veterans in VA. CONDUIT’s objective was to unite 6 inter-related Partnered Implementation projects to improve access to medications for Opioi

Jacqueline Ferguson, PhD, MS, of the VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses her research into variations in patterns, by chronic conditions, for Veterans receiving primary care via teleheal

Lynn Garvin, PhD, MBA, of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) discusses her peer-led intervention to provide VA Video Connect (VVC) telehealth to Veterans experiencing Homelessness

VA telehealth programming had focused largely on rural populations where disparities in health care access and telehealth use existed, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced an expansion to offer telehealth more broadly. Lucin

Joel Boggan, MD, MPH, of the Durham VA Medical Center talks about his experience with the Evidence Synthesis Program at VA, working with Veteran populations, and how quality improvement methodologies can be used to impro

David Chan, MD, PhD, of the HSR&D Center of Innovation to Implementation in Palo Alto, CA, discusses his work understanding how ambulance visits to VA hospitals act as an indicator of care quality.

Sam Edwards, MD, MPH, of the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) in Portland OR, talks about his research studying care fragmentation among Veterans receiving home based primary care (HBPC). Care fragme

Hildi Hagedorn, PhD, investigator with the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research CCDOR in Minneapolis, MN, talks about her research focused on implementation of best-practice recommendations for the identificati

Seppo Rinne, MD, PhD, BS of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) talks about his work with the EMPIRIC QUERI partnered evaluation. The mission of EMPIRIC QUERI is to improve VA’s ele

Heather Gilmartin, PhD, NP, investigator and nurse scientist at the Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation in Denver, Colorado discusses her HSR&D Career Development Award program work, which is focused on building supporti