Nathalie Moise, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Nathalie Moise is an internist, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab) at the Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health with training in epidemiology and implementation science. She has worked in health services research for more than 10 years and is PI/MPI of several federally funded grants (NIH, AHRQ, PCORI) leveraging hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs to test implementation and de-implementation strategies for promoting behavioral interventions in primary care and cardio-oncology settings, including MPI of AHRQ EQUIP Learning Health System Center and NIA Roybal Center grants. Dr. Moise has been the implementation science co-investigator/consultant for more than 20 funded grants, including core lead for an NIMHD P50 cardio-oncology center grant and has published extensively in the areas of behavioral health, patient engagement/adherence, implementation science and clinical inertia. She has served as faculty for the UCSF implementation science certificate course and NHLBI Research in Implementation Science for Equity summer program, Co-Director of the CTSA’s Implementation Science Initiative, is Associate Editor of Implementation Research and Practice and founding member of the American Heart Association’s Implementation Science Committee.

Title: Breaking the cycle: Rethinking multi-level strategies for sustaining collaborative care models.

Objectives:

1. Understand key determinants of sustaining collaborative care models
2. Understand benefits and harms of multi-level strategies for sustainability
3. Identify future directions

Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD

Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
UC San Diego

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Dr. Rabin is an Associate Professor and Founding Faculty at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC), and an Implementation Science (IS) expert on a number of large NIH and VA Center grants and research projects including the VA San Diego Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health and the Quadruple Aim QUERI Program (Denver VA). Dr. Rabin has extensive expertise in the selection and operationalization of IS models and she is a national expert in the use of the RE-AIM framework and its contextually expanded counterpart, PRISM. Dr. Rabin has been a member of the national leadership team for RE-AIM for the past close to one decade, developed and refined advanced methodology for the use of RE-AIM and PRISM across diverse topic areas and settings, and developed training and conducted consultations on the operationalization of RE-AIM and PRISM for research proposals and ongoing projects. She serves as the lead RE-AIM expert for the recently funded VA Center for the Evaluation of Enterprise-Wide Initiatives and provides technical assistance, training, consultation for all VA Office of Rural Health funded projects that are mandated to use RE-AIM for evaluation.

Title: Optimizing fit of your interventions and implementation strategies: documenting and integrating adaptations across the life cycle of your program.

Objectives:

1. Develop an understanding of key concepts of adaptations, functions and forms, and fit.
2. Understand the what, how, and when of documenting adaptations across the program life cycle.
3. Become familiar with study designs and strategies that allow for iterative adaptations in program implementation.

Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH

Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Director, Implementation Science Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health, Colombia University

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Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with expertise in implementation science, sustainability, health equity, and community engagement. She is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health where she serves as Deputy Chair for Faculty Development and Research Strategy. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource at the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (CTSA); through the CTSA, she also leads and is Director of an Implementation Science Initiative focused on building research capacity for implementation science across the university. Dr. Shelton developed one of the first courses offered nationally in implementation science in public health; she has taught this course for over 10 years at Columbia and has been an invited speaker and core faculty for numerous implementation science mentoring and training programs globally, including NIH’s Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC), the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2), and implementation science programs in Australia, Nigeria, Ireland, Mozambique, Thailand, and South Africa. Dr. Shelton has 15 years of experience leading mixed-methods, community-engaged research on advancing the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in community and clinical settings to address health inequities, particularly in the context of cancer prevention/control, with over 130 peer-reviewed publications. Her work has made contributions to health equity and sustainability in the field of implementation science and has been supported by numerous NIH institutions and foundations, including NIA, NCI, NIMHD, NCATs, and the American Cancer Society.

Title: Advancing the science of sustainability in the field of implementation science.

Objectives:

1. To define sustainability/sustainment and how it is conceptualized in the field of implementation science.
2. To identify frameworks, metrics, and tools that can be used to assess and plan for sustainability.
3. To understand similarities and distinctions in factors and strategies that matter for sustainment and implementation.

Stephanie Staras, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Chair of Faculty Development
Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics

Associate Director, Institute for Child Health Policy
Co-Lead, Cancer Control and Population Science Program
University of Florida

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Dr. Stephanie A. S. Staras is a distinguished researcher specializing in the prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers. With a strong emphasis on implementation science, she is dedicated to advancing health equity in cancer prevention. Dr. Staras’ research focuses on enhancing clinical recommendations, fostering parental acceptance, and improving access to HPV vaccinations for adolescents throughout Florida.

As Principal Investigator, she has led multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded projects, securing a total of $8.5 million in federal funding through a series of R21, R37, R37 extension, and R01 grants. These significant, high-enrollment studies have been instrumental in achieving the UF Cancer Center's NCI designation, contributing 40% of UF's clinical trial accruals between 2021 and 2023. Dr. Staras' efforts exemplify a commitment to impactful research that not only advances scientific knowledge but also addresses critical public health challenges.

Title: Implementing Evidence-Based HPV Vaccination Strategies: Uniting Health Behavior and Implementation Science to Make a Real-World Impact

Objectives:

1. Discuss effective strategies for integrating Behavioral and Implementation Science Theories into the conceptual framework to support a multi-level pragmatic clinical trial.
2. Identify implementation outcomes that measure intermediate outcomes of an intervention.
3. Describe the tangible outcomes of implementing evidence-based practices in clinical care, focusing on improvements in clinician practices and patient outcomes.

Cheryl Vamos, PhD.

Professor
Director, Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education
University of South Florida

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Dr. Cheryl Vamos is an Associate Professor and a Fellow with the Chiles Center for Women, Children and Families. She is also a Core Faculty member of the Collaborative for Research Understanding Sexual Health (CRUSH). The overall goal of Dr. Vamos’ research is to facilitate the translation of maternal and child health (MCH) evidence into practice for patients, providers, and women at-large. Within the broad field of MCH, the majority of projects focus on women’s health, reproductive health and MCH oral health, and employ health literacy, implementation science, and technology approaches to ensure that women (and providers) have the knowledge, skills and resources needed to be empowered and make informed health decisions. Together, this research seeks to (1) identify the system-level factors influencing health behaviors/outcomes and (2) develop and test innovative solutions to improve women’s health.

Title: Leveraging Implementation Science to Advance Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Research and Practice

Objectives:

1. To highlight the utility of integrating implementation science and health behavior theories, models and frameworks in maternal and child health (MCH) research
2. To discuss how implementation science can guide health behavior change across system levels (individual/patient, provider, and clinics/hospitals)
3. To share findings from implementation science research and practice that aim to improve women’s, sexual/reproductive, and perinatal health

Theresa L Walunas, PhD

Associate Professor
Northwestern University

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Theresa received her PhD in immunology from UChicago and an MS in computer science from DePaul University. She is Associate Director for the Center for Health Information Partnerships, Chair of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Track in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD program and Director of the MS in Health and Biomedical Informatics. She has led studies funded by AHRQ to implement and assess quality improvement interventions in pragmatic clinical settings and by NIAMS, NICHD and Gilead Sciences to develop strategies to identify complex immune disease and cancer in electronic health record data to support population health management.

Title: Does Coaching Really Matter? Intersecting implementation science, informatics and machine learning to assess implementation strategies in primary care.

Objectives:

1. Discuss the development and use of pragmatic data collection strategies to document implementation strategies
2. Apply the Implementation Research Logic Model to create a framework for feature selection for modeling
3. Explore the use of machine learning strategies to build models for understanding relationships between practice environments and implementation strategies