“What Makes a Successful Implementation Research Grant Proposal?”
Hear from past and present NIH Study Section Chairs of the Science for Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH).
Invited Speakers:
- Stephen Bartels MD, MS: director, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Heather M. Brandt, PhD: director, HPV Cancer Prevention Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, co-associate director for outreach, full member, department of epidemiology and cancer control, St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Jeremiah R. Brown, PhD, MS: founding director, Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science
Location:
2115 Wisconsin Avenue, Room G313, Lower Level or via Zoom
Hosted by the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Prevention & Control Program, Cancer Care & Delivery Working Group
About the Speakers:
Stephen Bartels MD, MS is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health, Director of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Mongan Institute serves as the academic home for 12 research centers and over 145 research faculty and research fellows at MGH dedicated to training and research in population and health care delivery team science aimed at achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs. The Mongan Institute bridges research spanning data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation and health systems science engaging team science across a broad variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention, implementation, and health systems research. Dr. Bartels has authored over 360 publications and has mentored over 60 early career investigators. Over the past several decades he has led productive research developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, and implementation science. Before coming to MGH Dr. Bartels served in a variety of research center and leadership roles including founding Director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging; Director of a CDC Health Promotion and Prevention Center; PI of several T32 Research Training Programs; and Director of Research Education and Training and Co-Director of Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Research Institute.
Heather M. Brandt, PhD directs the HPV Cancer Prevention Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She is co-associate director for outreach in the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center and full member in the department of epidemiology and cancer control. She is a faculty affiliate in the University of Memphis School of Public Health and University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. As a social and behavioral scientist, her research interests address disparities in cancer prevention and control and specifically working with thought leaders and partners to effectively use what we know works to increase HPV vaccination coverage. She was chair and standing member of the National Institutes of Health Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare (previously Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health) from July 2019 to June 2022 and served as chair of the study section from July 2020 to June 2022 concluding her service.
Jeremiah R. Brown, PhD, MS is the founding Director of the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science and pioneered the recently approved a 1-year Master’s of Implementation Science as a professional degree offered by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He received his MS in 2003 and PhD in 2006 from the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth. He is a professor of Epidemiology with joint appointments in Biomedical Data Science, and Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He is the current NIH Study Section Chair of the Science for Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH), term ending 2024. Dr. Brown is funded by NHBLI, NIAID, and NIDDK with four concurrent R01 grants. He specializes in running national implementation hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized trials including 32 medical centers nationally using team-based coaching and EHR-based clinical decision support tools. Dr. Brown has extensive expertise in predictive analytics using structured or unstructured EHR data for use in developing healthcare AI predictive toolkits, clinical decision support, and clinical-facing AI implementation. His funding has included leveraging biomarkers to predict 30-day readmission in pediatric and adult heart surgery, acute myocardial infarction EHR-based AI modeling for 30-day readmissions, and clinically facing AI-integration and clinical decision support for major healthcare encounters in ambulatory COPD patients including admissions, ED encounters, and uptake of home oxygen use. His multidisciplinary team has extensive experience pioneering clinical informatics and implementation science in EHR platforms and use of implementation interventions such as virtual learning collaboratives to facilitate uptake of evidence-based interventions with a national network of collaborators and health systems.