Investigators — Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Greg Arling, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Arling’s research interests are in health care quality assessment, evaluation, and policy analysis. He has considerable experience with statistical analysis of large data sets, with a recent interest in multilevel modeling. Much of his research has been conducted with elderly populations in long-term care settings. He has helped develop comprehensive measures of quality of care and quality of life which have been applied to long-term care public report cards and pay-for-performance systems. He also has studied transitions between care settings, such as hospital, nursing home, or community care. He seeks to understand risk factors associated with health care costs and quality, and to develop better risk adjustment and statistical estimation techniques.

Matthew J. Bair, MD, MS

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Bair’s research focuses on understanding the interface between affective disorders (e.g. depression and anxiety) and chronic pain and developing strategies to improve pain management in the primary care setting. Dr. Bair’s major educational foci are teaching implementation research methods and evidence-based medicine to medical residents, fellows, and IUPUI junior faculty. He also co-directs four VA HSR&D-funded postgraduate training programs in implementation science, system redesign and healthcare informatics.

Michael R. Barnes, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Barnes is the primary developer of the DOCS4DOCS clinical document distribution system which serves all the major Indianapolis hospitals. His interests include improving the physician's diagnostic and treatment skills through the use of computers. He is also involved in object oriented design and programming process management.

Paul Biondich, MD, MS

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Biondich’s research interests include clinical decision support systems and the use of large scale, consolidated electronic health information infrastructures in this regard. He serves on national committees in pediatric medical terminology development for HL7, LOINC, and SNOMED, and is co-developer of a next generation medical record system for HIV care in Eldoret, Kenya.

Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Boustani is interested in enhancing the quality of the current health care system to accommodate the needs of patients with cognitive impairment in general and those with dementia in particular. He is working on the development of a multifaceted dementia care system across various health care settings including ambulatory, primary and secondary care, hospital environment, and long-term care facilities. He is involved in various large projects aimed at identifying the barriers to development of an enhanced system in primary care (PREVENT, PRIMS-PC, and I-NEEDS studies), the hospital (e-CHAMP, 3Ds, and POCD projects), and in long-term care (ALFA and Dementia Care studies).

Dawn Bravata, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Clinical Coordinator, VA HSR&D Stroke Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)

Dr. Bravata conducts health services research in cerebrovascular disease. The fundamental goal of her research is to improve the quality of care for stroke patients and others with cerebrovascular disease. She is interested in three topics within this larger domain: the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions for patients with acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), the quality of care received by patients with stroke and TIA, and the identification and treatment of medical co-morbidities in patients with cerebrovascular disease.

Christopher M. Callahan, MD

Director of Aging Research and Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor in Aging Research, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Callahan’s research seeks to improve the outcomes of care for older adults with late life depression and dementia. His work explores innovative models of care that support the generalist physician in their day-to-day provision of health care for older adults. These new models of care focus on collaboration between health care providers, patients, and family as well as across the continuum of care with an emphasis on the application of information technology.

Noll L. Campbell, PharmD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Purdue University College of Pharmacy; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Campbell’s interest is in medication management of older adults with cognitive impairment. As an aging brain pharmacoepidemiologist he is most interested in the impact medications may have on the development or progression of cognitive dysfunction. This work extends to both the acute care (Pharmacologic Management of Delirium, PMD study) and ambulatory environments (COMET-AD, comparative effectiveness study in Alzheimer’s Disease). Additionally, he is interested in improving both appropriateness of and adherence to medication use in older adults.

Neale Chumbler, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Director, Institute for Research on Social Issues

Dr. Chumbler has extensive experience developing, implementing, and evaluating complex health information technology interventions that deliver accessible care for functionally impaired individuals. These interventions ultimately improve patient centered outcomes, avert preventable health services and evaluate VA stroke quality performance indicators.

Daniel Owen Clark, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Clark’s interests are in the design, evaluation, and translation of primary care-based interventions to support physical activity and self-management of chronic disease. Dr. Clark is co-director of the IU-Roybal Center for Translational Research on Chronic Disease Self-Management Among Vulnerable Older Adults.

Teresa Damush, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Research Professor in Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research; Affiliated Scientist, Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness, Indiana University School of Nursing; Associate Member, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, IU Simon Cancer Center

Dr. Damush is a social psychologist specializing in health psychology. As the Implementation Research Coordinator for the Stroke QUERI Center, Dr. Damush's research focuses on implementing evidence-based practices for stroke survivors and caregivers. She collaborates with colleagues on designing and evaluating system interventions in the delivery of evidence-based practices. She has funding from of the Department of Veterans Affairs to adapt existing evidence-based tools for secondary stroke prevention from hospital discharge to the veterans' homes. In addition, Dr. Damush continues to design and evaluate disease self-management programs for chronic medical conditions including musculoskeletal pain and stroke.

Paul Dexter, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Dexter is Chief Medical Information Officer for Wishard Health Services and supervisor of the programmers responsible for the Regenstrief Medical Record System and the Gopher Order Entry System. He has conducted multiple trials related to computerized clinical reminder systems. His interest is in the development and evaluation of computer technologies and their effects on physician responses.

Brad Doebbeling, MD, MSc, FACP

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University

Dr. Doebbeling is a nationally recognized health care epidemiologist, health services researcher, and mentor. His research focuses on identifying environmental, organizational, provider and patient factors influencing the effectiveness of systems interventions, such as implementing decision support, to improve healthcare. His methodologic work has defined new approaches to benchmark performance and identify determinants of program effectiveness. His research is interdisciplinary and cross-cutting in the areas of the prevention and management of antimicrobial resistance and patient safety, mental health, cancer and other chronic conditions. Dr. Doebbeling currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. He also serves as associate director for the Indiana General Health Services Research Fellowship Training Program and the NIH K30 Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement (CITE) Program.

Jon Duke, MD

Phone: 317-423-5532

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Duke is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine and currently serves as director of Regenstrief Institute’s Drug Safety Informatics Lab and as the Institute’s Chief Innovation Officer. Dr. Duke completed a National Library of Medicine Fellowship in Medical Informatics at Regenstrief and joined the faculty in July 2010. His primary research focus is on decision support in medication safety, with a particular emphasis on evaluation of adverse drug events and drug-drug interactions in complex multi-drug regimens. His other area of research is EHR usability, and he is leading user interface development for Regenstrief's new CPOE platform known as G3. Dr. Duke is fluent in Japanese and has done work with the medical informatics community in Japan. He continues to see patients as a practicing internist.

John T. Finnell, MD, MSc

Phone: 317-423-5512

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University

Dr. Finnell is a graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and board certified in Emergency Medicine. He is interested in the application of medical informatics to the practice of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Finnell joined the Institute in 2002 where his research activities focused on building the infrastructure necessary to capture emergency department visit data. The departmental tracking system known as "WizErD" began capturing visit data on July 15th, 2003.

His first publication entitled "Community Clinical Data Exchange for Emergency Medicine Patients" explored the pattern of emergency healthcare delivery across Indianapolis over a one year period. They found that one-fourth of the emergency department patients with more than one visit also visited one of the other five hospital systems. These patients could potentially benefit the most from a shared clinical data network.

Currently Dr. Finnell is working on implementing public health measures during emergency department visits. A great example is providing a flu shot during the ED visit. These are accomplished through G-Care rules as patients present to the ED.

Richard M. Frankel, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Frankel’s research interests include relationship-centered care and its effect on health care processes and outcomes, biopsychosocial medicine, communication between older adults and their providers, the effects of exam room computers on the physician-patient relationship, communication about medical errors, and conversations at the end of life. Dr. Frankel’s educational interests include teaching and evaluating professionalism, theory and design of communication skills programs, faculty development with specific emphases on new faculty and teaching humanism at the bedside, and implementation and evaluation of experiential and other interactive learning formats that incorporate personal awareness and mindfulness. He also co-directs four VA HSR&D-funded postgraduate training programs in implementation science, system redesign and healthcare informatics.

Dustin D. French, PhD

Health economist Dr. French has extensive experience in using health information systems for outcome and cost studies. Dr. French came to the health services research community here after spending seven years working in the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry in the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, FL and VISN-8 Headquarters at Bay Pines. Prior to that he was a consultant for Nationwide Insurance World Headquarters in Columbus, OH. Currently, he is PI on studies examining access to care and costs. He also is a co-investigator for the Indianapolis site for the VA Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research.

Roland Gamache, PhD, MBA

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute; Assistant Research Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Gamache previously held the position of Director of the State Health Data Center with the Indiana State Department of Health. He has a history of successful public health informatics collaborations with Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute, and has worked with hospitals and the Indiana Hospital Association on the use of Public Health Surveillance Systems for hospitals emergency departments.

Shaun Grannis, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Grannis’s research interests include developing, implementing and studying technology to overcome the challenges of integrating data from distributed systems for use in health care delivery and research. His patient matching research has received recognition from the American Medical Informatics Association for outstanding contribution to the body of medical informatics knowledge.. He serves as technical co-chair for the national Health Information Technology Standards Panel’s biosurveillance workgroup to develop standards for population health information exchange. He is involved in multi-year studies that explore multiple facets of disease detection and public health surveillance challenges, including geographical de-identification, understanding temporal-spatial disease trends, and developing regional clinical reminders. He is leading a 4-year project integrating data flows from over 110 hospitals in the state of Indiana for use in disease surveillance and clinical research. He has worked with Indiana, Michigan, Texas, and other states to develop statewide data sharing initiatives. Dr. Grannis also maintains a clinical practice.

David Haggstrom, MD, MAS

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Associate Member, IU Simon Cancer Center

Dr. Haggstrom is a cancer health services researcher broadly interested in the measurement and improvement of the quality of health care delivery across the cancer continuum. In addition to implementation science, his research interests specifically include personal health records, patient-physician communication, and risk perception. Dr Haggstrom has assessed quality of cancer care utilizing large secondary databases, including VA national data and SEER-Medicare. Dr. Haggstrom is currently studying the influence of organizational characteristics and provider specialty upon colorectal cancer screening and the quality of survivorship care among colorectal cancer survivors. He is also pilot testing a colorectal cancer survivor’s Web-based personal health record. He serves on the Clinical Advisory Board’s Performance Evaluation Workgroup for My HealtheVet, the VA’s award-winning e-health Website.

Lisa E. Harris, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Associate Dean for Wishard Affairs, John F. Williams, Jr., M.D. Scholar and Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; CEO and Medical Director, Wishard Health Services

Dr. Harris’ research interests include using the patient’s perspective in evaluating and improving quality of medical care in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Hugh C. Hendrie, MB, ChB, DSc

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Hendrie is co-principal investigator of a multi-disciplinary group of researchers conducting international comparative studies of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in Nigeria and the United States supported by the National Institute on Aging. He is a member of the steering committee of the National Institute of Aging supported Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center. He also chaired a National Institutes of Health committee on factors influencing cognitive and emotional health and is on the steering committee of the Center for Disease Control Alzheimer Association Healthy Brain Initiative. Dr. Hendrie collaborates on intervention trials for the treatment of depression and dementia in primary care, and is conducting surveys of retired physicians and their spouses focusing on predictors of life satisfaction.

Siu L. Hui, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director of Biostatistics, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Hui, the senior biostatistician at the Institute, collaborates with other Institute scientists and conducts her own research. Her major projects involve issues with aging, including osteoporosis, menopause, dementia and cardiovascular disease. Her research interest is in the development of statistical methods and the application of innovative techniques to address biomedical and health services research questions. Statistical areas include missing and longitudinal data, statistical modeling, and measurement errors.

Tom Imperiale, MD

Phone: (317) 630-7760

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Staff Physician, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Imperiale’s primary research interests include tailoring screening for colorectal cancer based on individual patient risk, and using quantitative research methods in studying prevention of the complications of cirrhosis. Secondary research interests include prognosis and management of acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and assessment of new technologies to the application of digestive diseases.

Thomas Inui, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Health Care Research, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director of Research, Indiana University Kenya Program.

Dr. Inui’s research interests focus on physician-patient communication, effectiveness of primary care services, improving the health status of vulnerable populations, and measuring outcomes of medical care. Dr. Inui is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

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Babar A. Khan, MD, MS

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Aging Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care

Dr. Khan’s research interest lies in the long term outcomes of critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit. He is specifically focused on developing a biomarker profile among delirious patients in the intensive care unit to predict their long term cognitive, physical and psychological morbidity.

Erin Krebs, MD, MPH

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Krebs is a general internist with a research focus on chronic pain assessment and management in primary care. Her main research objectives are to improve the effectiveness and safety of prescribing practices for chronic pain, and to implement practical and cost-effective biopsychosocial pain management methods in primary care settings. Dr. Krebs’s related research interests include outcomes measurement, patient-provider communication, women’s health, mental health, and substance abuse. She is also a co-investigator and Indianapolis site-PI for the Women Veterans Cohort Study, which aims to compare female and male Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans in terms of health care utilization, stress-associated conditions, and satisfaction with VA-based care.

Kurt Kroenke, MD

Phone: (317) 630-7447

Director of Fellowship and Training Programs, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Kroenke focuses his clinical research on the optimal evaluation and management of common symptoms such as pain, fatigue, dizziness, and other physical complaints. He also conducts research on depression, anxiety and other mental disorders in primary care. His methodologic expertise includes clinical trials, questionnaire development, clinical epidemiology, and health services research. He is Co-PI for the Indiana University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement (CITE) Program and Director of the IU Graduate School Master of Science in Clinical Research program, which offers training and educational opportunities for fellows and junior faculty from numerous disciplines.

Michael LaMantia, MD, MPH

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. LaMantia’s research focuses on the coordination of care for older, vulnerable patients as they transition across sites of healthcare delivery. He has a particular interest in the care of seniors in the emergency department and especially the care provided to seniors with delirium and dementia.

Debra Litzelman, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Dean for Research in Medical Education and Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Litzelman's primary interests are in undergraduate medical education, clinical teaching skills development for students, residents and faculty, and organizational change strategies. She is widely published in the areas of clinical teaching effectiveness, curricular innovations, and shaping the informal curriculum of academic health centers. Dr. Litzelman has been recognized for implementing various innovative, online assessment tools and programs, including an online evaluation system for statewide undergraduate medical courses and instructors and disseminating and tracking student performance as they progress through an integrated four-year competency-based curriculum. She is currently the principal investigator on IU School of Medicine’s Behavioral and Social Science Integrated Curriculum Program.

Burke Mamlin, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Mamlin has been involved in the design and development of computer applications for medicine at Regenstrief Institute for over two decades with a focus on physician order entry. He helped create the Medical Gopher Order Entry system and has led the development of a next generation of this system. He has extensive programming experience and continues to practice medicine as a general internist while mentoring informatics fellows. Dr. Mamlin is applying his experience at Regenstrief to the design and development of an electronic medical record system for developing counties ( www.OpenMRS.org ). Open MRS is used in the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of Indiana University’s Kenya Program.

Douglas K. Martin, MD

Senior Informaticist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Martin specializes in component based application architectures, clinical data modeling, clinical vocabularies, clinical repository architecture, system integration, healthcare data standards, and clinical decision support systems. He is the principal architect of VueCentric, a component-based, open-architecture infrastructure that permits the dynamic construction of highly configurable clinical desktop applications using a best-of-breed approach.

Marianne Matthias, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Matthias is interested in communication in chronic pain care and in mental health, with specific research foci on patient-provider communication and clinical decision making. Prior to joining the VA Center of Excellence in 2009, she completed the VA HSR&D Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is the recipient of the five-year VA HSR&D Career Development Award, “Identifying Strategies to Improve Communication in Chronic Pain Care” and is also involved in research pertaining to patient activation and shared decision making in mental health care.

Edward J. Miech, EdD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Special Graduate Faculty Appointment, Purdue University; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Miech has a doctorate in education from Harvard University with expertise in program evaluation, assessment, educational theory, and mixed methods. Since joining the VA Center of Excellence in 2009, Dr. Miech has been a co-investigator on several VA HSR&D studies and is now principal investigator on a three-year, mixed methods study of the impact of context on the efforts of twelve VA sites to improve inpatient stroke care. He is also a faculty members of VA-CASE, the regional Veterans Engineering Resource Center based in the Midwest. In this capacity, he serves on planning committees for VA Systems Redesign initiatives – including collaboratives at the local, regional, and national levels – and helps plan and conduct program evaluations.

Doug Miller, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Richard M. Fairbanks Professor in Aging Research and Associate Director, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Miller's interests include the causes, prevention, and remediation of frailty and decline of self-care functioning in late, middle aged and older persons, especially in socially vulnerable urban African-Americans. Dr. Miller is also interested in improving the care of older patients visiting emergency departments and the cardiovascular health of urban populations through secondary prevention efforts.

Wendy Morrison, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Professor of Economics, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Principal Researcher, Institute for Research on Social Issues

Dr. Morrison is an economist specializing in health economics and experimental economics. Her research examines the costs and benefits of interventions and the incentives and barriers faced by patients, providers, insurers, and private industry. Knowledge of these benefits, incentives and barriers can be used to improve healthcare by directing healthcare dollars to those treatments and services producing the most health gain.

Michael (Mick) D. Murray, PharmD, MPH

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Executive Director, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Improvement and Research; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Endowed Chair of Medication Safety, Purdue University college of Pharmacy.

Dr. Murray’s research interests include developing pharmacy services to improve drug therapy I older adults with chronic disorders, medication safety, improving the quality of health of low-income minority people, and pharmacoepidemiology using large population computer databases.

Susanne Ragg, MD, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Ragg has been playing an important role in the Medical Informatics Section for a number of years. She has played a key role in supporting RI Medical Informatics work in biospecimen management, and has proven herself a valuable member of the team and brings experience and knowledge that complements others. In addition to her service as an attending pediatric hematology/oncology physician, she maintains an active research program. Dr. Ragg makes significant contributions to the development of essential software tools such as the caTissue suite and related tools such as caTrack.

Marc B. Rosenman, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Rosenman's research focuses on clinical epidemiology, electronic medical records systems, and health information from multiple sources. Dr. Rosenman serves as faculty supervisor for the Institute's data management group.

Alissa L. Russ, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Purdue University; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Russ completed her graduate work at Purdue University and is a biomedical engineer and human factors engineering specialist. She applies human factors research methods, including qualitative and quantitative techniques, to improve pharmacoinformatics for prescribing, medication management, and patient safety. Her primary research focuses on design strategies to enhance computerized medication alerts (e.g., drug-drug interactions) for clinical workflow, prescriber decision-making, and medication safety.

Greg A. Sachs, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Sach's research and writing have focused on ethical issues in geriatrics, especially ethical issues involved in research on people with dementia and care at the end of life.

Jason J. Saleem, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Dr. Saleem received his PhD from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2003, specializing in human factors engineering. Dr. Saleem has led the development and implementation of the Human-Computer Interaction Information Technology Laboratory in the VA Center of Excellence. His current research involves application of human factors engineering and human computer interaction to enhance clinical information systems, including electronic decision support, as well as redesign of healthcare processes for improved safety. Plans for future research include the study of how innovation in the design and implementation of electronic health records and computerized clinical decision support can better integrate these systems into clinical workflow and support higher quality care.

Michelle Salyers, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Co-Director, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Center of Indiana

Dr. Salyers is a clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher with interests in psychiatric rehabilitation, primarily focusing on implementation of assertive community treatment and illness self-management programs for adults with severe mental illnesses. Her research involves both patient-level interventions (self-management) and organization-level interventions (using data to guide practice, implementing specific evidence-based practices, agency orientation/culture that supports recovery).

Arlene A. Schmid, PhD, OTR

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, IUPUI School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Affiliated Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Funded through a four-year VA RR&D CDA, Dr. Schmid has focused recent work in the VA Center of Excellence on developing interventions to improve Veterans’ mobility and participation following stroke. Her primary interests include stroke rehabilitation and prevention, the development and impact of post-stroke fear of falling and balance impairment, and the enhancement of social participation and community re-integration after stroke.

Linas Simonaitis, MD

Dr. Simonaitis started his Medical Informatics fellowship in July 2004. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and has worked as a Hospitalist and as a Primary Care physician prior to coming to Regenstrief.

Dr. Simonaitis is very interested in the Electronic Health Record, and in using Clinical Guidelines to provide Decision Support at the point of care. He is also interested in exploring Natural Language Processing, the ability of a computer to read through pages of free text and produce a succinct summary.

During his first year of the Informatics Fellowship, Dr. Simonaitis has been studying the use of XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects), a W3C Consortium Standard. He created XSLT stylesheets, and used them with an XSL-FO Formatting Engine to transform XML patient data into PDF clinical reports. He helped to implement this process at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Subsequently, he studied usage statistics and administered a survey instrument to assess clinical-user acceptance of the new process.

More recently, he has been studying national drug codes and classification systems. He is planning a project to improve the indexing of medicines within the Regenstrief Medical Record System. The backbone of the new indexing system is expected to be the RxNorm codes developed by the National Library of Medicine.

William Tierney, MD

President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Chancellor's Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Effectiveness Research, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Tierney uses electronic medical records and information gathered from patients, applied at critical points in the interactions of patients and health care providers, to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. He performs epidemiologic studies utilizing the clinical data stored in the clinical data repositories created by Indiana University in Indianapolis and Kenya. He led the effort to develop the first ambulatory electronic medical record system in sub-Saharan Africa which has evolved into a comprehensive, open-source electronic medical record system that has been implemented in more than a dozen developing countries. He is also the Director of Research and Informatics for AMPATH, a collaboration of more than a dozen North American universities with Moi University in Kenya with the mission of developing and implementing clinical care, teaching, and research programs in western Kenya. Dr. Tierney teaches on health services research methods, and writes and publishes medical literature. He serves as Director for Global Health for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Tierney is a member of the Association of American Physicians and the Institute of Medicine.

Alexia M. Torke, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research; Associate Director, Fairbanks Fellowship in Medical Ethics

Dr. Torke is interested in the ethical communication aspects of medical decision making. She has conducted research on patients’ preferences for end-of-life care and currently focuses on the topic of surrogate decision making – the making of major medical decisions for patients with dementia, delirium or other conditions that impair cognitive function. She has designed and evaluated end-of-life care curricula and clinical ethics for medical students and residents.

Wanzhu Tu, PhD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana; Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine; Center Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research

Dr. Tu’s primary research interest is the development of new analytical methods for clinical and epidemiological studies. His current research activities involve the modeling of infectious diseases, and the analysis of health service outcome data.

Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Investigator, IU Center for Aging Research and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Indiana University

Dr. Unroe is focused on health policy relevant research in long term care, including the use of palliative care and hospice in this setting, transitions of care, quality of medical care in nursing homes, and staffing models in long term care. She provides clinical care in nursing homes.

Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, MSc

Phone: 317-423-5515

Assistant Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine; Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute

Dr. Vreeman's research interests are centered on understanding and promoting effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in healthcare. The principle focus areas are: (1) The use of standardized clinical vocabularies to support electronic health information exchange, and (2) Investigation of medical informatics applications to improve healthcare delivery and research. Dr. Vreeman also has a primary role in the development of the LOINC database of universal codes for clinical observations.

More information on Dr. Vreeman's research and professional interests can be found at: http://dr.danielvreeman.net

Michael Weiner, MD, MPH

Director of Health Services Research and Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Director, IU Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Principal Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Associate Professor of Medicine, Dr. Weiner joined the IU School of Medicine faculty and the Regenstrief Institute in 1999, following undergraduate work at Brown University, medical school at Duke University, and residency and fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University. While at Hopkins, he also earned a master’s degree in public health. In 2003, Dr. Weiner was awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Weiner’s professional interests are health services research, geriatrics, and health informatics. At IU Geriatrics, he founded the gero-informatics program, which under his leadership focused on leveraging health information technologies to improve the care of older adults. His clinical and health-services research is focused on measuring and improving the quality, coordination, and delivery of health services for older adults. He also studies the effects of health information and information technology on physicians' practices and patients' outcomes. Dr. Weiner has conducted studies of specialty referral, patient-physician videoconferencing, and other forms of telecommunication to improve healthcare. Current research includes development, implementation, and study of information systems to promote clinical handoffs, management of medications, patient-centered geriatrics care, and clinical decision support.

Martin Were, MD MS

Phone: 317-423-5540

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Were’s research interests include using informatics-based approaches to improve transition of care from the inpatient to outpatient setting. He also works on decision-support systems and handheld technology to improve the quality of care provided in resource-limited settings.

Linda Williams, MD

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Associate Professor of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice and Chief of Neurology, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Research Coordinator, VA HSR&D Stroke Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)

Dr. Williams' research is directed toward improving the health-related quality of life of patients with stroke. Her primary research interests are developing quality of life measurement methods, evaluating the relationship between post-stroke depression and quality of life, and in using quality of life assessment at the point of care to improve stroke outcomes and process of care. Dr. Williams is the co-PI of the VA Stroke QUERI – a VA research program whose mission is reducing stroke risk and maximizing the functional status and quality of life of veterans with stroke by systematically implementing clinical research findings and evidence-based guidelines into routine clinical practice. The three research foci of the QUERI are access to rehabilitation after stroke, management of atrial fibrillation to reduce stroke risk, and detection and treatment of post-stroke depression. She has served on guidelines development committees for the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and on the AHA Cerebrovascular Quality of Care and Outcomes Group. She currently serves on the Scientific Publishing Committee of the AHA which provides scientific oversight for all AHA journals.

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