Regenstrief Institute faculty and staff played a prominent role at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) June 7-10 in Minneapolis. The annual meeting, the largest forum in the nation for health services research, brought together experts from across the country to explore the field’s growing impact on policy and practice in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.
Over the course of the event, Regenstrief research scientists, affiliate scientists, fellows and professional staff contributed to numerous podium presentations, plenary sessions, interest groups, workshops and poster sessions.
Podium Presentations and Sessions
- Accelerating Access: Deploying Virtual Care to Address Hypertension Disparities in Indianapolis
- Presenting Author: Erika Cheng, PhD, MPA – Regenstrief affiliate scientist
- Author: Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, M.D., MPH, M.S. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Comparison of Multiple Methods of Measuring Health-Related Social Needs
Theme: Social Determinants and Social Needs- Presenting Author: Joshua R. Vest, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Authors:
- Suranga Kasturi, PhD – Regenstrief affiliate scientist
- Jian Bian, PhD – Regenstrief research scientist
- Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Christopher Harle, PhD, M.S. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Opening Plenary: Charting the Future of Health Services Research
- Speaker: Nir Menachemi, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Burden and Burnout: How Inclusive Leadership Can Mitigate Toxic Cultures
Career Development Workshop- Chair: Christopher Harle, PhD, M.S. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Speaker: Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Learning Health Systems Interest Group: Meeting the Moment – Building Toward Trustworthy AI in Health Services Research
- Adaptive Performance Benchmarking in Healthcare Foundational Models – David Haggstrom, M.D. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Beyond Explainability – How to Actually Build Trust in Healthcare AI – Andrew Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Transforming Academic Institutions to Respond to Today’s Demands
- Speaker: Joshua R. Vest, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Opportunities for Improving and Learning from Transparency in Coverage Data
- Panelist: Kosali Simon, PhD, M.A. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Hot Topics in HSR
- Speaker: Joshua R. Vest, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Advancing Population Health Through Modern Data Science Approaches
- Speaker: Joshua R. Vest, PhD, MPH– Regenstrief research scientist
Poster Presentations
- Evaluating a Clinical Decision Support System for Chronic Pain Management in Primary Care
- Presenter: Christopher Harle, PhD, M.S. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Managed Care Insurance and Referral for Transplant Across State Lines
- Presenting Author: Adam Wilk, PhD
- Authors:
- Mengyu Di, MSPH – Regenstrief staff
- Jade Buford, MPH– Regenstrief staff
- Kelsey Drewery, PhD, M.A. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- National Landscape Assessment of Sexual and Gender Minority Inclusivity of the VA’s Home-Based Primary Care Services
- Author: Jennifer Carnahan, M.D., MPH, M.A. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Patient Rights and Hospital Wrongs: An Analysis of Hospital Management Responses to Substantiated Patient Rights Violations
- Presenting Author: Regina Pessagno, PhD – Regenstrief fellow (2023-25 VA Advanced Learning Health System Fellow)
- Methods for Developing and Validating a Computable Phenotype for Hospital-Induced Delirium
- Author: Jiang Bian, PhD – Regenstrief research scientist
- Understanding Drivers of Nurse Retention: Insights from Nurse Unit Managers
- Presenting Author: Angela Rollins, PhD– Regenstrief research scientist
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preemptive Referral for Kidney Transplantation in the Southeastern United States
- Presenting Author: Angelitta Spells, PhD, MPH, M.S. – Regenstrief affiliate scientist
- Authors:
- Kelsey Drewery, PhD, M.A. – Regenstrief research scientist
- Arrey-Takor Ayuk-Arrey, MPH – Regenstrief staff
- Jade Buford, MPH – Regenstrief staff
- Adam Wilk, PhD – Regenstrief research scientist
- Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH – Regenstrief research scientist
- Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP Pilot)
- Author: Marianne Matthias, PhD – Regenstrief research scientist
- Integrating BERTopic with Qualitative Research: A Rapid, Interpretable Method for Analyzing Open-Ended Survey Responses
- Author: Angela Rollins, PhD– Regenstrief research scientist
- Which Beneficiary Groups Exhibit the Largest Differences in Skilled Nursing Facility Use for Post-Acute Care in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage?
- Author: Indrakshi Roy, PhD – Regenstrief affiliate scientist
