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HSRD Research Enhancement Award Programs (REAPs)
REAP sites support groups of investigators at VA medical centers not affiliated with an HSR&D Center of Excellence, but who already have a history of HSR&D research and career development funding. Sites will develop a core program of investigators, statisticians, economists, and other social scientists to support and facilitate the development of HSR&D research projects and the training and mentoring of new HSR&D investigators.
- Birmingham, AL: Deep South Center on Effectiveness
- Denver, CO: Colorado REAP to Improve Care Coordination for Veterans (CRICC)
- East Orange, NJ: Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management
- Gainesville, FL: Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center for Veterans with Neurological Impairment
- Little Rock, AR: Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (CeMHOR)
- Portland, OR: Columbia Center for the Study of Chronic, Comorbid Mental and Physical Disorders
- San Antonio, TX: Veterans Evidence-Based Research, Dissemination, and Implementation
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- San Francisco, CA: Program to Improve Care for Veterans with Complex Comorbid Conditions
- White River Junction, VT: VA Outcomes Group
Birmingham, AL: Deep South Center on Effectiveness
Focus
- Changing provider practice patterns using evidence-based interventions to improve the quality of care for veterans
- Use of VA’s extensive databases to promote improved care by establishing a link between direct patient care and population-based analyses
Contact
Mary T. Hawn, MD, MPH
(205) 933-8101
mhawn@uab.edu
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Denver, CO: Colorado REAP to Improve Care Coordination for Veterans (CRICC)
Focus
- Quality of life and care for veterans entitled to long-term care
- Using telemedicine to expand chronic disease management across the continuum of care
- Deploying electronic medical record and patient-centered methods to improve coordination
- Improving pain management and palliative care.
Contact
Evelyn Hutt, MD
(303) 370-7572
Evelyn.Hutt@UCHSC.edu
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East Orange, NJ: Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management
Focus
- Integrate the methodological disciplines of predictive modeling, decision making, risk communication, and risk-adjustment of outcomes with information technology and datasets as the basis for knowledge management in chronic disease
- Use of merged VA-CMS datasets for understanding the totality of care provided to veterans, as well as the use of new data entry tools for patient-provider decision-making in medication prescription and medically unexplained symptoms
Contact
Leonard Pogach, MD, MBA
(973) 676-1000 x1693
leonard.pogach@med.va.gov
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Focus
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Interdisciplinary research that improves the health, function, and community reintegration of post-deployed veterans and veterans with neurological impairments.
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Outcomes of Interest: Health, Function, Independence, Quality of Life and Community Integration, Access, Quality and Cost
Contact
Paul M. Hoffman, MD
(352) 376-1611, ext. 6746
email: Paul.Hoffman1@va.gov
web site: http://www.va.gov/rorc/
Focus
- Access and utilization of mental health services and outcomes of care
- Depression, schizophrenia, substance abuse
- Outcomes of care
Contact
Richard Owen, M.D.
(501) 257-1710
email: Richard.Owen2@va.gov
web site: http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/about/centers/cemhor.cfm (temporary site)
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Portland, OR: Columbia Center for the Study of Chronic, Comorbid Mental and Physical Disorders
Focus
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Develop new conceptual models of how patients with chronic, comorbid mental and physical disorders and their providers understand the patients' illnesses and health care needs. These models will be used in studies that examine methods to improve decision making by providers and patients.
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Investigate patient, clinician and systems-based barriers to delivering medical care to patients with mental disorders
- Test novel methods of health delivery to patients with both mental and physical disorders
Contact
Linda Ganzini, MD, MPH
(503) 220-8262 x56492
Linda.ganzini@va.gov
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Focus
- Identify effective, theory-based methods of facilitating organizational change necessary to provide evidence-based, patient-centered health care
- Promote improved chronic illness care management through research on effective methods of implementing the chronic illness care model, including defining the roles of the system and health care providers in increasing patient self-efficacy and self-management skills
- Identify effective methods, such as real-time decision support, for enhancing the provider's and the provider-patient dyad's ability to engage in evidence-based, shared decision-making
- Create new knowledge to fill evidence gaps so as to inform future research and provider decisions
Contact
Michael Parchman, MD, BA
(210) 617-5300 x14028
email: Michael.parchman@va.gov
web site: http://www.va.gov/verdict/
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Focus
- Improving the quality of care for patients with complex comorbid conditions
- Extending current knowledge about determinants of and improvement in comprehensive health outcomes in these patients, including, for example, their ability to function in daily activities and their quality of life
Contact
Mary-Margaret Chren, MD
(415) 221-4810 x3982
chrenm@derm.ucsf.edu
web site: http://www.sfhsrd.research.va.gov/
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White River Junction, VT: VA Outcomes Group
Focus
- Develop and test mechanisms to provide balanced and understandable information about medical care
- Examine the assumption that more testing and treatment is always good, focusing on overuse in heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and mental health
Contact
William B. Weeks, MD, MBA
(802) 291-6285
william.weeks@va.gov
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