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Teresa M. Damush, PhD – Research Career Scientist

Teresa M. Damush, PhD Teresa M. Damush, PhD
Roudebush VA Medical Center Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN 


Dr. Teresa M. Damush is a VA Health Services Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA HSR Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC) in Indianapolis, IN. Her expertise is in health psychology; implementation science; and mixed-methods quality improvement evaluations across neurological conditions of stroke/TIA and headaches. Dr. Damush Co-Directs the VA HSR Learning Healthcare System Advanced Fellowship for CHIC. Dr. Damush is a Co-Principal Investigator on the VA EXTEND QUERI Center and has been a part of the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative as an implementation scientist for the past two decades. She is also a Senior Research Professor of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Damush has served as principal investigator and co-investigator on many implementation focused health services interventions focused on implementing evidence-based practices and patient self-management strategies across clinical conditions. She has also led as principal and served as co-investigator on many operational partnered quality improvement evaluations.

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