Live Streamed Sessions
Wednesday, February 8 - 3:30pm-5:00pm EST
- Moderator: Maria Souden, PhD
- Key Findings and Lessons Learned from Initial Clinician Experiences with VA Electronic Health Record Modernization, Seppo Rinne, MD, PhD
- Clinicians' Strategies for Organizing and Reconciling Medications from Multiple VA and non-VA Sources: Card-Sorting Study, Himalaya Patel, PhD
- Literature Synthesis and Expert Consensus on Organizational Factors in EHR-to-EHR Transitions, Julian Brunner, PhD, MPH
- Governance of the VA's New Electronic Health Record: The Underappreciated Role of Standardization, Julian Brunner, PhD, MPH
- Early Organizational Impacts of VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization on Employee Roles, Ekaterina Anderson, PhD, MA
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding and Assessing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Use at VA During Major EHR Transition to Cerner, Brianne Molloy-Paolillo, PhD
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Thursday, February 9 - 8:30am - 10:45am EST
Welcoming Remarks and HSR&D State of the Service
- Judith Long, MD
- David Atkins, MD, MPH
Plenary Abstracts
- Moderator: Michael Fine, MD
- The VA Whole Health National Demonstration Project's Impact on Experiences of Care, Patient Engagement and Well-being, Barbara Bokhour, PhD
- (In)equity in Risk Prediction: Examining and Mitigating Racial Bias in the Veterans Affairs Care Assessment Needs (CAN) Risk Model, Amol Navathe, MD, PhD
Under Secretary Awardee Presentation
Veteran Speaker
- Elizabeth Yano, PhD, MSPH
- Kayla Williams
Reorganization Discussion
- Elizabeth Yano, PhD, MSPH
- David Atkins, MD, MPH
- Carolyn Clancy, MD
- Rachel Ramoni, DMD, ScD
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Thursday, February 9 - 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
- Moderators: Kara Beck, PhD and Rachel Bachrach, PhD, MS
- Results of a Stepped-Wedge Trial of Expert Coaching to Increase Implementation of the Transradial Approach in Cardiac Catheterizations, Christian Helfrich, PhD, MPH
- Implementation of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Within the Virtual Medical Center, Tai-Lyn Wilkerson, MSHS
- Facility Implementation of Inpatient Hypoglycemia Safety Interventions and Episodes of Hypoglycemia, Paul Heidenreich, MD, MS
- A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial to Implement and Evaluate a Family Caregiver Skills Training Program (iHI-FIVES), Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
- Reducing Missed Test Results through a Virtual Breakthrough Series Collaborative, Andrew Zimolzak, MD, MMedSc
- Partnership Building for Scale-Up and Spread in the Veterans Sponsorship Initiative: Strategies for Harnessing Collaboration to Accelerate Impact, Sheila Frankfurt, PhD
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Thursday, February 9 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Keynote Speaker: The Future of Health Services Research
- David Atkins, MD, MPH
- Robert Otto Valdez, PhD, MHSA
Recognition of Under Secretary for Health Awardees for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research
Under Secretary Awardee Presentation
- Donna Washington, MD, MPH
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Thursday, February 9 - 3:15pm - 4:45pm EST
- Moderators: Kelly Burkitt, PhD, and Johanne Eliacin, PhD
- Communication and Activation in Pain to Enhance Relationships and Treat Pain with Equity: Results from the COOPERATE Trial, Marianne Matthias, PhD, MS
- Incorporating a Health Equity Focus into Implementation and Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices for High-Risk Patients, Michelle Wong, PhD
- Examining Facility-Specific Disparities in Electronic Quality Measures to Guide Equity-Focused Priorities, Leslie Hausmann, PhD
- Contextualizing Findings from an Updated VHA Food Insecurity Clinical Reminder, Alicia Cohen, MD, MSc
- Racial, Ethnic, and Predominant Language Spoken at Home Differences in Secure Messaging Communication with Providers, Carolyn Turvey, PhD, MS
- Increasing a Diverse VA Workforce through a Health Services Research Career Pipeline Program for Students from Historically Excluded Groups, Cindie Slightam, MPH
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Thursday, February 9 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm EST
- Moderator: Bob O'Brien, PhD and Jason Chen, PhD
- Veterans' Perceptions about Firearm Safety Discussions in the VA, Megan Lafferty, PhD
- Improving Suicide Prevention for Women Veterans: Recommendations from VHA Suicide Prevention Coordinators, Lauren Krishnamurti, PhD
- Emerging Strategies to Incorporate Firearm Injury Prevention into VA Healthcare: Results of Qualitative Interviews with Providers and Patients, Lauren Maxim, PhD
- An Emerging Population at High Risk for Suicide by Firearm: Characteristics of Women Reserve and National Guard Veterans Who Have Guns in their House, Michelle Mengeling, PhD, MS
- Primary Care Patient Perspectives on VA's Population-Based Suicide Risk Screening Program (Risk ID): Mixed Methods Study, Steven Dobscha, MD
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Online Video Training for Suicide Prevention in Military veterans (VA S.A.V.E.), Alan Teo, MD, MS
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Friday, February 10 - 9:45am - 11:00am EST
Plenary Abstracts
- Neal Axon, MD, MS
- Effect of a Collaborative Palliative Care Intervention on Quality of Life in Veterans with Symptomatic Lung and Heart Diseases: The ADAPT RCT, David Bekelman, MD, MPH
- Trauma-Sensitive Yoga versus Cognitive Processing Therapy for Women Veterans with PTSD Related to MST: Final Results from a 5-year RCT, Ursula Kelly, PhD, MSN
QUERI State of the Service
Under Secretary Awardee Presentation
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Friday, February 10 - 11:15am - 12:45pm EST
- Moderator: Louise Davies, MD, MS
- Addressing Delayed Care due to COVID-19: Use of the Preventive Health Inventory in Veterans Health Administrations Primary Care, Chelle Wheat, PhD
- Impacts of COVID-19 on Appropriate Use of Screening Colonoscopy in the Veterans Health Administration, Sameer Saini, MD, MS
- In-person Outpatient Care Delays, Virtual Clinic Visits and Associated Mortality among Veterans with Heart Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Wen-Chih Wu, MD
- Challenges Faced by Older Veterans and Their Caregivers During the COVID Pandemic: Results from a Prospective Multi-site Survey, Stuti Dang, MD, MPH
- Complexity and Challenges of the Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Long COVID: A Qualitative Study of Electronic Health Records, Ann O'Hare, MD, MA
- Rural-Urban Differences in Receipt of COVID-19 Primary and Booster Vaccinations: Implications for Strategies to Decrease Disparities, Karen Seal, MD, MPH
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Friday, February 10 - 1:45pm - 2:45pm EST
Keynote Speaker: Structural Racism
- Donna Washington, MD, MPH
- Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH
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Friday, February 10 - 2:45pm - 4:15pm EST
- Moderators: Stephanie Shimada, PhD and Stephanie Robinson, PhD
- Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations (ATLAS): The Veteran Perspective, Marcie Lee, MPH, MA
- The VA National Teleneurology Program (NTNP): Implementing Telehealth Care to Improve Access to Outpatient Neurologists, Linda Williams, MD
- Using Remote Infectious Disease Physician Expertise to Support Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Activities at Three VA Medical Centers, Daniel Livorsi, MD, MS
- Leveraging VA Tablets to Support My HealtheVet Adoption and Use, Ashley Griffin, PhD
- Necessary but Not Sufficient: Implementation and Effectiveness of VA's Tablet Initiative and Digital Divide Consult During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Donna Zulman, MD, MS
- Extra time for Q&A
