2026-2027 Academic Year

• Jessica Chen, PhD: Structural Inequity, Residential Segregation, and Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Before and After Federal Policy Change

• Paul Christine, MD, PhD: An Emulated Trial of Telehealth vs. In-Person Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

• Ida Griesemer, PhD, MSPH: Health and Social Care Integration in VA: Understanding and Optimizing Medical-Legal Partnerships

• Corey Roos, PhD: Scalable Digital Mindfulness/Acceptance-Based Treatments for Substance Misuse and Addiction

• Rebecca Meiksin, PhD, MPH: From the Classroom to the Commonwealth: Measuring and Shifting Social Norms to Promote Public Health

2025-2026 Academic Year

• Lena K. Makaroun, MD, MS & Matthew Chinman, PhD: Developing, Piloting, & Disseminating Elder Mistreatment EHR Tools in a National Health System and Adapted Weight Loss Intervention for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

• Anna Newton-Levinson, PhD, MPH: The Sexual and Reproductive Health Workforce Post-Dobbs: Lessons from Southern States

• Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc: Mindful Mentorship: Achieving the Best Relationship with Your Mentee (and Mentor)

• Walid Gellad, MD: Using Machine Learning in EHRs to Prevent Opioid Overdose

• ADVANCER II Scholars

• ADVANCER Scholars

• Dana Loll, PhD, MHS, & Riley Steiner, MPH, PhD: Converging to Catalyze Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Access

• Roisin M. Sabol, PharmD, BCPP & Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS: VA Spotlight: Association of Outpatient Medication Treatment Disruption with Serious Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Veterans Using an Antidepressant in Shortage & Characterizing the Quality and Equity of Evidence-Based Prescribing for Hospitalized Veterans

• Sneha Kannan, MD, MS: Hospital Ownership & Acquisitions, 2000-2024

• Julia L. Agne, MD: Integration of Palliative Care into Symptom Monitoring Programs for Patients with Advanced Cancer

• Leslie Hausmann, PhD & Sonia Rupcic, PhD, MPH, MIA: VA Spotlight: Advancing Health Equity in a Learning Healthcare System

• Bruce L. Rollman, MD, MPH, MBA: Building a Long-Term Research Career: Chance, Curiosity, Collaboration, & Other Lessons from Studying Depression & Cardiovascular Disease

• Megan E. McCabe, PhD: Sharing is Caring: A Guide to Platform Trial Designs with Shared Control Arms

• Katie J. Suda, PharmD, MS, FCCP & Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS: CHERP, VA Data, & How to Impact Veteran Health; Improving Primary Care for Patients with Complex Care Needs in a Learning Health System

• Lauren Balmert Bonner, PhD: 'Win, Lose, or Draw': Trial Design Considerations Using the Win Ratio

• Andrew Williams, PhD, MPH: Data-Informed Approaches to Improve Perinatal Outcomes in a State with Poor Access to Obstetric Services

• Nicole Luche, MD, MS: Promoting Informed Reproductive Decision-Making in Primary Care

• Thomas Radomski, MD, MS: Less is More: Improving Healthcare Value by De-Implementing Low-Value Health Services

• Amanda Kreider, PhD: Paying for Care: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Workforce

• Marnie Bertolet, PhD: How Bayesian Approaches Provide Nuance to Frequentist Borderline Results

• Yi-Fan Chen, PhD: Identifying Potential Treatment (Antibiotics)-Biomarkers in Children with Acute Sinsusitis: Using a Linear Mixed-Effects Model Tree

• Leslie Suen, MD, MAS: Small Doses, Big Implications: Innovations in Buprenorphine Induction

• Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS: Data Justice for Pittsburgh's Black Neighborhoods: A Project of the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) Data Justice Working Group

2024-2025 Academic Year

• Catherine H. Saunders, PhD, MPH: What Matters to YOU? Applying Patient-Centered Principles to Outcome Measurement in Serious Illness

• Elizabeth A. Mosley, PhD, MPH: Beyond Unintended Pregnancy: Developing & Testing a Novel Measure of Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability

• LauraEllen Ashcraft, PhD, MSW: Tools for Incorporating Implementation Science into Your Scholarship

• Juan M. Hincapie-Castillo, PharmD, MS, PhD: Legal Epidemiology to Advance Pain Policy: Considerations for Public Health, Equity & Advocacy

• Beth Fields, PhD, OTR/L, BCG: Becoming More Inclusive of Family Caregivers/Partners in Hospital Based Geriatric Care

• Drs. Flor de Abril Cameron, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, and Megan E. Hamm: Qualitative Research Collaboration at the CBQM

• Fabiola Molina, MD, MHS: Advancing Equity & Quality within Health Systems: Opportunities & Challenges

• Benjamin Howell, MD, MPH, MHS: Health & Social Policy to Address Health Equity: Medicaid, Cash Transfers, & the Health of People Returning from Incarceration

• Shena Gazaway, PhD, RN, CHPN®: Nephrology-Focused, Community-Engaged Research in Action

• Patience Moyo Dow, PhD: Skilled Nursing Facility Access & Use Among People with Opioid Use Disorder

• Marquita Lewis, PhD, MPH, MS: Advancing Community-Engaged Approaches and Equity in Rural Cancer Survivorship Research

• Lan Yu, PhD: Psychometrics of Patient-Reported Outcome Development

• Marynia Kolak, PhD, MS: Measuring the Spatial Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder & Critical OUD Resources

• Noa Krawczyk, PhD: Towards a Taxonomy of Strategies to Support Opioiduse Disorder Care Transitions Following Hospitalization

• Qiong Wu, PhD: Comparative Effectiveness Research in COVID-19 Vaccines: Inference With Incomplete Treatment Information

• Joshua K. Lin, MD, ScD, MPH: Data Leakage Due to Care Provided Outside of the Study's Electronic Health Record System: Potential Biases and Solutions

• Deepika Slawek, MD, MS: Cannabis for Pain and Opioid Use: Expanding the Evidence Base in a Naturalistic Setting

2023-2024 Academic Year

• Daniel Hartung, PharmD, MPH: Oregon's Policy Approach to Improve Evidence-Based Treatment of Back Pain Among Medicaid Enrollees

• Evan S. Cole, PhD: Classifying Longitudinal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Patterns Among Medicaid Enrollees

• E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS: Integrating Addiction Treatment in HIV Clinical Settings & Beyond: Efforts to Move the Needle

• CEED II Scholars

• CEED Scholars

• Adam Bramoweth, PhD, DBSM: Improving Access to and Delivery of Behavioral Insomnia Care

• Erin Holve, PhD, MPH, MPP & Jason Gerson, PhD: Research Infrastructure & Innovations to Accelerate Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research: PCORI Resources & Opportunities

• Katherine Callaway Kim, MPH: Drug Shortages: Impact in the United States and Canada

• Tracy Wang, MD, MHS, MSc: Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research

• Lauren J. Gleason, MD, MPH: Age Friendly Care: Building Pathways to Improve Care

• Sumit Agarwal, MD, MPH: The Impacts of Social, Economic, & Insurance Policies on Health

• Renee Cloutier, PhD: Implementing Measurement Based Care to Enhance Opioid Use Disorder Recovery in Opioid Treatment Programs

• Jennifer Young, PhD: Genetic Services & Precision Medicine for Asian Americans

• Christopher Bise, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS: First Provider Seen for an Acute Episode of Low Back Pain Influences Subsequent Healthcare Utilization

• Kimberly A. H. Webb, PhD Candidate, MS: Modeling Misdiagnosis in Public Health & Biomedical Association Studies: Implications for Health Disparities Research

• Andrea C. Enzinger, MD: Managing Cancer Pain in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic: Challenges & New Opportunities

• Gina Piscitello, MD, MS: Disparities in Communication for Patients with Serious Illness

• Travis Donahoe, PhD, MPH: Supplier Enforcement and the Opioid Crisis

• Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS: Assessing Pain Severity in Sickle Cell Disease Using Animations & a Graphical Body Image

• Flor de Abril Cameron, MPH: Understanding Health Narratives: Enriching Health Services Research & Promoting Health Equity Through Qualitative Methodologies

• Daniel Nelson, MD, MPP: Helping the Eligible Stay Covered: Medicaid Policies to Protect Enrollment

• Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH: Less is More, Sometimes: Determining Appropriate Deprescribing Targets

• José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, PhD, MPH: Mixing Qualitative Methodologies for Complex Questions: The Phenomenology and Grounded Theory of Hope and Hopelessness in Puerto Rico

• Elizabeth A. Mosley, PhD, MPH: Community-Engaged Research Methods for Improving Reproductive Health Care

2022-2023 Academic Year

• Emily Leary, PhD: Statistics Potpourri: Methodology to Answer Relevant Clinical Questions

• Yuanyuan Faith Zhang: Targeting Metabolism for Lung Cancer Radiosensitization

• Jackie Rankine, PhD: School Attendance & Engagement as Pathways to Adolescent Health

• Jacob I. Feldman, PhD, CCC-SLP: Multisensory Perceptual Training in Autism

• Erin L. Winstanley, PhD: Country Roads and Misty Mountains: Navigating the Overdose Epidemic

• Julie Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD: Using an Adaptive Trial to Test Behavioral Science Electronic Health Record Interventions to Support Deprescribing

• Marian Jarlenski, PhD: Improving Outcomes for Persons Who Use Substances in Pregnancy and Postpartum

• CEED II Scholars

• CEED Scholars

• Maria J. Silveira, MD, MA, MPH: Chronic Cancer Pain: State of the Science & Future Directions

• Dierdre A. Quinn, PhD, MSc, MLitt: Leveraging VA Data to Improve Veteran Health During & Around Pregnancy

• Lakeya S. McGill, PhD: Impact of Discrimination on Pain Management in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease

• Casey Straud, PsyD, ABPP: Translational Research on Cannabidiol to Treat Postraumatic Stress Disorder

• Matthew Chinman, PhD: Mental Health Peer Support in the Department of Veterans Affairs

• Joshua B. Brown, MD, MSc, FACS: Optimizing Air Medical Transport in Trauma Systems

• Neil Carleton, BS: Low-Value Surgery in Older Women with Breast Cancer

• Michael G. Stencel, DO, MS and Bruce Jacobs, MD, MPH: Urology Presentations

• Taylor Boyer, MPH; Lauren Sealy Krishnamurti, PhD; and Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS: VA HSRD Presentations

• Michael Barnett, MD, MS: Is Discontinuing Long-Term Opioid Therapy Harmful?

• Joseph Simonetti, MD, MPH: Advancing the State of Firearm Injury Prevention in Clinical Settings

• Ashish Thakrar, MD: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the Fentanyl Era

• Benjamin Rome, MD, MPH: A New Era in Prescription Drug Pricing Policy: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

• Linnaea Schuttner, MD, MS: Beyond Performance Metrics: Delivering High-Quality, Person-Centered Primary Care in the VHA for Patients with Multimorbidity

• Karlyn A. Edwards, PhD: Addressing Gaps in Chronic Pain, Substance Use, & Behavioral Health Treatment: A Patient-Centered Approach

• Bryant Shuey, MD: Evaluating How Health System & State Policies Address the Opioid Overdose Epidemic

• Rachel L. Bachrach, PhD: Views on Enhancing Alcohol-Related Care for Veterans with Unhealthy Alcohol Use

• Timiothy S. Anderson, MD, MAS: Rethinking the Post-Hospitalization Period

• Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP, FACP: Contextual Inquiry to Address Gaps in the HIV Care Continuum for Adolescents Transitioning to Adult HIV Care

• Sih-Ting Cai, MPA: Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Use Among Patients on Dialysis

• Coleman Drake, PhD: Geographic Access to Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, Cannabis Use, and Mental Health

• Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH: Improving Depression Management in Primary Care: Modernizing Care Models During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Jane Schell, MD, MHS, FNKF, FAAHPM: The Next Frontier: Leveraging Innovative Care Models in Serious Illness

• Valerie G. Press, MD, MPH: Barriers & Solutions to Improve Patient Experience with Health Care

• Lisa Podgurski, MD, MS: Promoting Psychologically-Informed Palliative Care: The Meaning-Making Alongside the Medications

• Yael Schenker, MD, MAS, FAAHPM: Elevating Patient Voices in Serious Illness Care

• Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA: Addressing the Intersection of Substance Use & Pain: A Vision for the Leo H. Criep Chair in Patient Experience

• Dean-David Schillinger, MD: Precision Communication: Implications for Clinical Care, Public Health, & Health Equity

2021-2022 Academic Year

• Hailey Bulls, PhD: Cancer, Pain, & Opioids: Intersecting Challenges

• Eric T. Roberts, PhD: Racial & Ethical Disparities in Effects of a Medicaid Supplemental Coverage Cliff

• Gina Piscitello, MD, MS: Potentially Inappropriate Treatments & Allocation of Scarce Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Anny Fenton, PhD: Caring for a Parent with Cancer: The Importance of Adult-Child Caregivers & Their Experiences

• Mike Fralick, MD, PhD, MS, FRCPC: Machine Learning in Medicine: Is It All Just a Bunch of Hype?

• Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH: Why Can't We Have Nice Things? Achieving Pharmacoequity in the US

• Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD: Improving the Collection of Patient Reported Outcomes & Social Determinants of Health in the Eletronic Medical Record

• CEED II Scholar Presentations

• CEED Scholar Presentations

• Lipika Samal, MD, MPH: Design & Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support for Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Primary Care Settings

• Daniel E. Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc, FACS & Krissy Moehling Geffel, PhD, MPH: What Does Health Services Research Have to Do with Religion (or Spirituality)? An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• Jing Luo, MD, MPH: Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs, Treatment Intensification, & Real-World Weight Loss Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Two Retrospective Cohort Studies

• Kofoworola D.A. Williams, PhD, MPH: Mental Health Among Young, Black Men: Insights into the Role of Social Media in Improving #Access

• Madeline R. Sterling, MD, MPH, MS: Home Care Workers' Contributions to Patient Care in Heart Failure: Leveraging a Previously Overlooked Workforce

• Amber E. Johnson, MD, MS, MBA, FACC: A Mile in My Shoes: How Workforce Diversification Can Solve Our Health Equity Crisis

• Marian Dale, MD, MCR: Cerebellar rTMS for Postural Instability in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

• Julie M. Donohue, PhD; Ian Barbash, MD, MS; & Kangho Suh, PharmD, PhD: Introduction on How to Access Optum Data at Pitt; COVID-19 Treatment Patterns in Real World Data: An OptumLabs Use Case; Adherence to Sacubitril/Valsartan & Its Impacts on Outcomes

• Elena Byhoff, MD, MSc: Medicine at the Crossroads of Health & Social Care

• Brittany L. Brown-Podgorski, PhD, MPH: Examining the State Policy Environment as a Social Determinant of Black-White Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease

• Ravy Vajravelu, MD, MSCE: Emerging Techniques for Pharmacoepidemiology Research

• Gavin E. Arteel, PhD, FAASLD: Building on Degradation: Extracellular Matrix Turnover in Liver Diseases

• Felippe O. Marcondes, MD: Health Care Disparities & Vulnerable Populations: Challenges & Future Directions

• Raaginia Jawa, MD, MPH: Engaging Clinicians in the Harm Reduction Approach for Safer Drug Use

• Lizette A. Munoz Rojas, PhD: Dialogue for Difficult Subjects

• Jarratt Pytell, MD, MHS: Treating Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care: Evluation of the Chronic Disease Model of Addiction & Patient-Centered Approach to Care

• Paul Joudrey, MD, MPH: Advancing Equity in Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Across Urban & Rural Communities

• C. Bernie Good, MD, MPH & Samuel K. Peasah, PhD, MBA, RPh: Analyzing Real-World Pharmacy Data-Challenges & Opportunities

• Esa M. Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP & Kaleab Z. Abebe, PhD: Primary Results of the Comparison of Two Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes (GDM2) Trial

• Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS: Analyzing Adult Pneumococcal Vaccination in the Underserved

• Aimee Pickering, MD: Low-Value Care: Perspectives, Consequences, & Future Directions