CINCCH Investigators
The Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Health Care is a nucleus for a dynamic group of health services research professionals who share a common mission. CINCCH core investigators have academic appointments at one of our affiliated universities.
The CINCCH Investigators are listed below with their e mails, and research interests.
Leadership
Kevin Stroupe, PhD, Director of CINCCH
Research Interests: Computational statistics, cost-effectiveness analysis, pharmacoeconomics, economic analysis, health policy analysis
Our Leadership Team
Saul Weiner, MD, Deputy Director CINCCH
Research Interests: Clinical decision-making, patient-centered care, contextual error, contextualizing care, and direct methods of studying the clinical encounter including unannounced standardized patients and patient-collected audio.
Howard S. Gordon, MD, Assistant Director CINCCH at Jesse Brown VAMC (JBVAMC), Site Lead Womens Health Practice Based Research Network (WH PBRN) at JBVAMC, Co-chair, IRB, JBVAMC, Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Physician-patient communication, patient-centered communication, health disparities, health informatics
Bridget M. Smith, PhD, MPA
Research Interests: Cost-effectiveness analysis, pharmacoeconomics, spinal cord injury and rehabilitation, statistical methods, health economics, affordable care act
Charlesnika T. Evans, PhD, MPH, Co-PI QUERI CARRIAGE
Research Interests: Adult immunizations, databases, epidemiology, infectious disease, observational studies, patient outcomes, pharmacoepidemiology and adverse drug events, practice patterns, statistical methodology, treatment outcome, spinal cord injury, infection, antimicrobial resistance
Investigators
David Bentrem, MD, MS
Research Interests: Cancer, patient safety, quality assurance, health care - quality of health care, surgery
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Research Interests: spinal cord injury, preventive care, community health, interprofessional collaborative practice
Michael Fischer, MD MSPH
Research Interests: Clinical epidemiology, nephrology, patient outcomes, resource use and cost of VA care, treatment outcome, chronic kidney disease, disparities, depression, quality of life, geriatrics
Dustin French, PhD
Research Interests: big data; epidemiology; health disparities; health economics; health policy; ophthalmology; public policy; Veterans
Neil Jordan, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Chronic illness, comorbidity, mental health, health care policy, health services research, cost-effectiveness analysis, budget impact analysis
Sherri LaVela, PhD, MPH, MBA, PhD Post-doctoral Fellowship Director
Research Interests: Disability studies, health promotion and disease prevention, chronic disease prevalence and multiple-morbidity in persons with disabilities, gerontology, aging with a disability, patient-centered care, patient experience, patient-reported outcomes, evidence-based medicine, spinal cord injury and rehabilitation, informal caregiving and family support, family-centered care
Karen Saban, PhD, RN
Research Interests: Anxiety, cardiovascular diseases, caregiving, cross-cultural comparison, health behavior, health outcomes, social support, stroke, epigenetics, mindfulness, inflammation
Abigail Silva, PhD
Research Interests: Health equity, health care access, cancer care quality and outcomes
Frances M. Weaver, PhD
Research Interests: Health-related outcomes, patient-centered care, new care delivery models, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, implementation science
Geneva M. Wilson, PhD, MPH
Research Interests: Epidemiology, infectious disease, statistical methodology, antimicrobial resistance, observational studies, pilot studies, environmental contamination, environmental epidemiology, meta-analysis, pharmacoepidemiology
updated 9-30-22
