Amber Sabbatini, MD, MPH (Principal Investigator)

Dr. Sabbatini is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Systems & Population Health at the University of Washington who studies how payment policies and delivery system innovations impact patient outcomes and the use of hospital resources.

 

 

 

Kari Stephens, PhD

Dr. Stephens the Helen D. Cohen Endowed Professor, Research Section Head, and Director of Clinical Research Informatics in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Stephens is a practicing clinical psychologist and biomedical informaticist who focuses on dissemination of behavioral treatments into integrated primary care settings, particularly among disadvantaged populations.

 

 

Brad Wright, PhD

Dr. Wright is Professor and Chair of Health Services Policy and Management at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. Dr. Wright’s research focuses on inequities in health care delivery, with an emphasis on publicly insured populations (i.​e.​, Medicare and Medicaid), primary care, and emergency medicine. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on understanding the value of care delivered by federally qualified health centers for underserved populations.

 

 

Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW

Dr. Lombardi is the Director of the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center and Deputy Director for the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Social Work at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Lombardi’s work focuses on understanding how integrated models of care can address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of vulnerable individuals.

 

 

Joseph Dieleman, PhD

Dr. Dieleman is a health economist and Associate Professor of Health Metric Sciences at the University of Washington whose research focuses on the intersection of novel quantitative methods, health economics, and health policy. Dr. Dieleman leads the the Disease Expenditure Project, which measures healthcare spending and utilization in the US, as a means to understand factors that lead to increases in healthcare spending and inequitable health outcomes.

 

 

Rodger Kessler, PhD

Dr. Kessler is a clinical psychologist and implementation scientist who has been doing research in the area of collaboration between primary health care and behavioral care for nearly two decades. He lead a national team to develop the only empirically validated measure of behavioral health integration, the Practice integration Profile (PIP) which has over 3000 administrations and has been used in the US, Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Africa, and Canada.

 

 

 

 

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