Director

Susanne Hempel, PhD

Senior Leadership

Carolyn Crandall, MD

Paul Shekelle,
MD, PhD

Lisa Rubenstein, MD

Thomas Valente, PhD

Carla Janzen, MD, PhD

Program Management

Aneesa Motala, BA,
Program Manager

Project Support

Sanai Divadkar, BTech
Technical Assistant

Sheila Pakdaman, PhD,
Project Associate

Kimny Sysawang
Research Assistant

Danica Tolentino, MS,
Project Assistant

Anh Truong
Research Assistant

Diana Zhang, MPH,
Research Assistant

Librarian and Information Specialists

Jennifer Dinalo, PhD,
Research Librarian

Jody Larkin, MS,
Research Librarian

Sachi Yagyu, MS,
Librarian

Statistical and Analytic Expertise

John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, Statistics	Jeremy Miles, PhD, Data Scientist	Choo Phei Wee, MS, Biostatistician
Wendy Mack, PhD, Biostatistician	Kimberly Siegmund, PhD, Statistician	Ning Fu, PhD, Data Scientist

Medical Editors and Knowledge Translation

Sangita Baxi, MAS,
Assistant Policy Researcher

Karen Heyman, BA,
Writer and Editor

Maria Bolshakova, PhD,
Medical Editor

Nicki Karimipour, PhD,
Director of Communications

Thomas Concannon, PhD,
Senior Policy Researcher

Margie Sherwood Danz, MD,
Health Policy Researcher

Lead Investigators

Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH	Patrick Hsieh, MD	Eric Pedersen , PhD
Sangeeta Ahluwalia , PhD	Erin Mobley , PhD	Bradley Peterson , MD
Eric Apaydin, PhD	Cameron Kaplan, PhD	Andrea Richardson, PhD
Kathryn Bouskill, PhD	Karl Lorenz , MD	Julia Rollison, PhD
Laura Ferguson , PhD	Margaret Maglione, MPP	Todd Schneberk , MD
Robbie Foy , MD	Melinda Maggard, MD	Bhavna Sharma. PhD
Adam Garsa, MD	Alicia Maher, MD	Eunice Wong , PhD
Sean Grant , PhD

Collaborating Content Experts

Clinical areas

Cross-cutting expertise

Anger, Jennifer, MD (urology)
Armstrong, April, MD (dermatology)
Baydur, Ahmet, MD (pulmonary)
Black, David, PhD (mind-body)
Boorson, Soo (dementia)
Bowdish, Michael, MD (cardiology)
Carmichael, John, MD (endocrinology)
Chai, Yang, PhD, DDS (dentistry)
Chang, Ching-Fei, MD (pulmonary)
Chen, Peggy, MD (pediatrics)
Cheng, Formosa, MD (colon cancer)
Cortessis, Victoria, PhD (obstetrics, gynecology)
Crandall, Edward, MD (pulmonology)
FitzGerald, John, MD (rheumatology)
Freyer, David, MD (childhood cancer)
Ganz, David, MD (geriatrics)
Gold, Jeffrey, MD (pain medicine)
Heidenreich, Paul, MD (cardiology)
Jung, Jae, MD (microbiology and immunology)
Kelley-Quon, Lorraine, MD (pediatric surgery)
Kipke, Michelle (pediatrics)
Klausner, Jeffrey, MD (infectious diseases)
Lerman, Caryn, PhD (cancer care)
Lieberman, Jay, MD (orthopedic surgery)
Lin, Eugene, MD (nephrology)
Litwin, Mark, MD (urology)
Mason, Tyler (obesity)
Matthews, Ray, MD (cardiovascular)
Miller, Kimberly, PhD (cancer survivorship)
Modi, Rusha, MD (gastroenterology, hepatology)
Murray, Stuart, MD (eating disorders)
Nguyen, Michael, MD (urology)
Nguyen, Brian, MD (obstetrics, gynecology)
O’Connell, Casey, MD (hematology)
Page, Katie, MD (endocrinology)
Pastor-Soler, Nuria, MD (nephrology)
Pour-Ghasemi, Navid, MD (infectious disease)
Partikian, Arthur, MD (epilepsy)
Patino-Sutton, Cecilia, MD (COPD)
Penman, Alan, MD (ophthalmology)
Peterson, Bradley, MD (child psychiatry)
Sawaya, George, MD (obstetrics, gynecology)
Shapiro, Nina, MD (otolaryngology)
Tabibian, James, MD (gastroenterology)
Terrault, Norah, MD (digestive disorders)
Towfighi, Amytis, MD (neurology)
Turner, Barbara, MD (hepatitis, diabetes)
Vockley, Jerry, MD, PhD (gene therapy)
Wallin, Mitchel, MD (neurology)
Woo, Karen, MD (vascular conditions)

Agai, Eitan (living reviews)
Azhar, Gulrez, MD (public health)
Batra, Jaskanwar, MD (psychiatry)
Betz, Cecily, MSN, PhD (child development)
Bolshakova, Maria, PhD (mixed-methods)
Bluthenthal, Ricky, PhD (equity/disparities)
Burke, Rita, MD (disaster preparedness)
Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes (equity/disparities)
Ceasar, Rachel, PhD (qualitative methods)
Chen, Alice, PhD (health policy)
Cohen, Deborah, PhD (preventive medicine)
Cousineau, Michael, PhD (health policy)
Danz, Margie, MD (quality improvement)
de la Haye, Kayla, PhD (social network analysis)
Farias, Albert, PhD (equity/disparities)
Ginsburg, Paul, PhD (health systems change)
Goldman, Dana, PhD (economics)
Gruskin, Sofia JD, MIA (global health)
Hamilton, Alison, PhD (qualitative methods)
Harada, Ann, PhD (health policy & economics)
Hay, Joel W., PhD (pharmaceuticals, economics)
Hermann, Patricia, PhD (alternative medicine)
Hallowell, Ronan, EdD (medical education)
Hu, Howard, MD (preventive interventions)
Hughes-Halbert, Chanita, PhD (cancer prevention, minority health)
Itzel Montiel, Gloria, PhD (diversity and inclusion)
Javier, Joyce, MD (community-based research)
Johnston, Jill, PhD (environmental health)
Kaplan, Cameron, PhD (economics)
Karimipour, Nicki, PhD (stakeholder engagement)
Kersey, Lynn, MS (community outreach)
LaVonna, Lewis (diversity, equity, inclusion)
Leventhal, Adam, PhD (preventive interventions)
Liu, Harry, PhD (policy analysis)
Miake-Lye, Isomi, PhD (implementation)
Mittman, Brian, PhD (implementation science)
Meeker, Daniela, PhD (health informatics)
Murphy, Sheila, PhD (communication)
Nanda, Neha, MD (patient safety)
Noyes, Jane, RN, PhD (child health)
Ovretveit, John, MD (models of care)
Robinson, Jehni, MD (primary care)
Saluja, Sonali, MD (equity/disparities)
Siegel, Steven, PhD, MD (behavioral sciences)
Soto, Claradina, PhD (health equity)
Steinberg, Jane (community needs)
Stern, Mariana, PhD (equity/disparities)
Taylor, Stephanie, PhD (integrative medicine)
Trampush, Joey, PhD (developmental neuropsychology)
Williams, Roberta, MD (child development)
Unger, Jennifer, PhD (preventive interventions)
Yano, Becky, PhD (implementation)

Current and Past Practicum Students and Research Associates

Karin Celosse	Edison Imasuen	Nicky Cabrera	Neil Brahmbatt
Gina Thompson	Kylie Sloan	Victoria Sieversen	Morah Brown
Michelle Meador	Zichun [Irene] Xu	Mary Rozelle	Nicole Cabrera
Naghmeh Aminzadeh	Nina Christie	Dara Bruce	Krissy Rector
Brittany Shaw	Henna Sawhney	Vandana Teki	Kylie Sloan
Iqra Hasan	Manasi Yedavalli	Brittany Shaw	Manasi Yedavalli
Andrea Aleman	Ariana Sardano	Bryan Swanton	Sephrine Achesah
Anne Onyekwuluje	Bob Bentz	Joseph Kuo	Aleena Khan
Cecilia Paz	Charlotte Ong	Kaitlyn Tobin	Coleman Schaefer
Dalal Al-Amodi	Dean Madera	Kellie Dubel	Emma Longo
Erin Tokutomi	Esther Lee	Nicole Berry	Ivanovic Fallarme
Jerusalem Belay	Jesus Rodriguez	Shirley Li	Lillian Rasooli Zadehei
Judy Saint-Val	Julie Hughes	Vandana Teki	Patricia Wirnkar
Karin Celosse	Katrina Ninh	Sreya Molakalapalli	Tanzina Sazmin
Yan Hung