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Leadership
Kevin Stroupe, PhD
Director, CINCCH
Professor of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago
Cost-effectiveness analysis, pharmacoeconomics, economic analysis, health policy analysis
Saul Weiner, MD
Deputy Director, CINCCH
Co-leader, CINCCH Complex Chronic Care Management Work Group
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
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
Charlesnika T. Evans, PhD, MPHAssociate Director, CINCCH
Director, CINCCH Project Management Core
Co-Director, CINCCH Mentoring Core
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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
Howard S. Gordon, MD
Associate Director, CINCCH
Co-Director, CINCCH Mentoring Core
Co-leader, CINCCH Complex Chronic Care Management Work Group
Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Physician-patient communication, patient-centered communication, health disparities, health informatics
Cindi Fiandaca
Administrative Officer, CINCCH
Director, CINCCH Administrative Core
Budget development and management, contracts, grant submission, travel arrangements
Key Management Staff
Bridget A. Cotner, PhD
Director, CINCCH Qualitative Core
Co-leader, CINCCH Disability Work Group
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Qualitative methods, access to healthcare, health disparities, patient engagement, quality of life, vocational rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, virtual resources
Dezon K. Finch, PhD, MA
Director, CINCCH Quantitative Core
Text mining, deep learning and machine learning methods, social determinants of health
Neil Jordan, PhD
Director, CINCCH Scientific Review Core
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine, and Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chronic illness, comorbidity, mental health, health care policy, health services research, cost-effectiveness analysis, budget impact analysis
Sandra L. Kletzel, PhD
Co-leader, CINCCH Disability Work Group
Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, cognitive rehabilitation, neuromodulation
Investigators
Alexandra Aaronson, MD, MSCI
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Neuromodulation, traumatic brain injury, mood disorders, suicidality, impulsivity, transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy, neuropsychiatric conditions
Salva Balbale, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chronic care delivery, mixed methods research, patient-centered care, patient safety, predictive analytics, human-centered design, implementation science
David Bentrem, MD, MS
Professor of Surgery and Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Cancer, patient safety, quality assurance, health care - quality of health care, surgery
Lisa Burkhart, PhD, RN, ANEF
Professor, Marcella Neihoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago
Spinal cord injury, preventive care, community health, interprofessional collaborative practice
Michael Fischer, MD, MSPH
Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Clinical epidemiology, nephrology, patient outcomes, resource use and cost of VA care, treatment outcome, chronic kidney disease, disparities, depression, quality of life, geriatrics
Dustin D. French, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Big data, epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, health policy, ophthalmology, public policy, Veterans
Amy A. Herrold, PhD
Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chronic co-occurring conditions, neuromodulatory treatment, whole health, complementary and integrative health programs, substance use disorder, mild traumatic brain injury, transcranial magnetic stimulation, yoga
Sherri LaVela, PhD, MPH, MBA
Research Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Disability studies, chronic disease and secondary condition prevention and management, obesity management, nutrition science, patient-centered care, patient experience, patient-reported outcomes, psychosocial outcomes, spinal cord injury and rehabilitation, informal caregiving and family support, family-centered care
Chad M. Osteen, PhD, MA
Provider and system trust, provider-patient communication, social determinants of health, healthcare policy
Cara Ray, PhD, MA
Medical decision-making, coordination of care, complex chronic illness, implementation science, infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship
Megan A. Rech, PharmD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, BCCCP
Emergency medicine, pharmacotherapy, antimicrobial stewardship, neurologic disorders, sepsis, coagulopathy, anticoagulant reversal, trauma
Karen Saban, PhD, RN, CNRN, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Marcella Neihoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago
Psychological stress, social stress, cardiometabolic disease, stroke, health behavior, epigenetics, inflammation, mindfulness, stress reduction interventions
Abigail Silva, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago
Health equity, health care access, cancer care quality and outcomes
Frances M. Weaver, PhD, MA
Professor of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago
Health-related outcomes, patient-centered care, new care delivery models, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, implementation and evaluation
Geneva M. Wilson, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Instructor, Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Epidemiology, infectious disease, statistical methodology, antimicrobial resistance, observational studies, pilot studies, environmental contamination, environmental epidemiology, meta-analysis, pharmacoepidemiology
Yinglin Xia, PhD, MS
Clinical Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Medical statistics, study design and data analysis in the areas of microbiome, metabolomics, longitudinal data, mediation and moderation analyses, multilevel clustered-data, zero-inflated count data, mixed-effects model, GEE (generalized estimating equations), ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve, meta-analysis
