Laura has been a qualitative health services researcher since 2006 and is experienced in mixed methods research and evaluation. She uses a range of methods in her work including interviews, focus groups, ethnography, participant observation, document review, survey and literature reviews. Her content areas of focus have been in palliative, end of life, long term and integrated care. Her specific research interest is in understanding the patient experience of health services in order to improve the implementation and delivery of services.

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Serious Illness, Palliative Care, Implementation Science

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Steven M. Asch MD, MPH is the founder of the Evaluation Sciences Unit. He also serves as the Vice-Chief of the Stanford Division of Primary Care and Population Health and the Chief of Health Services Research at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. He develops and evaluates quality measurement and improvement system. Dr. Asch has led several national projects developing broad-based quality measurement and improvement programs for veterans, Medicare beneficiaries, Stanford Health Care and the community. He directs the Center of Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) that focuses on how to maximize value by testing organizational innovations to make medical care more collaborative and efficient.

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Jonathan is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, a fellowship-trained health services researcher, and practicing family physician at Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto. He has contributed to partnered research and implementation science both at the VA in Palo Alto (as clinical lead and coinvestigator of an intensive outpatient care program (ImPACT) targeting ‘super-users’ of VA care), and at Stanford evaluating care redesign with the ESU. As the division’s Director of Community Partnership, he is a leader in academic-community collaborations.

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Cati Brown-Johnson, PhD is a trained mixed methods researcher interested in patient-provider communication. With the ESU, Cati is applying eight years of experience in program evaluation and individual behavior change to explore the impact of system-wide healthcare initiatives on patients. Passionate about health and people, Cati is a social scientist dedicated to using qualitative methods to bring the voice of patients and stakeholders into academic research.

Areas of focus

Qualitative Research, Physician-Patient Relations, Primary Health Care

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Marcy has 25+ years’ experience in healthcare-related research as an epidemiologist/ health services researcher. Her passion is conducting research aimed at improving the quality of the health care delivery system. Marcy joined Stanford in 2014 where she has led many projects evaluating a wide-range of healthcare delivery improvement efforts, both within and external to Stanford Health Care applying Implementation Science methods.

Areas of focus

Quantitative Analysis, Implementation Science, Program Evaluation

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Dr. Kling is a quantitative research scientist with six years of experience in mixed methods research and evaluation in clinical and community healthcare settings. She is dedicated to helping collaborators design and execute pragmatic evaluations that meet their needs and facilitate rapid learnings to ultimately improve healthcare. She has experience using a variety of data collection methods and sources, including surveys, chart reviews, electronic health record data, and community health care data, and applying appropriate analysis approaches. Dr. Kling is also a Registered Dietitian (RD) and has content experience in childhood obesity prevention and treatment, nutrition, coordination of clinical and community healthcare, telehealth, and mental health.

Areas of Focus

Nutrition, Quantitative Methods, Implementation Science

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Donn Garvert is a Biostatistician working on the Quantitative Team for the Evaluation Sciences Unit. He works primarily with the Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP), a joint venture between the Department of Quality for Stanford Healthcare and the Stanford School of Medicine. He also provides expertise for the Seed Grant Support for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health (PCPH) faculty. His experience includes quantitative work at the National Center for PTSD and the Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine. Donn received his M.S. degree in Biostatistics from the California State University, East Bay.

Areas of Focus

Quantitative Analysis, Quality Improvement

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Winnie Wu has a MPH degree from University of Southern California. She is a research analyst in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. She works on Stanford Military Data Repository (SMDR) projects, analyses data related to physical and mental health of active-duty U.S. Army soldiers, extracts administrative data, explores relationship between solider characteristics and administrative data.

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Anna Lessios, MPH is a Research Operations Manager in the Evaluation Sciences Unit. Her previous work in health services research has involved projects on chronic pain, integrative health approaches, and cross-cultural mental health at the Boston Medical Center and Cambridge Health Alliance. Anna’s experience includes research project management as well as quantitative and qualitative techniques. She holds a Master’s of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health in community health sciences.

Areas of Focus

Healthcare Disparities, Home Care Services, Integrative Medicine

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Heather Mui, MPH, is a qualitative researcher and project manager with the Evaluation Sciences Unit. Heather's previous research experience includes quantitative and qualitative research in early childhood education at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and in substance abuse and mental health at the Institute for Scientific Research. Heather received her master’s degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences and specializes in program and resource development, evaluations, and working with vulnerable and minority populations.

Areas of Focus

Implementation science, Healthcare disparities, Qualitative methods, Palliative care

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Rachel Siden is a qualitative researcher and project manager in the Evaluation Sciences Unit. She has a background in social science and bioethics, with an M.A. in Bioethics & Society from the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine at King’s College London. As a study coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, she gained experience working on both qualitative and quantitative projects. Rachel is interested in using qualitative research to improve healthcare and health policy.

Areas of Focus

Palliative care, Patient/family-centered care, Mental health, LGBTQ+ health

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Cassandra (Cassie) Bragdon, MA is a qualitative researcher and project manager with the Evaluation Sciences Unit. Cassie received her master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and specializes in ethnography and interviewing with subject-matter expertise in gender and inequality. Cassie’s previous experience includes grant administration, where she worked to support the expansion of primary care training for nursing students to better serve vulnerable and marginalized communities.

Areas of Focus

Inequality, Community Health, Qualitative Methods

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Jocelyn Maeyama, MA, is a qualitative researcher and project manager with the Evaluation Sciences Unit. Their previous research focused on meaning making and well being among university students with marginalized identities. Jocelyn received their master’s degree in psychology from Wesleyan University, and they specialize in bringing critical psychology and transformative justice framings to their work.

Areas of Focus

Well being, meaning making, health of LGBTQ+ POC

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Nadia Safaeinili is a Stanford-Intermountain Fellow and qualitative health services researcher with experience in mixed-methods research and evaluation. She brings a decade of expertise in implementation science and health equity research, applying implementation science theories, frameworks, and models to evaluate complex care innovations in primary care, inpatient medicine, and beyond. Her current research focuses on evaluating the integration of medical and social services for medically underserved and historically marginalized patients, and evaluating initiatives that support pathways into medical and other STEM-focused academic programs for underrepresented individuals.

Areas of Focus

Health equity and social justice, Implementation science, Integrated medical and social service delivery

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