INTERESTS/SANBOX:

Break silos, build crosswalks and teams/partners to enhance, re-design, re-imagine, and realize better patient health outcomes, patient experience, patient and provider decision making, and healthcare access, quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness.

-Evaluate and R&D optimizing knowledge extraction from EHR and other data sources
-Optimize patient/population health outcomes and experience, healthy decision making, healthcare quality, safety, access, and delivery, and workforce engagement
- Emulate clinical trials
-Partner to advance and implement scalable, impactful Innovations, with multiple partnerships: R&D, tech (digital, immersive, device, etc), system re-designs
-Robust means for real-world evidence (bench/molecular science, causal inference, trajectory prediction, SDOH, pragmatic hybrid trials)
-Behavioral change in decision making among patient-provider-healthcare system
-Weather event preparedness and health impact

Utilize multiple data sources and data science/epidemiology/AI approaches.
Leverage the largest U.S. integrated health care system (VHA) with the longest running EHR
Community-based multi-site longitudinal cohort studies and clinical trials related to endocrine/metabolic aging
Molecular/genetic epidemiology -- Aging and hormonal/metabolic transitions and dynamics
Cardiometabolic diseases and glycemic dysregulation, bone and body composition, cancers, thyroid, estrogen-androgen, autoimmune conditions

Facilitate:
Innovation, Research, Advanced Analytics (DCOS, ACOS-R), VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPA)
VA Research, Mentored Research Programs, BD-STEP fellowship program
https://www.va.gov/palo-alto-health-care/research/
https://www.herc.research.va.gov/include/page.asp?id=bd-step
National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation (NCCHI), Veterans Health Admin (VHA)/VAPA
https://www.innovation.va.gov/ecosystem/views/national-centers/ncchi/
VA Convergence Center (VC2): NCCHI, Simulation Center, Clinical Informatics, at VAPA
LEAP - national data initiative (Leverage Electronic Health Data to Advance Precision Medicine) -- https://med.stanford.edu/jleelab.html
Million Veteran Program
https://www.mvp.va.gov/
Palo Alto Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VHA