Current Research and Scholarly Interests
I am a healthcare executive and physician scientist for innovation, research, and advanced analytics, and oversee these aspects at VA Palo Alto Health Care System/VHA, with our close, longstanding Stanford-VA relationship. The VA has the the largest health care system in the U.S, with the longest running EHR. Over 110 Stanford SOM faculty enjoy dually appointed at VA Palo Alto for clinical, educational, and research/innovation pursuits. With multiple campuses, VA Palo Alto ranks among the top 3 largest research programs across the VHA nationally, with national and international leaders in research and innovation, (from bench science to rehabilitation science to implementation science and multi-site clinical trials).
My research/innovation teams work to establish a dynamic learning health care system through R&D, innovation, advanced analytics, simulation learning, informatics/data science, system design in clinical operations, particularly in the VA health care system. I prioritize enabling multiple partners (industry, government, academia, foundations), to innovate/R&D in the VA health care system.
We prioritize mentoring trainees/students from various Schools to become future leaders in R&D, innovation, and health care.
My teams and collaborators include Stanford, VA, and other clinicians (nurses, physicians, etc), data scientists utilizing biostatistics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), biostatisticians, data managers, informaticians, epidemiologists, trialists, biochemists, geneticists, engineers, clinical applications coordinators, designers, computational biologists, and health systems researchers.
Stanford Endocrinology:
https://endocrinology.stanford.edu
Stanford Epidemiology and Population Health
https://med.stanford.edu/epidemiology-dept.html
NCCHI
https://www.innovation.va.gov/ecosystem/views/national-centers/ncchi/
VA Palo Alto Research and Mentored programs:
https://www.va.gov/palo-alto-health-care/research/
BD-STEP Fellowship
https://www.herc.research.va.gov/include/page.asp?id=bd-step
Huge Thank Yous to participants of research studies, trainees, private and public partners in R&D and Innovation projects, grants/projects administrators, and institutional support locally & nationally.
