Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)
CIVIC HSR Center Expert and Stakeholder Forum
The HSR Center Expert and Stakeholder Forum (CESF) assists COIN leadership in reviewing progress toward goals and objectives, ensuring that CIVIC’s Strategic Plan continues to be relevant and aligned with the priorities of partners to produce research to improve the health and healthcare of Veterans, and providing input on potential changes to CIVIC operations. The CESF provides input on overcoming unanticipated obstacles, capitalizing on new opportunities, and facilitating dissemination of research products and communications among CIVIC investigators and VA leadership. CIVIC’s CESF includes representatives from each of CIVIC’s operational partners’ offices, VA Portland Health Care System’s primary academic affiliate (Oregon Health & Science University, or OHSU), research content and implementation experts, VA Portland Health Care System Associate Chief of Staff for Research & Development, VA Portland Health Care System Chief of Staff, and several Veterans from the community.
HSR Center Expert and Stakeholder Forum Members
Colonel Michael Burton
Veteran
Colonel
USAF (retired)
Co-Chair
Community Military Appreciation Committee, Vancouver WA
David M. Cohen, MD
VA Leader
Associate Chief of Staff
Research and Development
VA Portland Health Care System
David Ellison, MD
Non-VA Researcher
Director
Oregon Clinical Translational Institute, OHSU
David Greaves, PhD
VA Leader
Lead
VISN 20 HRO, Whole Health Executive Sponsor
Nicki Hastings, MD, MHS
VA Researcher
Director
ADAPT, Durham COIN
Durham VA Health Care System
Todd Korthuis MD, MPH
Non-VA Researcher
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, OHSU
Head
OHSU Section of Addiction Medicine
Jamie Lusk, PhD
Veteran
Reintegration Counselor
Salem Vet Center
Sahana Misra, MD
VA Leader
Chief of Staff
Psychiatrist
VA Portland Health Care System
Richard R Owen Jr., MD
VA Leader
Associate Chief of Staff for Research
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Director
Center for Mental Healthcare & Outcomes Research
Friedhelm Sandbrink, MD
VA Leader
Director
National Pain Management Program
Washington, DC VA Medical Center
Tamara Schult, PhD, MPH
VA
Health System Specialist
Employee Whole Health
Veterans Health Administration
Susan Strickland, PhD, LCSW
VA Leader
Acting Deputy Director
Suicide Prevention Program
VA Central Office
Brian Yee, MD, DHA, FACP, FACHE
VA Leader
Interim Chief Medical Officer
VA Northwest Network (VISN 20)