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Eric Apaydin, PhD, MPP, MS, talks with Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) writer Karen Jamrog at the 2023 HSR&D national meeting, about his research on burnout, employee engagement, and changing organizational contexts in VA primary care during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Steven Dobscha, MD, Director of the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) discusses his research investigating primary care patient perspectives on VA's population-based suicide risk screening program (Risk ID), and other related items of interest with Diane Hanks of the Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER).

Cindie Slightam, MPH, Senior Project Manager at the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses her project creating a paid internship for Community College students from historically excluded groups. The program sought to introduce research as a career option, and present VA as a place for that career, to students who might normally not be exposed to it.

Drs. Goldsmith and Danan discuss the workshop on why and how to address sex and gender in VA research that they designed and subsequently led at the 2023 HSR&D National Meeting.

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD, MPH, of the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) discusses her CDA project seeking to induce family-involved initiation and completion of psychotherapy for Veterans living with PTSD.

Director Amy Kilbourne discusses the origin, milestones, current events, and future directions of the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) program.

Guneet Jasuja, PhD, MPH, of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) discusses her work researching social stressors and health issues among older transgender and gender diverse Veterans.

Craig Rosen, PhD, of the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses his work researching burnout among VA clinicians, previous research that his most recent study was built on, and related topics of interest.

Dr. Black discusses her experience in the CONDUIT QUERI Eval, and working with Veterans in VA. CONDUIT’s objective was to unite 6 inter-related Partnered Implementation projects to improve access to medications for Opioid Use Disorder.

Jacqueline Ferguson, PhD, MS, of the VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses her research into variations in patterns, by chronic conditions, for Veterans receiving primary care via telehealth as well as in-person.

Lynn Garvin, PhD, MBA, of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) discusses her peer-led intervention to provide VA Video Connect (VVC) telehealth to Veterans experiencing Homelessness and Substance Use Disorder.

VA telehealth programming had focused largely on rural populations where disparities in health care access and telehealth use existed, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced an expansion to offer telehealth more broadly. Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH, discusses rural-urban differences in VA telehealth use nationally before and after pandemic onset.