Virtual Grand Rounds
It Takes a Village: Implementing a Pragmatic Trial to Evaluate a Group Telehealth Intervention for Family Members Affected by Opioid Use Disorder
Karen Osilla, PhD | February 27, 2024: Opioid use disorder (OUD) has devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities. This presentation describes eINSPIRE (INtegrating Support Persons Into REcovery), a pragmatic…
Read MoreEight Characteristics of Rigorous Multilevel Implementation Research: A Step-by-Step Guide
Gregory Aarons, PhD | February 20, 2024: Although healthcare is delivered in inherently multilevel contexts, implementation science has no widely endorsed methodological standards defining the characteristics of rigorous, multilevel implementation…
Read MoreFour Ways to Conceptualize and Study Policy in Implementation Science Research
Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MSc | February 13, 2024: This presentation will offer a typology of four ways to conceptualize policy in implementation science research: 1) Policy as something to adopt,…
Read MorePrevention Science and Methodology: Considerations for Working with Indigenous Populations
Donald Warne, MD, MPH | January 23, 2024: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) endure some of the worst health disparities in the nation. The history of marginalization and exclusion…
Read MoreBeyond Jacobson & Truax: Modern Methods for Estimating Clinically Significant Change
Antonio Morgan-Lopez, PhD | January 16, 2024: In the majority of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) the focus is on differences in the average change over time on outcomes across intervention…
Read MoreAdapting to the Fentanyl Epidemic: Implications for Translation of a Multi-Component Intervention and RCT in the Emergency Department and Real World Lessons from an Implementation Practitioner
Lauren K. Whiteside, MD, MS | November 14, 2023: The opioid epidemic is rapidly evolving with the proliferation of nonpharmaceutical fentanyl. Simultaneously, researchers, public health officials, and clinicians are working…
Read MorePeer-delivered Intervention to Improve Retention and Polysubstance Use in Mobile Telemedicine in Rural Maryland
Jessica Magidson, PhD and Sarah Kattakuzhy, MD, MPH | December 5, 2024: There is a severe shortage of providers to treat opioid use disorder (OUD), which is further exacerbated in…
Read MoreDesigning for Dissemination and Sustainability: Methods, Frameworks, Tools, and a Diabetes Case Example
Bethany M. Kwan, PhD, MSPH, FSBM | January 30, 2024: Designing for dissemination and sustainability (D4DS) refers to the process of ensuring that the products of research are likely to…
Read MoreProposing and Applying the Observational-Implementation Hybrid Approach
Justin Knox, PhD, MPH | October 10, 2023: We recently proposed the observational-implementation hybrid approach, or the incorporation of implementation science elements into observational studies in order to collect information…
Read MoreDeveloping Metrics to Improve Equitable Implementation of HIV Prevention
Moira McNulty, MD and Maria Pyra, MEd, MPH, PhD | October 3, 2023: A daily pill, PrEP, has changed HIV prevention and could help end the HIV epidemic in the…
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