Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
I am a clinical health psychologist and implementation scientist. My research spans behavioral interventions, cardiovascular health promotion, and implementation science. I am a Co-Investigator on several implementation research projects with interventions targeting behavioral and cardiovascular health: a Northwestern-funded evaluation of the implementation of behavioral health services across Northwestern Medicine’s primary care clinics (PI Smith), a USDA-funded study of The Family Check-Up for Health targeting pediatric obesity (2018-68001-27550, MPIs Smith/Berkel), an NHLBI-funded project to improve guideline adherence for pediatric hypertension in federally-qualified health centers (R56 HL148192, PI Smith), and an AHRQ-funded project using practice facilitation to improve blood pressure control in primary care clinics in rural Michigan (U18 HS027954, MPIs Day/Walunas). In these projects, I oversee implementation data collection, stakeholder interviews, qualitative data collection and analysis, and collaborate on data analysis and dissemination of the results. Along with my colleagues, I have led and contributed to several projects to further the field of implementation science, including a stakeholder-driven method for selecting and specifying implementation strategies; an assessment of implementation recipients who failed to be engaged in a behavioral intervention; and the development of an evaluation method for multi-sector partnerships between rural primary care practices and research institutions.
