Name | Credentials | Area of Research | GIM Research Program | Other Affiliations |
PhD, MSW, MA | Social scientific health research. Health behaviors among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and the barriers to their care. | |||
PhD | Neuroscience, functional MRI brain imaging, natural language processing, how the brain processes influence health & chronic pain. | Pain Science | ||
MD | Improving health outcomes for patients with infectious diseases including HIV, HCV & SUD as well as vulnerable populations. Health policy clinical epidemiology, health economics. | The Missing US | ||
PhD, MPH | Health, policy, sport and ethics. Chronic health implications of repetitive brain injury from sport. Injury prevention, health-related decision making. | CBH Research Group | ||
PhD | Bioinformatics, natural language processing, real-world evidence generation from EHR data. Developing tools and methodologies for large-scale biomedical relation extraction. | Health and Primary Care Informatics & Innovation Lab | ||
MD, MPH | Chronic & serious illness; models of health delivery; virtual care; team care; quality of life; symptom science. | VA | ||
PhD | Evidence synthesis, meta-research and studying commercial determinants of health, focusing on tobacco control, pharmaceutical policy, and public health. developed and validated qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing bias in the design, conduct and dissemination of research. | CBH Research Group | ||
PhD | Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease, Dissemination & Implementation Science, Health Communication and Health Innovation. | |||
MD, MPH/MSPH, MS | To develop and implement practical strategies to leverage hospitalization as an opportunity to engage medically ill patients with substance use disorders into life-saving addiction treatment. | Addiction Medicine Health Services Research | Director, Addiction Medicine Consultation Liaison Service
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PhD | Health Policy and Bioethics. professionalism in medicine, medical marijuana, research policy, patient safety and electronic medical records. Focused on conflicts of interest in medicine and research, physician self-regulation, truth telling in medicine and access to care for patients with disabilities. | CBH Research Group | ||
PhD | Health disparities. Effects of stress and discrimination on cardiovascular health. Address disparity and improve heart health. | |||
MD | Addressing structural racism, eliminating unnecessary and systemically-caused health barriers, and advocating for Coloradans who experience the greatest needs. Work has focused on eliminating structural racism in kidney health and on increasing the healthcare workforce. | CU Anschutz Division of Hospital Medicine Director of Immigrant Health | ||
MD, PhD | Board-certified addiction medicine specialist, and health services and policy researcher. Research focuses on evaluating health and social policies that affect the availability of high-quality addiction treatment, particularly for those enrolled in Medicaid and other safety net programs. Comparative effectiveness of medications for opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era and evaluating novel, low-barrier models of addiction care. | Faculty Strategist, WORTH Program Program CU Anschutz | ||
MD, PhD | Identify and solve cutting edge problems at the interface of health care, policy and bioethics. Engaging patients in health care organizational decision-making, ethical issues in artificial intelligence (AI), and global health (with a focus on short-term global health ethics). | CBH Research Group | ||
MD | Optimizing the clinical learning environment for medical trainees. Delivery and reception of feedback, as well as the creation of a psychologically safe learning environment. Internal medicine practitioner wellbeing, burnout prevention and overall engagement. | Better Together | ||
MD | Understanding palliative care outcomes and the impact of social determinants of health for diverse populations in the setting of serious advanced illness. Testing Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy for adults with serious cancers to improve anxiety, depression, and existential distress. | Palliative Care | CU Anschutz Division of Geriatrics | |
MD | To advance the science & practice of neuroscience-based, patient-centered care for people with chronic pain & other symptoms. | Pain Science | Section Chief, Pain Medicine, VA ECHCS | |
DrPH, MA, BA | Impact of insurance benefit design on quality-of-care and patient financial burden, using both causal inference and simulation modeling techniques. I have extensive experience in working with large datasets, including Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance and VA data. | CU Anschutz Division of Health Care policy and research | ||
MD, MSc | Leverage D&I science methods to tailor evidence-based interventions to real-world settings.
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PsyD | Brief, evidence-based approaches of psychotherapy. I aim to meet someone where they are at to help them feel heard and understood, and to facilitate improvement in their quality of life. | |||
MD, MS, MPH | Tobacco cessation treatment, tobacco control policy, cancer prevention, community health, mobile health鈥�. | 麻豆传媒高清 Nicotine, E-Cigarettes, and Tobacco Research Alliance (CoNECTR) | CU Anschutz Cancer Center | |
Kutner, Jean | MD, MSPH | D2V Executive Leadership. measurement of and interventions for complex outcomes, such as symptom distress, quality of life, depression, and grief, in older adults and their family caregivers. | Palliative Care | Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Chief Academic Officer at 麻豆传媒高清 School of Medicine Hospital |
PhD | Social epidemiologist and a community engaged researcher, focusing on how the system of mass incarceration creates and exacerbates health inequities. How criminal legal involvement intersects with substance use, opioid use disorder treatment, and overdose. Includes studying jail-based implementation of opioid use disorder treatment, the effect of changing criminalization of opioids on future criminal legal involvement, and how structural determinants of health are related to overdose post-release from incarceration. | |||
PhD | To contribute to the conduct and evaluation of user-centered design and design thinking methods across health priorities and populations.鈥� | Health and Primary Care Informatics & Innovation Lab | ||
MD | Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine physician. Applied research in the addiction medicine and primary care worlds. She specifically investigates how to make addiction treatment more accessible for vulnerable populations. | Addiction Medicine Health Services Research | ||
MD, MPH, MA | To prevent and treat obesity and cardiometabolic disease, with a particular focus on women’s health. | CU Anschutz Director of SCORE Fellowship | ||
Portz, Jennifer | PhD | Advance social work research in palliative care by developing digital health interventions that can be used by patients with serious illnesses, their caregivers, and family to effectively improve patient-family centered outcomes. Digital health, including tele-heath, wearable devices, and mobile applications (mHealth), provides modern opportunities for patients and their convoy to assess and advocate for basic palliative care needs and resources. | CardioHeartConnect | |
MD | Informed consent, smoking cessation, preventive medicine. | |||
MD, MHS | Ensure all patients with substance use disorder have access to evidence-based treatments in primary care settings. | Denver Health | ||
MD | Precision medicine approaches for preventing and treating obesity, diabetes, and their complications, particularly cardiovascular disease. We use electronic health record data and genetic data as tools to understand the heterogeneity of the diabetes patient population and variability in response to interventions, to identify novel risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases, and to build risk models optimized to real-world patient populations in health systems. Our ultimate goal is to build evidence that guides individualized targeting of preventive and treatment interventions for obesity, diabetes, and diabetes complications. | VA Denver Health | ||
PhD | Women’s health research and sex differences research to promote optimal health care for all. The Director (and co-founder) of the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research. | The AcTIVE Lab | ||
PhD, MA | Examines how epidemiological and social processes converge to render certain people and households vulnerable, blending political economic theories with analyses of deeply intimate experiences of illness, suffering, love, and faith. | |||
MD, MSPH, FACP, FAMIA | Design and apply data science and technology/informatics solutions to clinical and research problems with a focus on generalizable solutions.鈥� | Health and Primary Care Informatics & Innovation Lab
| Principal Investigator with ACCORDS鈥� at CU Anschutz | |
PhD | Data Science to Patient Value D2V initative and the computational bioscience program. Clinical decision support systems, natural language processing and data analytics for developing applications and digital solutions for evidence-based decision making. | Health and Primary Care Informatics & Innovation Lab | ||
PhD, MPH | Health disparities, gerontology, and shared decision making. | Multidisciplinary Center on Aging Executive Committee Member ACCORDS CU Anschutz CU Anschutz Cancer Center | ||
PhD | Intersection of ethics, technology, and policy in occupational settings. She is interested in understanding the ethical and structural factors that facilitate or hinder occupational health, safety, and wellbeing, and the implications for practice and policy. | CBH Research Group | ||
PhD | Health services researcher with expertise in implementation science. Her research focuses on the development and adaptation of effective interventions to reach underserved populations engaging in substance use. | Addiction Medicine Health Services Research | ||
MD, MPH/MSPH | Health care ethics, including issues related to communication, shared decision making, health disparities and professionalism. Leader in bioethics with a history of exploring some of the most contentious ethical issues in health care, focusing on those related to the social roles of health professionals. | CBH Research Group |
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