Katharine Rendle, PhD -- University of Pennsylvania

Eric Hekler, PhD -- University of California, San Diego

Jerica M. Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE*

Jerica M. Berge is the new ACCORDS director, Associate Director for Child Outcomes Research, and a visiting Professor in the Department of Fa e department of family medicine and community health at the University of Minnesota where she also held the Carol Bland Endowed Chair in Research and was a Distingusihed Mcknight Professor.
Dr. Berge is both a researcher and licensed behavioral medicine clinician. Her NIH research agenda focuses broadly on child and family whole person health promotion across the life course using mixed-methods and dissemination science. Dr. Berge has expertise in conducting mixed-methods cohort and intervention studies that utilize ecological momentary assessment (EMA), mHealth, video-recorded family tasks, survey research, qualitative interviews, community-based participatory research, and machine learning to more fully understand complex processes related to health and well-being. Dr. Berge is one of the most cited authors on child and family health from an integrative perspective with over 200 publications, 500 presentations and 35 book chapters on related topics. She has been continuously funded by NIH as a Principal Investigator throughout her career, and currently is the PI on three R01 studies and a R61/33 clinical trial. She is highly committed to elevating the next generation of scholars and has been the PI and core faculty for multiple training grants including the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 and the Research on Eating and Activity for Community Health (REACH) T32. In addition, she is a strong advocate for elevating the research careers of faculty of color and currently has 8 diversity supplements connected to her NIH grants. Her leadership experience has included being the director of several centers and labs including being the co-director of the Community and Collaborations core in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the director of the Center for Women’s Health Research, the director of the Primary Care Service Line Practice-Based Research Network, the director of the Learning Health Systems Hub, and the director of the Healthy Eating and Activity Across the Lifespan (HEAL) lab, which all focus on dissemination and implementation science.

Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA*

Dr. Brewer co-directs the Training, Education and Mentorship (TEaM) Core at ACCORDS where she leads the Education Program. She also serves as a Qualitative and Mixed Methodologist in the ACCORDS Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Core, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine, and  Associate Director for the Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network, a state-wide practice based research network (PBRN) of pediatric practices in Colorado focused on answering clinically relevant research questions. Dr. Brewer's research interests include preventive health behavior interventions, implementation of interventions in healthcare settings, patient and stakeholder engagement, and health communication. She specific focuses on community-engaged research that addresses health disparities and informs structural and systems-level changes to improve health and empower underserved and disenfranchised communities. She earned a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Colorado Denver, a graduate certificate in Public Health Sciences from the Colorado School of Public Health, a Master of Public Administration with a focus in health policy from University of Colorado Denver, and. B.A. in International Studies and German Languages and Literature from the University of Denver.

Liza M. Creel, PhD, MPH*

Dr. Creel Creel is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Economic Analysis Core within ACCORDS and Affiliate Faculty in the Farley Health Policy Center. Dr. Creel's research is in the areas of maternal and child health, organizational collaboration within the healthcare and social service systems, and policy evaluation as it relates to impacts on cost, quality, and access. Dr. Creel serves as PI and Co-I on several studies, including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported grant to examine cross-sector alignment among organizations serving pregnant and parenting women in recovery. Dr. Creel has taught courses in health policy analysis, health policy research, and microeconomic theory. She received her PhD in Health Services Research from Texas A&M University School of Public Health and her MPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Russell E. Glasgow, PhD*

Dr. Glasgow is Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Program of ACCORDS and research professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Prior to Fall 2013, he was Deputy Director for Implementation Science in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Science at the U. S. National Cancer Institute (http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/IS/). Dr. Glasgow is an implementation scientist and evaluation expert who has worked on many transdisciplinary research issues including chronic illness self-management, worksite health promotion, primary care-based interventions, and community-based prevention programs involving community health centers.

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH, FSBM*

Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH, FSBM is a Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is a health services researcher and dissemination and implementation (D&I) scientist with the Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS). She is the Director of the D&I research core and co-lead for the Pragmatic EHR-Embedded Trials (PEET) program for the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute. Her research uses community engagement, designing for dissemination, and pragmatic trial methods to investigate strategies to improve health and health care delivery.

James Mitchell, PhD

James Mitchell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, part of the Centre for Health AI on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. James completed his Computer Science PhD in the UK after working for Apple Inc. for almost a decade. His research focuses on HCI, User-centered Design, and software development, predominantly in clinical information delivery and decision support.

Anna Maw, MD, MS

Dr. Maw is an adult hospitalist, implementation scientist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. She is an investigator within both the dissemination and implementation science and the learning health system cores at ACCORDS. Dr. Maw’s research focuses on implementation and pragmatic evaluation of new technology used in clinical settings to promote effective and equitable use.  

Elizabeth Ruzicka, PhD

Elizabeth (Libby) Ruzicka, PhD, LP is a Program Manager at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is also the Project Director for the Family Matters research program in the Healthy Eating and Activity across the Lifespan (HEAL) Lab. Her primary research interests include the intergenerational transmission of eating behaviors and the impact of various socio-ecological factors including socioeconomic status and trauma/stress.

Heather Smyth, PhD

Dr. Smyth is a Research Associate with the Center for Innovative Design and Analysis (CIDA) at the Colorado School of Public Health. As a collaborative team scientist, she provides biostatistical support for various research projects within ACCORDS, CU College of Nursing, and the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center. Trained as a Quantitative Psychologist, her methodological expertise includes mediation & moderation, causal inference, psychometrics, and latent variable modeling.

Bryan Wallace, MPH

Drawing from multi-disciplinary theoretical and methodological perspectives, my current research focuses on shared decision making in cardiovascular health. I work on the development and testing of decision aids in diverse fields. My previous research included complex care in pediatrics, holistic health for migraines in teenagers, and smoking cessation in teenagers. I am currently working on my PhD in the interdisciplinary field of Health Behavioral Sciences.

Yaxu Zhuang, PhD

Yaxu Zhuang, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Healthcare Policy and Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, specializing in biostatistics, data science, and AI to enhance healthcare outcomes. His work includes contributions through NIH-funded projects and publications, and he's actively involved in different collaborative projects focused on data analysis, data management and methodology development. I am dedicated to advancing health services research by developing novel statistical methodologies.