About

Team

Meet the faculty and staff of the Kansas Center for Implementation Science (KCIS) COBRE at KU Medical Center by group:

Principal Investigator

Christie Befort, Ph.D.

Professor, Population Health

Core Directors

Christie Befort, Ph.D.

Professor, Population Health

Edward Ellerbeck, M.D., MPH, CPH

Professor, Population Health

Sarah Kessler, PhD, MPH

Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Research Project Leaders

Heather Gibbs, Ph.D., RD, LD

Associate Dean, Student Affairs, School of Health Professions

Christina Pacheco, JD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Taneisha Scheuermann, Ph.D.

Program Director, Master of Science in Clinical Research Program Co-Director, Population Health

Sharla Smith, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor, Population Health

Previous Research Project Leaders

Jaime Perales Puchalt, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Administrative Core

Christie Befort, Ph.D.

Professor, Population Health

Emily Law, Ph.D.

Professor, Pediatrics

Erin Powell, MPA

Project Director, Kansas Center for Implementation Science

Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core

Ton Miras Neira

Community Engagement Specialist

Project Manager, Family Medicine and Community Health

Jason Glenn, PhD

Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine

Sarah Kessler, PhD, MPH

Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Mariana Ramirez, LMSW

Co-Investigator

Director, Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health

Dora Scroggins

Community Engagement Specialist

Project Manager, Center for African American Health

Jomella Watson-Thompson, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator

Professor, Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
Associate Vice Provost, Office of Community Impact, University of Kansas
Principal Investigator and Director of the Youth Violence Prevention Center- Kansas City

Dola Williams

Community Engagement Specialist

Program Manager, Office of Community Impact, University of Kansas

Pragmatic Implementation Science Methods (PrISM) Core

Junqiang Dai, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Edward Ellerbeck, M.D., MPH, CPH

Professor, Population Health

Byron Gajewski, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Hunter Hines

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Biostatistics & Data Science

Jinxiang Hu, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Danny Kurz, MPH

Data Analyst

Research Manager, Population Health

Simon Craddock Lee, PhD, MPH

Department Chair, Population Health

Neal Montgomery, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, PhD, MBA, MS

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Maggie Padek-Kalman, MPH, MSW

Evaluation and Implementation Specialist

Director, Evaluation and Implementation Science, Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Cathy Price, BS

Clinical Information Specialist

Data Manager II, Biostatistics & Data Science

Mentors

Ross Brownson, Ph.D.

(External Mentor to Dr. Scheuermann)

Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor

Washington University in St. Louis

Brown School

Jason Glenn, PhD

Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine

Sarah Kessler, PhD, MPH

Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Megha Ramaswamy, Ph.D., MPH

(External Mentor to Dr. Smith)

Professor and Chair, Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington

Kimber Richter, Ph.D., MPH, NCTTP

Professor, Population Health

Debra Sullivan, Ph.D., RD

Department Chair, Dietetics and Nutrition

Jamie Zoellner, Ph.D., RD

(External Mentor to Dr. Gibbs)

Professor and Registered Dietician, Public Health Sciences

Co-Program Lead, Cancer Prevention and Population Health (CPH) Program

University of Virginia