It's officially official!! Amy Kilbourne, who as acting director, has led our team through the transition from HSR&D to HSR has been named director of VA HSR. Congrats Amy! hsrd.research.va.gov/about/director…

Unraveling PTSD: Symptom cluster change during and 1 year after veterans’ residential PTSD treatment. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-01…

Women Veterans: VA is proud to offer wigs to support those experiencing hair loss due to chemo or another medical issue. Every woman experiencing hair loss deserves to feel confident and strong, and VA is here to help: womenshealth.va.gov/topics/prosthe…

A study by Utibe R. Essien, MD MPH, Leslie Hausmann, Walid Gellad, Mike Fine (VA Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion) & more reveals significant disparities in #anticoagulation therapy for #AFib among #VA patients, with lower initiation rates in centers serving more minoritized groups. 🗞️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

In this analysis, nearly 1 in 3 dually enrolled Veterans received a low-value service, with 2X low-value services delivered in Medicare vs VA. Read more JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.100… Co-authored by CP3's Thomas Radomski Walid Gellad & Dr. Aimee Pickering

Research is key for VA. VA conducted the first tuberculosis treatment trials, developed CT scanning, showed the relationship between smoking and lung cancer, and helped develop the cardiac pacemaker. Learn how VA continues research and how you can help. news.va.gov/132867/mvp-cha…

Deadline tomorrow! Wednesday, July 17 call for abstracts on the Role of Health Services Research in Advances in #Cancer Prevention and Control, in partnership with the University of Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences @medicineuva. Learn more: ow.ly/R3x350RHBVE

Great to see Secretary Denis McDonough at the VA/DOD Suicide Prevention conference! Thanks for RockyMountain MIRECC for posting & thanks to all our investigators who tireless dedicate their time to learning more about Veteran suicide prevention.

New pub! "Impact of Nurse Residency Program on Time to Fill Nurse Vacancies at the Veterans Health Administration", which offers valuable insights for policymakers considering expansion of VA'S RN residency training program. Melissa Garrido et al journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcar…

Well, apparently July was too hot to post much, but August feels more like September, so let's have at it! First up? We proudly present the inaugural class of our HSR Staff & Investigator Recognition Awards! hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researcher…

Learn more about how the gap between knowledge and practice impacts Vets' care! The Designing for Dissemination, Implementation, and Sustainability Learning Hub is accepting enrollment from w/in & outside of VA! Seattle-Denver COIN seattledenvercoin.research.va.gov/D4DIS_Learning…

New work from barbara jones et al. Diagnostic uncertainty is common in pneumonia diagnoses made in hospitals & EDs. Check out the work in this new Annals of Int Med. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

HSR's Burgess and colleagues find that telehealth mindfulness-based interventions can accelerate and improve nonpharmacological pain treatment: The LAMP Randomized Trial i.mtr.cool/kmilbzecoq

Hot Off the Presses! HSR Leadership has published this article describing VA's Health Systems Research Program: The foundational science of learning health systems - Kilbourne - Health Services Research - Wiley Online Library

The Surgical Pause - Assessing a patient's frailty to decide if surgery is the best option - developed by VA researchers Hall and Johanning, was highlighted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: i.mtr.cool/vayibjgimz

Eliacin et al.: Black Americans are at greater Alzheimer’s risk and less aware of the disease and its symptoms. i.mtr.cool/hwasddwpfc

Whoa!! Where did the rest of summer go?? Well, we may have missed it, but there is so much great HSR research news, we know you won't want to miss that! Let's start with the NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory HEAL initiative solicitation. Deadline is 11/7. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/r…

We are thrilled to share that the exhibit, "From War to Home: The Impact of Invisible Injuries"—which arose from the HSR-funded PhotoVoice project—will be shown at the Elizabeth Dole Foundation's annual conference in DC on 9/24. hsrd.research.va.gov/news/research_…

Call for abstracts!! Deadline is 9/30 for JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine & HSR special issue focused on advancing the science and application of learning health systems in general medical practice. sgim.org/news/call-for-…

Check out a great new podcast about the evaluation of of IPV screening in VA care featuring Omonyele Adjognon, ScM of VA Health Systems Research, Bedford/Boston. hsrd.research.va.gov/news/podcasts/…