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Professor Stephanie Taylor Receives HSR&D Health System Impact Award

Mark S. Bauer, MD and Stephanie Taylor, PhD are recipients of the 2019 HSR&D Health System Impact Award. This award honors HSR&D- and QUERI-funded research that has had a direct and important impact on clinical practice or clinical policy within the VA health care system – and that has been successfully translated into VA’s policy or operations. As part of HSR&D’s Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Dr. Bauer earned the Impact Award for his work on developing and implementing “Evidence-Based Teams for Mental Health Care,” which has transformed VA’s general mental health clinics into an evidence-based model that can address priorities including suicide prevention and opiate abuse in an outpatient setting. Co-Director of the Complementary and Integrative Health (CIHQUERI Partnered Evaluation Initiative, Dr. Taylor earned the Impact Award for several large-scale projects that have had numerous national impacts and are guiding VA policy and optimal provision of CIH care for Veterans.Read more here