HSR&D Research Career Scientist Award

A.Rani Elwy博士，有20年的退伍军人健康服务研究员和实施科学家经验，总部设在 医疗组织和实施研究中心，退伍军人事务部HSR&D创新中心，位于 退伍军人事务部贝德福德医疗系统。她的工作体现了HSR&D的嵌入式研究目标：产品和 她的工作成果现在是VHA国家政策和实践的一部分。艾尔维博士曾担任校长 三笔HSR&D补助金(IAC 07-087、IIR 07-199和SDR 11-440)的调查员，以及四笔 QUERI项目，合作评价倡议和方案(建议13-436；PEC 16-354；QUE 20-017；EBP 22-104)。她还曾在另外16项拨款中担任私家侦探或分奖私家侦探，并在22宗个案中担任合作调查员。 进一步的赠款，资金来自HSR&D、QUERI、CSR&D、NIH、CDC和PCORI。她已经出版了106本同龄人- 审阅文章，提交了69篇受邀文章和54篇经同行评审的国际、国家和区域文章 演示文稿。她曾获得高铁研究与发展最佳研究论文奖、四项卓越教学奖 获奖，是行为医学学会会员。Elwy博士的工作已在国家和 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，华盛顿邮报，美国新闻和世界报道，以及英国的 每日邮报。她在世界卫生组织的新冠肺炎工作组和白宫办公室任职 科学和技术政策部长，并应邀出席了关于 新冠肺炎疫苗。Elwy博士是实施研究所的前研究员，现为 精神病学和人类行为学，布朗大学行为和社会科学教授。 通过HSR&D和QUERI的资助，Elwy博士创造了回答研究问题的证据 对退伍军人管理局领导很重要，开发交付成果并通过实施项目进行测试，以及 通过改变国家政策和实践，为这一证据基础提供支持 退伍军人健康管理局。从实施到维持路线图的这一证据是可能的 通过广泛的实施科学培训，通过Elwy博士作为QUERI的角色获得 实施研究协调员、NIH-VA实施科学实习生和VA健康服务 研究员和实施科学首席研究员。Elwy博士不断地回馈 实施科学领域，担任美国国立卫生研究院资助的实施科学培训课程的特邀教师 自2016年以来，参加了寻求使用实施科学来 改善健康和保健，并作为53名研究生、博士后的坚定导师 在她20年的职业生涯中，她是研究员和早期职业教师。Elwy博士的职业目标是改进 退伍军人的健康和保健，通过建设退伍军人管理局实施科学能力，以及培训和 指导下一代退伍军人研究人员。她通过提供支持和关怀的策略 指导，通过多年引导自己的医疗服务和实施科学而发展起来的 事业，都是她《幕后履历》的重点，一看幕后的成功并不总是 被辅导者理解和认可，以及建立和保留退伍军人保健服务所需的条件 研究和实施科学人员队伍。研究职业科学家奖将允许Elwy博士 投入更多的时间确保HSR&D不会失去受人尊敬的、有才华的和熟练的 科学家们对如何才能成为一名成功的退伍军人健康服务研究人员的错误认识造成的。 此外，研究职业科学家奖将为埃尔维博士提供发展专业知识所需的时间 在政策执行方面，这是她建设执行科学能力这一持续目标的必要步骤 在整个弗吉尼亚州。培养政策实施技能将使她能够专注于增加更多证据- 以政策执行为基础，以她新资助的QUERI证据、政策和实施为基础 中心(EBP-22-104)，并分享这方面的知识和技能，以确保在这一领域拥有广泛的专家基础。

A. Rani Elwy, PhD, is a 20-year VA health services researcher and implementation scientist, based at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a VA HSR&D Center of Innovation at the VA Bedford Healthcare System. Her work exemplifies HSR&D’s embedded research goals: products and deliverables from her work are now part of VHA national policy and practice. Dr. Elwy has served as Principal Investigator on three HSR&D grants (IAC 07-087, IIR 07-199, and SDR 11-440), and as PI or MPI on four QUERI projects, partnered evaluation initiatives and programs (RRP 13-436; PEC 16-354; QUE 20-017; EBP 22-104). She has also served as PI or subaward PI on an additional 16 grants, and co-investigator on 22 further grants, funded by HSR&D, QUERI, CSR&D, NIH, CDC and PCORI. She has published 106 peer- reviewed articles, and has delivered 69 invited and 54 peer-reviewed international, national and regional presentations. She has received the HSR&D Best Research Paper Award, four Excellence in Teaching Awards, and is a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Elwy’s work has been cited in national and international media such as CBS News, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and the UK’s Daily Mail. She serves on COVID-19 workgroups of the World Health Organization and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and attended, by invitation, the White House Summit on the Future of COVID-19 Vaccines. Dr. Elwy is a former fellow of the Implementation Research Institute, and is a Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. Through HSR&D and QUERI funding, Dr. Elwy has created evidence to answer research questions important to VA leaders, developed deliverables and tested these through implementation projects, and generated sustainment for this evidence-base through changes in national policy and practice within the Veterans Health Administration. This evidence to implementation to sustainment roadmap has been possible through extensive training in implementation science, received through Dr. Elwy’s roles as QUERI implementation research coordinator, NIH-VA implementation science trainee, and VA health services researcher and implementation science principal investigator. Dr. Elwy continuously gives back to the implementation science field, serving as invited faculty on NIH-funded implementation science training courses since 2016, participating in national organizations and committees seeking to use implementation science to improve health and health care, and serving as a committed mentor to 53 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty over the course of her 20-year career. Dr. Elwy’s career goals are to improve Veterans’ health and health care, through building VA implementation science capacity, and training and mentoring the next generation of VA researchers. Her strategies for providing support and caring through mentorship, developed through years of navigating her own health services and implementation science career, are the focus of her “Behind the Scenes CV”, a behind the scenes look at success that is not always understood and recognized by mentees, and what is needed for building and retaining the VA health services research and implementation science workforce. A Research Career Scientist Award will allow Dr. Elwy to devote even more of her time to ensuring that HSR&D does not lose highly regarded, talented, and skilled scientists as a result of misplaced perceptions of what it takes to succeed as a VA health services researcher. Additionally, a Research Career Scientist Award will provide the time needed for Dr. Elwy to develop expertise in policy implementation, a necessary step in her continued goal of building capacity in implementation science throughout VA. Developing policy implementation skills will allow her to focus on increasing further evidence- based policy implementation, building on her newly-funded QUERI Evidence, Policy and Implementation Center (EBP-22-104) and sharing this knowledge and skills to ensure a broad base of experts in this area.