HSR&D Research Career Scientist Award

汉密尔顿博士是一个有成就的研究人员谁作出了开拓性的理论，方法， 对实施和卫生服务研究的经验性贡献， 弱势群体的经历。由VA HSR&D，QUERI和VA妇女健康服务资助，她 目前的投资组合侧重于妇女退伍军人的医疗保健利用和决策，实施 为妇女的高度优先健康状况提供针对性别的护理，以及退伍军人事务部妇女的自然减员和留用。 卫生劳动力。她还在全国范围内提供实施科学方面的培训和指导， 循证质量改进（EBQI），一种强调多层次利益相关者参与的战略， 当地的变化过程。汉密尔顿博士坚定地致力于卫生服务的质量和行为， 实施研究，不断开发和测试量身定制的定性和人种学方法， 快速周转项目，对与政策相关的交付成果有很高的要求。 此应用程序的目标是为既定的研究人员提供支持，以扩大她目前的生产线， 合作研究女性退伍军人的健康，EBQI和员工参与，并迅速推进， 非常适合实施科学的严格方法。汉密尔顿博士有指导他人的记录 培训人员在多个层次和广泛的合作，与其他调查人员和VA业务合作伙伴。 拟议的奖励将提高她的能力，指导和培训，以早期阶段和建立VA 调查员，并使她能够开始与妇女有关的新的和创新的调查领域 退伍军人的健康，多层次的利益相关者的参与，以及研究结果的传播，以广泛的各种 包括决策者和退伍军人。

Dr. Hamilton is an accomplished researcher who has made pioneering theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to implementation and health services research related to the care, needs, and experiences of vulnerable populations. Funded by VA HSR&D, QUERI, and VA Women’s Health Services, her current portfolio focuses on women Veterans’ healthcare utilization and decision-making, implementation of gender-tailored care for women’s high-priority health conditions, and attrition and retention in the VA women’s health workforce. She also provides training and mentoring nationally on implementation science, particularly evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI), a strategy that emphasizes multilevel stakeholder engagement in local change processes. Dr. Hamilton is strongly committed to the quality and conduct of health services and implementation research, consistently developing and testing tailored qualitative and ethnographic methods for rapid turn-around projects with high demand for policy-relevant deliverables. The goal of this application is to provide support for an established investigator to expand her current lines of partnered research on women Veterans’ health, EBQI, and employee engagement, and to advance rapid, rigorous methods that are well-suited for implementation science. Dr. Hamilton has a track record of mentoring trainees at multiple levels and extensive collaborations with other investigators and VA operations partners. The proposed award will enhance her ability to mentor and train to early-stage and established VA investigators, and enable her to embark on new and innovative areas of investigation related to women Veterans’ health, multilevel stakeholder engagement, and dissemination of research findings to a wide variety of VA constituents, including policy-makers and Veterans.