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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 portrait
Professor, Population Health

Core Directors

Christie Befort portrait
Professor, Population Health

Edward Ellerbeck portrait
Professor Emerit of Implementation Science, Population Health

Sarah Kessler portrait
Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Research Project Leaders

Research Assistant Professor, Physical Activity & Weight Management

Denver Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences, College of
Health and Human Services, Kansas State University


Christina Pacheco portrait
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Previous Research Project Leaders

Heather Gibbs portrait
Associate Dean, Student Affairs, School of Health Professions

Jaime Perales Puchalt portrait
Associate Professor, Neurology

Taneisha Scheuermann portrait
Associate Professor, Population Health

Sharla Smith portrait
Associate Professor, Population Health

Administrative Core

Christie Befort portrait
Professor, Population Health

Danny Kurz, MPH
Data Manager

Research Manager, Population Health


Emily Law portrait
Professor, Pediatrics

Maggie Padek-Kalman, MPH, MSW
Evaluation and Implementation Specialist

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


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 portrait
Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine

Sarah Kessler portrait
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 portrait
Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Edward Ellerbeck portrait
Professor Emerit of Implementation Science, Population Health

Danny Kurz, MPH
Data Manager

Research Manager, Population Health


Simon Lee portrait
Department Chair, Population Health

(Neal) Robert Montgomery portrait
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


Mentors

Ann Davis portrait
Professor, Pediatrics

Anna Gorczyca portrait
Research Assistant Professor, Physical Activity & Weight Management

Sarah Kessler portrait
Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Associate Professor

Kansas Center for Implementation Science COBRE

Kansas Center for Implementation Science COBRE
Population Health
University of Kansas Medical Center
Mail Stop 1008
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160