Faculty
Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS
Dr. Timothy Anderson is a primary care physician and health services researcher whose primary research interests are identifying strategies to improve the quality and equity of care delivered to older adults with chronic conditions and to optimize medication use for patients in the hospital and at home.
Karlyn Edwards, PhD
One area of Dr. Edwards' research is focused on developing and studying brief digital interventions for chronic pain. She also has expertise in delivering acceptance-based interventions for chronic pain.
Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
Dr. Jonassaint is currently funded through an NHLBI K23 grant to lead a program of research in sickle cell disease focused on designing and testing evidence-based mHealth tools for improving stress and pain management.
José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, PhD, MPH
Dr. Luiggi-Hernández has over a decade of research experiences contributing to projects covering psychotherapy process and outcomes for both physical (such as diabetes and pain management) and mental health conditions, clinical decision-making, digital health technologies, program evluations, pre-implementation research, health disparities, social determinants of health, substsance use, and more.
Jing Luo, MD, MPH
Dr. Luo is a health services researcher who conducts research on prescription drug use, pricing, and policy, especially for medicines treating chronic diseases such as diabetes. His work has been featured in The Lancet, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Lakeya S. McGill, PhD
Dr. Lakeya McGill is an assistant professor of medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her current research focuses on discovering knowledge that promotes equitable pain care for all patients, including adults with sickle cell disease.
Kathleen McTigue, MD, MPH, MS
Dr. McTigue's research interests are in the prevention of chronic disease, with focuses on obesity, women's health, and information technology.
Deirdre Quinn, PhD, MSc, MLitt
Dr. Quinn’s current VA Career Development Award explores links between Veterans’ prepregnancy health risks and adverse maternal outcomes, with the goal of informing targeted interventions for Veterans with specific patterns of comorbid chronic health conditions.
Bruce Rollman, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Behavioral Health, Media, and Technology
Dr. Rollman’s research focuses on developing novel interventions to treat mood and anxiety disorders in primary care and cardiac settings. He is also a co-investigator on several other federally-funded projects that currently involve the use of technology to prevent adolescent suicide (PI: Brent); computerized cognitive behavioral therapy for treating depressed patients on kidney hemodialysis (Jhamb); computerized cognitive behavioral health for treating insomnia and hypertension (Buysse); a smartphone relational agent to enhance self-care for atrial fibrillation (Magnani); and developing a novel pharmacologic regimen for treatment-resistant late-life depression (Lenze/Karp).
Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS
Director, Caring for Complex Chronic Conditions Research Center
Dr. Rosland focuses on innovations in care for chronic health conditions and studies health system efforts to improve primary care delivery. Dr. Rosland's work draws on her expertise in health intervention design and evaluation, health behavior change, social and family support, primary care for complex patients, and Participatory Research.