Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH, is associate director for implementation science at the Veterans Health Administration (VA) Health Services Research and Development Service’s Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy (CSHIIP), within the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is also a research anthropologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine.
Elizabeth M. Yano, PhD, MSPH, is the CSHIIP as well as the principal investigator of the study on which this blog post is based (CRE 12-026). She is also adjunct professor of health policy and management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health.