Keynote - Dr Cara C. Lewis, Associate Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
| Monday, October 22, 2018 |
| 4:50 PM - 5:30 PM |
| Plenary 1 (Ground Floor) |
Details
Optimizing the Impact of Implementation: Lessons Learned from Wolverine Human Services’ Journey: This keynote presentation will unpack three core aspects of implementation by sharing the journey of Wolverine Human Services : (1) Identifying and prioritizing determinants; (2) Selecting strategies to target determinants; and (3) Prospective treatment adaptation. Despite their success in implementing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, several lessons can be learned that would serve to optimize the impact of implementation. Dr. Lewis will push the field to carefully consider the role and quality of measures, the importance of theory for designing implementation strategies, and the complexities of treatment adaptation.
Speaker
Dr Cara Lewis
Associate Investigator
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Optimizing the Impact of Implementation: Lessons Learned from Wolverine Human Services’ Journey
Biography
Dr. Cara C. Lewis is an Associate Investigator of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
A leader in implementation science research, Dr Lewis has two NIMH-funded R01s focused on leveraging measurement to improve mental health services in community-based settings. The first is a multi-site implementation trial to compare the effectiveness of standardised versus tailored approaches to implementing measurement based care for depression. The second research project aims to develop new measures of implementation outcomes in hopes of revealing tools that are psychometrically strong and pragmatic. Dr Lewis’ work will contribute a repository of quantitative measures for scientists and practitioners to integrate into their implementation efforts.
Dr Lewis is also a licensed clinical psychologist and Beck Scholar. She is an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington and Indiana University.
