5th UK Implementation Science Research Conference

Meet the Experts

Shalini

Ahuja

Shalini is an implementation science researcher and a physiotherapist by training.

She is the current Research Programme Manager for the ARC Mental Health Implementation Network, which aims to implement and evaluate evidence-based mental health interventions across England. She has a master’s degree in health management, planning, and policy from the University of Leeds and a PhD in public mental health research from King’s College London.

With around ten years of work in health services research, she has experience in evaluating mental health information systems in South Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries, as well as co-developing behaviour change interventions in a variety of health domains, such as “integrated physical and mental health,” infection prevention and control, antibiotic resistance, and chronic malnutrition.

Brian S.

Mittman

Brian S. Mittman, PhD is a senior scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research and Evaluation with additional affiliations at the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he co-leads the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Implementation and Improvement Science Initiative. He previously served as a visiting professor in the UCLA School of Public Health and Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Dr Mittman convened the planning committee that launched the journal Implementation Science and served as co-editor in chief from 2005-2012. He was a founding member of the US Institute of Medicine Forum on the Science of Quality Improvement and Implementation and chaired the National Institutes of Health (NIH) peer review panel on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health in 2007 and 2010. He directed VA’s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) from 2002-2004. He currently serves on the Methodology Committee for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), where he leads the Methodology Committee initiative to develop and disseminate methods standards for studying complex health interventions. He is a member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH) Board of External Experts, the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Advisory Panel on Research, and advisory boards for several additional U.S. and international research programs in implementation science. He is a past member of the Academy Health Methods Council and Education Council. He has led or supported numerous implementation and improvement science studies and has taught implementation science throughout the US and abroad.

John

Øvretveit

Dr John Øvretveit works as R&D officer for Stockholm healthcare system and as professor of improvement, implementation and evaluation at the Karolinska Institute medical university Stockholm. Previously he learned the value of thermal underwear at Nordic School of Public Health where he worked for 15 years when establishing and running the quality improvement program at Bergen Medical school, where you can buy the best rain wear at the North Atlantic fisherman stores. He served a frightening 12 years as a board director of the USA joint commission international where he saw the best and worst of healthcare, and serves as a board director of the global implementation society leading their Covid 19 implementation response group. Over his career, he has published over 400 scientific peer-reviewed articles and 12 books.

Marie-Therese

Schultes

Dr Marie-Therese Schultes is an educational and health psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich. Marie-Therese chairs the German Speaking Implementation Association. Her research centres on implementation evaluation, assessment of implementation outcomes, development of implementation competencies and capacity building for implementation science.