Linda Williams, MD, is a senior investigator of the Indianapolis, Indiana Center of Excellence for Implementing Evidence-based Practice, the Clinical Coordinator of the VA Stroke QUERI, and the Chief of Neurology at the Roudebush VAMC. She has developed a national reputation as a neurology health services researcher working to implement evidence to improve stroke care and outcomes. She has developed a stroke-specific quality of life scale and has conducted multiple federally-funded studies including a 5-year, $2.2M study of a case management intervention vs. usual care for patients with post-stroke depression. As Clinical Coordinator of the VA Stroke QUERI she has been instrumental in developing their research and implementation agenda. She has received VA HSRD funding for an implementation study to evaluate the effectiveness of extending the existing primary-care based annual depression screening tool to screen veterans for post-stroke depression. Dr. Williams is committed both as a researcher and as a clinician to improving the quality of care for veterans with stroke, and to advancing the science of implementation by testing implementation intervention strategies in real world settings. Dr. Williams completed medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine in 1991, and her neurology residency at the University of Rochester in 1995. She also completed fellowship training at Indiana University in Cerebrovascular Disease in 1996 and health services research fellowship training in 1998. In addition to her roles at the VA Dr. Williams is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc.