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Leadership and Staff
Audrey Nelson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is the Center Director and has overall responsibility for operations, budget, resources, and leadership. Dr. Nelson is a nationally known researcher related to patient safety for persons with disabilities. Her expertise is in safe patient handling, wheelchair falls, wandering, and pressure ulcers.
Patricia Quigley, PhD, MPH, ARNP, CRRN is the Deputy Director. Dr. Quigley is a nurse practitioner in adult health, a clinical nurse specialist in rehabilitation, certified in rehabilitation nursing, and a funded nurse researchers. She has expertise in patient safety, program evaluation, rehabilitation, functional independence, fall and injurious fall prevention across settings, and epidemiology.
John Lloyd, PhD, MErgS, DPS, CPE is the Director of the Patient Safety Research Labs (Rehabilitation Engineering, Biomechanics Research, Patient Safety Simulation, Product Evaluation and Gait and Balance). Dr. Lloyd is an ergonomist whose reseach efforts focus on development and evaluation of safe patient handling technologies.
Gail Powell-Cope, PhD, ARNP, FAAN is the Associate Director for Education and Training. Dr. Powell-Cope is a nurse scientist with expertise in patient falls, bed-rail entrapments, and risk modeling.
Stephen Luther, PhD is the Associate Director for Psychometrics, Statistics, and Research Design. He is a psychometrician and quantitative health scientist with research interests in validation of risk assessment and patient safety measurement tools, as well as text mining.
Detailed information Center's Leadership
Investigators
Tatjana Bulat, MD, CMD / Medical Director VISN 8 Clinical Falls Team
Robert Campbell, JD, MPH, PhD / Health Policy, Outcomes Research
Paula Chapman / Health Services Research
Michael Clark, PhD / Clinical Psychology
Glenn Curtiss, PhD / Neuropsychology
Phil Foulis, MD / VA Databases
Deborah Gavin-Dreschnack, PhD / Aging Studies
Ron Gironda, PhD / Clinical Psychology
Donna Haiduven, RN, PhD, CIC / Occupational Health Nursing
Jason Highsmith / Physical Therapy
Steve Luther, PhD / Measurement, Outcomes Research
Helen Moore, PhD / Clinical Gerontology
Kathleen Rockefeller / Physical Therapy
Steven Scott, DO / Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Kris Siddharthan, PhD / Outcomes Research
Research Staff
Manoj Agravat / Database Manager
Shaun Applegarth, MSME / Mechanical Engineer
Jemy Delikat / Data Collector / Occupational Therapy
Melissa Dudley, RN / Data Collector
Dezon Finch / Data Mining
Yvonne Friedman, OTR / Occupational Therapy / Project Manager
Bridget Hahm, MS / Biostatistics / Project Manager
Stephanie Hart-Hughes, PT / Physical Therapy / VISN 8 Clinical Falls Team
Tom Lanning, PT / Data Collector
Andy Lapcevic / Data Base Manager / Biostatistics
Valerie Larson, MPH / Project Manager
Rosa Lebron-Sannella, RN / Data Collector
Mary Matz, IH, MSPH / Industrial Hygienist / Project Manager
Nancy McGee-Hernandez / Data Collector / Occupational Therapy
Mark McCranie / Data Base Manager
Stephanie McGovern / Data Collector / Nursing
Barbara McKenzie, MPH / Project Manager
Sandra Mutolo / Project Manager
Polly Palacios, MSPH / Biostatistician / Project/Database Manager
Kathleen Rockefeller, PhD / Physical Therapist
Andrea Spehar, DVM, MPH, MD / Project Manager
Alina Stefan, PT / VISN 8 Clinical Falls Team
Carrie Sullivan / Project Manager / Safe Patient Handling
Program Support
Pradeep Ambati / Engineering Student
Lee Augello / Program Support
James Broker / Clerk
Bob Byrd / Clerk
Edith Crossley / Administrative Assistant
Ofelia Granadillo / Social Worker / VISN 8 Clinical Falls Team
Bennie Hilton / Budget Analyst
Valerie Kelleher / Information Specialist
Jason Lind / Research Assistant
Ann Lurati, ARNP / VISN 8 Clinical Falls Team
Mary Reeder / Program Support Assistant
Helen Taylor, RN, MS / Administrative Officer
Jan White, MS, RN
Research Trainees
Jeffrey Harrow, MD, PhD / Spinal Cord Medicine / RR&D Career Development Awardee
Brian Schulz, PhD / Mechanical & Biomedical Engineer / Ergonomics
Lee Barks, ARNP, PhD / Post Doc Fellow
Chris Olney, PhD, RN / Post Doc Fellow
Mary Cooper / Patient Safety Fellow
SEEP Students
The Student Educational Employment Program (SEEP) provides Federal employment opportunities to students that are enrolled or accepted for enrollment as degree-seeking students taking at least half-time academic, technical, or vocational course loads in an accredited high school, technical, vocational, 2 or 4 year college or university, graduate or professional school.
Manoj Agravat
Andy Lapcevic
VISN 8 Patient Safety Officer
Noreen Durkin, RN, MS, CPHQ
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