VUMC Radiology Professor Lucy Spalluto, MD, MPH, has been chosen to help lead a new Health Systems Research Center of Innovation (COIN) for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The COIN program supports research innovations and partnerships to ensure that research has the greatest possible impact on Veterans Health Administration policies, health care practices and health outcomes for veterans.
The new VETerans’ Wellbeing Through Innovation Systems Science and Experience in Learning Health Systems (VETWISE-LHS) has two goals: preventing the onset of early-stage disease and improving the care of complex chronic or acute illness through research, discovery and practice, and developing innovative methods to enhance longitudinal data collection and transform data into knowledge to improve veteran health. The center will be at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) in Nashville.
The VETWISE-LHS has four cores: The Biomedical Informatics and Data Science to Inform LHS Core, The Veteran Engagement and Implementation Core, The Patient Outcomes and Health Policy Core, and The Administrative and Training Core. Dr. Spalluto will lead the Veteran Engagement and Implementation Core.
“The VETWISE-LHS Center of Innovation will support key projects to directly improve health care and health outcomes for our veterans,” Christianne Roumie, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Public Health at VUMC and newly named director of the COIN said. “We are excited about what this will mean for the men and women who have served our country who will benefit from advances in care driven by the innovative thinking and action of the VETWISE-LHS team. We will use a learning health system framework to address several key Office of Research and Development Strategic priorities including expansion of clinical trials, increasing the real-world impact of VA research and putting VA data to work for veterans.”
Read the full announcement from VUMC News.
