South Central MIRECC

⭐Check out this fellow! Juinell Williams, PhD has received the Winter 2024 Implementation Science for Health Equity Lab Training Grant! This award supports the lab’s missions to improve equitable healthcare to ensure the best treatments are delivered to patients who need it most and enhance workforce capacity to dismantle harmful structures that disempower people from reaching their full potential. The award will be used to support Dr. Williams' goals of increased networking in her second year of fellowship and her training activity will focus collaborating with a VA operational partner under the mentorship of Dr. Eva Woodward. #TrainingGrant #EquitableHealthcare #VeteransResearch #PsychologyFellow #SCMIRECC

What do you do when your implementation trial goes off the rails? The amazing @SJLandes and @Alisonh3 getting ready to share their expertise about how to get back on track at the @AcademyHealth D&I Conference.

Check out our new VA Cancer Care Commander guide. This guide shows ways to navigate the cancer care journey from diagnosis through treatment and beyond. Developed by M. E. Nikityn, @AliAsgharAliMD, @DrJennBryan mirecc.va.gov/visn16/va-canc…

Studies show it can take up to 17 years for new medical treatments to become part of routine care! We are trying to shorten that timeline for people affected by #moralinjury by sharing free resources for the general public to learn about moral injury and its treatment. @SCMirecc

Study results suggest that public health prevention & intervention efforts aimed at reducing the overall burden of physical health problems among male Veterans may mitigate the risk of firearm suicides. Read details here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38512204/

Our Provider’s Guide to Brief #CBT includes current literature, supplemental readings, and modules that address clinical applications. Download for free at mirecc.va.gov/visn16/guide-t…

In health science, treatments take all the credit but nothing happens without measurement. Check out this podcast where I describe how @VAResearch is improving measurement of #moralinjury to enhance mental health and suicide prevention treatments. @SCMirecc @vahsrd @VA_PTSD_Info

Our Courage Group educational manual for #militarysexualtrauma draws on cognitive and behavioral principles to promote healing, self-discovery, and self-efficacy. Download for free at mirecc.va.gov/visn16/courage…

Our November webinar on “Unmasking Sexual Acting Out Behaviors: A Brief Overview” is available for registration in VHA TRAIN for community clinicians. 1 free CE is available. Learn more and register: train.org/vha/course/112…

I am an available faculty mentor & have ongoing #impsci @vahsrd #QUERI research projects with #DBT, #suicideprevention, and other interventions! This #postdoc would be a great fit if you are interested in #impsci & suicide prevention!  4/5 @BHQUERI @SCMirecc

🚨 #Postdoctoral fellowship opening! The @SCMirecc offers a 2 year fellowship in #implementation science or health services #research. #impsci #HSR #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc @ImplementCollab @ImpSciUW #SIRC24 @dis_sig 1/5 mirecc.va.gov/visn16/little-…

Looking to meet your #CME #DEA licensing requirements for pain/opioid? Did you catch this talk by Dr. Dindo from @IQuEStHouston @bcmhouston in our monthly #CME newsletter? clinicianresources.bcm.edu/learning/opioi… #CME newsletter: clinicianresources.bcm.edu/about/newslett…

The Personalized Implementation of Virtual Treatments (PIVOT) team have seven Office of Rural Health-funded projects for fiscal year 2025. Congratulations to this group for the work they are doing in digital mental health and virtual treatment!

New suicide prevention learning module is developed for firearm training courses in Louisiana ⁦@VANewOrleans⁩ ⁦@InjuryEpi⁩ ⁦@SCMirecc⁩ ⁦@savir_org⁩ ⁦@afspnational⁩ injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Check out our updated Calmer Life manuals for cbt and anxiety! These updated materials are "practice ready" with illustrations, modified patient vignettes, and changes to language and style. mirecc.va.gov/VISN16/updated…

Check out our summer newsletter! We introduce our SC MIRECC awardees and share the latest on our research, clinical care and education initiatives. mirecc.va.gov/visn16/newslet…

Thank you, @wehonorveterans, for starting the conversation about screening for #moralinjury in #Veterans at end of life. Prepared with support from @VA_PTSD_Info @VAResearch @vahsrd and @SCMirecc youtu.be/XvJSgFNfaSo?si… via @YouTube

Congratulations to our graduating fellows! 🎓 We hope you are leaving IQuESt inspired by your mentors and colleagues to continue improving the health of Veterans and patients across the nation. VA Health Professions Education Evaluation & Research Fellows​: Laura Witte, DrPH, MPH​ and Mandi Sonnenfeld, PhD, MOT, OTR/L VA Health Services Research ​Fellows: Haley Kolp, PhD, Mackenzie Shanahan, PhD​, and Jennifer Sloane, PhD, MS Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)​ Fellows: Jessica Meers PhD, DBSM, Maribel Plasencia, PhD, and Alan Sheinfil, PhD​ Gastroenterology T32 Research Program​ Fellow: Ronald Samuel, MD​ Pictured: (Top Row L to R) Jennifer Bryan, PhD, Mackenzie Shanahan, PhD, Haley Kolp, PhD, Laura Witte, DrPh, MPH, Javad Razjouyan, PhD, M Eng. (Director of Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP)), Jessica Meers, PhD, Mandi Sonnenfeld, PhD, MOT, OTR (Bottom Row L to R) Natalie Hundt, PhD (Program Director of Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)​ Fellowship), Terri Fletcher, PhD (Program Director of VA Health Systems Research Fellowship), Kyler Godwin, PhD, MPH (Program Director of Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research (HPEER) Fellowship)

Our Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Strategies Guide for Anxiety and Trauma-Related Problems in Living can be downloaded for free at mirecc.va.gov/VISN16/act-str…. Developers: Jeffry S. Bethay, PhD, BCBA, Jonathan Weinstein, PhD, and Whitney Stubbs, PhD

Check out our free Veteran Wellness Toolkit! It is for #Veterans who want to learn tools to improve their #wellness. It is self-paced and self-directed. mirecc.va.gov/visn16/veteran… Developers: @DrJennBryan Moushumi Sahu, Soumya Somani, and @AliAsgharAliMD