Amy M Kilbourne

Dr. Amy M. Kilbourne, PhD, MPH is Professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan (UM) Medical School and Acting Deputy Chief Research and Development Officer for Investigators, Scientific Review and Management for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Research and Development. She is a national expert in implementation science, notably the development and testing of strategies that support health care providers in delivering effective treatments and innovations more rapidly to their patients. Dr. Kilbourne has led several national implementation initiatives across the U.S. to improve patient outcomes including quality, cost, and experience, and developed national research agendas focused on health disparities, mental health, chronic conditions, and Learning Health Systems. She also leads MICHR's Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Catalyst, a U-M-wide initiative to promote implementation science across the translation spectrum, to ultimately enhance the uptake of evidence-based practices in real-world settings. In her VA role Dr. Kilbourne is also supporting VA’s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) which funds investigators to accelerate the implementation of research evidence into practice, and the VA's fulfillment of the Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act, which requires government agencies to use evidence and evaluation to justify program budgets.

Translational Science, Learning Health Systems research, and Implementation Science
Adaptive designs and sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs)
Integrated collaborative care model interventions in learning health systems and community-based practices
Evidence-based policy with a focus on quality improvement and evaluation methods