Center of Excellence & K12 in Learning Health Systems Science

Belle zaccari, PsyD

Dr. Zaccari completed her Doctor of Psychology degree at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. She is currently a clinical psychologist at the Salem/Rural Behavioral Health Clinic through the VA, as well as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at OHSU. Dr. Zaccari’s major research interest is the use of telehealth modalities to deliver Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) interventions, such as yoga, for the treatment of chronic pain and PTSD in veterans. Her long-term research goal is to develop, test, and implement CIH interventions to reduce pain and PTSD symptomatology, while improving veterans’ quality of life.

Project Title: A Learning Health Systems Examination of Virtually Delivered Complementary and Integrative Health Interventions for Veterans with Chronic Pain and PTSD

Ximena Levander, MD

Dr. Levander received her doctorate in medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY, with Honors in Service for her role as co-director of the Weill Cornell Community Clinic, a student-led free clinic for uninsured patients. She completed her internal medicine-primary care residency at University of Washington in Seattle where she participated in the VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Dr. Levander recently completed a fellowship in Addiction Medicine and the Samuel H. Wise fellowship in General Internal Medicine Clinical Research at OHSU (2018-2021.) The over-arching goal of her K12 research is to evaluate utilization of telemedicine for treatment of opioid use disorder that was rapidly implemented within OHSU Health in response to the Coronavirus19 pandemic. Her long-term career goal is to become an independent clinician investigator with expertise in learning health systems science applied to substance use disorder care.

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Project Title: Telemedicine for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in the OHSU Health System

ROSE MOLINA, MD, MPH

Dr. Rose Molina is an academic obstetrician-gynecologist with a passion for understanding and addressing language as a critical dimension of health equity in reproductive health care, with a focus on applying innovation and quality improvement to reduce maternal health inequities both in low- and middle-income settings as well as locally in Boston. Dr. Molina is the Faculty Director of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Medical Language Program and Director of the HMS Health Equity Theme. She also is an active obstetrician-gynecologist at The Dimock Center, a federally qualified community health center, where she cares for a large Spanish-speaking immigrant community. Dr. Molina's K12 project will explore and develop patient-reported items in trust and therapeutic alliance during pregnancy care when language barriers exist. She will also develop an intervention prototype to enhance trust and therapeutic alliance with patients, cultural brokers, clinicians, and health system leaders as a part of her long-term goal to enhance equity within health systems.

Project Title: Measuring and Enhancing Trust and Therapeutic Alliance for Patients with Limited English Proficiency