Faculty

Leadership

Carolyn Audet, PhD

Carolyn Audet, PhD
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Associate Director, Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research

Dr. Audet is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and the Associate Director of Research in the Institute for Global Health. Her research has focused on testing clinic- and community-based strategies to improve delivery of evidence-based HIV testing, care, and treatment services to people living in South Africa, Mozambique, and the United States. Recently, she has expanded her research into testing strategies to improve the delivery of evidence-based breast and lung cancer screening, use of germline testing in patients with breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer, and tuberculosis screening and referral. She has been the PI on several U01, R01, R34 and R21 awards from NIMH, NIAID, NHGRI, and the CDC. Dr. Audet focuses on training and mentoring junior faculty in the use of implementation methods. For the past three years she has been the MPI of an Implementation Science Hub focused on providing implementation science education and mentoring to Ending the HIV Epidemic grant recipients across the United States and is currently the Implementation Science Core Director for the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research.

Amanda S. Mixon, MD, MS, MSPH

Amanda S. Mixon, MD, MS, MSPH
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine
Director, Vanderbilt Implementation and Quality Improvement Core

Dr. Mixon is an Associate Professor who joined the Vanderbilt faculty and the VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Care Center in 2010. She graduated from Earlham College with a BA and from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center with an MD degree. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine, VA Quality Scholars Fellowship, and Masters of Science in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Her research interests focus on care transitions, the effect of social differences on readmission rates, medication errors across care settings, and de-prescribing in patients with polypharmacy. Her research is funded by VA Health Services Research & Development, PCORI, and NIH and has led to notable invitations including serving as an expert for the WHO’s Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medications without Harm.

Lyndsay A. Nelson, PhD

Lyndsay A. Nelson, PhD
Assistant Director
Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Director, CCQIR Scholarly Series

Dr. Nelson is a Research Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health. She is a social/health psychologist who has helped lead large, multi-site, behavioral clinical trials to improve diabetes management in both federally qualified health centers and academic medical centers. Dr. Nelson also has expertise in patient and stakeholder engagement, and in the design and usability of technology-delivered interventions. Broadly, her research goals include designing digital tools that effectively engage underserved patients to help reduce health differences and implementing these tools in routine clinical care. Dr. Nelson has received extensive training in implementation science through the Vanderbilt Scholars in T4 Translational Research K12 program and the Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health. She is a core faculty member in Vanderbilt’s Center for Diabetes Translation Research, the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center, and the Vanderbilt Center for Effective Health Communication.

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