PISCE Team
Amanda Bettencourt, PhD; Meghan Lockman; Kate Rendle, PhD, MPH; Courtney Wolk, PhD; Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSPH; Izzy Kaminer; Chris Bonafide, MD, MSCE
- PISCE Leadership
- PISCE Directors
- PISCE Staff
- PISCE Internal Advisory Board Members
- Education Program Staff
PISCE Leadership
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Read More about Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD
Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD
Executive Director
Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD Website
Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Associate Director of the Penn Center for Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and an implementation scientist. The long-term goal of her research is to develop and evaluate strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-based care into routine practice, with the ultimate goal of improving the effectiveness of mental health services for children and adults in non-specialty mental health settings.
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Read More about Meghan Lockman, MS, MBA
Meghan Lockman, MS, MBA
Managing Director
meghan.lockman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Meghan Lockman has worked in nonprofit leadership and management, as well as environmental consulting, and is excited to bring these skills and background to the Penn Implementation Science Center. Meghan has a MBA from Loyola University of Maryland (2010), a MS in Environmental Management from Vanderbilt University (2001), and a BA in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from The College of William and Mary (1999).
PISCE Directors
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Read More about Amanda Bettencourt, PhD
Amanda Bettencourt, PhD
Director, Acute Care Implementation Science
Amanda Bettencourt, PhD Website
Director, Acute Care Implementation Science; Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
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Read More about Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCEChristopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE
Director, Pediatric Implementation Research
Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE Website
Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE
Director, Pediatric Implementation Research
Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE Website
Chris Bonafide, MD, MSCE is a pediatric hospitalist and implementation scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. He completed an Academic General Pediatric Fellowship at CHOP and the MSCE degree at Penn, and subsequently received training in implementation science and mentorship from Rinad Beidas, PhD. Chris now serves as Associate Chief for Research Integration and Implementation in the Division of General Pediatrics, Associate Director for Implementation Science at Clinical Futures, and Director of Pediatric Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE). Within implementation science, he is especially interested in finding the best strategies to deimplement ineffective practices in pediatric hospital care. He currently co-leads a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-deimplementation trial focused on eliminating monitor overuse (EMO) with Dr. Beidas and is Site PI for a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-deimplementation trial focused on reducing unnecessary follow-up visits to primary care after hospitalization (the FAAN-C, or “fancy” trial).
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Read More about Katharine Rendle, PhD, MPHKatharine Rendle, PhD, MPH
Director, Cancer Implementation Research
Katharine Rendle, PhD, MPH Website
Katharine Rendle, PhD, MPH
Director, Cancer Implementation Research
Katharine Rendle, PhD, MPH Website
Director, Cancer Implementation Research; Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health; Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
PISCE Staff
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Shelby Billups
Penn Implementation Science Institute Coordinator and AMETHIST@Penn Project Manager
Email Shelby Billups
Shelby Billups
Penn Implementation Science Institute Coordinator and AMETHIST@Penn Project Manager
Shelby.Billups@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
PISCE Internal Advisory Board Members
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Read More about David Mandell, ScD
David Mandell, ScD
David Mandell, ScD Website
Kenneth E. Appel Professor and Director, Penn Center for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
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Read More about John R. Kimberly, PhD
John R. Kimberly, PhD
John R. Kimberly, PhD Website
Henry Bower Professor Emeritus, Health Care Management, Wharton School
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Read More about Marylyn D Ritchie, PhD
Marylyn D Ritchie, PhD
Marylyn D Ritchie, PhD Website
Edward Rose, MD and Elizabeth Kirk Rose, MD Professor of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine
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Read More about Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS
Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS
Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS Website
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine
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Education Program Staff
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Read More about Danielle Cullen, MD, MPH, MSHP
Danielle Cullen, MD, MPH, MSHP
Director of Education
Danielle Cullen, MD, MPH, MSHP Website
Danielle Cullen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Director of Health Services and Health Equity Research for the Division of Emergency Medicine at CHOP, and Associate Director of Implementation Science at CHOP Clinical Futures. The goal of her research portfolio is to improve health equity among socially disadvantaged children through the development of effective, acceptable, and feasible strategies to identify unmet social need and improve family engagement with desired resources. She is dedicated to community involvement in research and programmatic design, and leverages methods from Community-Based Participatory Research and Implementation Science to enhance reach and sustainability of developed programs. Her ongoing implementation research includes: a hybrid implementation-effectiveness study of the USDA’s summer food service program across CHOP clinical settings; a multi-center implementation trial of social support in the Emergency Department (ED); and a mixed-methods evaluation of individual and system level barriers to dental care after ED referral.
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