Implementation Research Institute Fellow Showcase

The Implementation Research Institute Fellow Showcase features investigators engaging with the forefront of implementation science.
Featuring:
"The Role of Implementation Science in Developing a Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program in the South," with
Nakita Lovelady, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
and
"Using implementation science and the science of teams to improve children’s mental health care," with
Elizabeth Ann McGuier, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Lovelady is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the College of Public Health; Founding Director of Arkansas’ first Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program, UAMS Project Heal; and a native of the Arkansas Delta. She is a 2023 Implementation Research Institute (IRI) Fellow at Washington University, a 2023 Graduate Fellow of the NIH Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials Summer Institute, and a current KL2 Scholar with an NCATS- funded CTSA, the UAMS Translational Research Institute.
Dr. Elizabeth McGuier is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research aims to improve mental health outcomes for children who experience maltreatment through better implementation of evidence-based practices and expansion of mental health services into non-traditional settings.