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Tandi Bagian earned a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Washington in 1979. She was employed by NASA's Johnson Space Center and served as Lead Instructor for Astronaut Crew Training; Flight Projects Manager for the Space Biomedical Research Institute; and Head of the Crew Interface Analysis Section. This last position involved supervising six Human Factors Laboratories to support NASA's Space Shuttle and Space Station missions. She also was a Principal Science Coordinator for Exploration Human Factors, and in that capacity informed the Agency's Advanced Human Support Technology roadmap in preparation for Mars Exploration mission definition. In 1995, Tandi transferred from NASA to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and worked at the EPA's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor. Along the way, she earned a Master of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999. In 2012, Tandi joined the Department of Veteran Affairs as Director, Human Factors Division for the VA National Center for Patient Safety. That team created an award-winning Patient Safety Boot Camp' training for Biomedical Engineers across the entire VHA. With a vision to make sure patient safety is everyone's business', NCPS created strong technical partners across the over 170 VA Medical Centers, as well as with industry partners, to assist Healthcare professionals in providing ‘safer systems, safer care'. With 46 years of Federal Service, Ms. Bagian retired in 2022 and quickly became Associated with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center's Human Factors Technical Discipline Team.  And this is where we met. This HF team is responsible for responding to requests for analysis and review of human factors issues across the NASA Centers and Commercial/International Partners committed to NASA's Moon2Mars mission. Learn more about Tandi: NESC Academy Where to find the hosts: Brian Moon ⁠⁠Brian's website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian's LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian's Twitter⁠⁠ Laura Militello ⁠⁠Laura's website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura's LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura's Twitter⁠⁠

In this episode of the Psych in Business podcast, Dr. Ernest Wayde speaks with Dr. Courtney Worley and discusses her work as a training coordinator for the VA National Center for PTSD Training in Written Exposure Therapy. Dr. Worley provides consultation in cognitive process therapy and written exposure therapy to clinicians in diverse healthcare systems. Dr. Worley emphasizes the importance of considering individual, team, and system dynamics when implementing interventions. She shares examples of how she navigates cultural considerations and builds consensus among clinicians and leaders. Dr. Worley encourages leaders to stay curious and approach new ideas as experiments.Key takeaways include:Consider individual, team, and system dynamics when implementing interventions.Navigate cultural considerations by practicing cultural humility and understanding the values and experiences of others.Build consensus among clinicians and leaders by understanding their goals and values.Approach new ideas as experiments and stay curious to foster learning and growth.You can visit her business website at: https://drworleyconsult.wordpress.com/

This month, we are joined by Dr. Jack Tsai, Research Director for VA's National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans; Dr. Thomas Byrne, an investigator with both the VA National Center on Homelessness among Veterans and the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Implementation Research at the VA Bedford Healthcare System; and Ken Mueller, senior business operations specialist in the Homeless Programs Office to learn about returns to homelessness. Our guests talk about what returns to homelessness are, why it happens to formerly homeless Veterans, and what VA is doing about it.Veterans who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness are strongly encouraged to contact the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at (877) 4AID-VET (877-424-3838) for assistance.Closed Caption Transcript is available at: https://www.sharedfedtraining.org/Podcasts/EVH_S1EP15.pdf ===============================Find your nearest VA:https://www.va.gov/find-locationsLearn more about VA resources to help homeless Veterans:https://www.va.gov/homelessRead the September 2022 status update for the 38,000 Permanent Housing PlacementGoal:https://news.va.gov/109012/va-pace-house-38000-homeless-veterans-2022/Read VA's press release announcing the 11% decline in Veteran homelessness:https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5836Learn more about Housing First:https://www.va.gov/homeless/nchav/models/housing-first.asp

This podcast is brought to you by the VHA Office of Rural Health. The contents do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government. The following episode may contain descriptions of violence. Please use discretion.In this episode we hear the life story of a Vietnam Veteran who has found himself thinking more about his military experiences later in life after certain events occur – which he compares to a brick falling on his head. We discuss the relationship between avoidance and PTSD, the value of support groups, and how older Veterans may re-engage their memories.Resources discussed in this episode: •VA National Center for PTSD: Understanding Avoidance: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/avoidance.asp•Beach ball analogy of PTSD symptoms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8Csuu70IQFurther Reading: •NPR article on the 'My Life, My Story' Program: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/08/729351842/storytelling-helps-hospital-staff-discover-the-person-within-the-patient•Academic article on support groups for older Veterans with PTSD: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841342/ •National Center for PTSD AboutFace episode: https://www.youtube.com/embed/VqkezfG3cfo?rel=0 Are you a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one? Find support anytime day or nightTo connect with a Veterans Crisis Line responder anytime day or night:•Call 800-273-8255, then select 1.•Start a confidential chat: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/get-help/chat.•Text 838255.•If you have hearing loss, call TTY: 800-799-4889.

Dr. John Krystal is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Robert L. McNeil, Jr Professor of Translational Research at the Yale University School of Medicine. He received his BA in behavioral sciences at the University of Chicago. He received his MD and completed his residency at Yale. He is the Chief of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is the Director of the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism and the Clinical Neuroscience Division of he VA National Center for PTSD. Some of his awards include the ACNP Joel Elle's Award, the Anna-Monika Foundation Depression Research Prize, and the Paul Hoch Research Award among others. He has published over 500 papers and reviews on schizophrenia, alcoholism, PTSD, and depression. Dr. Krystal and his colleagues discovered a new treatment for depression named Spravato, an esketamine drug that modulates the neurotransmitter glutamate. Tune in for our in depth discussion on clinical depression.

To honor the late Under Secretary for Health Dr. Robert Jesse, the Department of Veterans Affairs named an annual award for Excellence in Innovation in his name. This year, the award went to Dr. Thomas Osborne, director of the VA National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation. Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Osborne about his work and its impact on veterans' healthcare. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Paula Schnurr, PhD, Director of the VA National Center for PTSD, discusses perspectives on implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD.

Episode #43 Running Time: 36:21 Podcast relevance: Professionals In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., interviews Shannon Wiltsey-Stirman, PhD about D & I. Some of the items they discuss in this episode include: The distinction between diffusion, dissemination and implementation What we currently know about dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices What one can do at an individual level to encourage dissemination of EBPs Important future directions for this literature   Shannon Wiltsey-Stirman Biography Shannon Wiltsey Stirman received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She completed an internship at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, and returned to Philadelphia for postdoctoral training, where she received an NIMH-funded K99/R00 award to study implementation and sustainability of CBT in a partnership between Penn and the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and disAbility Services to implement cognitive therapy across the city’s network of providers. In 2009, Dr. Stirman joined the VA National Center for PTSD. Her research focuses on training and consultation, the development of scalable and valid measures of fidelity, and the identification of strategies to support the long-term sustainability of evidence-based practices in service settings. Dr. Stirman is now in the Dissemination and Training Division of the National Center for PTSD, and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. In addition to leading the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Dissemination and Implementation Special Interest Group in 2013-2014, she founded a special interest group on Dissemination and Implementation at the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and has served as Advisory Board and Network of Expertise Member of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration. She has served on the editorial board of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Canadian Institute for Health Research.   Episode-related links and resources:   Stirman, S.W., Gutner, C.A., Langdon, K. & Graham, J.R., Bridging the gap between research and practice in mental health service settings: An overview of developments in implementation theory and research, Behavior Therapy (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2015.12.001     Aarons, G. A., Ehrhart, M. G., Farahnak, L. R., & Hurlburt, M. S. (2015). Leadership and organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice implementation.Implementation Science, 10(1), 1.   Creed, T. A., Wolk, C. B., Feinberg, B., Evans, A. C., & Beck, A. T. (2016). Beyond the Label: Relationship Between Community Therapists’ Self-Report of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Orientation and Observed Skills.Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 43(1), 36-43.   Glisson, C., Schoenwald, S. K., Hemmelgarn, A., Green, P., Dukes, D., Armstrong, K. S., & Chapman, J. E. (2010). Randomized trial of MST and ARC in a two-level evidence-based treatment implementation strategy.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 78(4), 537.   Hemmelgarn, A. L., Glisson, C., & James, L. R. (2006). Organizational culture and climate: Implications for services and interventions research.Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 13(1), 73-89.   Herschell, A. D., Kolko, D. J., Baumann, B. L., & Davis, A. C. (2010). The role of therapist training in the implementation of psychosocial treatments: A review and critique with recommendations. Clinical psychology review, 30(4), 448-466.   Stirman, S. W., Bhar, S. S., Spokas, M., Brown, G. K., Creed, T. A., Perivoliotis, D., ... & Beck, A. T. (2010). Training and consultation in evidence-based psychosocial treatments in public mental health settings: The ACCESS model. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 41(1), 48.   Williams, N. J., Glisson, C., Hemmelgarn, A., & Green, P. (2016). Mechanisms of Change in the ARC Organizational Strategy: Increasing Mental Health Clinicians’ EBP Adoption Through Improved Organizational Culture and Capacity. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-15.  

Welcome to the latest in a series of podcast from EBN, where we take a closer look at commentaries from the journal. These discussions are designed to help you think about issues raised in the article, as well as the clinical applicability of the original research paper. For the first time this month the EBN journal club is linked to the podcast. Go to http://blogs.bmj.com/ebn/ebn-online-journal-club to find out how to join in and discuss this issue further.In this podcast you hear what Dr Peter Mills, 
of the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Vermont, has to say about self-harm among inpatients in psychiatric hospitals in the UK. As an expert in the field, Peter reflects on the findings of a study that has explored this area for the first time, and offers insightful comments and ideas that can be used to improve practice.

According to the oft-cited Youth Internet Safety Survey from 2001, whose respondents consisted of 1,500 teenagers, approximately one in five American teenagers have been sexually solicited online.1 We were very pleased to be able to have Lezlee Bylund join us on this episode of the Teen Esteem Council Podcast. Lezlee is the Utah Net Smartz Outreach Director. She has tons of information about how to keep yourself safe on the internet. In the podcast we discuss topics such as: Red Flags to look for when talking to someone online Common internet predator behavior How predators can get you hooked in. Lezlee also shared this website with us that you can use if you or someone you know has been solicited or bullied on line. The website is www.cybertipline.com 1. David Finkelhor, Kimberly J. Mitchell, and Janis Wolak, Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth (Alexandria, VA: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2000), ix.