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Marc Atkins Ph.D.
Primary Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Atkins is a licensed clinical psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and past Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He currently directs the Community Engagement and Collaboration core for UIC’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. He is the recipient of numerous grants from the NIMH and private foundations examining new models for mental health practice in urban communities to address long-standing disparities in mental health care for children and families living in high poverty urban communities.
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Ana A. Baumann Ph.D.
Primary Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Dr. Baumann’s research agenda focuses on the intersection of implementation science, adaptation science, and healthcare equity. She works to identify strategies that facilitate the implementation of evidence-based interventions in low-resource settings and historically underserved populations, nationally and globally. In her national and global work, she has collaborated with several investigators in adapting and implementing evidence based interventions in usual care, in different settings and with different disease areas (e.g., sickle cell disease, hypertension, mental health, cancer).
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Faith R. Kares Ph.D.
Primary Affiliation: Institute for Racial Justice at Loyola University, Chicago (Associate Director of Research & Evaluation)
Secondary Affiliation: University of Illinois, Chicago
Dr. Faith R. Kares (she/her) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in race/ethnicity, social and economic (in)equities, and organizational culture. She has 20 years of experience leading mixed-methods research in various contexts, including but not limited to California’s juvenile justice system, STEM Out-of-School Time programming, affordable housing both in the U.S. and abroad, and Chicago's police reform efforts.
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Enola Proctor Ph.D.
Primary Affiliation: University of Washington in St. Louis
Dr. Enola Proctor is a Professor Emeritus at George Warren Brown School of Social Work (Brown School), Washington University. Her research is motivated by the question, how do we ensure that people receive the very best possible care? She has studied this question in a variety of social work, public health, and health care settings, ranging from hospitals to community agencies. She has contributed to the intellectual capital for the rapidly growing field of dissemination and implementation science, leading teams to distinguish, clearly define, develop taxonomies, and stimulate more systematic work to advance the conceptual, linguistic, and methodological clarity in the field.
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Eduardo Salas Ph.D.
Primary Affiliation: Rice University
Dr. Eduardo Salas is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor in Psychology at Rice University. With 40 years of experience in applying psychological science to teamwork, learning and development, safety culture in complex and dynamic environments, Dr. Salas has a proven track record and passion for developing evidence-based principles, guidance, tools and interventions to improve teamwork, learning and safety across a wide variety of contexts such as aviation, oil and gas, military, emergency response, space exploration as well as healthcare. A prolific author with over 600 journal articles and chapters, co-edited 37 books and has co-authored two books. Dr. Salas is a Past President of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Fellow of the APA, the HFES and Association for Psychological Science, and a recipient of the Meritorious Civil Service Award from the Department of the Navy. He is the recipient of the 2012 Society for Human Resource Management Losey Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement from the INGroup, the 2012 Distinguished Professional Contributions & 2016 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, a four-time winner (2001, 2007, 2009 & 2013) of the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace, and the 2023 Wayne Casio Scientist-Practitioner Award, all of these awarded by SIOP. In addition, he has been awarded the 2023 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Sciences in recognition for outstanding lifetime contributions to the area of applied psychological research and the 2023 American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for impact in Psychology. He received his doctoral degree in 1984 from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA).