# Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program

> **NIH AHRQ K12** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2020 · $747,834

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
As a collaboration among UCLA, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, the VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System, and the LA County Department of Health Services, the proposed new AHRQ-PCORI K12
program, Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT), is
designed to prepare outstanding postdoctoral scholars (including MD, PhD, MD/PhD, ScD, DrPH, and
PharmD) for academic research careers focused on rapid and sustainable uptake of new scientific discoveries
and innovations that improve the design, delivery, and outcomes of care for chronic diseases at the individual,
population, and health care system levels. In the current era of declining numbers of health scientists nationwide,
particularly among clinical providers, and of expanding need to bridge research and practice across diverse
real-world settings of health services and systems as well as demographically diverse populations, SPIRIT will
fill a critical need for research on a broad range of issues in the generation, dissemination, and implementation
of clinical evidence and will advance the goals of increasing the pace and volume of innovation in the
diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of chronic diseases to facilitate and advance learning health systems. In
response to the challenges of better understanding variation in practice and outcomes and the barriers of T4
translation, the interdisciplinary curriculum and mentored hands-on research opportunities of the new K12
program interweave the scientific expertise and mentoring experience of 24 high-quality multidisciplinary
investigators who are committed to collaborative, team-based cross-training and research in health services
and patient-centered outcomes, clinical epidemiology, and dissemination and implementation. SPIRIT will
leverage topically germane resources of education, training, and career development programs extant among
the four partners for the core curriculum and protected time, foremost, the UCLA National Clinician Scholars
Program, to achieve the following specific aims: (1) expand the multidisciplinary knowledge base of evidence-
based practice and learning health systems as it relates to different aspects of chronic disease care across the
clinical spectrum; (2) provide didactic and hands-on research training/career development in the intellectual
and philosophical foundation of rapid translation of evidence into practice within the broader research
enterprise of translational medicine; (3) develop scholars' scientific writing skills for presentations, publications,
and grants; (4) provide an academic environment that enables development of the research skills and
experience needed for successful, independent scientific careers as members and leaders of interdisciplinary
teams dedicated to improving patient and population outcomes and health system performance; and (5) model
research-empowering teaching and mentoring skills for scholars' development, includi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10020960
- **Project number:** 5K12HS026407-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Michael K Gould
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $747,834
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2023-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10020960

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10020960, Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program (5K12HS026407-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10020960. Licensed CC0.

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