# HSR&D Merit Review Research Career Scientist (RCS) Award (IK6)

> **NIH VA IK6** · VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM · 2021 · —

## Abstract

Background: Healthcare organizational factors influence the environment within which providers practice and
patients experience care, and as a result, have substantial influence on quality of care and implementation of
evidence-based practice and policy. Integration of knowledge of the organizational factors that promote quality
with advanced implementation strategies and multilevel stakeholder engagement may increase research
impacts and promote learning healthcare system principles.
Objectives: Dr. Yano's research, mentorship and VA service have focused on: (1) evaluating multilevel
determinants of VA care quality and patient experience, with an emphasis on primary care and women's health
care delivery models; (2) advancing the scientific evidence base needed to systematically improve women
Veterans' health and health care; and (3) accelerating impacts of research through implementation science
and advances in multilevel stakeholder engagement of operations/policy partners, providers/teams, and
Veterans.
Methods: Dr. Yano is Director/PI of the recently renewed VA Los Angeles HSR&D Center for the Study of
Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy, Director of the Women Veterans' Healthcare CREATE
Initiative, PI of the VA Women's Health Research Network, and PI of the Women's Health Services/QUERI
Partnered Evaluation Initiative. She is PI and Co-PI of two of five component CREATE studies, including a
cluster randomized trial of an evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) approach to tailoring PACT to meet
women Veterans' needs and an evaluation of impacts of national variations in comprehensive care on women
Veterans' care quality and experience. With her emphasis on partnered, high-value evaluation/research, Dr.
Yano has also led an array of operations-funded projects over the past decade from different national VA
program offices. In the past 10 years, she has been PI/Co-PI of 33 projects totaling $39 million, published (or
has in press) 151 papers (69 of which were first or senior authored), and delivered/coauthored over 350
scientific presentations, national cyberseminars, methods workshops, and briefings within and outside VA. In
the past 10 years, she also mentored nearly 50 unique career development applicants/awardees, postdoctoral
fellows, graduate students, and mid-career faculty, among others, with 24 mentees over the past three years,
all of whom are on VA career tracks. She has served on a wide array of VA HSR&D, QUERI, and Program
Office and non-VA scientific committees, boards, and panels, focused chiefly on research dissemination and
implementation science advances and impacts, with 35 national roles in the last three calendar years. Dr. Yano
received the VA Under Secretary for Health Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Health Services
Research (2012), the Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Alumni Hall of Fame (2017), and a Special Recognition Award from Disabled American Vet...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10194477
- **Project number:** 5IK6HX002836-02
- **Recipient organization:** VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
- **Principal Investigator:** ELIZABETH M YANO
- **Activity code:** IK6 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-10-01 → 2026-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10194477

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10194477, HSR&D Merit Review Research Career Scientist (RCS) Award (IK6) (5IK6HX002836-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10194477. Licensed CC0.

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