This renewal of a Senior Research Career Scientist (SRCS) award is to support Dr. Hayden Bosworth to further provide scientific, mentoring and service contributions to Veterans. Dr. Bosworth’s main research interests comprise 3 overarching areas that align with VA HSR&D and the VA secretary’s top priorities: 1) Greater Choice for Veterans - build a high performing integrated network of care; 2) Improve Timeliness of Services – improve access to care; and 3) Focus Resources More Efficiently – strengthen foundational services in VA (e.g. primary care). He provides knowledge for improving patients' c h r o n i c c a r e self- management; translate research to improve the quality of health care, and eliminate health care disparities. The goal of this research is to develop and evaluate programs and delivery models that can be implemented in the national VA health care system to improve the quality, efficiency and patient centeredness of care. Dr. Bosworth has led over 30 federally funded (VA HSR&D, QUERI, NIH), foundation (e.g., American Heart Association) projects and participated in another 60 as a co-investigator. Most recently, he has focused on health care delivery including collaborations with the Office of Rural Health (ORH) and Connected Care. He currently is the (co-)principal investigator on 3 Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) grants, 2 ORH funded projects, and 2 industry-funded projects enrolling and serving VA patients (total 7). He is also the co- investigator on three VA-funded IIR studies, the PI of a U01 and a K12 training grant, both awarded by NHLBI. The latter provides resources to train 5 faculty for 3 years in implementation science. Since 2013, Dr. Bosworth has published over 150 peer reviewed articles with more than half with current and formal mentees (total peer reviewed publications 350 and 4 books); his Google Scholar h-index is 73 and his articles have been cited more 19k times. Dr. Bosworth received the 2013 VA Undersecretary Award for