# Ann Arbor COIN Renewal Application

> **NIH VA I50** · VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION · 2024 · —

## Abstract

The Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR) has the expertise, experience,
infrastructure, collaborations, and partnerships necessary to conduct cutting-edge health services and
implementation research that will help Veterans receive the highest quality, safest, and most patient-centered
care possible. CCMR’s mission is to advance knowledge, promote innovations, and engage in
collaborations that will improve the health and health care of Veterans and the nation. Our vision is to
improve the quality, effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of Veterans’ health care through research and
partnerships that are driven by important challenges in clinical management.
 Since 2008, CCMR’s Director has been Dr. Eve Kerr, a primary care physician and 2017 recipient of the
VA Undersecretary Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research. Our Associate
Director, Dr. Julie Lowery, is an implementation scientist who has been with Ann Arbor since 1979. Our
Center is organized around seven cores that support our research agendas. CCMR enjoys support from
VISN 10 and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System for research infrastructure, physician research salaries,
funding to promote research and partnership development, and a 25,000 square-foot lease.
 Moreover, CCMR has brought together 39 superb, multidisciplinary core investigators who conduct
ground-breaking research and play highly visible roles in VHA. CCMR has retained a remarkable 16 of 19
researchers we have trained under HSR&D CDA programs since 1996, as well as three NIH K-trained
investigators. We are currently training an additional seven VA HSR&D CDA recipients and one NIH K-
awardee. Thirteen of our 39 core investigators are early career, thus promising future continued productivity.
 Our investigators improve clinical management in VHA through three focused areas (FAs) of research:
FA1. To promote personalized, appropriate, and efficient care by integrating the routine use of digital
data into day-to-day care delivery through innovations in data collection, measurement, and analysis.
 In the coming five years, our research will address VHA priorities on modernization, patient-centered care,
care coordination, and access through studies that improve predictive modeling for disease progression,
measure treatment de-intensification, track patient-reported outcomes, and reduce overuse of services in VA
and the community. Our key partners include the national VA Offices of: Reporting, Analytics, Performance
Improvement, and Deployment; Veterans Access to Care; and Community Care.
FA2. To develop, implement, and evaluate systems-based approaches to improve safety and
outcomes for our most vulnerable, high-risk, and complex patients.
 In the next five years, our studies will use innovative approaches for reducing misuse of opioids, alcohol,
and cannabis, and for decreasing suicide risk, all key VHA priorities. We will also create tools to assess and
implement systems-based intervent...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9664945
- **Project number:** 1I50HX002719-01
- **Recipient organization:** VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
- **Principal Investigator:** EVE A KERR
- **Activity code:** I50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2018-10-01 → 2023-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9664945

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9664945, Ann Arbor COIN Renewal Application (1I50HX002719-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9664945. Licensed CC0.

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