Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the director of the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), associate chair for research and professor in the department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. With over 50 centers across the U.S., the mission of QUERI is to improve Veteran health by accelerating the implementation of research findings into real-world practice and policy. Dr. Kilbourne’s research goal is to improve population health by testing implementation strategies to facilitate the spread of effective practices in real-world treatment settings. She developed the Enhanced Replicating Effective Programs (E-REP) framework and conducted the first national sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) to assess the added value of more versus less intensive implementation strategies.
Dr. Kilbourne received her bachelors of arts at the University of California at Berkeley and her masters and Ph.D. in public health from the University of California Los Angeles.