Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (CeMHOR)
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Since 1990, CeMHOR has strived to improve access to care,
quality of care and outcomes of care for veterans with prevalent
and serious mental disorders. Our research focus has evolved
from developing outcomes assessment modules for depression,
dementia, schizophrenia and substance use disorders (SUDs) for
use in routine care settings—to quality measurement and qualityoutcome
relationships for these disorders, with interest in
treatment adherence as a predictor of positive outcomes—to
developing and testing interventions to improve care for patients
with depression, dementia, schizophrenia and SUDs.
Our interventions improve care by helping consumers engage in
care, participate in shared decision-making, adhere to treatment,
and use self-management approaches, and by giving providers
and managers the tools and strategies needed to deliver
evidence-based, recovery-oriented care. Complementing our
intervention research, CeMHOR investigators conduct
developmental research to better understand the extent and
causes of problems in mental healthcare and identify barriers and
facilitators to possible solutions. CeMHOR researchers also
investigate how to translate successful interventions into practice
through implementation studies. These studies—and CeMHOR
expertise in implementation science—inform intervention
development.
Located in North Little Rock, Arkansas, at the Central Arkansas
Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), CeMHOR is a major hub
for mental health services research activity both within the VA
and outside the agency. CeMHOR is located in the same building
with the Mental Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
(QUERI) Coordinating Center and the South Central Mental
Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center (MIRECC). With
CeMHOR, these centers serve as important resources for
researchers, policymakers and managers
CeMHOR goals are to:
- Sustain a superior environment for inquiry to generate and
support the highest-quality mental health services research
- Increase capacity in the mental health services research field by
training, mentoring, recruiting, and collaborating
- Develop and test innovative services interventions to improve
care for veterans with mental health and/or substance use
disorders
- Pursue a research agenda to promote transformation to a
recovery-oriented mental health system in the VHA
- Pursue a research agenda to improve mental health treatment
and outcomes for veterans with mental illness who have
complex, comorbid conditions
- Promote widespread dissemination and implementation of
effective interventions into routine practice
CeMHOR’s research staff consists of core investigators and
postdoctoral fellows drawn from the disciplines of psychiatry,
psychology, pharmacy, biostatistics, epidemiology, sociology and
medical geography.
CeMHOR Core Investigators: |
Brenda M. Booth, PhD
Geoffrey M. Curran, PhD
Ellen P. Fischer, PhD
John Fortney, PhD
Teresa Hudson, PharmD
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JoAnn Kirchner, MD
Dinesh Mittal, MD
Richard R. Owen, MD
Jeffrey M. Pyne, MD
Jeff Smith, PhD Candidate
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Contact
2200 Fort Roots Drive
Building 58 (152/NLR)
North Little Rock, AR 72114
Receptionist: (501) 257-1727
Fax: (501) 257-1707
richard.owen2@med.va.gov
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