Kari
Stephens
PhD
Bio
Dr. Kari Stephens is Research Section Head, Director of Clinical Research Informatics, and Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Stephens is a practicing clinical psychologist and biomedical informaticist conducting research focused on health equity, integrated behavioral health, chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, substance use, cancer, Long COVID, and informatics data sharing, particularly in primary care settings. Dr. Stephens leads informatics and innovations in data sharing as an Associate Director with the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center and as an executive faculty member with the UW Institute of Translational Health Science and Data QUEST Director, overseeing a regional electronic health record systems based primary care data sharing network, which has supported over $100M in grant funded projects.
HEALTH SYSTEMS-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Clinical Implementation
Clinical Informatics
Education
- Graduate Medical Education
- Continuing Medical Education
Leadership and Management
- Department of Family Medicine Research Section Head
Mentorship
- Clinical Implementation
- Clinical Informatics
- Research
- Leadership and Management
Policy
- National – Professional Society: American Psychological Association
- Institutional
Research
- Outcomes
- Health Services
- Pragmatic Trials
- Implementation
- Informatics and AI
- Population Health
- Social Drivers of Health/Social Determinants of Health