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CIIS Leadership Updates

September 26, 2024
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The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Kirsten Austad, MD, MPH, and Nick Bosch, MD, MSc, will transition from associate directors to co-directors of The Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Science (CIIS), effective Oct.1, 2024.  Kathryn Fantasia, MD, will serve in the new role of education director, and current Research Specialist Kayla Jones will transition to assistant director. Mari-Lynn Drainoni, PhD, MEd, who has been a founding director of CIIS for nine years, will assume the new CIIS role of research director, allowing her to mentor the growing number of early career faculty in CIIS.

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    Kirsten Austad, MD, MPH
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    Kathryn Fantasia
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    Mari-Lynn Drainoni

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