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Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program

Award Number: K12HS026407
ORGANIZATION: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY
OPDIV: AHRQ
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2018
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2023

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Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT As a collaboration among UCLA, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and the LA County Department of Health Services, the proposed new AHRQ-PCORI K12 program, Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT), is designed to prepare outstanding postdoctoral scholars (including MD, PhD, MD/PhD, ScD, DrPH, and PharmD) for academic research careers focused on rapid and sustainable uptake of new scientific discoveries and innovations that improve the design, delivery, and outcomes of care for chronic diseases at the individual, population, and health care system levels. In the current era of declining numbers of health scientists nationwide, particularly among clinical providers, and of expanding need to bridge research and practice across diverse real-world settings of health services and systems as well as demographically diverse populations, SPIRIT will fill a critical need for research on a broad range of issues in the generation, dissemination, and implementation of clinical evidence and will advance the goals of increasing the pace and volume of innovation in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of chronic diseases to facilitate and advance learning health systems. In response to the challenges of better understanding variation in practice and outcomes and the barriers of T4 translation, the interdisciplinary curriculum and mentored hands-on research opportunities of the new K12 program interweave the scientific expertise and mentoring experience of 24 high-quality multidisciplinary investigators who are committed to collaborative, team-based cross-training and research in health services and patient-centered outcomes, clinical epidemiology, and dissemination and implementation. SPIRIT will leverage topically germane resources of education, training, and career development programs extant among the four partners for the core curriculum and protected time, foremost, the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, to achieve the following specific aims: (1) expand the multidisciplinary knowledge base of evidence- based practice and learning health systems as it relates to different aspects of chronic disease care across the clinical spectrum; (2) provide didactic and hands-on research training/career development in the intellectual and philosophical foundation of rapid translation of evidence into practice within the broader research enterprise of translational medicine; (3) develop scholars' scientific writing skills for presentations, publications, and grants; (4) provide an academic environment that enables development of the research skills and experience needed for successful, independent scientific careers as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams dedicated to improving patient and population outcomes and health system performance; and (5) model research-empowering teaching and mentoring skills for scholars' development, including their eventual replication of research education, training, and career development programs in health system stakeholder- partnered improvements of chronic disease care as their careers evolve into stable, scientific independence.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$806,830 )
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90024	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	002	5	2/21/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$611,758
2024	2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90024	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	3	2/21/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	-$19,161
2024	2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90024	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	001	4	2/21/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$175,911
														Subtotal = -$806,830

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $611,758 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90024	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	5	9/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$611,758
														Subtotal = $611,758

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $824,637 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90095	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	3	12/4/2020	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$81,000
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90024	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	001	4	9/16/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$743,637
														Subtotal = $824,637

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $747,834 )
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90095	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	3	9/17/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$747,834
														Subtotal = $747,834

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $726,656 )
2019	2019	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90095	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	2	9/19/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$726,656
														Subtotal = $726,656

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $752,049 )
2018	2018	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	10889 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 700	LOS ANGELES	CA	90095	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	1	9/19/2018	NEW	$752,049
														Subtotal = $752,049

Grand Total All Awards = $2,856,104

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Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program

Award Number: K12HS026407

ORGANIZATION: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

OPDIV: AHRQ

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2018

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2023

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