JoAnn E. Kirchner

Federal Grant PI High Impact

Professor, College of Medicine, Psychiatry

UAMS

Also affiliated: St. Michael's Hospital (2017); United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2006–2024); University of Wisconsin–Madison (2012); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2009–2012); Veterans Health Administration (2007–2024); Health Services Research & Development (2000–2022); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2000–2026); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2004–2010); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2010–2026); Philadelphia VA Medical Center (2007); Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (2020); William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital (2007–2012); University of Pennsylvania (2007)

42 h-index 146 pubs 13,601 cited

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OverviewAI-generated summary

JoAnn E. Kirchner's research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based practices within healthcare systems, particularly in the areas of primary care and mental health. Her work has investigated strategies to facilitate the adoption and integration of clinical innovations, aiming to improve patient outcomes and the efficiency of healthcare delivery. Kirchner has contributed to the development and refinement of frameworks for understanding and applying implementation strategies, such as the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project and the Health Equity Implementation Framework.

Her research has explored the co-occurrence of mental health conditions, including depression and PTSD, and their implications for clinical practice, especially within primary care settings. Kirchner has also examined partnered facilitation strategies to implement integrated primary care and mental health services. Her federal grant funding includes work as Co-PI on the Behavioral Health QUERI Implementation Facilitation Training Hub and as PI on the QUERI for Team-Based Behavioral Health, both supported by NIH. She has published extensively on these topics, with a h-index of 33 and over 4,600 citations, and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Sara J. Landes and Eva N. Woodward.

Kirchner's scholarship is recognized for its high impact, evidenced by her highly cited status and her role as a federal grant principal investigator. She leads a research group and maintains an active lab website, indicating a sustained commitment to advancing the field of implementation science and its application in improving healthcare.

Metrics

h-index: 42
Publications: 146
Citations: 13,601

Positions

Professor, College of Medicine, Psychiatry publications 1998–2026

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institution web page

Selected Publications

Dimensions of implementation facilitation (IF): development of a tool for designing, documenting and reporting on IF strategies in healthcare settings (2026)

Implementation Science Communications DOI OpenAlex
Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice) (2026)

Implementation Science Communications DOI OpenAlex
Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: Short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice) (2026)

Research Square DOI OpenAlex
Dimensions of implementation facilitation strategies: development of a tool for strategy development and specification (2025)

Research Square DOI OpenAlex
The “good enough” facilitator: elucidating the role of working alliance in the mechanism of facilitation (2025)

Implementation Science Communications 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Transitioning an implementation research intervention to a sustained clinical service: Telehealth primary care mental health integration implementation in Veterans Health Administration. (2024)

Psychological Services 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Building a sharable literature collection to advance the science and practice of implementation facilitation (2024)

Frontiers in Health Services 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation (2024)

Global Implementation Research and Applications 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States (2024)

Frontiers in Public Health 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Challenges and promising solutions to engaging patients in healthcare implementation in the United States: an environmental scan (2024)

BMC Health Services Research 21 citations DOI OpenAlex
Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts (2023)

Frontiers in Health Services 32 citations DOI OpenAlex
Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process (2023)

BMC Health Services Research 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
How does facilitation in healthcare work? Using mechanism mapping to illuminate the black box of a meta-implementation strategy (2023)

Implementation Science Communications 84 citations DOI OpenAlex
Implementation of group cognitive processing therapy in correction centers: Anticipated determinants from formative evaluation (2022)

Journal of Traumatic Stress 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
A participant-randomized pilot hybrid II trial of group cognitive processing therapy for incarcerated persons with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorder symptoms: study protocol and rationale (2022)

Health & Justice 7 citations DOI OpenAlex