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JoAnn E. Kirchner
Federal Grant PI
High Impact
Researcher
Also affiliated: St. Michael's Hospital (2017); United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2007–2020); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2009); University of Illinois Chicago (2007); Health Services Research & Development (2002–2011); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2000–2025); Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (2015); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2004–2024); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2010–2026); Philadelphia VA Medical Center (2007); William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital (2012); Department of Veterans Affairs (2019); Arkansas Department of Health (2021); Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (2012)
Faculty Researcher
33 h-index
117 pubs
4,608 cited
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JoAnn E. Kirchner's research focuses on implementation science, aiming to improve the effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Her work investigates methods for facilitating the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based practices within various healthcare settings, particularly within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Kirchner has studied the process of transferring implementation facilitation skills to build capacity among healthcare professionals, moving from novice to expert levels.
Her publications address practical aspects of implementation, including developing tools to engage service users in quality improvement efforts and adapting interventions for specific populations, such as Veterans in emergency departments. Kirchner also explores the underlying mechanisms of facilitation, using approaches like mechanism mapping to understand how these strategies function within complex healthcare systems. She has also contributed to consensus development processes to identify core activities essential for effective implementation facilitation.
Kirchner leads a research group and maintains an active lab website. She has a significant publication record, with 115 total publications and an h-index of 33, indicating a substantial contribution to her field. Her research network includes key collaborators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, such as Sara J. Landes and Rajinder Sonia Singh, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 33
- Publications: 117
- Citations: 4,608
Selected Publications
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Dimensions of implementation facilitation (IF): development of a tool for designing, documenting and reporting on IF strategies in healthcare settings (2026)
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Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice) (2026)
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Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: Short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice) (2026)
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Dimensions of implementation facilitation strategies: development of a tool for strategy development and specification (2025)
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The “good enough” facilitator: elucidating the role of working alliance in the mechanism of facilitation (2025)
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Transitioning an implementation research intervention to a sustained clinical service: Telehealth primary care mental health integration implementation in Veterans Health Administration. (2024)
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Building a sharable literature collection to advance the science and practice of implementation facilitation (2024)
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Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation (2024)
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Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States (2024)
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Challenges and promising solutions to engaging patients in healthcare implementation in the United States: an environmental scan (2024)
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Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts (2023)
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Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process (2023)
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How does facilitation in healthcare work? Using mechanism mapping to illuminate the black box of a meta-implementation strategy (2023)
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Implementation of group cognitive processing therapy in correction centers: Anticipated determinants from formative evaluation (2022)
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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)
Federal Grants 2
VA
Co-PI
Apr 2019 - Mar 2024
Behavioral Health QUERI Implementation Facilitation Training Hub
VA
Contact PI
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Sara J. Landes
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
8 shared publications
In database
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Eva N. Woodward
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
7 shared publications
In database
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Challenges and promising solutions to engaging patients in healthcare implementation in the United States: an environmental scan
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
- Transitioning an implementation research intervention to a sustained clinical service: Telehealth primary care mental health integration implementation in Veterans Health Administration.
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Mona J. Ritchie
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (US)
7 shared publications
- From novice to expert: methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills to improve healthcare delivery
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process
- Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Jeffrey L. Smith
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (US)
7 shared publications
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Implementation Facilitation Training Program
- Consensus on strategies for implementing high priority mental health care practices within the US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Rajinder Sonia Singh
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
5 shared publications
In database
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
Matthew Chinman
RAND Corporation (US)
4 shared publications
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Consensus on strategies for implementing high priority mental health care practices within the US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
- The “good enough” facilitator: elucidating the role of working alliance in the mechanism of facilitation
Cathleen E. Willging
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest (US)
4 shared publications
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Challenges and promising solutions to engaging patients in healthcare implementation in the United States: an environmental scan
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
Karen L. Drummond
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
4 shared publications
In database
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
- Transitioning an implementation research intervention to a sustained clinical service: Telehealth primary care mental health integration implementation in Veterans Health Administration.
Bo Kim
Harvard University (US)
4 shared publications
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
- Building a sharable literature collection to advance the science and practice of implementation facilitation
Traci H. Abraham
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
3 shared publications
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
Leslie R. M. Hausmann
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (US)
3 shared publications
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
- Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: Short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice)
Irenia A. Ball
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
3 shared publications
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
- Promoting inclusivity and partnership with recipients of health services: Short report on redesigning Engaging All Voices (previously Consumer Voice)
Louise E. Parker
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
2 shared publications
- From novice to expert: methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills to improve healthcare delivery
- Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process
Jeffery A. Pitcock
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (US)
2 shared publications
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Implementation Facilitation Training Program
Katherine M. Dollar
Integrated Oncology (United States) (US)
2 shared publications
- Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Implementation Facilitation Training Program
- Dimensions of implementation facilitation strategies: development of a tool for strategy development and specification
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