JoAnn E. Kirchner

High Impact

Researcher

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

33 h-index 115 pubs 4,307 cited

Research Areas

Health Policy Implementation Science Behavioral Health and Interventions Healthcare Policy and Management Mental Health Research Topics Emergency and Acute Care Studies Diversity and Career in Medicine Health Disparities and Outcomes

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OverviewAI-generated summary

JoAnn E. Kirchner's research focuses on the implementation of healthcare interventions and the facilitation of quality improvement efforts within healthcare systems. Her work investigates methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills, aiming to improve healthcare delivery and increase consumer engagement in quality improvement initiatives.

Kirchner has published on practical guides for incorporating health equity domains into implementation determinant frameworks. She has also explored the mechanisms through which facilitation in healthcare operates, using techniques like mechanism mapping to understand complex implementation strategies. Her research includes the development and evaluation of training programs for implementation facilitation, as well as studies on adapting interventions for specific populations, such as veterans in emergency departments.

With a scholarly record of 115 publications and an h-index of 33, Kirchner is recognized as a highly cited researcher. She actively collaborates with colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Sara J. Landes and Rajinder Sonia Singh, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications. She maintains an active lab website and leads a research group.

Metrics

  • h-index: 33
  • Publications: 115
  • Citations: 4,307

Selected Publications

  • The “good enough” facilitator: elucidating the role of working alliance in the mechanism of facilitation (2025) DOI
  • Building a sharable literature collection to advance the science and practice of implementation facilitation (2024) DOI
  • Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation (2024) DOI
  • Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States (2024) DOI
  • Challenges and promising solutions to engaging patients in healthcare implementation in the United States: an environmental scan (2024) DOI
  • Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts (2023) DOI
  • Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process (2023) DOI
  • How does facilitation in healthcare work? Using mechanism mapping to illuminate the black box of a meta-implementation strategy (2023) DOI
  • Implementation of group cognitive processing therapy in correction centers: Anticipated determinants from formative evaluation (2022) DOI
  • 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) DOI
  • Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup (2022) DOI
  • Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies (2022) DOI
  • Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Implementation Facilitation Training Program (2022) DOI
  • 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 (2022) DOI
  • Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot (2022) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Sara J. Landes University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 10 shared publications Rajinder Sonia Singh University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 9 shared publications Karen L. Drummond University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications M. Kathryn Allison University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Geoffrey Curran University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Mollee K. Steely Smith University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Melissa J. Zielinski University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Angie Waliski University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication

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