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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: 115
- Citations: 6,510
Selected Publications
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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)
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Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup (2022)
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Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Sara J. Landes
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
10 shared publications
In database
- 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
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- 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 10 shared publications
Rajinder Sonia Singh
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
9 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
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Eva N. Woodward
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
8 shared publications
- 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
- Implementation Strategies
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Mona J. Ritchie
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (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
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (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
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
Traci H. Abraham
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
4 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
- Recruitment tools for transgender and gender diverse veterans in health care research.
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
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
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
Louise E. Parker
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
3 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
- Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process
Monica M. Matthieu
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
3 shared publications
- Consensus on strategies for implementing high priority mental health care practices within the US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Characteristics and Context of Veterans Experiencing Serious Suicidal Ideation or Suicide Attempt by Firearm which led to Hospitalization
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
Jeffery A. Pitcock
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (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
- Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Implementation Facilitation Training Program
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Michael R. Kauth
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
3 shared publications
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Recruitment tools for transgender and gender diverse veterans in health care research.
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
Jillian C. Shipherd
VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
3 shared publications
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Recruitment tools for transgender and gender diverse veterans in health care research.
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
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