Sara J. Landes
Professor
Also affiliated: Atkins (United States) (2012); United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2019); University of Washington (2008–2016); VA Palo Alto Health Care System (2011–2017); Fairview School District (2008); University of Washington Medical Center (2009); Harborview Medical Center (2010–2016); Providence VA Medical Center (2022); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2015–2026); National Center for PTSD (2011–2023); Behavioral Tech Research, Inc. (2011–2012); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2015–2026); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2019–2026); Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (2012); South Central VA Health Care Network (2016–2020); Department of Veterans Affairs (2025); National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (2011–2016); Arkansas Department of Health (2023); University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (2004–2008); Seattle University (2010–2014); Cardinal Stritch University (2008); Catholic University of America (2012)
Faculty Researcher
PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Sara J. Landes' research focuses on suicide prevention, particularly within veteran populations and psychiatric inpatient settings. She investigates methods for identifying and intervening with individuals at high risk of suicide, drawing on implementation science frameworks and qualitative data analysis. Landes has evaluated clinical programs, such as the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment (REACH VET) suicide risk modeling program within the Veterans Health Administration.
Her work also explores provider perspectives on delivering mental health interventions, including dialectical behavior therapy via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, and stakeholder perceptions of lethal means safety counseling. Landes is involved in developing tools and strategies to engage service users in quality improvement and implementation efforts. Her research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She holds an h-index of 32 with over 3,900 citations across 128 publications, and she is recognized as a highly cited researcher.
Key collaborators include JoAnn E. Kirchner, Rajinder Sonia Singh, Karen L. Drummond, and Geoffrey M. Curran, all affiliated with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 32
- Publications: 129
- Citations: 4,040
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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Harmonizing intervention, context, and implementation strategies with Context-Driven Co-Design (CD2) (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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Hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation studies: why and how to do them (2026)
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Evaluating a tailored communication tool to increase advance care planning among Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial protocol (2026)
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Implementation of a fully virtual enterprise-wide clinical evidence-based suicide prevention program in the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs: the suicide prevention 2.0 clinical telehealth initiative (2026)
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The Evidence for Dialectical Behavior Therapy Did Not Worsen: Interpreting the 2024 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Suicide (2025)
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Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care (2025)
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Treatment Outcomes Across White and Non-White Patients in an Outpatient Private Practice Setting (2025)
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Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program (2025)
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Translating implementation science principles and methods to front-line clinicians: The Implementation Science Scholars Program (2025)
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Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt (2025)
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Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration (2024)
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Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line (2024)
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Design of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of a post‐discharge suicide prevention intervention for high‐risk psychiatric inpatients: The Veterans Coordinated Community Care Study (2024)
Federal Grants 3
Behavioral Health QUERI: Advancing 21st Century Mental Health Care for Veterans
Implementing Caring Contacts for Suicide Prevention in Non-Mental Health Settings
Research Interests
implementation research; suicide prevention
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile. Federal awards with verified records are shown above.
- Veteran Engagement Implementation Strategies to Prevent Rural Veteran Suicide VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Other
- In vivo, noninvasive, ultrasensitive photoacoustic detection of early breast cancer metastasis in bone US Department of the Army Principal Investigator
- Military Suicide Research Consortium Dissemination and Implementation Core - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation US Department of the Army via University of Washington Principal Investigator
- Jumpstarting Culturally-informed Advance Care Planning Conversations with AIAN People in Primary Care (JUMP) NIH/Nat. Inst. of Nursing Research via Southcentral Foundation Principal Investigator
- Randomized Evaluation of a Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Campaign for Service Members Transitioning to Civilian Life VA (QUERI) Partnered Evaluation Initiative Co-Investigator
- Impact of Intensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy Training on Therapist Behavior NIH Principal Investigator
- Evaluating Rural Community Pharmacists’ Perceptions of Integrating Mental Health Services to Reach Underserved Populations UAMS TRI Health Challenges of Rural and Underrepresented Populations Pilot Program Principal Investigator
- Adapting Caring Contacts to Counteract Adverse Effects of Social Distancing Among High-Risk Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Co-Investigator
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- 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 8 shared publications
- 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
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities
- Reducing Iatrogenic Blood Losses in Premature Infants
- Rural community pharmacists’ perceptions of implementing mental health interventions to reach underserved populations.
- Effectiveness of a targeted brief intervention for recent suicide attempt survivors: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Showing 5 of 6 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 of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention
- 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
- Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Prospective predictors of work limitations in young adult lesbian and bisexual women: An examination of minority stress, trauma exposure, and mental health.
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Development of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention
- Caring Letters Sent by a Clinician or Peer to At-Risk Veterans
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- 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
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- 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
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- 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
- Barriers and Facilitators to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt
- Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt
- Cost comparison of in-person and telehealth modalities for a suicide safety planning group intervention: interim results from the “Project Life Force” randomized clinical trial
- Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Development of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line
- 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
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