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Kari Stephens is a Vice Chair of Research and the Helen D. Cohen Endowed Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Family Medicine. With a background as a clinical psychologist and biomedical informaticist, she conducts research that focuses on health equity and integrated behavioral health. Her specific research interests include chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, substance use, cancer, and long COVID. She leads various informatics innovations in data sharing as the Director of Data QUEST, which oversees regional electronic health record systems and is part of a primary care data-sharing network supported by numerous grant-funded projects totaling $100 million. Additionally, she serves as the Associate Director of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center and is a key executive faculty member at the Institute of Translational Health Science’s Biomedical Informatics Core. Dr. Stephens' work has received funding from several prestigious organizations including NIH, PCORI, AHRQ, SAMHSA, the Department of Defense, and the CDC.
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