In addition to serving as Director of the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE), Dr. Mugavero serves as Co-Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) the UAB Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. Mugavero is an NIH, CDC, and HRSA funded investigator who has developed a dynamic health services research program at UAB, centered on engagement in care that has made seminal contributions to HIV prevention and treatment science. Dr. Mugavero serves as PI for the AHRQ T32 UAB Health Services Research Training Program and was a recipient of the 2020 John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award. He has published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed literature, and has served as primary mentor for over 20 pre-doctoral students and 10 post-doctoral fellows and/or junior faculty, including current and past T32, TL1, KL2, K12, K23, R34 and R01 awardees from the UAB Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Social Work.

Co-Director
Professor, Department of Health Services Administration
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Allyson Hall, PhD is a professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she serves as director of graduate programs in health care quality and safety. Dr. Hall’s research focuses on improving access to high quality health care among vulnerable populations including low-income individuals, and people living with a disability or a chronic health condition. She has a long-standing interest in Medicaid. For over 10 years she has investigated reforms and changes to Florida’s Medicaid program. Current research activities also focus on reducing care fragmentation and the use of health care technology to improve quality of care. Dr. Hall serves on the board of the Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) and is an Associate Editor for the Journal for Healthcare Quality. She has a PhD in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a MHA in health care administration from the University of Florida.

Deputy Director
Program Director II, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Madeline is the Deputy Director of the COERE, overseeing all administrative and scientific functions of the Center. She has extensive experience with NIH proposal development, research administration, intramural pilot program management, and the conduct of randomized controlled trials. Her Master of Public Health is in epidemiology..

Program Coordinator II
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Geri Davis brings over 20 years of experience in executive management to the COERE. In previous roles, Mrs. Davis worked directly with community and programmatic stakeholders to advance organizational goals. She also has experience in event and project coordination both in the private sector and then at UAB in the divisions of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary.

Program Manager II
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Reid Eagleson is a program manager for the Learning Health System, facilitating the integration of clinical care, health operations, and research across the academic medical center. He has previously worked at UAB Hospital’s Center for Nursing Excellence on several projects dedicated to improving nursing quality indicators, as well as at the Heart Failure Transitional Care Services for adults (HRTSA) Clinic, where he served as the business operations officer. In addition, he has received both his Master of Engineering with a concentration in construction engineer management and a Master of Science in healthcare quality and safety from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is currently pursuing a PhD in health services administration.

Program Manager
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Amber is a Birmingham transplant originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She started her UAB career in 2019 in the School of Health Professions. In 2021 Amber moved to a program administrator role in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She has experience in event planning and coordinating programmatic activities and functions. Amber will complete her Master of Public Administration in the Fall of 2023.

Program Manager II
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Naomi is a program manager for the COERE’s GRIT, DRIVEN, and CARES at UAB. She worked previously in social services policy and program management at the State of Maryland and in research study coordination at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Naomi is a transplant from Baltimore, Maryland. Naomi holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Associate Director
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Greer A. Burkholder, MD, MSPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the UAB Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. Her research is focused on prevention and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors among people with HIV (PWH). She is PI of an NHLBI K23 award focused on conducting novel studies on antihypertensive medication adherence among PLWH. She serves as the UAB site lead for myocardial infarction and stroke adjudication studies within the Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) and as Co-Chair of the CVD Workgroup for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). She is UAB site PI for the Antiretroviral Cohort Collaboration (ART-CC) and for Practice Transformation in the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center (SE AETC). Dr. Burkholder has been the Database and Informatics Component Leader for the UAB CFAR Clinical Core since 2012. In this role she provides scientific oversight for the UAB HIV Cohort database, and oversees the production of datasets for investigators within the UAB CFAR, as well as for multiple national (CNICS, WIHS) and international (ART-CC, NA-ACCORD) multisite HIV research collaborations. She is co-leader of the data transformation team for the COVID Core.

J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, PhD, RN, ACHPN is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Co-Director of Caregiver and Bereavement Support Services in the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, and Associate Chair of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group Caregiver Core (NINR U2CNR14637). His program of research is focused on the development, clinical trials testing, and implementation of early, telehealth, lay coach-led palliative care interventions for underrepresented family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer and heart failure using the multiphase optimization strategy. Dr. Dionne-Odom is also interested in decision psychology and the role families play in partnering with patients in health-related decision-making, from diagnosis to end of life. His research is currently funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Cancer Institute, the National Palliative Care Research Center, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Associate Director
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Larry R. Hearld, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Administration-Health Services. He is currently the co-editor of Health Care Management Review and serves on the editorial board of Medical Care Research and Review. His research focuses on the antecedents and consequences of organizational change in health care, with special emphasis on dissemination and implementation science in health care. He has been a PI and co-I on NIH-, AHRQ-, PCORI-, and foundation-funded studies that examine the dissemination and implementation of quality improvement processes and innovative care delivery models within hospitals, primary care organizations, and local communities. This research utilizes a range of methodological approaches, including effectiveness-implementation hybrid designs, mixed methods, and quasi-experimental designs. He currently teaches courses in research methods, organizational behavior, and dissemination and implementation science.

Associate Director
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Shea Polancich has been practicing in quality and patient safety for two decades. She is currently an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing with a primary practice at the UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama as a director specializing in nursing improvement, innovation, and analytics. Formerly, her roles included the Director for Quality and Patient Safety at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Director of Data Analysis and Measurement at Texas Health Resources, NIH/NINR research intern, and health policy fellow at George Mason University. She currently serves on a technical expert panel for the NQF, and is a column editor for the Journal for Healthcare Quality. 

Internal Advisory Committee Member
Associate Director for Basic Research, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Internal Advisory Committee Member
Professor, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Internal Advisory Committee Member
Professor, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Internal Advisory Committee Member
Professor, School of Nursing
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

External Advisory Committee Chair
Chair and Professor, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts

External Advisory Committee Member
Chief Innovation Officer & Senior Vice President, Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network
Vanderbilt University

External Advisory Committee Member
Assistant Professor, Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences
Emory University

External Advisory Committee Member
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Co-Director UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Centers
University of California San Diego

External Advisory Committee Member
Chair and Professor, Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
University of Florida