Join us for a seminar on "Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) to Improve Care in Systems and Organizations" with Dr. Greg Aarons!

Dr. Aarons is a clinical and organizational psychologist, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego (UCSD), a faculty member in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, and Director of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC).  For the past 18 years, Dr. Aarons' research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIMH and NIDA) and Centers for Disease Control, has focused on implementation science with emphases on measurement, study design, conceptual frameworks, management and organizational issues, quality of care, policy, and evidence-based practice implementation in public sector mental health, HIV, substance abuse treatment, and social services settings. His research has developed implementation conceptual frameworks (e.g., the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment Framework), measures of individual and organizational factors that influence implementation (e.g., Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale, Implementation Climate Scale), and developed and tested implementation strategies (e.g., the Leadership and Organizational Change Intervention). His current work focuses on improving organizational context and training managers and supervisors to become effective leaders, to create a positive implementation climate, and to successfully lead evidence-based practice implementation in their teams and organizations. Other lines of inquiry involve understanding and improving implementation of evidence-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries.

Sponsored by the Consortium for Implementation Science and the Implementation Science Student Group