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Welcome to the Spring 2025 C-DIAS Newsletter. We’re glad you’re here.



I would be remiss or in denial not to acknowledge the “outer context” in our nation today. Never did I imagine that our indisputable core values would fall under attack. Real and serious threats exist to science, to public health, and to the elimination of variation in everyone’s access to high quality health care. Our commitment to these values is even more so unwavering and steadfast. We may be forced to adapt but will never compromise. It will take all of us, each of us, to be guided by our north star during these times. In the coming days, weeks, and months, we are on alert for political, institutional, legal, and society-wide strategies to enable us to stay the course, or to find new ways to achieve our mission. I encourage you to be proactive with your institutions, professional organizations, and networks. It’s no time to be alone. Acting together is our strength.

Speaking of action, C-DIAS has turned the corner into 2025 with outstanding work. The research projects, spanning cities (Chicago), counties (Pinellas FL, Santa Clara CA, Vermillion IL), states (Washington), and health systems (Kaiser Permanente) are in full throttle. Kudos to these research teams for their community and institutional partnerships and for their commitment to rigorous science.

The research core sections, led by Lisa Saldana, Hendricks Brown and Lindsey Zimmerman, and Beth McGinty are fully mobilized, collaborating, and generating high impact work. As evidence, C-DIAS teams have generated 7 high impact publications, 5 more under review, and 37 in preparation, most of which will be submitted this month or in April. At the invitation of C-DIAS Advisory Board Chairman, Peter Friedmann, who is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment (JOSAT), we served as Guest Editors for a Special Issue on Implementation Research in Addiction Treatment. The issue is nearly complete, with 34 published articles, 20 rejected manuscripts, and 1 still in process. The collection will be featured on the JOSAT website in the coming months.

We are in the midst of recruiting for the next class of C-DIAS Fellows in Addiction Implementation Science. In this issue, we highlight the amazing work of two of the fellows, Drs. Tessa Matson and Milan Satcher. But truth be told, all the fellows are fully engaged and embarked on great work. The Fellows are the lifeblood of C-DIAS.

None of this would be happening without all the folks who keep everything on track, our Stanford-based Administrative Core, led by Hélène Chokron Garneau and the excellent team of Lia Chin-Purcell, Mia Navarro, Briana Patrick, Shubhi Sharma, and Margot Heron.

2025 is a pivotal year in the life of C-DIAS. I am grateful to be able to work alongside all of you! 

In this month’s newsletter, we share a brief interview with Tessa Matson, a C-DIAS 2023-2025 Fellow and Collaborative Scientist at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. Along with her mentor, Dr. Sandro Galea, Tessa authored "Understanding Inequitable Healthcare: Methodological Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities," which was recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

In this interview, she discusses the unexpected challenges she encountered while developing the paper, and offers insights on how future research can address healthcare inequities. Additionally, she emphasizes the need for flexible methods to capture evolving dynamics in healthcare.

Was there anything during the development of the paper that surprised you or that you didn’t expect when you first began? 

The interdependency of healthcare domains was challenging. For example, how inequities in availability and patient-centeredness of services influence patient access, which in turn affects effectiveness. Implementation may be used to address inequitable care or be a new path through which inequities arise and compound. This process deepened my understanding of how healthcare disparities persist not just in isolated areas but as part of a larger, interconnected system. It was particularly fulfilling to think through methodological approaches that could bridge these gaps. 

If you could continue expanding on this paper, what other methodological approaches or domains would you want to explore further in the future? 



Our goal in writing this paper is to stimulate discussion and encourage careful consideration of methodological choices in studying healthcare inequities, rather than prescribe definitive solutions. As the political and healthcare landscape evolves, it will be important to reexamine the domains in which inequities arise and accumulate and be creative in developing or applying methodological approaches that can capture these shifting dynamics. I remain committed to exploring new approaches for advancing equitable healthcare research. 

Burduli, E., Landis, T., Brumley, C., Kenefick, L., Paulsgrove, K., Jones, H. E., ... & Saldana, L. (2025). Systemic barriers and stigma: Healthcare provider perspectives on perinatal and neonatal care in the fentanyl crisis. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 209644. 

Franz, B., Ford, J. H. II, Cheng, H., Chokron Garneau, H., Mount, K., & McGovern, M. P. (in press). Medication approaches for patients with opioid use disorders: Differences between primary care clinics and specialty addiction treatment programs. Journal of Addiction Medicine.

Jakubowski, A., Patrick, B., DiClemente-Bosco, K., Salino, S., Scott, K., & Becker, S. (2024). Using the IFASIS (Inventory of Factors Affecting Successful Implementation and Sustainment) to Advance Context-Specific and Generalizable Knowledge of Implementation Determinants: Case Study of a Digital Contingency Management Platform. Research square, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4912858/v1 

Matson, T. E., Lee, A. K., Miech, E. J., Wartko, P. D., Phillps, R. C., Shea, M., Altschuler, A., Campbell, A. N. C., Labelle, C. T., Arnsten, J. H., Braciszewski, J. M., Glass, J. E., Horigian, V. E., Murphy, M. T., Zare-Mehrjerdi, M., & Bradley, K. A. (2025). The difference-making role of staff support in implementing nurse care management for opioid use disorder treatment: A configurational analysis. Journal of substance use and addiction treatment, 209642. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209642 

Simon, G. E., Garner, B. R., Smith, J. D., Wyman, P. A., Matson, T. E., Chin-Purcell, L., Cero, I., Vermeer, W., Johnson, K. A., Prado, G., & Brown, C. H.(2025). Rollout trial designs in implementation research are often necessary and sometimes preferred. Implementation Science, 20(11). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-025-01422-x 

Wesolowicz, D., Becker, W., Alegria, M., Chin-Purcell, L., Glass, J., Knudsen, H., Moyo Dow, P., & Seal, K., McGinty, B. (2024). Integrating implementation outcomes into effectiveness studies: studies: A practical guide for clinical interventionists [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine.

Jane Paik Kim, Ph.D. – C-DIAS Faculty and Center Biostatistician

We are excited to welcome Dr. Jane Paik Kim, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, to the C-DIAS Administrative Core. Dr. Kim will be the lead biostatistician across various projects, with a focus on data harmonization. Her work bridges the gap between emerging clinical innovations and public health needs, with a particular emphasis on integrating innovative technologies in healthcare settings and developing precision medicine interventions. 

We are grateful for her ongoing contributions to our work, helping to ensure the success of C-DIAS data harmonization initiatives through her expertise and leadership. 

Milan F. Satcher, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College. In addition, she is a LEAD scholar at University of California, San Francisco. She is a board-certified family physician with a focus on outpatient addiction care. She received her MD and MPH degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed her family medicine residency and chief residency at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; an emergency medicine fellowship at Maine General Medical Center in Augusta, Maine; and a T32 fellowship in Primary Care Research at Dartmouth Health. 



As a C-DIAS Fellow mentored by Dr. Beth McGinty, Dr. Satcher is examining Medicaid Reentry 1115 waiver provisions for SUD and assessing the barriers and facilitators to implementing waiver provisions in rural contexts. This project will inform the development of implementation strategies to promote the adaptation and adoption of reentry care transition practices among primary/addiction care providers, particularly in rural regions. Since starting the C-DIAS fellowship, Dr. Satcher has also joined the Policy & Financing Section, wherein she hopes to develop skills and productive research collaborations in policy dissemination & implementation science.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 Center for Dissemination and Implementation at Stanford (C-DIAS) Fellowship in Addiction Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) Science.

The C-DIAS Fellowship in Addiction D&I Science is for early to mid-career individuals who aim to improve public access to and the quality of addiction treatment by leveraging advanced implementation science methods.

Applications must be submitted by April 15, 2025.

This yearlong, mentored learning experience:

• Is a one-year (Sept. 2025–Sept. 2026), primarily virtual fellowship, with the possibility of extending to two years.
• Includes three days in Half Moon Bay, California (Sept. 10-12, 2025) for the C-DIAS annual meeting to connect with C-DIAS faculty, advisory board members, C-DIAS research project PIs and teams, as well as past and current C-DIAS fellows.
• Features a research track with the goal of preparing for an NIH-funded addiction implementation science research career, and a learning health systems track to apply implementation methods for substance use as an embedded researcher or quality improvement specialist.
• Combines didactics, experiential peer group-based learning, individual mentoring, and guidance in professional development.
• Enables individuals to maintain their full-time employment at their home institution.
• Activities include monthly, virtual, hourlong lectures; participation in the C-DIAS research core section activities; C-DIAS virtual grand rounds; individualized mentoring; lead authorship opportunities; and support in developing an NIH grant application or proposal to solve a public health or health system implementation problem.

The C-DIAS Fellowship is eligible for CME/CE credits.

C-DIAS fellows join an expanding network of individuals engaged in addiction treatment health services and implementation research, all committed to real-world impact.



More information about the fellowship can be found on the C-DIAS website or this flyer.

C-DIAS Virtual Grand Rounds

The C-DIAS Virtual Grand Rounds has resumed. Twice-monthly, invited presenters describe innovative implementation research in addiction treatment, or cutting-edge methods applicable to address addiction public health. 

Missed a Spring 2025 or Fall 2024 session? No worries! Grand Rounds recordings can be found here. 

If you or anyone you know would like to present, please contact Dr. Hélène Chokron Garneau at hchokgar@stanford.edu, and she can assist in getting you scheduled. 

Don't forget to register for our listserv to receive updates on future sessions.

The C-DIAS hosted Special Interest Group (SIG) meets bimonthly via Zoom at noon Eastern on the third Tuesday of the month. The SIG spawned two active workgroups that meet ad hoc. Recordings of past seminars can be found here.

Contact Elena Rosenberg-Carlson at rosenbee@stanford.edu if you would like to be added to the listserv.

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