Indiana University Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research


Bradley N. Doebbeling, MD, MSc
Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Health Information and Translational Sciences Building, 410 West 10th Street, Suite 200, Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 423-5503
(317) 423-5695 FAX

The mission of the Center is to advance the science of transforming the health care system, locally, regionally and nationally. The Center was established in 2003 through funding from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. There are currently 16 faculty researchers (MD and PhD) whose primary academic mission fits within this Center. Our vision is to become the leading national research resource for learning about health system transformation. Our strategy is to partner with managers, clinicians, patients and other researchers in interdisciplinary teams to innovate, foster system redesign and drive broad scale adoption of changes to improve care delivery. Within this overall mission and vision, our research priorities are to: 1) organize health services, management and engineering researchers at IUPUI and Purdue into a cohesive research and development center; 2) provide infrastructure and synergies to lower the costs of health care systems redesign, implementation and dissemination; 3) react quickly and aggressively to provide high quality service and pursue extramural funding opportunities to improve health care in Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the Midwest; and 4) foster effective research partnerships with local and regional healthcare systems, healthcare organizations, government, other academic entities, and industry on the IUPUI campus and in Indiana. Faculty of the IU CHSOR and Roudebush VAMC were recently designated a VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence in Implementing Evidence-based Practice (CIEBP), see www.ciebp.research.va.gov). We have collaborations with over 50 investigators from a broad range of disciplines and partnerships with over 15 schools and centers at IUPUI and Purdue. Core research development activities include leading the IU NIH K30 Clinician Investigator Training Enhancement program, key partners in the Indiana Patient Safety Center, and participating in the Indiana Genomics Executive Committee, the Indianapolis Coalition for Patient Safety, Indiana Medicaid, Indiana Mental Health Association, and others. IU CHSOR is one of the three programs of the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. We are strategic partners with the IU School of Medicine, IUPUI, Purdue University, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and the VA Center of Excellence in Implementing Evidence-based Practice. Our center investigators direct the Indiana Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Center (Dr. Salyers) and the IUPUI Center for Assessing, Understanding and Managing Pain (Drs. Bair and Kroenke).