Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Director of the NIH-Funded ISRN.
Darpan I. Patel, PhD, is an Assistant Professor/Research and serves as the clinical research project manager for the Improvement Science Research Network. He will serve as research manager, infrastructure administrator and assistant to the network director. Dr. Patel serves as the primary contact for the network regulatory and contractual issues. Dr. Patel is also involved in grant development, experiemtnal design, database development, data analysis and generating manuscripts and reports for Network Studies.
Frank Puga, PhD, is an Assistant Professor/Research and a research scientist and the coordinator for the ISRN Research Collaboratives. His primary role is to guide ISRN Research Associates in the conduct of rigorous scientific research using principles grounded in the Science of Team Science (SciTS). Additionally, Dr. Puga is involved in grant development, experimental design, protocol implementation, data analysis and generating scientific reports for the Network Studies.
Braulio Amezaga, BA, is a Research Area Specialist. His primary objective is to provide support for the ISRN team by compiling and preparing final datasets for principal investigators for analysis. Provide oversight in the cleaning, merging, and analyzing of data as well as identifying potential data problems and implementing solutions and assist in various administrative tasks.