Congratulations to Nashville second year fellows Drs. Lucy Spalluto and Jennifer Lewis! The pair will be co-leading the Veterans Affairs - Partnership to Increase Access to Lung Screening (VA-PALS) national program evaluation. Read more about the initiative here!  

Second year Birmingham fellow Samantha Baker recently wrote in Association for Academic Surgery's blog "The Academic Surgeon" - click here to read her post! Great job, Dr. Baker!    

Susan Kirsh, MD, MPH is the 2018 recipient of the VA Quality Scholars Alumna of the Year Award due to her significant contributions to healthcare quality improvement through her leadership of national initiatives. Dr. Susan Kirsh was a fellow at the Cleveland VA site and

Congratulations to Senior Faculty Scholar Patricia Patrician, PhD on being named the Rachel Z. Booth Endowed Chair in Nursing by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing! https://www.uab.edu/news/people/item/9068-patrician-named-booth-endowed-chair

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White River Junction Senior Faculty Scholar Brant Oliver, PhD, NP, MSN, MPH, APRN-BC is leading a national multicenter study to improve multiple sclerosis care. VTDigger.org reports news throughout the state of Vermont and announced Dr. Oliver's study in a recent press release. Dr. Oliver was also interviewed by a local

Cleveland fellow Michelle Slater, DNP, RN, CNOR has accepted the position of Nurse Manager for Specialty Care Clinics in CBOC. She will be using her leadership, quality improvement, and systems thinking skills to implement a new model of care to improve veteran access to specialty care

Current VA Quality Scholars fellow Catherine Alexander, DNP and recent graduate Mimi Pomerleau, DNP, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC are honored in Dartmouth Institute News for their leadership in nursing education.

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The VAQS Coordinating Center interviewed former VAQS fellow Dr. Susan Kirsh about her time in the fellowship. In the video below, she describes how the VA Quality Scholars Fellowship helped to shape her career and what she would want to see for the future of