Cara Lewis, PhD


Associate Investigator │ SONNET Co-director

KP Washington Health Research Institute │ cara.c.lewis@kp.org

Cara C. Lewis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Beck Scholar recognized by the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is interested in developing strategies to improve the integration of evidence-based practices into real-world settings, inclucing community mental health centers.

Before becoming SONNET's co-director, Dr. Lewis served as a SONNET site PI and steering committee member. She also led a national survey of Kaiser Permanente members to understand the social health risks they're facing and their desire for assistance.

Dr. Lewis is an international leader in implementation science, serving as past president of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration. She has also served as expert faculty for the Implementation Research Institute, scientific advisory board member for AcademyHealth’s 10th Annual Conference on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health, and panelist for the Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health study section.

Dr. Lewis’ research is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She is the principal investigator (PI) of a NIMH-funded multi-site implementation trial with the goal of comparing the effectiveness of standardized versus tailored approaches to implementing measurement-based care for depression.

Dr. Lewis is PI of a second R01 grant seeking to advance implementation science by developing and evaluating measures. Her team developed new pragmatic and psychometrically strong measures of implementation outcomes. This work will also contribute a repository of quantitative measures for scientists and practitioners to integrate into their implementation efforts.

She is PI of an AHRQ-funded R13 conference grant bringing together a Mechanisms Network of Expertise to develop and disseminate an implementation research agenda for streamlining and increasing the impact of strategies to integrate evidence-based programs into routine care.

Dr. Lewis is also an affiliate associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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