Assistant Professor

Home Institution: OHSU, Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics

Health System: Health Share of Oregon CCO

Project Title: The Latino School Readiness Gap: Engaging parents, educators and pediatricians in novel primary care solutions

Dr. Peterson is an Assistant Professor at OHSU in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics. Her LHS K12 research project centers on the intersection of health and education to promote school readiness in Latino communities. Dr. Peterson’s long standing research interest in early education disparities comes from personal and professional experiences including work as a middle school teacher and as a primary care provider at a county health center serving primarily Latino children. Prior research done by Dr. Peterson utilizes her community based participatory research skills and has focused on the attitudes of parents and the barriers to school readiness (SR) in the Latino population and the role of the pediatric health system to address the SR needs of Latino children and families. Dr. Peterson’s career goal is to become an independently funded physician-scientist incorporating innovative, evidenced-based SR interventions into pediatric clinical practice, reducing SR and academic disparities among underserved children. Dr. Peterson completed her medical training at the University of California, San Diego, pediatric training at Stanford, and her Masters of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Learn more about Jaime Peterson.

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology

Home Institution: Harvard Medical School

Health System: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Project Title: Measuring and Enhancing Trust and Therapeutic Alliance for Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Dr. Rose Molina is an academic obstetrician-gynecologist with a passion for understanding and addressing language as a critical dimension of health equity in reproductive health care, with a focus on applying innovation and quality improvement to reduce maternal health inequities both in low- and middle-income settings as well as locally in Boston. Dr. Molina is the Faculty Director of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Medical Language Program and Director of the HMS Health Equity Theme. She also is an active obstetrician-gynecologist at The Dimock Center, a federally qualified community health center, where she cares for a large Spanish-speaking immigrant community. Dr. Molina's K12 project will explore and develop patient-reported items in trust and therapeutic alliance during pregnancy care when language barriers exist. She will also develop an intervention prototype to enhance trust and therapeutic alliance with patients, cultural brokers, clinicians, and health system leaders as a part of her long-term goal to enhance equity within health systems.

Clinical Psychologist

Home Institution: VA Salem/Rural Behavioral Health Clinic

Health System: VA

Dr. Zaccari completed her Doctor of Psychology degree at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. She is currently a clinical psychologist at the Salem/Rural Behavioral Health Clinic through the VA, as well as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at OHSU. Dr. Zaccari’s major research interest is the use of telehealth modalities to deliver Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) interventions, such as yoga, for the treatment of chronic pain and PTSD in veterans. Her long-term research goal is to develop, test, and implement CIH interventions to reduce pain and PTSD symptomatology, while improving veterans’ quality of life.

Assistant Professor

Home Institution: OHSU Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, School of Medicine

Health System: OHSU

Dr. Levander received her doctorate in medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY, with Honors in Service for her role as co-director of the Weill Cornell Community Clinic, a student-led free clinic for uninsured patients. She completed her internal medicine-primary care residency at University of Washington in Seattle where she participated in the VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Dr. Levander recently completed a fellowship in Addiction Medicine and the Samuel H. Wise fellowship in General Internal Medicine Clinical Research at OHSU (2018-2021.) The over-arching goal of her K12 research is to evaluate utilization of telemedicine for treatment of opioid use disorder that was rapidly implemented within OHSU Health in response to the Coronavirus19 pandemic. Her long-term career goal is to become an independent clinician investigator with expertise in learning health systems science applied to substance use disorder care.

Learn more about Ximena Levander.

Research Associate III

Home Institution: Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

Health System: Kaiser Permanente Northwest

Dr. Petrik received her Doctorate in Public Health from Oregon Health and Science University, and her Masters of Science in Sociology from Portland State University. She is a health researcher at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, with extensive training in health systems and policy. Dr. Petrik’s research focuses on the use of novel data analytic approaches in research and program implementation, to understand and increase health and wellness among disparate populations. For the past decade, she has directed projects primarily focused on the implementation of programs to increase cancer screening. As an LHS Scholar, Dr. Petrik will lead a project to learn about the application of risk prediction to colonoscopy surveillance among elderly patients for use in the Kaiser Permanente health system to prioritize surveillance colonoscopies.