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Kari Stephens, is Vice Chair of Research, Helen D. Cohen Endowed Professor, Director of Clinical Research Informatics and Professor in Family Medicine and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Stephens is a practicing clinical psychologist and biomedical informaticist conducting research focused on health equity, integrated behavioral health, chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, substance use, cancer, long COVID, and informatics data sharing, particularly in primary care settings.

Dr. Stephens currently conducts clinical research and leads informatics and innovations in data sharing as Director of Data QUEST, overseeing a regional electronic health record systems based primary care data sharing network, which has supported over $100M in grant funded projects, Associate Director with the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and executive faculty member and lead of regional informatics within the Institute of Translational Health Science’s Biomedical Informatics Core. Her work has been funded by NIH, PCORI, AHRQ, SAHMSA, DoD, CDC, private agencies, and local and state government agencies. Kari aspires to bring evidence-based care faster into primary care practice to help those most in need, through data science and integrated behavioral health.

She loves spending quality time with family, trying new foods, and enjoying the northwest on foot, especially with a snowboard.