I am thrilled to announce that our VA HSR&D Small Award for Impact (SWIFT) grant was funded! So thankful to the Durham VA Center of Innovation Durham VA Center of Innovation and to my mentors Kelli Allen & Adam Goode. What a way to start a #VAQS fellowship! #VAQSSI2020

This is the logo for our embedded, pragmatic trial - NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory and NIH NCCIH supported. Sharing this now because we just hit a BIG milestone by randomizing 10 VA sites. Looking forward to working with them to implement LBP non-pharma care pathways.

How did we get this far? With an incredible team! To name a few with easy to find handles: Nicki Hastings MD Kelli Allen Trevor Lentz ashley choate Adam Goode Janet Grubber ChadCookPT Lori Ballengee

Still a lot of work to do, but excited for this milestone. Next update - Will share the protocol paper when it is published.

I am lucky to say I am part of such an excellent group working in healthcare quality improvement! Meet the other fellows here.

Proud to be #2 in the US for NIH funding for orthopaedic department in #BlueRidgeRankings (2020). 10% of top 50 US funded PIs frm Duke Janet Prvu Bettger, ScD MS FAHA Matthew J. Hilton Adam Goode DeFrate Lab @dukemsk Steve George–#2 in the country for NIH funding for a PI in ortho. #outstandingjob!

Thrilled to get awarded a MPI R01 with Lou DeFrate Lab and Adam Goode Adam Payne Goode on Biomechanical and Biological Predictors of Cartilage Health Following Meniscus Injury. So excited to continue this collaboration. Duke Orthopaedics NIAMS

We're thrilled to welcome the IMPACt-LBP Demonstration Project to the team! This NIH NCCIH-supported #pragmatictrial is testing implementation of the primary spine practitioner model for patients with #lowbackpain in 3 healthcare systems. Learn more. ↘️ bit.ly/2ZeutTQ

The LBP CPG's are published in JOSPT Community @OrthopaedicAPTA Thanks Julie Fritz Katherine Norman Jason Beneciuk Trevor Lentz Considerations when reading: 1. Read the methods and remember the scope - this was an update of interventions only jospt.org/doi/abs/10.251…