Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research

Daniel Elchert, PhD, LP
Licensed Psychologist/HSR Fellow

Daniel completed a PhD and MA from the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations at the University of Iowa. After graduate school, he served as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow through the American Association for the Advancement of Science with appointments in the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (Majority) and the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation. Most recently, he was CEO of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists, a non-profit credentialing organization for health service psychologists.

Research Interests:

• Mental and behavioral health
• Measurement and statistics
• Science and technology policy
• Health professions education

Education:

• BA, Psychology, St. Olaf College
• MA, Measurement and Statistics, University of Iowa
• PhD, Counseling Psychology, University of Iowa

Anna Fleischman, BA, MSN
VAQS Fellow

Anna Fleischman is a first year VAQS research fellow at the Minneapolis VA Hospital, where she has eight years of prior experience as an Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care registered nurse. She is currently enrolled in the School of Nursing PhD program at the University of Minnesota and is in the early stages of the dissertation portion of the program. She plans to focus on advance care planning conversations prior to critical illness, and the barriers and facilitators to these discussions taking place amongst healthcare personnel, veterans, and their families.

Research Interests:

• Advance care planning and goals of care conversations prior to critical illness
• Normalizing death and death discussions
• Quality of life at the end of life

Education:

• BA, French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College
• MSN, Nursing, DePaul University
• PhD Student, School of Nursing, U of MN- Twin Cities

Jillian (Jill) Nelson, PhD
VAQS Fellow

Jill graduated from George Mason University with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Her clinical and research interests lie in eating disorders and co-occurring psychopathology, including PTSD, substance use, and NSSI. During fellowship, Jill wishes to expand her research training in treatment implementation and dissemination, program development, and healthcare improvement. She aims to focus on developing a multidisciplinary eating disorders program at the Minneapolis VA to provide education to medical providers and Veterans, and improve the assessment and treatment of Veterans with eating disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.

Research Interests:

• Eating disorders
• Posttraumatic stress disorder
• Comorbidity
• Transdiagnostic mechanisms

Education:

• BS, Neuroscience, U of MN Twin Cities
• PhD, Clinical Psychology, George Mason University

Lyndsay Thompson, DNP, RN, AGCNS-BC
VAQS Fellow

Lyndsay is a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her focus during her fellowship is engaging in quality improvement projects related to nursing care, implementing care delivery models, and quality metrics tracked within the VA system. One of her main projects currently is assisting in the implementation of a pressure injury prevention initiative for MVAHCS.

Research Interests:

• Quality improvement
• Process improvement
• Geriatric care
• Integrative health

Education:

• BSN, Nursing, U of MN Twin Cities
• DNP, Nursing, U of MN Twin Cities
• Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices (graduate minor), U of MN Twin Cities

Xong Yalo DNP, APRN, AGNP-C
VAQS Fellow

Research Interests:

• Quality improvement
• Process improvement
• Disease/Disorder-related QI
• Geriatric care

Education:

• BSN, Nursing, St. Catherine University
• MSN, Nursing, St. Catherine University
• DNP, Nursing, St. Catherine University