Agile Implementation: A Model for Implementing Evidence-Based Healthcare Solutions into Real-World Practice to Achieve Sustainable Change

Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, is the Founding Director of the Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation Center and is the Founder and Chief Innovation and Implementation Officer of the Indiana University Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science. The center’s mission is to generate innovations to improve patient care as it tackles systemic healthcare costs. To this end, Malaz leads a diverse and interdisciplinary team of scientists, clinicians, and engineers to develop and implement innovations that improve brain health, brain care quality, and patients and their families’ brain care experience. He is also a Research Scientist for the Regenstrief Institute and a Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Malaz lives in Indianapolis with his wife Mary and has two children, Katreen and Zayn. Joze Azar, MD, is the Chief Quality and Safety Officer at the IU Health Academic Health Center as well as the co-founder and Chief Engagement Officer at the Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science. He is also a practicing Hematologist/Oncologist at the IU Health Simon Cancer Center. He graduated medical school from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN. Joze lives in Indianapolis with his wife Karen and two children, Christopher and Nicole. Craig A. Solid, PhD, is the Owner and Principal of Solid Research Group, LLC in St. Paul, MN. He has worked in healthcare research and quality for twenty years, focusing on issues related to data, measurement, and value. He lives in St. Paul, MN with his wife Emily and their three children, Vieva, Emmett, and Kipp.