Podcast with contributor Brad Karlin, PhD, ABPP
Brad Karlin, is a vice president and chief of mental health and aging with the Education Development Center(EDC). He leads EDC’s work with public and private health care systems to promote the dissemination and delivery of evidence-based psychological treatments to improve mental health and dementia care for older adults. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to joining EDC, Karlin served as the National Mental Health Director for Psychotherapy and Psychogeriatrics for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, where he developed and oversaw the nation’s largest dissemination of evidence-based psychotherapies and transformed geriatric mental health services.
Karlin is board-certified in geropsychology and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Award for Outstanding Contributions to Continuing Professional Development in Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA), a Certificate of Commendation from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Outstanding Administrator award from the VA section of APA. He has also led numerous national committees and work groups, including serving as chair of an institute of Medicine panel on implementation models and systems.
Karlin earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University and completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in gerpsychology. He is a past president of the Society of Clinical Psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
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Podcast with contributor Brad Karlin, PhD, ABPP
Brad Karlin, is a vice president and chief of mental health and aging with the Education Development Center(EDC). He leads EDC’s work with public and private health care systems to promote the dissemination and delivery of evidence-based psychological treatments to improve mental health and dementia care for older adults. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to joining EDC, Karlin served as the National Mental Health Director for Psychotherapy and Psychogeriatrics for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, where he developed and oversaw the nation’s largest dissemination of evidence-based psychotherapies and transformed geriatric mental health services.
Karlin is board-certified in geropsychology and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Award for Outstanding Contributions to Continuing Professional Development in Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA), a Certificate of Commendation from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Outstanding Administrator award from the VA section of APA. He has also led numerous national committees and work groups, including serving as chair of an institute of Medicine panel on implementation models and systems.
Karlin earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University and completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in gerpsychology. He is a past president of the Society of Clinical Psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
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Interviewee Karen Blase
Karen Blase, PhD, is Senior Scientist Emerita at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Karen is a Founder, along with Dean Fixsen, of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN). Karen has been a program developer, researcher, program evaluator, and published author in human services for over 40 years. Karen has had extensive involvement in implementation science and best practices, knowledge utilization, dissemination, program replication, and scale-up. She received her doctorate in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas with a focus on school-based interventions and services for high needs children and youth.. Her work at Father Flanagan's Boys Home included working extensively with agencies and governments in 13 states and 2 Canadian provinces to establish evidence-based services. She has been engaged in effective scale-up of evidence-based practices, implementation capacity building, and systems change employing the Active Implementation Frameworks. As part of a research team, Karen was involved in completing a major review and synthesis of the implementation literature. This extensive review is providing guidance for the adoption, utilization, and scale-up of evidence-based programs and practices. For more information, see Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature. Her current interests include the application of implementation science to civic engagement and social justice initiatives.
Lessons Learned in Implementation Science
Podcast with contributor Brad Karlin, PhD, ABPP
Brad Karlin, is a vice president and chief of mental health and aging with the Education Development Center(EDC). He leads EDC’s work with public and private health care systems to promote the dissemination and delivery of evidence-based psychological treatments to improve mental health and dementia care for older adults. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to joining EDC, Karlin served as the National Mental Health Director for Psychotherapy and Psychogeriatrics for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, where he developed and oversaw the nation’s largest dissemination of evidence-based psychotherapies and transformed geriatric mental health services.
Karlin is board-certified in geropsychology and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Award for Outstanding Contributions to Continuing Professional Development in Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA), a Certificate of Commendation from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Outstanding Administrator award from the VA section of APA. He has also led numerous national committees and work groups, including serving as chair of an institute of Medicine panel on implementation models and systems.
Karlin earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University and completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in gerpsychology. He is a past president of the Society of Clinical Psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
