Published on in Vol 15 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79738, first published .
Using Implementation Science to Improve Health Care Access and Quality for People With Traumatic Brain Injury–Related Morbidity (I-HEAL): Protocol for a Translational Multiproject Program Award

Using Implementation Science to Improve Health Care Access and Quality for People With Traumatic Brain Injury–Related Morbidity (I-HEAL): Protocol for a Translational Multiproject Program Award

Using Implementation Science to Improve Health Care Access and Quality for People With Traumatic Brain Injury–Related Morbidity (I-HEAL): Protocol for a Translational Multiproject Program Award

Risa Nakase-Richardson   1, 2, 3 * , PhD ;   Jolie N Haun   3, 4 * , EdS, PhD ;   Megan Moore   5 * , MSW, PhD ;   Jennifer Bogner   6 * , PhD ;   Jeanne M Hoffman   7 * , PhD ;   Kristen Dams-O'Connor   2, 8, 9, 10 * , PhD ;   Jill Coulter   11 * , BS ;   Tracy Kretzmer   12 * , PhD ;   Aaron M Martin   1, 12, 13 * , PhD ;   Marc A Silva   1, 12, 13 * , PhD ;   I-HEAL Consortium   3, 14 *

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Brain, and Spine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

2 Tampa VA Research and Education Foundation, Tampa, FL, United States

3 Research and Development Service, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, United States

4 Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

5 University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle, WA, United States

6 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

7 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

8 Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

9 Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

10 Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

11 Stakeholder with living experience of a caregiver for a person with TBI, Boston, MA, United States

12 Mental Health & Behavior Sciences, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, United States

13 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

14 See Acknowledgments

*all authors contributed equally

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