COIN Investigators & Staff
COIN Affiliate Investigator
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Jason A. Dominitz, MD, MHS
- Title:Seattle-Denver COIN Affiliate
Professor of Medicine
Executive Director, National Gastroenterology and Hepatology Program
Director, National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
Contact: jason.dominitz@va.gov - Location: Seattle
- University of Washington webpage
Jason Dominitz, MD, MHS is a Professor of Medicine in the Gastroenterology Division at the University of Washington. Dr. Dominitz joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1997 after completing his residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Duke University, a fellowship in Health Services Research at the Durham VA, and a master’s degree in clinical research from the Duke University School of Medicine.
Dr. Dominitz became interested in the role of screening colonoscopy during his fellowship when he worked on a study of patient preferences for screening as part of the landmark VA Screening Colonoscopy Study led by Dr. David Lieberman. Over the past three decades, he has collaborated on numerous studies of colorectal cancer screening and the quality of colonoscopy. Currently, he co-chairs a 17-year VA Cooperative Study comparing colorectal cancer outcomes in 50,126 average-risk Veterans who were randomized to screening with annual fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) versus screening colonoscopy (the CONFIRM Study). The CONFIRM study is designed to assess if colonoscopy is superior to FIT for reducing colorectal cancer mortality and incidence.
Dr. Dominitz has served as the Executive Director for the US Department of VA’s National Gastroenterology and Hepatology Program since the inception of the office in 2011. His work has focused on assuring Veterans’ access to high quality gastroenterology care. He is particularly interested in colonoscopy quality improvement and has led the development of new policies and tools related to this issue, including mandating requirements for colonoscopy quality monitoring. In 2022, he established the VA’s National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program and initiated nationwide efforts to employ mailed FIT outreach to expand participation in colorectal cancer screening. He also distributed computer-aided detection (CADe) devices for colonoscopy to 43 randomly selected VA facilities to assess the role of artificial intelligence for the detection of colorectal neoplasia (the CADeNCE Study), which has led to ongoing deployment of CADe devices for colonoscopy at all VA endoscopy units.
Research Interests
- Colorectal cancer screening
- Quality assurance in gastroenterology and hepatology
- Computer-aided detection and artificial intelligence
Links to Publications and External Websites
http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Dominitz+J%5BAuthor%5D&sort=date
https://gastro.uw.edu/people/faculty/dominitz-j
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondominitz/
VA Operational Partners I have worked with
- Specialty Care Program Office
