Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation (COIN)
Health Systems Research Fellowship Programs
COIN participates in the VA Advanced Fellowship Program in VA Health Systems Research. The Fellowship Program works closely with AcademyHealth as a national coordinating center to provide high-quality training and curriculum focused on Learning Health Systems (LHS) core competencies. The two-year Fellowship is designed to transform fellows into independent investigators prepared for future VA and/or University-based research careers. Emphasis is placed on one-on-one mentorship and peer interaction.
Both the Seattle and Denver sites offer PhD and MD Fellowships.
Denver Fellowships
The Denver and Seattle Fellowships are an interprofessional post-graduate program. The mission is to develop future VA leaders in health systems research (HSR), dissemination and implementation science, and learning health systems. Our goals are to support trainees to achieve independent research careers through mentorship, career development, and experiential learning. The fellowship curriculum focuses on the LHS core competencies and is supported by AcademyHealth as a national coordinating center.
The Denver fellowship is located at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. It is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Denver offers both PhD and MD Fellowships and is led by Sridharan Raghavan, MD, PhD and Heather Gilmartin, PhD, RN.
Denver PhD Fellowship
The PhD Fellowship provides research experiences that will better position the research fellow to impact and improve Veterans health through research and healthcare improvement projects, in addition to activities related to scholarship (e.g., manuscripts, presentations, grants).
Download the updated 2024-2025 flyer for the PhD program including application details.
Denver MD Fellowship
The MD Fellowship provides research experiences that will better position the research fellow to impact and improve Veterans health. MD Fellows can expect to spend 75 percent of their time in research, healthcare improvement, and/or educational activities and 25 percent in clinical care. The MD Fellowship is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Download the updated 2024-2025 flyer for the MD program including application details.
Updated December 18, 2024
Seattle Fellowships
Seattle offers both Postdoctoral Fellowships led by John C. Fortney, PhD and MD Fellowships led by Jacob Doll, MD and Charles C. Engel, MD, MPH.
Seattle Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Postdoctoral Fellowship increases skills in health systems research. Fellows are expected to engage in research activities (e.g., data collection/analysis, manuscript preparation, grant writing), participate in related educational activities (e.g. cyberseminars, workshops, selected course work at the University of Washington) and participate in VA research review meetings. Psychologists, social workers and nurses and other clinicians spend up between 20-25 percent of their time in clinical care. All non-clinicians spend between 20-25 percent of their time on a quality improvement project. All fellows receive academic appointments in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington. The Postdoctoral Fellowship is chaired by Dr. Fortney.
Download the flyer for the Postdoctoral Fellowship program including application details.
Seattle MD Fellowship
The MD Fellowship is for physicians who have completed residency training and focuses on increasing skills in health systems research. Fellows pursue a wide variety of research and clinical interests, including General Internal Medicine and its specialties, Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Psychiatry, and Public Health. Fellows are expected to engage in research activities (e.g., data collection/analysis, manuscript preparation, grant writing), participate in related educational activities (e.g. cyberseminars, workshops, selected course work at the University of Washington) and participate in VA research review meetings. All fellows will spend up to 25% of their time in clinical care and receive academic appointments in the University of Washington School of Medicine. The MD Fellowship is co-chaired by Drs. Doll and Engel.
Click here for the MD program including application details.
