Lisa V. Rubenstein

Biography

Lisa Rubenstein is a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, and professor of medicine and public health at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and board member of AcademyHealth. She founded and directs the Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, a consortium of health services researchers at VAGLAHS, UCLA, and RAND that supports substantial funded implementation science work on HIV/hepatitis C, women's health, mental health, geriatrics and long-term care, genomics, and primary care, as well as work leading up to implementation in care settings in a variety of other areas.

Rubenstein focuses on redesigning health care systems through quality improvement and implementation research. She works on improving implementation science through expert consensus and evidence review with the Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center. She implemented and evaluated collaborative care for depression inside and outside of the VA, and is leading a Patient-Centered Medical Home/Patient-Aligned Care Teams demonstration laboratory that aims to support and evaluate VA's national implementation of accountable, patient-centered primary care. She has expertise in medical record review and performance measurement in inpatient, nursing home, and outpatient settings, including nursing care quality measurement.

Rubenstein received her M.D. from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and her M.S.P.H. from UCLA and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.