Adrienne is a senior research scientist directing implementation and evaluation projects focused on substance use, mental health, and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). She leads multi-modal surveys, key informant interviews, focus groups, and site visits with patients, Medicaid beneficiaries, medical providers, and health care stakeholders.
Her portfolio includes oversight of federal, state, university, and foundational client projects. She manages evaluations of AHRQ’s Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative, a SAMHSA grant for Community Overdose Prevention Education, the JED Foundation’s Suicide Prevention Campus Program, 1115 Medicaid waivers in Kentucky, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and multiple behavioral health programs funded by the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. For the University of Illinois, she led mixed-method data collection for the Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act.
Prior to joining NORC, Adrienne worked with high utilizers of the Emergency Department, focusing on patients experiencing behavioral health concerns, connecting them to primary care and other services. She also managed the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Symptom Management Service Center, a palliative care clinic assisting cancer patients.
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Education
MPP, MSW
University of Michigan
BA
University of Michigan
Project Contributions
Publications
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Pivoting in a Pandemic: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Implementing Evidence-based Practices to Manage Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
Presentation | November 6, 2022
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Evaluating Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Education in Social Work and Nursing Curriculum Using the CFIR Model
Presentation | September 22, 2022
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Balancing Agility and Rigor: A Multi-site Evaluation of an Initiative to Improve Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care.
Presentation | October 24, 2021
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A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Developing Outcome Measures to Evaluate an Initiative Promoting Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care.
Presentation | September 23, 2021
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Mapping Medicare Disparities: A Tool to Promote Health Equity
Presentation | September 6, 2018