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Research Health Scientist
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital
Dr. Smith is an investigator at the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare. Dr. B. Smith She has expertise in health services research, health outcomes, and health economics. Dr. Smith’s research is focused on the evaluation of outcomes and costs associated with the provision of health care to persons with disabilities. Her interests include ehealth, telemedicine, examining costs and quality of life outcomes with interventions to improve quality of care for Veterans with disabilities, statistical methodology, and the impact of multiple system use on outcomes. She received her doctorate from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2004, and is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.