REACH

Dr. Rabin is a Professor and Founding Faculty at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC), and an Implementation Science (IS) expert on a number of large NIH and VA Center grants and research projects including the VA San Diego Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health. 

Dr. Rabin has extensive expertise in the selection and operationalization of IS models and she is a national expert in the use of the RE-AIM framework and its contextually expanded counterpart, PRISM. Dr. Rabin has been a member of the national leadership team for RE-AIM for the past close to one decade, developed and refined advanced methodology for the use of RE-AIM and PRISM across diverse topic areas and settings, and developed training and conducted consultations on the operationalization of RE-AIM and PRISM for research proposals and ongoing projects. 

Dr. Rabin also has substantial expertise and track record in contributing to capacity building for IS. She has developed and contributed to national IS workshops and trainings, developed webtools for researchers and clinicians including one of the most widely used webtool for IS, the D&I Models in Health Research webtool (www.dissemination-implementation.org). Dr. Rabin has developed and is teaching (and co-teaching) doctoral courses in IS both at UC San Diego and the University of Colorado. She co-founded and serves as a co-Director for the fully online ACCORDS D&I Science Graduate Certificate Program. She also has extensive experience with consulting and coaching in IS both early and mid-career researchers through her role as an Implementation Scientist for the ACCORDS D&I Program at CU and more recently at the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center. 

Dr. Rabin also brings substantial expertise in the IS measurement area. She co-led the development of the D&I Workspace on the NIH Grid-enabled Measures Database, creating a platform for sharing IS measures and their metadata broadly. She also co-led the development of a review of existing measurement databases for IS and continues to contribute to IS data harmonization activities through her role in the Methods Workgroup on the Colorado Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (one of seven IS centers funded through NCI). Dr. Rabin has wide-ranging experience providing training and IS consultation for diverse implementation projects.

Hemal Patel is a Co-Investigator on the UCSD REACH Center, and also one of our amazing faculty members. He is a Veterans Administration (VA) Research Career Scientist whose expertise lies at the intersection of caveolin and mitochondrial biology. Over the course of his career, he has applied this foundational science to the study of cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, aging, diabetes, and cancer — and in recent years, has expanded his work to include direct collaboration with clinical groups, bringing rigorous basic science methods into translational research contexts.

Dr. Patel is funded by the NIH, the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and other agencies. He serves on editorial boards for scientific journals and reviews grants for major funding bodies including the NIH and NASA. With more than 140 publications and a regular presence at international conferences, he is a highly active contributor to the broader scientific community.

Most recently, Dr. Patel has been leading efforts to accelerate research on meditation in collaboration with the InnerScience Research Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to funding studies on the biological and physical effects of meditation on the human body. This work brings together his deep scientific expertise and his personal commitment to understanding whole-person health.