Lisa S. Meredith PhD

Lisa Meredith is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a research scientist at the Veterans Administration (VA) HSR&D Center of Excellence for Innovation, Implementation and Policy.

She is nationally recognized for her research on mental health services, health care provider behavior, and primary care quality improvement. She has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Department of Health and Human Services, the VA, Los Angeles County (LAC), the Army, and the Department of Defense (DoD).

Meredith recently completed a 5-year NIMH multi-site randomized trial examining the effectiveness of collaborative care for PTSD in primary care community health centers. She leads three survey evaluations of primary care professional experiences with the VA's patient-centered medical homes and is co-leading a DoD study to understand primary care provider training needs for treating mild traumatic brain injury.

She helped LAC prepare hospitals and clinics for addressing the psychological aspects of large-scale public health emergencies, identified the factors associated with psychological resilience in the U.S. military, led the RWJF evaluation of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series Learning Collaborative for depression, and was a lead Investigator of RAND's Invisible Wounds study.

She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, served on national scientific review committees (NIMH, AHRQ, DoD), and was Deputy Editor of Medical Care (2002-2007). She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Claremont Graduate University.