VACS Uniformed Services Workgroup David Rimland, MD Founding Director Vincent Marconi, MD Current Co-Director Brian Agan, MD Current Co-Director Members: Sheldon Brown, Adeel Butt, Sarah Felter, Matt Freiberg, Anu Ganesan, Cynthia Gilbert, Matt Goetz, Kirsha Gordon, Grace Macalino, James Mancuso, Sarah Nagy, Tom O’Bryan, Jason Okulicz, KrisAnn Oursler, Mona Rai Maria Rodriguez, Christina Schofield, Melissa Skanderson, Julie Womack, Seung Hyun Won

Current Project Areas Cost Effectiveness Continuum of Care Outcomes Comparison – Guest PLoS ONE 2013 Covariate modeling – Rentsch PLoS ONE 2014 QALY comparison by CD4 initiation – Agan SF6D vs QALY modeling – Rai/Won CD4 modeling – Aldrete Continuum of Care Atlanta VAMC Continuum – Mangal ARHR 2014 Qualitative Saturation Methods – Hennink QHR 2016 Resilience in Veterans Predicts Retention – Wessinger submitted Navigating VA care model – Hennink Comparing retention in AVAMC to Grady – Fullard Biomarker Studies Longitudinal Biomarker Changes – So-Armah CHIVR 2014 Pre-HIV D-dimer predicts serious non-AIDS – Freiberg PLoS ONE 2016 HIV Biomarker Proteomics – Agan/Freiberg Overlap Cohort VACS Index – Won Concepts in Development – DM, Hepatitis, Alcohol, CVD, Neuro