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Research Career Scientist
Department of Veterans Affairs
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Dr. Evans is a Research Career Scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois. She is also a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She has a bachelor’s degree in microbiology (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), a master’s degree in public health, and a doctoral degree in epidemiology, which was received from the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health in 2007. In 2012, Dr. Evans was one of 96 recipients to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government upon outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior scientists over the years., including receiving mentoring awards from Northwestern University. Dr. Evans is one of four principal investigators leading the ‘Combating Antimicrobial Resistance through Rapid Implementation of Available Guidelines and Evidence (CARRIAGE II)’ program funded by the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) focused on implementing evidence-based clinical practice. She also leads and collaborates with other scientists on several other research grants in VA and Northwestern University. She has over 160 publications which span her major research interests including the epidemiology of infectious diseases (particularly healthcare-associated infections) and outcomes as related to these infections.
