Director, Center for Applied Health Research
Baylor Scott and White Health
Temple, Texas, United States
Alan B. Stevens, PhD, holds the Vernon D. Holleman-Lewis M. Rampy Centennial Chair in Gerontology at Baylor Scott & White Health and serves as the Director of the Center for Applied Health Research (CAHR), a BSWH system level center that facilitates investigator-initiated, multidisciplinary efforts to impact population health management with community and health care delivery research. He is also a Professor within the Texas A&M Health Science Center and Senior Faculty at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Stevens investigates clinical and organization issues related to care delivery of older adults and their caregivers. With over 25 years’ experience in academic medical schools and a leading integrated healthcare organization, Dr. Stevens is nationally recognized for his contributions to the fields of dementia caregiving, care transitions, and management of chronic diseases. In 2020, Dr. Stevens was appointed as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the NIH-funded All of Us Program at BSWH.
In 2014, he was invited to serve a two-year term on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study committee that produced the 2016 publication “Families caring for an aging America”. In 2016, Dr. Stevens joined the Texas Health Improvement Network as an Advisory Committee member. Currently, he is also serving as a Co-Chair of the Family Caregiving Advisory Council, established by the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act of 2017, to provide recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on effective models of both family caregiving and support to family caregivers, as well as improving coordination across federal government programs.
Dr. Stevens is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America. He completed his graduate training at the University of New Orleans, earning a Masters degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Applied Developmental Psychology
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET