Stacy L. Farr, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Co-Director of the Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality and Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine; and Director of Outcomes Research at Saint Luke’s Hospital, part of BJC Health System. A trained health services researcher in health policy, she brings over twenty years of teaching, research, and policy experience in healthcare leadership, implementation, and mixed methods evaluation on a variety of health-related topics. She has worked in academia, healthcare, federal contract research, and federal government. Dr Farr also actively consults with clients through her firm, Zena Healthcare Group LLC. She holds a BS in Psychology, Sociology, and English from Nebraska Wesleyan University, an MPH from University of Kansas Medical Center, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was an NIH-National Research Service Award fellow.