Dr. Ciemins is Senior Director of Research and Analytics at AMGA (American Medical Group Association) based in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Ciemins has been involved with AMGA for years in her former roles as Director of the Center for Clinical Translational Research, and Assistant Program Director for Scholarly Activity for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Billings Clinic, an AMGA member organization. Dr. Ciemins helps AMGA achieve a vision of leading the transformation that results in healthier people, including supporting member organizations on their journeys from volume- to value-based care. Dr. Ciemins provides oversight for quantitative and mixed methods research projects, measure development and testing, analytics support for disease-specific best practices learning collaboratives, and research projects in partnership with AMGA members and academic institutions. She is an expert on balancing lean process improvement methods with insights from complexity science.
Dr. Ciemins has conducted research on a variety of health care topics such as telehealth/telemedicine, rural health care, health IT, chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension, obesity, chronic kidney disease), palliative care, learning health systems, and complexity science-informed approaches to behavior change in health care. Dr. Ciemins has a doctorate in health services and policy analysis from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.P.H. in Population and Community Health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been an epidemiologist and health services researcher for more than 20 years.