Our Team
Roybal Directors
Ian Kronish, MD, MPH
- Director, Columbia Roybal Center
Dr. Ian Kronish has expertise in intervention development and testing, particularly for medication adherence. He is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies evaluating the association of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological factors with health behaviors in survivors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.
Nathalie Moise, MD, MS, FAHA
- Director, Columbia Roybal Center
Dr. Nathalie Moise is an internist, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab) at the Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health with training in epidemiology and implementation science. She has worked in health services research for more than 10 years and is PI/MPI of several federally funded grants (NIH, AHRQ, PCORI) leveraging hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs to test implementation and de-implementation strategies for promoting behavioral interventions in primary care and cardio-oncology settings, including MPI of AHRQ EQUIP Learning Health System Center and NIA Roybal Center grants. Dr. Moise has been the implementation science co-investigator/consultant for more than 20 funded grants, including core lead for an NIMHD P50 cardio-oncology center grant and has published extensively in the areas of behavioral health, patient engagement/adherence, implementation science and clinical inertia. She has served as faculty for the UCSF implementation science certificate course and NHLBI Research in Implementation Science for Equity summer program, Co-Director of the CTSA’s Implementation Science Initiative, is Associate Editor of Implementation Research and Practice and founding member of the American Heart Association’s Implementation Science Committee.
Associated Faculty
Talea Cornelius, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Keith Diaz, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine
Donald Edmondson, PhD, MPH
- Former Co-Director, Columbia Roybal Center
Dr. Edmondson is an expert in the experimental medicine approach to behavioral intervention development. He is PI or co-PI of multiple fear based mechanisms, behavior, and clinical outcomes in CVD patients. He is also co-PI and managing Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded Resource and Coordinating Center of the Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) program, and was scientific lead for the SOBC website.
Joseph E. Schwartz, PhD
- Lecturer in Medicine
Ari Shechter, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences
Siqin Ye, MD, MS
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Advisory Board
Scientific Advisory Board
Sara Czaja, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Kenneth Freedland, PhD, Washington University
Sarah Garfinkel, PhD, University College London
Jeffrey Huffman, MD, Harvard Medical School
Lisa Marsch, PhD, Dartmouth College
Ying Wei, PhD, Columbia University
Patient & Family Stakeholders
Jennifer Chap, partner of cardiac arrest victor, Co-founder, BuddyCPR
Erik Fischer, Stroke victor, Stroke Warriors
Desiree Walker, two-time breast cancer victor and patient advocate, SHARE, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), Young Survival Coalition (YSC) Board of Directors (president)
Jasmine Wylie, Cardiac arrest victor, Board member, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation