Center for Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy
CSHIIP Leadership | Brandon Yarns, MD, MS, BME
Brandon Yarns, MD, MS, BME
Assistant Director, VA HSR Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Staff Psychiatrist, Geriatric Mental Health Section, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Email: Brandon.Yarns@va.gov
Dr. Brandon C. Yarns is a geriatric psychiatrist and clinical/health services researcher at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and UCLA. As Assistant Director for CSHIIP, he helps to facilitate the Center's scientific scans of VA research proposals and to operationalize the Center’s strategic plan and impact goals. Dr. Yarns has received a VA Clinical Science Research Career Development Award and VA Health Systems Research Merit Review Award, and his areas of expertise include chronic pain, aging, and emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET).
Research Focus:
- Emotional awareness and expression therapy for chronic pain
- The interface of psychiatric and medical conditions
- Geriatric psychiatry educational research
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