1. QUERI National Meeting Connecting Research and Patient Care David Atkins, MD, MPH Director, QUERI Phoenix, AZ

2. Housekeeping Agenda and hotel map in your packets Staff at registration desk – BLUE ribbons Poster session tonight at 5:45 in Phoenix Ballroom Exhibits and job board

3. QUERI at 10 Looking back –What have we learned? Looking forward –Where should VHA be 10 years from now? –How can QUERI help it get there?

4. VISN Director CMO QMO Directive From Headquarters

5. Researcher Fellows

6. Connecting Research to Operations How can we ensure our objectives and activities are aligned? How can we best interact? How do measure and reward effective partnership?

7. “If we want more evidence-based practice, we need to create more practice-based evidence.” Larry Green, UCSF