Dr. Springs is an Investigator in the Department of Health Service, Policy and Practice and the Center for Evidence-based Medicine at the Brown University School of Public Health. She was recently appointed an Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) funded Research Fellow (K12) focused on Comparative Effectiveness (CER) and Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR). Stacey received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Economics and Health Policy and her research activities bridge methodologies of health care policy analysis, health economics and evidence synthesis. Leveraging these methods, she focuses on 1) identification and assessment of health outcomes as a measurement of policy effectiveness; 2) impact of research regulation and federal funding on modulating health outcomes and; 3) evidence-based practice in neonatology.