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Rina Dhopeshwarkar, MPH, Principal Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC), serves as Associate Project Director and lead of the CDSiC project's operational activities, which include strategic planning and dissemination. Dhopeshwarkar has a wide array of health IT research and strategic planning experience, having led evaluations of initiatives and programs that leverage health IT and health information exchange. Dhopeshwarkar is also an experienced project manager. At NORC, Dhopeshwarkar has also worked on several projects that explore the role of digital health tools in supporting the delivery of patient-centered care and PCOR. She also serves as the Project Manager of the OS-PCOR Trust Fund Resource Center, which provides support to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s PCOR Trust Fund-funded projects related to building data infrastructure for PCOR. Moreover, Dhopeshwarkar co-leads an evaluation of the AHRQ PCOR CDS Initiative, using survey and qualitative data to understand how the initiative supported the dissemination of evidence through patient-centered CDS.