Network Map
The gLHS Network is composed of six clinical sites, nine community partners, and the Coordinating Center. The National Institutes of Health serves as the funding agency for the gLHS Network.
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Geisinger is a fully integrated health system that includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan with more than half a million members, and our College of Health Sciences, which includes the Clinical Education Institute, Research Institute, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM), and the Geisinger School of Nursing. Geisinger serves more than 1 million patients in Pennsylvania and is a physician-led organization with over 26,000 employees. Geisinger is centered around a cutting-edge multispecialty group practice of more than 1,700 physicians who practice at 133 primary care and specialty clinics throughout the region. Geisinger outpatient facilities see approximately 2.6 million clinic visits annually.
Principal Investigators
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- Victoria Schlieder, Project Manager
Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) partners with Indiana University Health (IUH), which is the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Indiana. It is comprised of 16 hospitals and over 38,000 employees. There are over 100,000 admissions and more than 1.2 million unique patients treated. IUH offers a full range of specialty services and the partnership with IUSM allows access to research, clinical trials, and destination services. The Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center records >40,000 outpatient visits per year, including the Indiana Familial Cancer Clinic provides care to families with a history of cancer. Clinical geneticists and cancer genetic counselors provide genetics evaluation, genetic counseling, risk assessment, genetic testing and medical management services to individuals with a personal and or family history of cancer, polyps or pancreatitis. The clinic also provides services to children and adults with a gene mutation known to be causative for an increased cancer risk.
Principal Investigators
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- Abi Colwell, Project Manager
Northwestern Medicine is a nonprofit, integrated academic health system anchored by its flagship, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago. The Northwestern Memorial Healthcare (NMHC) System has expanded through a series of strategic affiliations, growing to encompass 11 hospitals and over 200 care locations across Illinois. The network includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a Magnet-designated, 894-bed academic medical center and teaching hospital affiliated with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial is consistently ranked #1 in Chicago and Illinois, and among the top 10 hospitals nationally in multiple specialties. NMHC employs over 5,000 physicians and 40,000 staff, and benefits from its close partnership with the Feinberg School of Medicine, seamlessly blending patient care, education, and cutting-edge research, including more than 4,500 clinical trials annually. NMHC serves more than 1.2 million patients per year. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), the academic flagship of this system, is one of the country’s premier academic hospitals and a national and international referral center.
Principal Investigators
- Patricia D. Franklin, MD, MPH, MBA
- Rinad S. Beidas, PhD
- Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD
- Lucy A. Godley, MD, PhD
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- Martha Burla, Project Manager
- Daniel Blumenthal, Project Manager
University of Utah Health (UU Health) is the only academic medical center in the state of Utah and the Mountain West and provides patient care for the people of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, western Colorado, and much of Nevada. It also serves as the training ground for the majority of the state’s physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and other health care professionals. Staffed by more than 20,000 employees, UU Health is recognized nationally as a transformative healthcare system and regionally as a provider of world-class care. UU Health includes five hospitals, 12 community healthcare centers, 22 regional partners and 75 telehealth sites; and several specialty centers including the Huntsman Cancer Institute, John A. Moran Eye Center, the Cardiovascular Center, the Clinical Neurosciences Center, and the Utah Diabetes & Endocrinology Center. Collectively, UU Health has approximately 680 inpatient beds and provides care for 2 million Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10% of the continental United States.
Principal Investigators
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- Kensaku Kawamoto, Contact PI
The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at >1300 health care facilities, including >170 VA Medical Centers and >1,100 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity. VA facilities are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Philippines, and the US territories (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa). The VA serves 9.4 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program, which covers eligible Veterans who meet certain criteria based on their service history, disability status, income level, and other factors.
Principal Investigators
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- Morgan Danowski, Project Manager
Vanderbilt Health, housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the largest and most prominent academic systems in the Southeast. With 43,000 employees in its workforce, VUMC provides patient care, conducts research, and trains future health professionals. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is comprised of 7 hospitals and 180+ clinic locations across middle Tennessee. The health system provides 3.3 million patient visits annually. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. VICC cares for more than 7,000 new cancer patients each year. VICC’s team of more than 200 physicians conducts more than 180,000 outpatient visits each year.
Principal Investigators
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- Nicole Mickels, Project Manager
- Kelsey Rodriguez, Project Manager
The gLHS Network Coordinating Center (CC) is based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The CC provides support to the network throughout the lifespan of the network beginning with selection of projects through project implementation and data analysis. To facilitate network and project progress, the CC staffs regular Action Group calls and hosts hybrid Steering Committee meetings to facilitate relevant network discussions. The CC is responsible for centralized data collection from the network and dissemination of de-identified data to approved affiliates and NIH repositories.
Principal Investigators
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- Jodell Linder Jackson, PhD, Operations Director
- Megan He, PhD, Project Manager