Rebecca is Assistant Professor and Director of the Primary Care Research and Evaluation Program at Michigan State University. Rebecca is jointly appointed in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development within the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Since 2006, she has served as an evaluator for several medical home initiatives in Michigan including a state demonstration site for a pediatric medical home for children with special health care needs at Michigan State University and, more recently, a collaborative to improve primary care services for children with behavioral and mental health issues in mid-Michigan. She also serves as an external evaluator for the Priority Health Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative, the Children’s Healthcare Access Program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the UnitedHealthcare PCMH pilot project in Arizona. She has written a monograph for the American Academy of Pediatrics, describing available tools to measure the pediatric medical home. Rebecca was awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in October in September 2009 for a project “Defining and Building a Patient-Centered Medical Home”. Rebecca received both her Ph.D. and M.P.H. at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training in epidemiology at Michigan State University.