Biography

Jess Mogk uses implementation practice to bridge the gap between research and care. Current evidence is always expanding and evolving, and Jess partners with care teams to help them update workflows and practices to align with the best approaches identified by research. Jess is an expert in change strategies including practice facilitation, learning collaboratives, and quality improvement methods.

Jess joined Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) as a research specialist in 2015. After graduating with a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Program in 2018, she started working as an implementation and evaluation associate. She formally joined the KPWHRI faculty as a collaborative scientist in 2022.

In addition to her work with clinical teams, Jess also has a background in qualitative research and anthropology, which she applies to many KPWHRI studies. Her work has covered a wide variety of research topics, including medical decision-making for patients with cancer, qualitative evaluation of the community resource specialist role in Kaiser Permanente Washington, clinician experiences implementing an app-based treatment for substance use disorder, and patient experiences 5 years after bariatric surgery.

An example of a recent project is her work on the Integrated Pain Management Program with KPWHRI’s Center for Accelerating Care Transformation (ACT Center). As part of this project, Jess founded a patient partner group to help guide the program and center it on patient experiences. A blog by Jess’s colleague Sarah Brush provides insights about their collaboration with patient partners.