Leila Kahwati is Co-Director of the Consortium for Implementation Science and a Senior Research Analyst at RTI in the program on Social and Health Organizational Research and Evaluation. She is a physician board certified in Family Medicine and General Preventive Medicine/Public Health. She brings more than 15 years of experience in government, community and academic health care practice and research settings with a focus on evidence-based clinical preventive program and policy development and evaluation.