Faculty

PhD Prepared Faculty

Anne Sales

PhD, RN, FAAN

  • Professor
  • Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, MU School of Medicine

Faculty Mentoring Status / Research & Teaching Emphasis Areas

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Anne Sales is a nurse and Professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing and the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri (Columbia). She is also a Research Scientist at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

Her training is in nursing, sociology, health economics, econometrics, and general health services research. Her work involves theory-based design of implementation interventions, including understanding how feedback reports affect provider behavior and through behavior change have an impact on patient outcomes; the role of social networks in implementation interventions; and effective implementation methods using electronic health records and digital interventions. She has completed over 40 funded research projects, many focused on implementation research. She is a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Science Communications.

  • An integrated intervention to address the double burden of maternal child malnutrition in Guatemala, NIH/NICHD – R01 (Rohloff, P., PI), Sales, A. (Co-I), 2024-2029
  • Planning to implement high-quality active surveillance in new-onset favorable risk prostate cancer, NIH/National Cancer Institute – R34, (Sales, A., Hollenbeck, BK. & Shahinian, VB. MPIs), 9/13/2024 – 8/31/2026
  • Developing robust anti-Obesity Medication ImplemeNtatiOn approaches to maximize population health (the DOMINO study) – NIH/NIDDK R01 (Maciejewski, M., Sales, A., & Arterburn, D., MPIs),2024-2028
  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Sciences, 2024-2027
  • Excellence in Research Award, Mizzou Nursing Alumni Organization, 2024
  • Inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, 2023
  • Stent Omission after Ureteroscopy and Lithotripsy (SOUL)– PCORI (Ghani, K. PI), Sales, A. (Co-I), 2022-2025
  • Aligning Financial Incentives to Promote Rational Use of Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer– NCI R01 (Hollenbeck, B; Shahinian, V Co-PIs), Sales, A. (Co-I), 2022-2027
  • Aging in Place: A Cross-Sector Partnership of Housing and Health Care – NIH R21 (Skolarus, L., PI), Sales, A., (Co-I), 2021-2023
  • De-implementation of low value castration for men with prostate cancer – NIH/NCI R37 (Skolarus, T., PI), Sales, A. (Co-I), 2018-2022
  • Training to Advance Care through Implementation Science in Cardiac and Lung Illnesses – (TACTICAL), NIH/NHLBI K12 Institutional Training Grant, (Iwashyna, PI), Sales, A., (Co-PI), 2018-2022
  • Opioids: Prevention of iatrogenic opioid dependence after surgery – NIH/NIDA R01 (Waljee & Brummett, MPI), Sales, A., (Co-I), 2017-2022
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Implementation Science Communications, 2019 – Present

  • Sales, A., Flottorp, S., & Wensing, M. (2024). Applying the Tailored Implementation for Chronic Disease checklist. Implementation Science, 183-192.
  • Horbal, S. R., Belancourt, P. X., Zhang, P., Holcombe, S. A., Saini, S., Wang, S. C., … Sales, A. & Su, G. L. (2024). Independent Associations of Aortic Calcification with Cirrhosis and Liver Related Mortality in Veterans with Chronic Liver Disease. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1-10.
  • Levy, C., Kononowech, J., Ersek, M., Phibbs, C. S., Scott, W., & Sales, A. (2024). Evaluating feedback reports to support documentation of veterans’ care preferences in home based primary care. BMC geriatrics, 24(1), 389.
  • Skolarus, T. A., Hawley, S. T., Forman, J., Sales, A. E., Sparks, J. B., Metreger, T., … & Sriram, S. (2024). Unpacking overuse of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer to inform de-implementation strategies. Implementation Science Communications, 5(1), 37.
  • Skolarus, L. E., Lin, C. C., Bi, R., Bailey, S., Corches, C. L., Sales, A. E., … & Burke, J. F. (2024). Reduction in Racial Differences in Stroke Thrombolytics in Flint, Michigan. Stroke, 55(2), e24-e26.
  • Becker, R.E.N., Daignault-Newton, S., Shoemaker, E. … Sales, A. E., Dauw, C.A., Ghani, K.R. (2024). Stent Omission after Ureteroscopy and Lithotripsy (SOUL) in the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC): study protocol for a pragmatic prospective combined randomized and observational clinical trial. Trials 25, 811. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08587-8
  • Ooi, C.Y., Ng, C.J., Sales, A.et al. (2024). Pilot implementation study of a web-based men’s health screening app in primary care during COVID-19: A mixed-methods approach. BMC Health Services Research,  24, 1219. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11702-9
  • S Kakumanu, S Szefler, AA Pappalardo, AE Sales, AP Baptist, J Stern, et al. (2024). Applying the dissemination and implementation sciences to allergy and immunology: A Work Group Report from the AAAAI Quality, Adherence, and Outcomes Committee. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 154 (4), 893-902.
  • C Levy, A Esmaeili, D Smith, RV Hogikyan, VS Periyakoil, JG Carpenter, AE Sales, et al. (2024). Life‐sustaining treatment decisions and family evaluations of end‐of‐life care for Veteran decedents in Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72 (9), 2709-2720.
  • C. Torrisi, B. Marks, Anne Sales, R. Becker, C. Dauw, E. Shoemaker, K. Ghani. (December 2024). Bridging the Gap: Barriers to de-implementing stenting in uncomplicated ureteroscopy. [Poster presentation]. 17 th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, AcademyHealth, Arlington, VA. 
  • L.Ferguson, S. Whitt, S. Fucik, E. Fondahn, K. Ruhanen, M. Hahn, B. Mock, E. Loza, Anne Sales (December 2024). Implementation of Tiered Escalation Huddles Across a Health System. 17 th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, AcademyHealth, Arlington, VA. 
  • B. Marks, C. Torrisi, Anne Sales, R. Becker, C. Dauw, E. Shoemaker, K. (December 2024). “No stent”: Patient experiences with ureteral stents. [Poster presentation]. 17 th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, AcademyHealth, Arlington, VA. 
  • Torrisi, C., Hollenbeck, B., Shahinian, V., & Sales, A. (February 28-March 2, 2024). Paying for active surveillance: Attitudes about current payment models for favorable risk prostate cancer. [Poster]. Midwest Nursing Research Society 48th Annual Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN. February 28 – March 2, 2024
  • Sales, A. (2024). “Leveraging DNP and PhD Partnerships to Increase Translation & Implementation of Evidence into Practice ” Podium presentation. Midwest Nursing Research Society 48th Annual Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN. February 28 – March 2, 2024. 
  • Sales, A., Kononowech, J., & Torrisi, C. (2024). Fielding Feedback: Connecting recipients to the data [Poster session]. NextGen PATHWAYS Symposium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • J. Kononowech, Anne Sales, A. Ranusch, D. Lammie (November 2023). Pilot findings from an implementation science sub-study for a VA cooperative studies program. 16 th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, AcademyHealth, Arlington, VA.
  • Sales, Anne; Torrisi, Christa; Kononowech, Jennifer (2023). Fielding Feedback: Getting feedback to intended recipients. International Audit and Feedback Metalab conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; October 27, 2023.
  • Reed, I., Torrisi, C., & Sales, A.  How Men’s Modifiable Diet Affect Prostate Cancer Incidence, Progression, and Mortality. [Poster Presentation]. MU Health Sciences Research Day, Columbia, MO, November 10, 2023.
  • Sales, A.  “Using tools from implementation science to improve quality of care for patients”, Chongqing University Children’s Hospital, Chongqing, Sichuan, China, October 16, 2023
  • Sales, A.  “Behind the pages: A peek into the evolution of implementation science”, 1st Pearl River Implementation Science International Symposium, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, October 13, 2023
  • Chipps, E; Dolansky, M; & Sales A. “MNRS Webinar- Intro to Quality Improvement and Implementation: Facilitating & Studying Practice Change”; Online webinar sponsored by the Midwest Nursing Research Society, October 3, 2023.
  • Sales, A.E. “Unpacking differences and similarities between Improvement and Implementation:  Science and Practice in Each”. Clinical Translational Science Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, August 24, 2023.