Rodger Kessler is an Implementation Scientist and Informaticist who has been at the forefront of Behavioral Health Integration for 30 years. He was the inventor of the Practice Implementation Profile(PIP), the only validated measure of integrated Care, and was co-Pi on the IBH-PC trial, the largest research grant focused on behavioral health integration. Currently, he and CR Macchi serve as editors of Family Systems and Health. He is Senior Director for Innovation and Research Scientist at the DARTNet Research Institute in Aurora, Colorado. His informatics background goes back 20 years, since he was the only non-physician appointed to serve on the work group establishing an EPIC installation at the University of Vermont School of Medicine.

His implementation focus is small independent primary care practices and patients with multi medical morbidities that include behavioral issues. He established the IRIS project, one of the first AI data collection initiatives in independent primary care practices. He next generated this current initiative, the Primary Care Informatics Laboratory, a for-profit company responding to the AI needs of Primary Care Settings.