Rodger Kessler Ph/D. ABPP is a health psychologist, Implementation Scientist and Informatician. He serves as Senior Director of Innovation for the DARTNet Research Institute in Colorado and co-editor of Family Systems and Health.

His present focus is using AI and informatics technology for improved identification, care delivery engagement and self-management of patients with multiple medical and behavioral comorbidities, as well as populations with disparities to health access. In addition, this focus involves use of EHR data and patient reported quality of life for risk stratification, and development and automating workflows in response.

His work applies the RE-AIM/PRISM framework (Glasgow et al., 2019) to support and evaluate implementation within under resourced small independent primary care settings.
Dr. Kessler has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, Foundation and Ste Government. While in Vermont he led a team that generated the Practice Integration Profile, the only validated measure of behavioral health integration. a reviewer at local, state, and federal levels, sitting on review committees in NIH, AHRQ, PCORI and the Canadian Institutes of Health. He provided clinical integrated interventions in primary care for over 20 years in Vermont where he was the first psychologist to become partner in a Family Medicine practice treating individuals and families with multiple chronic diseases and have funded projects focusing on diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and behavioral health comorbidities. He was co-PI on the recently completed a 40 primary care site PCORI comparative effectiveness trial to evaluate standard behavioral care co-location with evidence supported advanced behavioral care implementation and and is currently co-PI of an NIH supported project focusing on behavioral chronic pain treatment in primary care. He founded and is a principal of the Primary Care Informatics Lab (PCIL) focused on AI applications in primary care workflow.

In addition to an academic career at University of Vermont, Arizona State University and University of Colorado Denver, he served as Senior Scientist in the National Research Network of American Academy of Family Physicians for 15 years, with a primary responsibility for dissemination and implementation. He has over 200 national and international presentations and edited 3 books and has over 150 publications.

He lives with his wife Danit and golden retriever Lizzie, on an island of 900 residents off the coast of Washington State.