Medical Officer, Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

Rosemarie Filart, MD MPH, MBA, joined the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) in 2013 on detail from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Dr. Filart brings more than seven years of experience in nation-wide multimillion dollar clinical and translational research program (CTSA) development where she worked in collaborative partnerships with federal entities such as AHRQ, HRSA, CDC, FDA, DOD, VA, ASPR, US State Department, and other NIH Institutes, Centers, & Offices, as well as with academia, community groups, and private entities such as Institute of Medicine, Academy Health, American Association of Medical Colleges, and Center of Medical Technology Policy.   With expertise in research program launching, implementation, development, dissemination, and sustainability, she has specific knowledge areas in comparative effectiveness research/ patient centered outcomes (CER/PCOR); neuroscience/neuroplasticity; technologies; emergency care research; physical activity, rehabilitation & disability; sleep research; and telemedicine/telehealth/mobile health/digital health.  She is a local and national speaker on those topic areas. She has published on CER/PCOR; education, training, & workforce development; neuroplasticity; and emergency care; and co-authored federal funding opportunities in CER, informatics and information systems, technologies, robotics, neuroscience, education/training among other areas in order to advance clinical and translational science into practical clinical use.   Dr. Filart participates in the Intramural Program for Research on Women’s Health, NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers, and other ORWH career development activities. Dr. Filart is the Chair of the Women’s Health Scientific Interest Group. She oversees the NIH ORWH research portfolio of disability, physical medicine, and rehabilitation research; CER/PCOR; and emergency care research as it pertains to women’s health.  Dr. Filart is a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma for process improvement and trained in Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and Hoshin Facilitation. She earned a Certificate in Technology Transfer with her capstone project in developing partnerships for drug repurposing. She is a board certified physician in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Medicine, and is a practicing clinician.

Dr. Filart acted as Rapporteur in the "Pioneers Trailblazing the Future" roadmapping session at the Gender Summit 3 North America 2013.