Dr. Curran is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Adjunct Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His broad research area has been health services research, with a focus on the diffusion of innovation in a variety of health care settings (e.g., pharmacy, specialty care, primary care, and community settings). Dr. Curran is a medical sociologist. For the past 20+ years he has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health (US), the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and other funders. Dr. Curran also has written widely on research design and methodology in implementation science. He is the Director of the UAMS Center for Implementation Research, which is devoted to developing and testing implementation strategies across a wide range of service contexts and training the next generation of implementation scientists.