Dr. Libby Dismuke joined the Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System Research, as a Health Science Specialist in March, 2019. She has a PhD in Economics, with a specialty in health economics.
She has provided expertise on designing cost and cost-effectiveness analyses for grant across multiple conditions at the Medical University of South Carolina, Veterans Affairs (VA), and Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Dismuke-Greer also worked for 6 months in the VA Office of Health Equity where she helped inform VA policy-making to reduce disparities and improve equity among Veterans served by VA. Prior to working in the United States, Dr. Dismuke-Greer worked in Portugal at a major University, where she also collaborated with the Portuguese Ministry of Health.
Dr. Dismuke-Greer has previously volunteered on a mission with IHI to the San Blas Kuna Islands. She also has several years of experience volunteering at least once a week with Without Walls, serving homeless veterans and individuals as well as inner-city families and children, and Annunciation House, providing translation, medicine, food, sanitation, clothing, and transportation assistance to mostly Central American and South American asylum-seekers who have been released by U.S. Immigration at the El Paso Border. She is fluent in Portuguese and has good understanding of spoken Spanish.