Michelle Orner joined the Torch team in February. She has a Master of Public Health with a concentration in biostatistics and epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. She has over 22 years of experience working with both survey data as well as national VA databases, collecting, organizing, and managing the data and performing advanced statistical analyses. She has worked on research projects related to racial disparities in healthcare, oral health, provider-patient communication, and operations projects relating to the implementation of Whole Health. She is currently working on projects related to ALS and an evaluation of the VA Tele-EEG program.