Courtney Lyles

Courtney Lyles is a Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Policy (CHPR) and the Arline Miller Rolkin Endowed Professor in Informatics. With over 15 years in academia, her work focuses on health equity, digital health, and implementation science, particularly through the co-design and evaluation of digital platforms for chronic disease management, patient-clinician communication, and community-based care.

• Over 15 years in academia
• Director of UC Davis CHPR
• Endowed professorship in Informatics

Her research emphasizes participant- and community-engaged methods to enhance digital health equity, including projects on telemedicine implementation, patient portals, and adaptive mobile health interventions. She co-founded S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, a consultation service for digital health companies, and has led multiple NIH-funded studies on hypertension remote monitoring, diabetes-depression comorbidity, and social determinants of health.

Recent publications highlight her work on telehealth disparities, digital device access, caregiver engagement, and policy analyses in safety-net systems. She has contributed to frameworks for equitable digital health implementation and has collaborated with institutions like Google Health Equity Team and UCSF prior to her current role.

Scientific Awards
• Arline Miller Rolkin Endowed Professorship

Her grants include NIH R01HL159372 (hypertension remote monitoring), NIH R01LM013045 (personalized health maps), and PCORI HM-2022C2-28339 (telehealth equity). She engages with interdisciplinary teams at CHPR and beyond, focusing on systematic reviews, cost-effectiveness analyses, and quasi-experimental designs to advance healthcare policy.