The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory (U54AG063546) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the 2023 Real World Data Scholar Program in collaboration with the Long Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative (U54AG063546-S6).

This new program supports the development of early-career faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students who are interested in developing their expertise and experience in working with electronic health record (EHR) data in the nursing home setting.  The inaugural awardees have the unique opportunity to be among the first users of the LTC Data Cooperative’s EHR data and will conduct projects that characterize the data for future users through validation and analyses.

Recipients of the 2023 Real World Data Scholar Program Awards are:

Jinying Chen, PhD, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Validating Free-text Medication Orders by Leveraging Natural Language Processing

Kenneth Lam, MD, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Validation of Functional Measures in LTC EHR Data

Lindsay White, PhD, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Determination of Cognitive Status in NH Residents: The Utility of EHR Data

Yongkang Zhang, PhD, MS, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, Evaluating LTC Data Cooperative EHRs to Study T2D among Nursing Home Residents

Learn more about the awardees.