Author: Jeannine Sato

IMPACT members presenting at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC)

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Leah Hanson, PhD, Heather Allore, PhD, and Yaideliz Romero-Ramos, MPH, will present during the AAIC 24 Conference held online and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 28 through August 1, 2024.

Dr. Leah Hanson will share details about her IMPACT-funded research in her poster presentation: A Pilot Pragmatic Trial of Mindfulness Based Dementia Care for Care Partners on July 30 within the Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors: Dementia Care Research section of the program

Dr. Heather Allore will represent the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) during the Internal Medicine at JAMA Network breakfast on July 30 and she will participate in the Ask a Statistician Roundtable on July 31.

Yaideliz Romero-Ramos, MPH, will virtually present during the poster session, sharing a summary of how IMPACT’s Lived Experience Panel members have collaborated with investigators to advance engagement in pragmatic clinical trials of dementia care.

View the entire AAIC program and register.

IMPACT members publish two articles on best practices for health equity in pragmatic trials in Ethnicity & Disease special report

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IMPACT members Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD, PhD and Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH are primary authors in the recently published Original Report: Pragmatic Trials Among Older Adults by the publication Ethnicity & Disease. The articles provide best practices for health equity in embedded pragmatic clinical trials(ePCTs) for dementia care.

Considerations When Designing and Implementing Pragmatic Clinical Trials That Include Older Hispanics by Dr. Samper-Ternent, IMPACT Pilot Study awardee, Aanand D. Naik, MD and others describes health equity practices for older Hispanic adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRDs). The authors provide data from two PCTs about the recruitment of older Hispanics with ADRDs and discuss unique challenges associated with conducting PCTs and propose strategies to overcome challenges.

Best Practice Recommendations for Integrating Health Equity into Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia Care by IMPACT’s Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, Ladson Hinton, MD, Ana Quiñones, PhD, Katherine Peak, MPH, and IMPACT faculty scholar Manka Nkimbeng, PhD, MPH, RN, describes the development, structure, and content of a guidance document developed by the IMPACT Collaboratory to help investigators integrate health equity into all aspects of ePCTs designed for people living with dementia.

 

New IMPACT Guidance Document – Guidance for Proxy Data and Dyadic Analysis

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A new guidance document from IMPACT’s Design and Statistics Core describes essential considerations for using dyadic data and analysis in research with people living with dementia and their care partners.

The guidance document by Katie Newkirk, PhD, and Joan Monin, PhD, MS, defines dyadic data, how it differs from proxy data, and the information that can be gained by collecting and analyzing dyadic data compared to proxy data when conducting research that includes people living with dementia and care partners.

View the document here.

IMPACT members receive awards at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting

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Two IMPACT funded investigators received awards at the 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting held May 15th, 2024.

IMPACT Career Development Awardee and Faculty Scholar Cameron Gettel, MD, received the SAEM Early Investigator Award and Pilot Grant awardee Peter Serina, MD, MPH, received the SAEM Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Best Fellow Abstract Award for “Standardizing nursing home to emergency department care transition form improves documentation.”

IMPACT authors publish commentary on medical therapies in nursing homes

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IMPACT members Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS, Debra Saliba, MD, MPH, Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD and Jerry Gurwitz, MD, contribute commentary in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society citing IMPACT and the Long Term Data Cooperative as National Institute on Aging (NIA) initiatives that provide foundational work addressing the identification and capture of important clinical outcomes, laying the groundwork for a nursing home clinical trials network. The commentary is based on the article Evaluation of medical therapies in the nursing home population: Gaps, challenges, and next steps.

Read the full commentary.

IMPACT’s Harrison and McCreedy, receive Brown School of Public Health Dean’s Awards in honor of research excellence

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Congratulations to IMPACT  executive director Jill Harrison, PhD, and executive committee member Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH, for receiving Brown University’s School of Public Health Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research.

As executive director, Harrison orchestrates and participates in research collaboration with researchers and people impacted by dementia across the U.S. She received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration.

McCreedy received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement. She partners with healthcare providers and entrepreneurs in the co-design and conduct of pilots and pragmatic trials of behavioral interventions to improve care for people with dementia.