Rosa Baier, MPH, is a professor of practice at Brown University’s School of Public Health, where she directs the Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation (Q&I) research group. Under her leadership, Q&I has developed durable partnerships and infrastructure to advance partnered pragmatic research that improves care for older adults. Professor Baier’s expertise lies in applying partner engagement, improvement science, and implementation evaluation to design interventions that are both rigorous and feasible under real-world conditions. Ms Baier holds leadership roles on NIH-funded national infrastructure initiatives, including the IMPACT Collaboratory and the LeaRRn Rehabilitation Research Network, which expand the field’s capacity for embedded pragmatic research through funding, training, and mentorship. Her contributions include co-developing the Readiness Assessment for Pragmatic Trials (RAPT) and RAPT-Indigenous models for trialists to strengthen their interventions' readiness for successful, pro-equity ePCTs and advancing approaches to pragmatic research that align studies with providers’ priorities and operational context.

Zachary Baker, PhD, is a Robert L. Kane postdoctoral fellow working in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Baker's aim is to better understand, develop, evaluate, and disseminate technological tools and psychosocial resources that help caregivers and persons with dementia to thrive during and after the dementia caregiving process. This is accomplished through the use of advanced methods (e.g., interventions, longitudinal studies, event momentary assessment, dyadic data collection), statistics (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, response surface analysis), and psychological theory/perspectives (e.g., self-determination theory, attachment theory, positive psychology). Dr. Baker is currently funded through a career development award from the National Institute on Aging, focused on former dementia caregivers (K99 AG073463) and convene the Supporting Dementia Caregivers After Death Community Advisory Board.

Clark Benson, MPA is a researcher at the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine in Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi’s cognitive care lab. A Master of Public Affairs graduate, Clark’s research interests center on understanding the impact of public policy on cognitively vulnerable people in settings and contexts that frequently receive little attention. Clark has over six years of experience leading studies that engage directly with people living with dementia and their caregivers.

Sarah Berry, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician and clinical researcher with expertise in falls and fractures, particularly in the nursing home setting. Her current funding includes a large pragmatic, randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of a deprescribing care model and a bone health care model in older patients receiving post-acute care in a nursing home after a fracture. She enjoys mentoring trainees and junior faculty in patient-oriented aging research.