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Link to Pajewski, Nicholas profile page.
Full Name
Nicholas Pajewski, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role

Executive Committee Member, Pilot Studies Core (PSC) & Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Primary title
Associate Professor
Primary Institution
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Complete Titles

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Director of Statistical Analytics, Center for Health Care Innovation, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Bio
Nicholas (Nick) Pajewski, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest School of Medicine, where he is also the director of statistical analytics for the Center for Health Care Innovation. Dr. Pajewski is a biostatistician and clinical trialist with experience in large, multi-site randomized trials, largely focused on pharmacologic management of common chronic diseases in older adults. He was the primary faculty biostatistician for the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial’s (SPRINT) cognitive component (SPRINT MIND), and is currently a member of the Data Coordinating Center and Steering Committee for the Pragmatic Evaluation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in oldEr adults (PREVENTABLE) trial. Dr. Pajewski’s research also centers around leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) for health services research and population health, with a particular focus on applications of the deficit accumulation model of frailty.
Link to Peak, Kate profile page.
Full Name
Kate Peak, MPH
Credentials
MPH
Role

Core Navigator, Health Equity Team

Primary title
Research Associate
Primary Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Complete Titles

Research Associate, Oregon Health & Science University

Bio
Kate Peak, MPH, is a research associate with the Oregon Health and Science University where she has worked on projects related to health disparities among older adults with multiple chronic conditions since 2019. Kate has a background in public health research. She has worked on studies assessing the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the mental physical well-being of families in southeast Louisiana and provided technical assistance to PCORI awardees building multi-stakeholder teams for comparative effectiveness research. Kate Peak received her master’s in public health from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Core/Team Associations
Peter Serina – Profile
Full Name
Peter Serina, MD, MPH
Credentials
MD, MPH
Role

Administrative and Management Core
Funding Opportunities
Postdoctoral Fellow

Primary title
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Primary Institution
Brown University School of Public Health
Complete Titles

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Bio
Peter Serina, MD, MPH, is a post-doctoral research fellow at Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research. Dr. Serina works as an emergency physician at the Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital. His hope is to improve health outcomes and work towards goal-concordant care for older patients in the acute care phase of care through research projects. Dr. Serina is currently working on existing projects within the Department of Gerontology and Healthcare Research including an embedded pragmatic clinical trial examining a new initiative designed to increase advanced directive use among assisted living facilities and working with Medicare claims data to better understand outcomes for older adults in post-acute rehabilitation facilities.
Phillips, Louise – Profile
Full Name
Louise Phillips, MD
Credentials
MD
Role

Former Member, Retired Physician Living with Dementia, Stakeholder Engagement Team

Core/Team Associations
Link to Platt, Richard profile page.
Full Name
Richard Platt, MD, MSc
Credentials
MD, MSc
Role

Executive Committee, Technical Data Core (TDC)
Demonstration Project Awardee, Cycle 1

Primary title
Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine
Primary Institution
Harvard Medical School
Complete Titles

Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
President, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Bio
Richard Platt, MD, MSc, is professor and chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine, and executive director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He has extensive experience in developing systems and capabilities for using routinely collected electronic health information to support public health surveillance, medical product safety assessments, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, and quality improvement programs. He also has led health system-based intervention studies. Dr. Platt led the development of the FDA’s Sentinel program, which performs post-marketing safety surveillance using the electronic health data from over 125 million people. He leads the NIH Pragmatic Clinical Trials Collaboratory's Distributed Research Network, and he co-leads a CDC Prevention Epicenter. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Leadership Consortium: Collaboration for a Value and Science Driven Learning Health System.
Core/Team Associations