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Name

Taljaard, Monica – Profile

Full Name

Monica Taljaard, PhD

Credentials

PhD

Role

Executive Committee, Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Primary title

Senior Scientist

Primary Institution

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Complete Titles

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Bio

Monica Taljaard, PhD, is a biostatistician specializing in the design, analysis, and ethics of pragmatic cluster randomized and stepped wedge trials. As a member of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) Methods Center, she regularly provides biostatistical assistance to investigators in the design, conduct, and analysis of pragmatic trials, pilot trials, quality improvement interventions and health system projects. Since Dr. Taljaard’s academic appointment in 2006, she has published over 440 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has received over $19M in peer-reviewed research grants as principal investigator in addition to >$145 million in peer-reviewed research funding as co-investigator. She has collaborated with investigators in the design and analysis of a large-scale pragmatic cluster randomized trials in US nursing homes, and studies in palliative and end-of-life care, dementia, long-term care, perioperative care of the frail elderly, as well as health care system quality improvement in nursing homes.

Core/Team Associations

Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Name

Tambor, Ellen – Profile

Full Name

Ellen Tambor, MA

Credentials

Role

Associate Team Leader, Engaging Partners Team

Bio

Ellen Tambor, MA, has led and contributed to a wide range of projects aimed at meaningfully engaging patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. As a research director at the non-profit Center for Medical Technology Policy, she co-led the Stakeholder Engagement Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory and helped to design and implement a plan for patient and clinician engagement in the Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN). She also led a PCORI-funded project aimed at improving the engagement of front-line clinicians in pragmatic clinical trials. Before joining CMTP, Ellen was a research associate in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, where she conducted social science research in genetics and public policy studies. She holds an MA in psychology from Wake Forest University.

Core/Team Associations

Engaging Partners Team

Name

Teno, Joan – Profile

Full Name

Joan Teno, MD, MS

Credentials

MD, MS

Role

Former Member, Patient and Caregiver Reported Outcomes (PCRO) Core

Core/Team Associations

Former Member

Name

Torke, Alexia – Profile

Full Name

Alexia Torke, MD, MS

Credentials

MD, MS

Role

Core Co-Leader, Training Core
Funding Opportunities

Primary title

Professor and Section Chief, Palliative Medicine

Primary Institution

Indiana University

Complete Titles

Director, Evans Center at IU Health; Co-Director, Research in Palliative and End of Life Communication and Training (RESPECT) Center

Bio

Alexia (Lexy) Torke, MD, is a professor of medicine and section chief of Palliative Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a research scientist with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute and director of the Evans Center for Religious and Spiritual Values in Healthcare. Dr. Torke received her MD from Indiana University and completed her primary care-internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta. She completed fellowship training at the University of Chicago in primary care health services research and ethics. Dr. Torke’s research focuses on ethical, communication, and spiritual aspects of medical decision-making for older adults and currently on surrogate decision-making for older people living with dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment. She has received funding from the NIH, the Greenwall Foundation and other foundation sources. She practices outpatient palliative care at IU Health Methodist Hospital.

Core/Team Associations

Training Core

Name

Travison, Thomas – Profile

Full Name

Thomas Travison, PhD

Credentials

PhD

Role

Associate Core Leader, Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Primary title

Senior Scientist; Director of Biostatistics; Associate Professor

Primary Institution

Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife

Complete Titles

Senior Scientist, Director of Biostatistics, Co-Director of the Interventional Studies in Aging Center, Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Bio

Thomas Travison, PhD, is a biostatistician and clinical trialist. His work is focused on observational and interventional science intended to promote functional independence and to prevent the development and progression of frailty. Dr. Travison is an internationally recognized expert in the epidemiology of age-associated changes in circulating sex steroid concentrations and their contribution to functional and cognitive aging. He has designed and analyzed numerous clinical trials of multimodal interventions in complex older populations. His laboratory focuses on the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies promoting reproducible quantitative and biomedical science.

Core/Team Associations

Design & Statistics Core (DSC)