Vincent Mor, PhD, is a professor of health services, policy & practice and Florence Pirce Grant Professor in the Brown University School of Public Health and has been principal investigator of 40+ NIH-funded grants focusing on use of health services and outcomes of frail and chronically ill people. He has evaluated the impact of programs and policies including Medicare funding of hospice, changes in Medicare nursing home payment, and the introduction of nursing home quality measures. He co-authored the Congressionally-mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) and was architect of an integrated Medicare claims and clinical assessment data structure used for policy analysis, pharmacoepidemiology and population outcome measurement. Dr. Mor developed summary measures using MDS data to characterize residents’ physical, cognitive, and psycho-social functioning. These data resources are the heart of Dr. Mor’s NIA- funded Program Project Grant, “Changing Long Term Care in America,” which examines the impact of Medicaid and Medicare policies on long-term care. These data are also at the core of a series of large, pragmatic cluster randomized trials of novel nursing home-based interventions led by Dr. Mor.

Karen Moss, PhD, RN, CNL, FNAP, FGSA, is a registered nurse and nurse scientist and associate professor in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. Her program of research focuses on peer support, pain, palliative and end-of-life care, and healthcare decision making for care partners of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). She examines multi-partner perspectives on factors that influence pain and end-of-life decision-making processes for Black older adults living with ADRD and their family care partners and also seeks to better understand care partner stress. Dr. Moss is the principal investigator in the health equity-focused Family Caregiver Community Research (FamCare) Laboratory. She is actively engaged in refining and testing her co-designed Pair 2 Care intervention, a peer support program developed using community engagement principles. Dr. Moss is passionate about improving the quality of life for marginalized and underserved older adults living with ADRD and their care partners through palliative and end-of-life care outcomes towards achieving health equity.

Nicholas (Nick) Pajewski, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he co-directs the CTSA Health Informatics Program and a research center on health system sciences. 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.