Directory

Link to Peak, Kate profile page.
Full Name
Kate Peak, MPH
Credentials
MPH
Role

Core Navigator, Health Equity Team

Core/Team Associations
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

Core/Team Associations
Link to Quiñones, Ana profile page.
Full Name
Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS
Credentials
PhD, MS
Role

Team Leader, Health Equity Team (HET), Steering Committee

Recker, Amy – Profile
Full Name
Amy Recker, MPH
Credentials
MPH
Role

LTC Data Coop, Admin Team Leader, Administration Core (AC), Core Navigator, Technical, Data and Health Care Systems Core (TDHCS)

Primary title
Project Director
Primary Institution
Brown University School of Public Health
Complete Titles

Project Director, Brown University School of Public Health

Bio
Amy Recker, MPH, is a project director in the Center for Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation at the Brown University School of Public Health. She directs project management for a portfolio of research projects focused in long-term care, including the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative. Her background as an epidemiologist for both the Illinois and Massachusetts Departments of Public Health has been focused on long-term care, emerging healthcare-associated infections, and multi-drug resistant organisms. During her time in Illinois, she worked on managing the emerging Candida auris epidemic spreading through skilled nursing facilities. In Massachusetts, she served as an epidemiologist on the long-term care team during the COVID-19 pandemic. She received her master’s in public health, with a joint concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics, from the University of Southern California.
Reddy, Ann
Full Name
Ann Reddy, MPH
Credentials
MPH
Role

Core Navigator, Technical, Data and Health Care Systems Core (TDHCS)

Primary title
Research Development Project Director
Primary Institution
Brown University
Complete Titles

Research Development Project Director

Bio
Ann Reddy is a Research Development Project Director at the Brown University School of Public Health. She leads study management of pragmatic research building the evidence base for innovative practices to improve care for older adults. Ann focuses on engaging healthcare providers as research partners, ensuring their insights shape the design and implementation of studies. As a project director, she employs effective strategies to promote collaboration and manage complex projects. Ann’s professional experience includes healthcare consulting and healthcare quality improvement. Outside of her work in research and public health, Ann teaches yoga to people of all ages. She is a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, an organization committed to promoting safe, accessible, and equitable yoga instruction. Ann holds a BA in Psychology from New York University and a Master of Public Health from Brown University.
Link to Reuben, David profile page.
Full Name
David Reuben, MD
Credentials
MD
Role

Executive Committee, Health Care Systems (HCS) Core

Riddle, Melissa – Profile
Full Name
Melissa Riddle, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role

IMPACT Project Scientist, National Institute on Aging

Primary title
Acting Branch Chief
Primary Institution
National Institute on Aging
Complete Titles

Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging

Bio
Melissa Riddle, PhD directs an intervention research program focused on behavioral and social interventions relevant to caregiving, including interventions meant to support individuals with cognitive impairment and the people who care for them. This program is situated in the Individual Behavioral Processes Branch, in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research, at the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The program supports rigorous intervention development guided by the NIH Stage Model, with the ultimate goals of developing effective interventions that meet the needs of the individuals and/or communities for which they are developed, and that can be implemented where they are needed.
Core/Team Associations
Link to Ritchie, Christine profile page.
Full Name
Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH
Credentials
MD, MSPH
Role

Executive Committee, Patient/Cargiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) Core
Member, Steering Committee

Rudolph, James – Profile
Full Name
James Rudolph, MD, SM
Credentials
MD, SM
Role

Core Co-Leader, Training Core

Primary title
Professor of Medicine
Primary Institution
Brown University School of Public Health
Complete Titles

Director, Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports, Providence VA Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University
Professor of Health Policy & Practice, Brown University School of Public Health

Bio
James (Jim) Rudolph, MD, was a professor of medicine and health policy & practice at Brown University and directs the VA Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports. He was a clinician, researcher, and educator. He was an active clinician who works with interdisciplinary teams to identify at-risk patients, modify the risk, and provide medical care with a focus on function. He developed clinically innovative methods and programs to improve recovery after hospitalization. Driven by his clinical work, his research used the health system to develop and implement changes that improved the lives of older people. He also had a passion for training the next generation of aging researchers. Of his 200 scientific publications, most are with trainees.
Core/Team Associations