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.

Elaine Bergman, MS, is the lead of the Communications and Knowledge Dissemination Team for the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and a senior project director within the Palliative Care Research Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife. Elaine has managed multiple non-pharmacologic clinical trials aimed at improving care quality for people living with advanced dementia in Boston-area nursing homes.

Faye Dvorchak is a project director on the IMPACT Administration & Management Core.

Barbara Freiwald, BS, is a human research specialist in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research within the Brown University School of Public Health. She supports investigators throughout the life of their study as it relates to human subjects research and central IRB requirements. Barbara received her bachelor’s degree at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Prior to her role on the IMPACT Collaboratory, Barbara’s professional experience and interests included IRB, quality assurance and CMS DUA administration. Mrs. Freiwald started working at Brown University in 2019 and on the IMPACT Collaboratory in 2022.

Julie Lima, PhD, MPH, is an expert in data compliance and human subjects research regulatory matters. As a health services researcher, Dr. Lima has hands-on experience working with both survey and administrative data and has collaborated with national leaders in the areas of unmet need for care for people living with functional limitations in the community; quality of care at the end of life; culture change practices in the nursing homes; and post-acute care among Medicare beneficiaries.