Rosa Baier, MPH, is a professor of practice at Brown University. She directs the Center for Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation (Q&I)—the IMPACT Collaboratory’s administrative home—which aims to improve care for older adults by testing and disseminating proven interventions, and has particular strength in post-acute and long-term care settings. Prior to launching Q&I in 2015, she spent 14 years collaborating with healthcare providers and stakeholders to implement and evaluate Medicare quality improvement initiatives. This hands-on experience informs her approach to pragmatic research: combining rigorous methods and evaluation with the flexibility necessary to implement interventions under real-world conditions and constraints. Among her scientific contributions is co-creating the Readiness Assessment for Pragmatic Trials (RAPT) model, which helps trial lists assess an intervention when determining whether or not to proceed to a pragmatic trial and how to design that trial. Her research interests also include characterizing nursing centers able to implement interventions successfully.

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.

Jill Harrison, PhD, is an executive director at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and an associate professor of practice in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Prior to joining the IMPACT Collaboratory, Dr. Harrison served as the director of research for an international non-profit advocacy organization, founded by a patient and focused on implementing person-centered care initiatives in healthcare organizations in 27 countries. In addition to her role at the IMPACT Collaboratory, Dr. Harrison is a member of the advisory panel for patient engagement at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She was recently the principal investigator of a PCORI Engagement Award about how patient-family advisory councils engage in research. Her research interests include: pragmatic trials in real-world settings, engaging residents of long-term care communities as evaluators of care quality, developing culturally congruent person-centered care approaches in healthcare systems, and organizational cultural change. She completed her post-doctorate at Brown University in health services research.

Julie Lima, PhD, MPH, is the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research within the Brown University School of Public Health’s expert on data compliance and human subjects research regulatory matters and is a member of Brown University’s Human Research Advisory Group (BhRAG). 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.