Quincy Samus, PhD, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. She is the director of the Memory and Aging Services Innovation Center and associate director of the Innovation & Implementation Center for Aging. She is trained in applied gerontology, epidemiology, and health services research and has 20 years of experience leading projects to develop innovation to improve care for older people living with memory challenges and their families. She has an extensive track record of interdisciplinary collaboration with across many settings to address dementia care and risk reduction. She has successfully pioneered the development, testing and dissemination of evidence-based care management innovations and models of care to improve the coordination of care among people living with dementia. She has contributed to policy development and strategic planning for dementia care and brain health initiatives at the state, national and international level.

Manish Shah, MD MPH, is Professor and Chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and holds the Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. As a practicing emergency medicine physician and a researcher, he has dedicated his career to improving the care delivered to acutely ill or injured older adults. His work has helped establish the field of geriatric emergency medicine and advanced the role of ambulance-based paramedics to support community health efforts, now termed “community paramedicine.” Dr. Shah’s recent work has focused on helping people living with dementia (PLWD). He is one of the leaders for ED-LEAD, an 80-site pragmatic trial evaluating three interventions to improve the emergency department care of PLWD and their care partners. Dr. Shah also has a passion for developing researchers. His mentees now hold senior positions across health systems, medical schools, and research programs.

Ellen Tambor, MA, has led and contributed to a wide range of projects aimed at meaningfully engaging patients, care partners, clinicians, and other parnters in all aspects of the research process. As a project director at the non-profit Education Development Center (EDC), she helped to establsih the National Dementia Care Collaborative. In her previous position as a research director at the Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP), 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.

Alexia (Lexy) Torke, MD, MS, is a professor of medicine and division head of general internal medicine and geriatrics at Oregon Health & Science University. 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, especially 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 general internal medicine and palliative medicine.

Jeffrey Turner, MPH, is a project coordinator in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University School of Public Health. His IMPACT Collaboratory role focuses on leading a qualitative implementation evaluation examining high-level, cross-study factors which affect the implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCT) for dementia. Mr. Turner is an experienced qualitative researcher with prior experience managing and conducting research with older adults, persons living with dementia, clinical staff, and persons using opioids . He completed his B.S. in Public Health and MPH at Southern Connecticut State University.