Implementation Core

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Full Name
Rick Fortinsky, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role

Executive Committee, Implementation Core
Pilot Grant Awardee, Cycle 2A

Primary title
Professor and Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology
Primary Institution
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Complete Titles

Professor and Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Bio
Richard (Rick) Fortinsky, PhD, is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where he is a core faculty member at the UConn Center on Aging and holds the Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Dr. Fortinsky collaborates with colleagues from a wide range of scientific disciplines, and with numerous healthcare system and community-based organization partners, to design and carry out studies intended to improve healthcare and optimize health-related outcomes for community-dwelling older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and AD-related dementia and their families. Currently he serves as principal investigator (PI) for a study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute designed to test an in-home, team-based intervention targeting older adults with cognitive vulnerability due to dementia, depression, and/or a history of delirium. He is also Multiple PI for the NIA-funded UConn Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, and Multiple PI for an NIA-funded study examining the effects of dementia, race, and ethnicity on health-related outcomes and achievement of goals of care in a statewide population enrolled in a Medicaid Home and Community-based service program.
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