Nicholas (Nick) Pajewski, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he co-directs the CTSA Health Informatics Program and a research center on health system sciences. Dr. Pajewski is a biostatistician and clinical trialist with experience in large, multi-site randomized trials, largely focused on pharmacologic management of common chronic diseases in older adults. He was the primary faculty biostatistician for the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial’s (SPRINT) cognitive component (SPRINT MIND) and is currently a member of the Data Coordinating Center and Steering Committee for the Pragmatic Evaluation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in oldEr adults (PREVENTABLE) trial. Dr. Pajewski’s research also centers around leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) for health services research and population health, with a particular focus on applications of the deficit accumulation model of frailty.

Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an NIH-funded assistant professor at NYU and a board-certified adult and geriatric nurse practitioner. Her research focuses on improving care for people with Alzheimer’s disease and supporting their families—especially immigrant families navigating complex healthcare systems. She developed CareMobi™, an award-winning app that helps caregivers coordinate care, and founded The Enlightened Caregiver, a social media movement empowering families to advocate for optimal care. Dr. Sadarangani is a national leader in advancing adult day centers as key partners in chronic disease management and nutrition programs for underserved older adults. Her collaborations with the National and California Associations of Adult Day Services have shown that integrating these centers into healthcare reduces unnecessary utilization and enhances person-centered care. Widely published and featured in major media outlets, she has been honored by Crain’s New York Business as a Notable Leader in Healthcare. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Jenny Sullivan, PhD, has been a health services researcher for over 20 years in the VA and has received grant funding from both VA HSR and QUERI on several studies and evaluations. The core areas of Dr. Sullivan’s research have been assessing program implementation and quality of institutional and noninstitutional LTSS in VA. More recently her work has focused on geriatric mental health and suicide prevention for older Veterans. Her areas of expertise include mixed methods and qualitative research designs and the application of implementation science to her work. She is a co-principal investigator on the VA merit grant to assess Hospital in Home implementation in VA. Her list of published work can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/103sHLFCN7UAF/bibliography/public/

Elizabeth (Betsy) White, APRN, PhD, is an assistant professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research agenda broadly focuses on understanding how medically-complex older adults, including people living with dementia and people living in nursing homes, receive healthcare, and how factors affecting the nursing and primary care workforces impact care quality and health outcomes for this population. She has assisted in the construction of large data systems of nursing home electronic health records to examine various aspects of COVID-19 management, treatment, and outcomes among nursing home residents and staff during the pandemic, and to support observational and interventional research in nursing homes more broadly. Dr. White is a board-certified adult geriatric primary care nurse practitioner and practices in the Brown Medicine Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine.