Name
Full Name
Ab Brody, PhD, RN, FAAN
Credentials
PhD, RN, FAAN
Role
Core Leader, Pilot Studies Core
Member, Steering Committee
Primary title
Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing
Primary Institution
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Complete Titles
Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Associate Director, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Founder, Aliviado Health
Bio
Ab Brody, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing, associate director of Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, and founder of Aliviado. He is passionate about mentoring and developing the nursing and scientific workforce, leads the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Leadership Development Program, is enrichment program director of NYU Meyer’s P20 Exploratory Center for Precision Health in Diverse Populations (P20NR018075), and maintains an active practice on the Geriatric and Palliative Consult Services at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Brody’s work focuses on the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, and equity, seeking to improve quality of care for older adults with serious illness. He is principal investigator for two NIH-funded large-scale pragmatic clinical trials: one focusing on improving care quality, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for people living with dementia in home health (R01AG056610) through Aliviado Dementia Care for Home Health; another, the HAS-QOL trial (R61AG061904), focuses on implementing Aliviado Dementia Care for Hospice, with a primary outcome of reducing inappropriate antipsychotic use that can lead to reduced function and quality of life.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH
Credentials
MD, MPH
Role
Core Leader, Technical Data Core (TDC)
IMPACT-C, Steering Committee
Primary title
Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
Primary Institution
University of Michigan
Complete Titles
Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy & Research
Bio
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, vice chair for faculty affairs, research professor in the Institute of Gerontology, Geriatric Center associate director for health policy and research, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Dr. Bynum received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins, completed her residency and chief residency at Dartmouth, and completed specialty training in Geriatric Medicine back at Johns Hopkins. She leads interdisciplinary research teams to study questions about the complex drivers of quality and costs for older adults and how to improve health care policy and performance using national administrative data. Dr. Bynum has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee that published “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress”, and was recently a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, and on a NAM workshop planning committee on adverse consequences of cancer treatment. She leads a robust portfolio of research largely focusing on health and health care for people living with dementia including a newly-funded NIA Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Niteesh Choudhury, MD, PhD
Credentials
MD, PhD
Role
Member
Steering Committee
Primary title
Executive Director
Primary Institution
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Complete Titles
Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor in Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Director, Postgraduate Education and Director, Implementation Research and Education, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics and the Hospitalist Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bio
Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and executive director for the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), where he also a practicing hospitalist. He is also director of Implementation Research and Education and associate director for Postgraduate Education in Clinical and Translational Science for Harvard Catalyst. He directs two NIA-funded research centers: the Roybal Center for Therapeutic Optimization using Behavioral Science the Massachusetts Artificial Intelligence and Technology Center. Much of Dr. Choudhry’s research deals with design and evaluation of novel strategies to enhance medication adherence and improve the quality of prescribing for common health care conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. His work combines approaches from behavioral and data science to develop scalable solutions for health quality improvement. He has run numerous large pragmatic trials testing a variety of potential interventions to address these issues in partnership with large delivery systems and health insurers around the U.S. Dr. Choudhry attended McGill University, received his MD, and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Toronto and then served as chief medical resident for the Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals. He earned his PhD in health policy from Harvard University with a concentration in statistics and the evaluative sciences and was concurrently a post-doctoral fellow in drug policy research at Harvard Medical School. His research has published over 250 papers in leading medical and policy journals and has won numerous awards for excellence in research, teaching, and mentorship.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Scott Halpern, MD, PhD
Credentials
MD, PhD
Role
Member, Steering Committee
Primary title
John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Primary Institution
University of Pennsylvania
Complete Titles
John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy,
Director, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center,
University of Pennsylvania
Bio
Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center and the NIA- funded Roybal Center, “Transforming residential palliative care for persons with dementia through behavioral economics and data science.” Dr. Halpern’s research focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve the value of health care delivery for patients and caregivers affected by serious illnesses, including dementia. He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP and has received numerous awards for research and mentoring, including the 2017 American Federation for Medical Research’s Outstanding Investigator Award for the best scientist in any field under the age of 45, the Association of Clinical and Translational Science’s Distinguished Investigator Award for Lifetime Achievement in translation of clinical practice into public benefit and policy, and the Arthur K. Asbury Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
Credentials
MD, MPH
Role
Core Leader, Patient/Caregiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) Core
Member, Steering Committee
Primary title
Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director, UNC Palliative Care Program
Primary Institution
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Complete Titles
Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Director, UNC Palliative Care Program, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Bio
Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH, is a tenured professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Palliative Care Program. As a board-certified physician in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine, she provides care for frail and medically complex older patients, and adults of all ages with serious and potentially life-limiting illness. Dr. Hanson leads a research program to measure and improve quality of palliative care for people living with late-stage AD/ADRD, nursing home residents and other vulnerable populations. She leads the Measurement Core for the NINR-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative group, and has developed quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum and applied nationwide in hospice care. Her recent research focuses on AD/ADRD clinical trials to improve shared decision-making and palliative care outcomes.
Core/Team Associations
Name
Full Name
Ula Hwang, MD, MPH
Credentials
MD, MPH
Role
Executive Committee, Health Care Systems (HCS) Core
Pilot Grant Awardee, Cycle 1
Primary title
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population Health
Primary Institution
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Complete Titles
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine;
Core Investigator, James J. Peters VAMC, GRECC
Bio
Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, is a professor of emergency medicine & population health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and core investigator in the GRECC at the James J. Peters VAMC. Her research interests are understanding and improving quality of care for older adults and people living with dementia in the emergency department (ED). Dr. Hwang authored the paper “The Geriatric Emergency Department,” the basis of the CMS Health Care Innovation Award program, Geriatric ED Innovations in care through Workforce, Informatics, and Structural Enhancements (GEDI WISE). Her leadership and committee positions involve national efforts to improve care for older adults in the ED. She is co-PI on the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and Gary and Mary West Health Institute, and PI / MPI for the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Networks, NIA funded R33s supporting geriatric and dementia care research in the ED. Dr. Hwang’s projects have evaluated the impact on patient outcomes of Geriatric ED interventions, improving emergency provider practices in medication prescribing for older adults, analgesic safety and effectiveness, and ED quality of care with support by the NIA, Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research & Development, and foundations.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH
Credentials
MD, MPH
Role
Multiple Principal Investigator, IMPACT Collaboratory
Primary title
Senior Scientist
Primary Institution
Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research
Complete Titles
Senior Scientist, Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research
Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Faculty, Division of Geriatrics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bio
Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research in Boston, where she directs the Palliative Care in Aging Research Center and co-directs the Interventional Studies in Aging Center. She is a geriatrician and health services researcher. Her research focuses on improving outcomes for older patients with advanced illness, particularly those living with dementia. Dr. Mitchell has been the principal investigator on many large research projects funded by the NIH, including several cluster randomized clinical trials, and has authored many key scientific publications related to this topic. Dr. Mitchell is also a current recipient of a NIH-NIA Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award and an active mentor of young investigators and was supported by an NIH-NIA K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award for ten years.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Vincent Mor, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role
Principal Investigator, Administration Core (AC)
Member, Steering Committee
Primary title
Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and the Florence Pirce Grant University Health
Primary Institution
Brown University School of Public Health
Complete Titles
Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and the Florence Pirce Grant University Health, Brown University School of Public Health
Research Health Scientist, Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center
Bio
Vincent Mor, PhD, is a professor of health services, policy & practice and Florence Pirce Grant Professor in the Brown University School of Public Health and has been principal investigator of 40+ NIH-funded grants focusing on use of health services and outcomes of frail and chronically ill people. He has evaluated the impact of programs and policies including Medicare funding of hospice, changes in Medicare nursing home payment, and the introduction of nursing home quality measures. He co-authored the Congressionally-mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) and was architect of an integrated Medicare claims and clinical assessment data structure used for policy analysis, pharmacoepidemiology and population outcome measurement. Dr. Mor developed summary measures using MDS data to characterize residents’ physical, cognitive, and psycho-social functioning. These data resources are the heart of Dr. Mor’s NIA- funded Program Project Grant, “Changing Long Term Care in America,” which examines the impact of Medicaid and Medicare policies on long-term care. These data are also at the core of a series of large, pragmatic cluster randomized trials of novel nursing home-based interventions led by Dr. Mor.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Lisa Onken, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role
NIA Project Scientist
Member, Steering Committee
Primary title
Director Behavior Change and Intervention Program
Primary Institution
National Institute on Aging
Complete Titles
Director Behavior Change and Intervention Program, Division of Behavioral and Social Research (DBSR)
Bio
Lisa Onken, PhD, directs the Behavior Change and Intervention Program in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging, NIH. Dr. Onken received her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She has held a variety of academic, clinical, and research scientist positions at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois Medical Center, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. At NIA, Dr. Onken administers a broad program of research on the development of behavioral interventions to promote the health and well-being of individuals as they age, including research on interventions to promote positive affect, reduce negative affect, foster sleep, and improve the emotional well-being and quality of life for those who provide care and for people who live with dementia. Using the NIH Stage Model, a comprehensive translational conceptual framework for principle-driven behavioral intervention development as a conceptual framework, she promotes the development of interventions that are maximally potent and scalable to reach those in need. In addition to leading the Roybal Translational Centers program. Dr. Onken is a project scientist on the NIH Science of Behavior Change Program, and on the NIA AD/ADRD Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory.
Core/Team Associations
Full Name
Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS
Credentials
PhD, MS
Role
Team Leader, Health Equity Team (HET), Steering Committee
Primary title
Associate Professor
Primary Institution
Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Family Medicine
Complete Titles
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University
Bio
Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, is an associate professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University with an affiliate appointment at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. Dr. Quiñones is a gerontologist trained in health services organization and policy from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Her research interests are focused on addressing racial and ethnic differences in trajectories of age-related changes in health--particularly in co-existing chronic diseases (multimorbidity) including dementia--and evaluating health care delivery changes designed to improve the management of multimorbidity for vulnerable older adults. She has led multiple NIH, NIA, and foundation-funded studies investigating racial and ethnic differences in multimorbidity. These include studies that trace the development and progression of multimorbidity over time and that seek to identify chronic disease combinations associated with greater cognitive decline and dementia among racially and ethnically diverse populations.
Core/Team Associations