Pilot awardee Peter Serina, MD, MPH, received the 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Best Fellow Abstract Award for “Standardizing nursing home to emergency department care transition form improves documentation.”
To honor Dr. Serina’s accomplishments, AGEM recognized him during the 2024 SAEM Annual Meeting held May 15th.
IMPACT members Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS and Health Care Systems Scholar Gail Towsley, PhD, MS, NHA published an article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The editorial article, Learning from the experience of dementia care for nursing home residents during the pandemic, comments on an article by Gadbois et al, about nursing home care during the COVID pandemic. Unroe and Towsley comment on issues including the need for dementia care specific staff training, the value of telehealth communication, and the particular importance of expanding family roles in nursing home care. The authors describe the creation of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition as a response to pandemic-era policies which prevented family members from visiting nursing home residents to limit COVID transmission
Dr. Tina Sadarangani’s CareMobi caregiver support mobile application (app) was featured in a national story on Specturm News. The CareMobi app is designed to help caregivers track patients health information, symptoms and other information needed to coordinate caregiving for older adults. The news feature describes how Sadarangani worked with caregivers, nurses, doctors and programmers to create the app, which helps coordinate a person’s entire care team. Several senior care centers are testing the app as part of a research study by the National Institute on Aging. The app is available in the Apple App Store and is currently free to all during the testing phase.
IMPACT Career Development awardee Andrew Kiselica, Tech-AiD, weighed in on the impact of a mild cognitive impairment diagnosis, and ways to manage symptoms and slow progression in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. Kiselica is an assistant professor of health psychology and a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri. He commented on the possibility of new dementia medications and current risks and benefits.
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 5A, and the Health Care Systems Scholars Cycle 4. Awardees of these funding opportunities will be supported by the IMPACT cores and teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners.
The Pilot Grant Program funds several one-year pilot ePCTs that test non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care systems to improve care for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. Pilot studies are conducted to generate the preliminary data necessary to design and conduct future full-scale Stage IV effectiveness ePCT (based on the NIH Stage Model) that will be funded through other grant mechanisms (National Institutes of Health or other sources).
Recipients of the Pilot Cycle 5A Awards:
Health Care System Scholars Program Cycle 4
The Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program funds investigators for one year to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners. The goals of the HCS Scholars Program are to embed investigators in health care systems to:
Recipient of the Health Care System Scholars Program Cycle 4 Award
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic AD/ADRD Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Career Development Award Program. Recipients were selected from an impressive group of competitive applications.
About the IMPACT Collaboratory Career Development Award Program
NIA IMPACT Collaboratory funds two to three Career Development Awards (CDAs) annually. These awards support the development of early-stage MD, PhD, or equivalent researchers who seek careers conducting ePCTs for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. This mechanism funds research projects that are preparatory to conducting a future ePCT such as secondary data analysis, intervention development or the development of pragmatic outcomes. The IMPACT Collaboratory prioritizes applications that address dementia care for people of all backgrounds and promote health equity.
2023 IMPACT Career Development Award Recipients:
Erica Frechman, PhD, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN, NEA-BC, FPCN, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine Pragmatic EHR Tool to Identify High-Risk Hospitalized Dementia Patients
Rebecca Lassell, PhD, MOT, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
Adapting Green Activity Prescriptions with Black People Living with Dementia
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory (U54AG063546) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the 2023 Real World Data Scholar Program in collaboration with the Long Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative (U54AG063546-S6).
This new program supports the development of early-career faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students who are interested in developing their expertise and experience in working with electronic health record (EHR) data in the nursing home setting. The inaugural awardees have the unique opportunity to be among the first users of the LTC Data Cooperative’s EHR data and will conduct projects that characterize the data for future users through validation and analyses.
Recipients of the 2023 Real World Data Scholar Program Awards are:
Jinying Chen, PhD, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Validating Free-text Medication Orders by Leveraging Natural Language Processing
Kenneth Lam, MD, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Validation of Functional Measures in LTC EHR Data
Lindsay White, PhD, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Determination of Cognitive Status in NH Residents: The Utility of EHR Data
Yongkang Zhang, PhD, MS, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, Evaluating LTC Data Cooperative EHRs to Study T2D among Nursing Home Residents
Learn more about the awardees.
Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 | 11:00am – 3:30pm ET
Thursday, January 25th, 2024 | 11:00am – 5:00pm ET
2024 modules will focus on:
The IMPACT Collaboratory will hold its fourth annual virtual Training Workshop on January 24-25, 2024 entitled Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) among People Living with Dementia (PLWD) and their Care Partners. This 1.5-day virtual workshop features all new material to build a foundation in practical aspects of designing and conducting ePCTs in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD). The workshop will include a combination of activities including: panel discussions, small group sessions, and networking opportunities with experts in the field.
IMPACT is inviting applications from early to mid-stage researchers who seek to develop competence in designing and conducting ePCTs of non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care systems for PLWD and care partners.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Successful applicants will be expected to complete selected readings and online training prior to the workshop. All participants are expected to attend and participate in the entire 1.5-day event.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your online application using the following link:
IMPACT Training Workshop Application
Deadline: October 20, 2023
NOTE: IMPACT trainees and awardees do not need to apply.
Eligibility Criteria:
Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Selection Criteria: Applicants will be selected based on their demonstrated commitment to improving care of PLWD and/or their care partners through the conduct of ePCTs in HCS and the potential impact of the workshop on promoting the applicant’s career in this area.
Find the working agenda and more information about the workshop on our website at impactcollaboratory.org/training-workshop.
Email IMPACTcollaboratory@hsl.harvard.edu with questions regarding this opportunity.
