September 16, 2024
Administration
Mor selected to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2024 Panel of Health Advisers
Vincent Mor, PhD, NIA IMPACT Multiple Principal has been selected to join the Congressional Budget Office’s 2024 Panel of Health Advisers.
Members of the panel come from a variety of backgrounds and specialties to represent a broad array of perspectives on research and real-world developments in healthcare delivery and financing.
Invited members will participate in an annual meeting to discuss issues in their areas of expertise and to advise analysis. Additionally, members will be engaged throughout the year to share perspectives on analytical questions that arise during the preparation of studies and the development of cost estimates.
Read the full announcement here.
IMPACT’s Harrison and McCreedy, receive Brown School of Public Health Dean’s Awards in honor of research excellence
Congratulations to IMPACT executive director Jill Harrison, PhD, and executive committee member Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH, for receiving Brown University’s School of Public Health Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research.
As executive director, Harrison orchestrates and participates in research collaboration with researchers and people impacted by dementia across the U.S. She received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration.
McCreedy received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement. She partners with healthcare providers and entrepreneurs in the co-design and conduct of pilots and pragmatic trials of behavioral interventions to improve care for people with dementia.
Mor’s contributions to Brown’s School of Public Health featured in it 10-year anniversary celebration
Brown University’s School of Public Health is featuring the contributions of IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Professor Mor has led aging research at Brown for more than 40 years and he helped found the School of Public Health.
He is further credited with transforming aging and dementia care research after serving in the roles of department chair, center director and principal investigator on more than 40 National Institutes of Health-funded grants during his tenure.
Learn more about Mor’s work at Brown University’s School of Public Health, including a Q&A and video entitled Behind the Lectern: Vincent Mor.
Study shows how music can improve verbal agitation behaviors of nursing home residents with dementia
IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD, and members Roee Gutman, PhD, James Rudolph, MD, SM, Rosa Baier, MPH and executive committee member, Ellen McCreedy, PhD, are among authors sharing observed effects of music on nursing home residents with dementia. In a randomized controlled trial, patients were observed to express more pleasure and fewer signs of verbal agitation. The authors conclude that non-pharmacological interventions like personalized music exposure can temporarily relieve agitated behaviors of people living with dementia in a nursing home setting.
NIH Collaboratory workshop recordings on ePCT’s effects on healthcare systems now available
Multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD was part of an NIH Collaboratory workshop entitled “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster” held June 20-21, 2023. Mor was part of a panel of experts addressing “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on Evidence Collected in PCTs?”
The 2-day workshop explored how researchers share evidence with healthcare system decision-makers to implement the findings of pragmatic clinical trials conducted within healthcare systems.
To access the workshop summary, materials and recordings, visit the NIH Collaboratory website.
Strong IMPACT presence at GSA Annual Conference begins with Long-term Care Cooperative workshop
The IMPACT Collaboratory will have a strong presence at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, starting with a workshop by IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD and colleagues.
The workshop entitled “The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: Leveraging Nursing Home Electronic Health Records for Research,” will be held on the first day of GSA 2023, November 8.
The interactive workshop will enable attendees to learn how the LTC Data Cooperative is generating real-world evidence on treatments and care practices. They will receive access to explore sample data, gain a comprehensive understanding of the core data model, and learn how to request access for research purposes. In addition, interested attendees can apply for one-year "real world data scholars" training grants.
The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative is funded by the National Institute of Aging and aims to improve the quality of care within skilled nursing facilities by compiling the most comprehensive electronic health records data on nursing home residents nationwide.
The full conference will be held November 8-12, 2023, in Tampa, Florida and will include presentations by multiple IMPACT members throughout the conference. Register or learn more about the conference and workshop at gsa2023.org.