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.

Brown University’s School of Public Health is featuring the contributions of IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, as it celebrates its 10^th 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.

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, along with colleagues Steven George, PT, PhD and Angelo Volandes, MD, discussed the complexities of intervention delivery in pragmatic clinical trials during an interview at this year’s NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Steering Committee annual meeting. The group explained that delivery complexities impact researchers’ ability to discern trial results and should be addressed early for pragmatic trials.

The session, titled “Lessons on Intervention Delivery and Complexity,” was held on August 8, 2023. An excerpt of Mor’s interview is published on the NIH Collaboratory website.

Read the interview.

IMPACT multiple principal investigator and longtime professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University, Vincent Mor, PhD served as a panelist during the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  Collaboratory Workshop. “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster.” The panel, held on June 29, was titled “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on Evidence Collected in PCTs?” and discussed how healthcare system leaders can evaluate research and implement findings.

Watch the full panel video.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will host a virtual workshop, “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster: Insights from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory”. The virtual event will be held June 20-21 to explore the critical cycle of evidence generation to decision-making by health system leaders looking to implement the findings of pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs).

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD will participate in Panel 1 on the first day entitled “How have health systems made decisions based on evidence collected in PCTs?” Mor will be commenting on IMPACT as well as on the PROVEN pragmatic trial conducted with IMPACT Principal Investigator Susan Mitchell, MD PhD.

The workshop is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will present at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine public workshop exploring the current state of mental health care for older adults in the United States and potential strategies to address the mental health needs and challenges of an aging population.

Mor, who is a National Academy workshop planning committee member, will moderate a session called “Promoting Resilience and Positive Mental Health in Older Adults.” The two-day workshop will be held May 15-16, 2023, in Washington DC and virtually, online via Event Bright.

Learn more and register for the workshop.