July 13, 2023
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Quiñones interviewed on health equity in ePCT landscape during annual NIH meeting
IMPACT Health Equity Team (HET) leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS and colleague Dr. Anne Trontell reflected on health equity in the embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) landscape during the 2023 NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee Meeting.
The focus of the meeting was health equity in ePCTs and Quiñones spoke about the efforts of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory to include health equity approaches in all aspects of its care and research efforts, resulting in a series of best practice recommendations.
Comments from both scholars were published in the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory website, rethinkingclinicaltrials.org.
Mission Moment: Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife
Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 11, 2023.
Ms. Desir shared her unique experience as a frontline member of the healthcare team working with people living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ms. Desir provided a heartfelt description of the challenges that providers, patients, and families faced throughout the pandemic. She provided examples of how her team maintained their humor and humanity to overcome obstacles to good caregiving. Her account received a standing ovation for her inspiring mission moment.
Mor to present on Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory at NIH virtual workshop
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.
