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IMPACT Collaboratory funds two Career Development Awards

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

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

Announcing the 2023 Real World Data Scholars Program Awardees

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

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.