Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard and associate scientist in the Palliative Care in Aging Research Center at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research in Boston. She is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with extensive experience in research, administration, and training. Dr. McCarthy has led research aimed at improving care of older patients with advanced illness with a focus on reducing healthcare disparities among underserved, older populations. She has worked across diverse groups of patients, caregivers, providers, healthcare systems, and investigators to inform strategies to navigate research activities across these complex environments. Her expertise includes using clinical data and Medicare-linked databases to address research questions in older people. Dr. McCarthy previously served as assistant dean for development and diversity at Harvard Medical School. She participates in several Harvard fellowship programs and has mentored many successful investigators in aging research.

Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on pragmatic evaluation of nonpharmaceutical interventions for managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is currently leading an embedded pragmatic trial testing the effects of personalized music on agitation and antipsychotic use for nursing home residents with dementia, and a trial testing the effects of an enhanced advance care planning intervention on documentation of care wishes for people with dementia in assisted living centers. She has previously served as measurement lead for a trial testing the effect of tunable LED lighting on agitation and sleep for nursing home residents with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is also a Steering Committee member of the Technical and Data Core of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory. Dr. McCreedy received her MPH in global health from the University of South Florida, her PhD in health services research from the University of Minnesota, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research.

Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research in Boston, where she directs the Palliative Care in Aging Research Center and co-directs the Interventional Studies in Aging Center. She is a geriatrician and health services researcher. Her research focuses on improving outcomes for older patients with advanced illness, particularly those living with dementia. Dr. Mitchell has been the principal investigator on many large research projects funded by the NIH, including several cluster randomized clinical trials, and has authored many key scientific publications related to this topic. Dr. Mitchell is also a current recipient of a NIH-NIA Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award and an active mentor of young investigators and was supported by an NIH-NIA K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award for ten years.

Vincent Mor, PhD, is a professor of health services, policy & practice and Florence Pirce Grant Professor in the Brown University School of Public Health and has been principal investigator of 40+ NIH-funded grants focusing on use of health services and outcomes of frail and chronically ill people. He has evaluated the impact of programs and policies including Medicare funding of hospice, changes in Medicare nursing home payment, and the introduction of nursing home quality measures. He co-authored the Congressionally-mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) and was architect of an integrated Medicare claims and clinical assessment data structure used for policy analysis, pharmacoepidemiology and population outcome measurement. Dr. Mor developed summary measures using MDS data to characterize residents’ physical, cognitive, and psycho-social functioning. These data resources are the heart of Dr. Mor’s NIA- funded Program Project Grant, “Changing Long Term Care in America,” which examines the impact of Medicaid and Medicare policies on long-term care. These data are also at the core of a series of large, pragmatic cluster randomized trials of novel nursing home-based interventions led by Dr. Mor.

Karen Moss, PhD, RN, CNL, FNAP, FGSA, is a registered nurse and nurse scientist and associate professor in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. Her program of research focuses on peer support, pain, palliative and end-of-life care, and healthcare decision making for care partners of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). She examines multi-partner perspectives on factors that influence pain and end-of-life decision-making processes for Black older adults living with ADRD and their family care partners and also seeks to better understand care partner stress. Dr. Moss is the principal investigator in the health equity-focused Family Caregiver Community Research (FamCare) Laboratory. She is actively engaged in refining and testing her co-designed Pair 2 Care intervention, a peer support program developed using community engagement principles. Dr. Moss is passionate about improving the quality of life for marginalized and underserved older adults living with ADRD and their care partners through palliative and end-of-life care outcomes towards achieving health equity.