Ellen Tambor, MA, has led and contributed to a wide range of projects aimed at meaningfully engaging patients, care partners, clinicians, and other parnters in all aspects of the research process. As a project director at the non-profit Education Development Center (EDC), she helped to establsih the National Dementia Care Collaborative. In her previous position as a research director at the Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP), she co-led the Stakeholder Engagement Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory and helped to design and implement a plan for patient and clinician engagement in the Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN). She also led a PCORI-funded project aimed at improving the engagement of front-line clinicians in pragmatic clinical trials. Before joining CMTP, Ellen was a research associate in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, where she conducted social science research in genetics and public policy studies. She holds an MA in psychology from Wake Forest University.

Alexia (Lexy) Torke, MD, MS, is a professor of medicine and division head of general internal medicine and geriatrics at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Torke received her MD from Indiana University and completed her primary care-internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta. She completed fellowship training at the University of Chicago in primary care health services research and ethics. Dr. Torke’s research focuses on ethical, communication, and spiritual aspects of medical decision-making for older adults, especially surrogate decision-making for older people living with dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment. She has received funding from the NIH, the Greenwall Foundation and other foundation sources. She practices general internal medicine and palliative medicine.

Jeffrey Turner, MPH, is a project coordinator in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University School of Public Health. His IMPACT Collaboratory role focuses on leading a qualitative implementation evaluation examining high-level, cross-study factors which affect the implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCT) for dementia. Mr. Turner is an experienced qualitative researcher with prior experience managing and conducting research with older adults, persons living with dementia, clinical staff, and persons using opioids . He completed his B.S. in Public Health and MPH at Southern Connecticut State University.