Grand Rounds: Partnering with People Living with Dementia and Care Partners in Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials
2021-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 16, from 12-1pm ET. Speakers Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD, Associate Professor at Brown University, and Heidi Gil, Chief Strategy Officer at LiveWell, will do an open session on “Partnering with People Living with Dementia and Care Partners in Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs),” followed by a panelist discussion with Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, Michael Lepore, PhD, and Joan Monin, PhD.
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Grand Rounds: Healthcare-Generated Data to Identify People Living with Dementia for Embedded Pragmatic Trials
2022-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for Grand Rounds on Thursday, January 20, from 12-1pm ET. Julie Bynum, MD, MPH, leader of the IMPACT Technical Data Core, will present on “Healthcare-Generated Data to Identify People Living with Dementia for Embedded Pragmatic Trials.”
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Julie Bynum, MD, MPH
Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy & Research
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Grand Rounds: Lessons From the First Decade of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory
2022-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for Grand Rounds on Thursday, February 17, from 12-1pm ET. Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS, Lesley Curtis, PhD, and Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, leaders of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, will present on:
“Lessons From the First Decade of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory”

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Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS, Lesley Curtis, PhD, & Kevin Weinfurt, PhD

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Grand Rounds: “CEO Panel: How to Achieve Health Systems Change”
2022-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for a special Grand Rounds as IMPACT Collaboratory Multiple Principal Investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, moderates a Panel of CEOs to discuss “How to Achieve Health Systems Change.”
CEO Panel

Troyen Brennan, MD
CVS Health

Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
Lifespan

Richard Feifer, MD, MPH
Genesis Physician Services

Thursday, March 17, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
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Grand Rounds: Kimberly Johnson, MD | Embedding Health Equity in a Cluster Randomized Trial of an Advance Care Planning Intervention
2022-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Please join us for Grand Rounds on April 21, 2022 from 12pm – 1pm ET. Kimberly Johnson, MD, will discuss “Embedding Health Equity in a Cluster Randomized Trial of an Advance Care Planning Intervention.”
Date/Time: April 21, 2022 from 12pm – 1pm ET
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Kimberly Johnson, MD
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Duke Center for Research to Advance Healthcare Equity, Duke Health
Kimberly Johnson, MD, is a clinical investigator nationally known for her research on racial disparities in palliative care for older adults. Her work has identified multi-domain and multi-level factors, which are associated with racial disparities in the quality of palliative care for African Americans. This includes differences in patterns of care between older African American and White patients enrolled in hospice; racial variation in knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward hospice and palliative care; geographic variation in racial disparities in hospice use; and organizational factors associated with greater use of hospice care by older African Americans. Dr. Johnson has led large national studies of hospice providers, and multi-site studies of academic and community-based organizations to reduce racial disparities and improve the quality of palliative care delivery for older African Americans. Dr. Johnson is the director of the Duke Center for Research to Advance Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity). She serves as a co-investigator on CAPC’s project, Equitable Access to Quality Palliative Care for Black Patients: A Scan of Challenges and Opportunities. In this role, she helps to lead all aspects of identifying replicable interventions to drive equitable access to palliative care for Black patients and families.
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Grand Rounds: Elizabeth Bayliss, MD & Cynthia Boyd, MD | Deprescribing Education vs Usual Care for Patients with Cognitive Impairment and Primary Care Clinicians: The OPTIMZE Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial
2022-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Please join us a special Grand Rounds co-hosted with the US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) on Thursday, May 19, from 12pm – 1pm ET. The US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) aims to advance research on optimizing medication use among older adults. Join the USDeN mailing list here to receive updates on upcoming events.
Elizabeth Bayliss, MD, of the IMPACT Health Care Systems (HCS) Core, and Cynthia Boyd, MD, US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) Co-Director, will discuss “Deprescribing Education vs Usual Care for Patients with Cognitive Impairment and Primary Care Clinicians: The OPTIMZE Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial.”
Date/Time: May 19, 2022 from 12pm – 1pm ET
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Elizabeth Bayliss, MD
Senior Investigator, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
IMPACT Health Care Systems (HCS) Core

Cynthia Boyd, MD
Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Co-Director, US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN)

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Grand Rounds: Update on Two IMPACT Pilot Studies
2022-06-16 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for Grand Rounds on June 16, 2022 from 12-1pm ET. Pilot Study Awardees, Jennifer Gabbard, MD, and Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, to present updates on their pilot studies.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
12pm – 1pm ET
Jennifer Gabbard, MD
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Using Telemedicine to Improve Engagement in Advance Care Planning in Patients with Cognitive Impairment or Unrecognized Dementia
Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
ALIGN: Aligning Medications with What Matters Most
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Grand Rounds: Kristi Williams, PhD, RN | CHATO design, pilot testing and update on current implementation and results
2022-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Please join us for Grand Rounds on September 15th, 2022 at 12pm ET. Dr. Williams will be presenting on “CHATO design, pilot testing and update on current implementation and results.”
Kristine Williams, PhD, RN, is a nurse gerontologist whose program of research includes multiple contributions leading to improved nursing care for older adults by enhancing nurse-patient communication, providing cognitive training to improve self-care for older adults, and by using technology to link family caregivers of persons with dementia to expert in-home guidance using video telehealth technology. She has used clinical trials to develop and test innovative interventions directly applicable to care settings that improve outcomes for older adults and their families across long term service and support settings. Dr. Williams has received continuous NIH funding since an R03 in 2005 followed by multiple K12, CTSA, R21, R34, R61 and R01 studies. In addition, Dr. Williams has collaborated with other scientists as a co-investigator or consultant on over 15 studies.
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Grand Rounds: Rachel Richesson, PhD, MPH, FACMI | Developing standards and quality metrics for clinical phenotyping using EHR data in pragmatic clinical trials
2022-10-20 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Please join us for Dr. Richesson’s Grand Rounds on October 20th, 2022 at 12pm ET / 9am PT. Dr. Richesson will present on “Developing standards and quality metrics for clinical phenotyping using EHR data in pragmatic clinical trials.”
Rachel Richesson, PhD, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Michigan. Dr. Richesson conducts research on the quality and usability of data from electronic health records (EHRs) for research, and has fostered numerous interdisciplinary research collaborations. She has directed implementation of data standards for a number of multi-national multi-site clinical research and epidemiological studies, including the NIH Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network, Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study, and the national distributed Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORnet). Dr. Richesson currently co-leads the EHR Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, which is developing standards and quality metrics for clinical phenotyping using EHR data in pragmatic clinical trials. She is the editor of Clinical Research Informatics (Springer, 2012 & 2019).
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Grand Rounds: Charles Weijer, MD, PhD to present on "Addressing vulnerability in cluster randomized trials involving people living with dementia in nursing homes"
2022-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for Grand Rounds on November 17, 2022 at 12pm ET. Dr. Weijer will present on “Addressing vulnerability in cluster randomized trials involving people living with dementia in nursing homes.”
Thursday, November 17, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Charles Weijer, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy
Dr. Weijer is a leading expert in the ethics of randomized controlled trials. From 2008 to 2013 Charles co-led a collaboration that produced the first international ethics guidelines for cluster randomized trials. His current work explores ethical issues in pragmatic randomized controlled trials that evaluate health interventions in real-world conditions to better inform patients, health providers and health systems managers. Charles led the writing team for the World Health Organization guidance on “Ethical Considerations for Health Policy and Systems Research,” published in 2019. In 2020, he served on the WHO Working Group for Guidance on Human Challenge Studies in COVID-19. He is currently a member of the Peruvian National Academy of Medicine Committee on Clinical Trials in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries. Charles held the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics from 2005 to 2019, and, in 2016, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
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Grand Rounds: Enrolling and retaining people living with dementia in a pragmatic trial of spinal versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery: the REGAIN experience
2022-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 15 at 12pm ET. Drs. Mark Neuman, MD, MSc and Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH to present on “Enrolling and retaining people living with dementia in a pragmatic trial of spinal versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery: the REGAIN experience.”
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Grand Rounds: Adaptation of Behavioral Interventions and FRAME
2023-01-19 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, January 19 at 12pm ET. Dr. Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD will be presenting on the “Adaptation of Behavioral Interventions and FRAME.”
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Grand Rounds: Fan Li, PhD | Methods for Designing Cluster Randomized Trials to Detect Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
2023-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, February 16 at 12pm ET with Dr. Li who will be presenting on the “Methods for Designing Cluster Randomized Trials to Detect Treatment Effect Heterogeneity.”
Fan Li, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, and faculty member in the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science and the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from Duke University in May 2019, and joined the Yale Biostatistics faculty in July 2019. His main expertise is in the development of methods for designing and analyzing pragmatic cluster randomized trials, causal inference for randomized trials and observational studies, and techniques for improving internal and external validity for treatment comparison under different study designs. He is the Principal Investigator of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded methods award that investigates new study planning methods and software for testing treatment effect heterogeneity in cluster randomized trials. His research has also been supported by several additional PCORI-funded and NIH-funded awards. Dr. Li is currently an Executive Committee member of the Design and Statistics Core at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory. Since 2013, he has also been a member of the Biostatistics and Study Design Core at the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory and contributed to the application of new statistical methods to funded Demonstration Projects.
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Grand Rounds: Eleanor Murray, PhD | Causal Inference in Pragmatic Trials
2023-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 16 at 12pm ET with Dr. Murray who will be presenting on the “Causal Inference in Pragmatic Trials.”
Eleanor (Ellie) Murray, PhD, is an assistant professor of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health with expertise in causal inference. Her work focuses on improving methods for evidence-based decision-making and human-data interaction, as well as improving the translation of methodological advances into practical applied work. Application areas include HIV, HPV, cancer, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health research, tuberculosis research, access to care, psychiatric disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, social and environmental epidemiology, and maternal and adolescent health. Dr Murray also conducts meta-research evaluating bias in existing research. She has an ScD in Epidemiology and MSc in Biostatistics from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, where she also did her postdoctoral fellowship in the Program on Causal Inference, an MPH in Epidemiology from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and a BSc in Biology from McGill University. Dr Murray is the co-host of the podcast Casual Inference, an Associate Editor for Social Media at the American Journal of Epidemiology, and a science communicator under the handle @epiellie on Twitter.
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Grand Rounds: Kali S. Thomas, PhD | More than a Meal: Results from a Pilot Pragmatic Clinical Trial Evaluating Two Models of Home-Delivered Meals for Older Adults Living with Dementia
2023-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, April 20 at 12pm ET with Dr. Thomas who will be presenting on “More than a Meal: Results from a Pilot Pragmatic Clinical Trial Evaluating Two Models of Home-Delivered Meals for Older Adults Living with Dementia.”
Kali S. Thomas, PhD, is an associate professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, and a Research Health Science Specialist at the Providence VA Medical Center’s Center of Innovation for Long-term Services and Supports. Dr. Thomas’ research focuses on identifying ways to improve the quality of life of older adults needing long-term services and supports (LTSS) through applied health services research. With funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and multiple foundations, she has led research projects and published more than 150 peer reviewed papers examining the organization, delivery, and financing of LTSS to meet older adults’ medical and non-medical needs. Her research spans the LTSS continuum, ranging from in-home services to long-term care provided in institutional settings.
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Grand Rounds: Deborah Barnes, PhD & Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD | eRADAR: An embedded, pragmatic trial using electronic health record data for targeted dementia screening
2023-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, May 18 at 12pm ET with Drs. Barnes and Dublin who will be presenting on the “eRADAR: An embedded, pragmatic trial using electronic health record data for targeted dementia screening.”
Deborah Barnes, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Physician, Washington Permanente Medical Group, Internal Medicine
Affiliate Associate Professor, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

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Grand Rounds: Ab Brody, PhD, RN, FAAN | Results and Lessons Learned from the HAS-QOL ePCT
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, June 15 at 12pm ET with Dr. Ab Brody who will be presenting on the “Results and lessons learned from the Hospice Advanced Dementia Symptom Management and Quality of Life (HAS-QOL) embedded pragmatic clinical trial .”
Ab Brody, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Pilot Core Lead of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and faculty at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He works at the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, quality and equity. The primary goal of his research, clinical, and policy pursuits is to improve the quality of care for older adults with serious illnesses generally, and AD/ADRD specifically, wherever they reside. The HAS-QOL Trial was a 25-site ePCT of a quality improvement program specifically tailored to improve care for persons living with dementia and their care partners receiving hospice across care settings. In this talk he will discuss results and lessons learned from the implementation of this trial that can be utilized for future ePCTs.

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Grand Rounds: James Flory, MD, MSCE | Decision Architecture Randomization Trials: Extremely Low-Cost Trials with Preservation of Clinician and Patient Choice
2023-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, September 21 at 12pm ET with Dr. James Flory who will be presenting on the “Decision Architecture Randomization Trials: Extremely Low-Cost Trials with Preservation of Clinician and Patient Choice.”
Dr. James Flory is an endocrinologist and clinical epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializing in the management of hyperglycemia and diabetes in cancer patients. Dr. Flory’s research career began with a pre-doctoral fellowship in bioethics at the NIH, where his work on ethical and logistical challenges to traditional randomized controlled trials led him to become very interested in alternative clinical research approaches, especially observational studies. Much of his subsequent career has focused on the application of observational study methodologies to answer comparative effectiveness questions, supported by funding from AHRQ, NIH, and PCORI. His research has largely focused on diabetes care, particularly around metformin use, and he was part of a successful effort to revise the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) label for metformin to make it accessible to hundreds of thousands of patients for whom it had been inappropriately contraindicated. In recent years, Dr. Flory’s research has increasingly focused on the intersection of diabetes and cancer treatment, with a particular focus on supportive care in patients with hyperglycemia in the setting of breast and pancreatic cancer. His major research focus now is a PCORI-funded methods development project to work on a novel pragmatic trial design called a Decision Architecture Randomization Trial (DART). DART is intended to permit extremely efficient, low-cost, and safe studies of clinical comparative effectiveness questions that would not be likely to attract the resources needed for a traditional clinical trial.

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Grand Rounds: Katherine Courtright, MD, MSHP | Electronic Nudges and Pragmatic Trials to Improve Hospital Palliative Care Delivery
2023-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, October 19 at 12pm ET with Dr. Katherine Courtright who will be presenting on the “Electronic Nudges and Pragmatic Trials to Improve Hospital Palliative Care Delivery.”
Katherine (Kate) Courtright, MD, MSHP, is an assistant professor of medicine and a core faculty member at the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Courtright’s research aims to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of palliative care delivery for people living with serious illnesses. Her research combines insights from the fields of predictive, behavioral, and implementation sciences to develop and test novel interventions in large, embedded, pragmatic trials that systematically promote timely primary and specialist palliative care for patients most likely to benefit. By leveraging hybrid pragmatic trial designs, Dr. Courtright’s work further elucidates key implementation contextual factors at multiple levels within a health care system to facilitate interpretation and dissemination of trial findings. Dr. Courtright graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, completed her internal medicine residency and a chief residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She remained at Penn for fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care hospice and palliative medicine, and earned a master’s degree in health policy research. Dr. Courtright joined the Penn Medicine faculty in 2016, attends in the medical ICU and on the inpatient palliative care consult team, and serves as the Director of Research for Penn Medicine Palliative Care.
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Grand Rounds: Michael Harhay, PhD, MPH | Outcomes truncated by death in randomized trials
2023-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, November 16 at 12pm ET with Dr. Michael Harhay who will be presenting on the “Outcomes truncated by death in randomized trials.”
Michael Harhay, PhD, MPH, leads a research program that develops statistical methods, study designs, and outcome measures to improve studies for patients with critical and severe illnesses. As director of the NIH and PCORI-funded Clinical Trials Methods and Outcomes Lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, his team is particularly focused on developing and using causal inference and Bayesian statistical methods to better design and analyze pragmatic and cluster-randomized trials for these patient populations. He has contributed to a wide range of trial methodology areas, including informatively missing or truncated data, estimand refinement, Bayesian trial applications, small-sample corrections, and making the best use of baseline covariate information. In 2022, he joined the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit as the Director of Statistical Evaluation, where he applies these methods to studies in Penn’s health system. Dr. Harhay currently serves as a deputy editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and an associate editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology. In 2023, he was named an Honorary Research Fellow in the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London.

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Grand Rounds: Kyra O'Brien, MD & Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA | The Clinical Implementation of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers
2023-12-21 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 21 at 12pm ET with Drs. O’Brien and Fowler who will be presenting on “The Clinical Implementation of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers.”
Kyra S. O’Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Penn Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

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Grand Rounds: Ellen McCreedy, PhD, Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN & Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD | Strategies to implement ePCTs in home and community-based settings – issues and successes in Assisted Living and Adult Day Centers
2024-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, January 18 at 12pm ET with Drs. McCreedy, Sadarangani, and Zimmerman who will be presenting on “Strategies to implement ePCTs in home and community-based settings – issues and successes in Assisted Living and Adult Day Centers.”
Ellen McCreedy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Brown University School of Public Health
Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD
University Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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PDF Flyer: IMPACT GR | McCreedy, Sadarangani & Zimmerman – 01.18.24
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Grand Rounds: Fischer, MD, Hanson, MD, MPH, Lum, MD, PhD & Ramirez-Gomez, MD | Cultural adaptation of ADRD clinical trials for Latino participants
2024-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, February 15 at 12pm ET with Drs. Fischer, Hanson, Lum, and Ramirez-Gomez who will be presenting on “Cultural adaptation of ADRD clinical trials for Latino participants.”
Stacy Fischer, MD
Discussant
Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
Presenter
Hillary Lum, MD, PhD
Presenter
Lilliana Ramirez-Gomez, MD
Presenter

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PDF Flyer: IMPACT GR | Fischer, Hanson, Lum, & Ramirez-Gomez – 02.15.24
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Grand Rounds: Julie Bynum, MD, MPH | Diagnosed Dementia in Medicare: Benchmarking for Study Planning and Equity
2024-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 21 at 12pm ET with Dr. Julie Bynum who will be presenting on “Diagnosed Dementia in Medicare: Benchmarking for Study Planning and Equity.”
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH, is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, vice chair for faculty affairs, research professor in the Institute of Gerontology, Geriatric Center associate director for health policy and research, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Dr. Bynum received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins, completed her residency and chief residency at Dartmouth, and completed specialty training in Geriatric Medicine back at Johns Hopkins. She leads interdisciplinary research teams to study questions about the complex drivers of quality and costs for older adults and how to improve health care policy and performance using national administrative data. Dr. Bynum has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee that published “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress”, and was recently a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, and on a NAM workshop planning committee on adverse consequences of cancer treatment. She leads a robust portfolio of research largely focusing on health and health care for people living with dementia including a newly-funded NIA Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s.

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PDF Flyer: IMPACT GR | Bynum – 03.21.24
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Grand Rounds: Clive Ballard, MD, PhD | WHELD programme
2024-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/86937720056
Join us for IMPACT Grand Rounds on Thursday, April 18 at 12pm ET with Dr. Clive Ballard who will be presenting on the “WHELD programme.”
Clive Ballard, MD, PhD, is professor of Age-Related Diseases at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he was also Dean of Medicine and Pro-Vice Chancellor between 2016 and 2023. He was previously professor of Age-related diseases and Director of the Dementia research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. He has published more than 800 research papers, with more than 100,000 citations and has led more than 40 clinical trials. His major contributions include clinical trials demonstrating the harms of antipsychotic medications in people with dementia, innovating the treatment of psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, the treatment and care of people with dementia living in nursing homes, Delphi consensus and clinical trials of re-purposed treatments for people with Alzheimer’s disease and developing the PROTECT digital cohort and clinical trial platform which has recruited more than 100,000 people for clinical brain health research.

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PDF Flyer: IMPACT GR | Ballard – 04.18.24
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IMPACT Grand Rounds: Epstein-Lubow, Saffer, & Lees-Haggerty | The Guiding and Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A CMS payment model test to support people living with dementia and their family caregivers
2024-05-16 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD, leader of the IMPACT Engaging Partners Team and Distinguished Medical Scholar at Education Development Center, Tonya Saffer, MPH, Director of the Division of Healthcare Payment Models, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Kristin Lees-Haggerty, PhD, Project Director for the National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment, Education Development Center, will present at IMPACT Grand Rounds on “The Guiding and Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A CMS payment model test to support people living with dementia and their family caregivers.”
May 16, 2024
12pm – 1pm ET
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IMPACT Grand Rounds: Russell Glasgow, PhD | Current use of RE-Aim and future directions of its application in pragmatic trials
2024-06-20 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/97344810673
Russell Glasgow, PhD, research professor at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, and director of the ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science (D&I) Program, will be presenting on “Current use of RE-Aim and future directions of its application in pragmatic trials.”
June 20, 2024
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PDF Flyer: IMPACT GR | R. Glasgow – 06.20.24
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IMPACT Grand Rounds: Susan Huang, MD, MPH | "Evidence for Reducing Infections, Hospitalizations, and Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens in Nursing Homes through Universal Nasal Decolonization & Bathing with Chlorhexidine"
2024-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/82975236412
Join us for Grand Rounds on September 19, 2024 at 12pm ET. Dr. Susan Huang, will discuss “Evidence for Reducing Infections, Hospitalizations, and Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens in Nursing Homes through Universal Nasal Decolonization & Bathing with Chlorhexidine.”
Susan Huang, MD, MPH, is a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, and the medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine Health. Dr. Huang studies healthcare-associated infections with a focus on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). She was a member of the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory for Pragmatic Clinical Trials to prevent MRSA disease and other healthcare-associated infections. She also studies the regional prevention of MDROs in hospitals and nursing homes through epidemiologic studies as well as simulation models. Dr. Huang has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and previously served as a member of HICPAC (federal guidelines committee for infection prevention), and on the technical expert panel for infection prevention and care transitions between acute and long-term care facilities for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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IMPACT Grand Rounds: Maggie Ramirez, PhD & Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD | "Using Pilot Studies to Inform ePCTs in Hispanic/Latino People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners"
2024-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/82975236412
Join us for Grand Rounds on October 17, 2024 at 12pm ET. Drs. Maggie Ramirez, PhD & Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD, will discuss “Using Pilot Studies to Inform ePCTs in Hispanic/Latino People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners”.
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IMPACT Grand Rounds: Daniel Harris, PhD & Kaley Hayes, PharmD | Topic: COVID Vaccination among Medicare Beneficiaries: Findings from an IMPACT Supplement
2024-12-19 12:00 - 13:00 | https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/j/82975236412
Join us for Grand Rounds on December 19, 2024 at 12pm ET. Drs. Daniel Harris, PhD & Kaley Hayes, PharmD, will discuss “COVID Vaccination among Medicare Beneficiaries: Findings from an IMPACT Supplement”.
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