AUDIENCE: Clinical and translational investigators, including statisticians, dissemination & implementation scientists, health services and public health researchers, and program evaluators THEME: Methods, models, and measures for planning pragmatic research 2020 TOPICS: Pragmatic trial planning using the PRECIS PRECIS-2, pragmatic research approaches and study design, rapid qualitative and mixed methods, and stakeholder engagement. More information: http://coprhcon.com/

The third meeting will cover Intervention Research, Implementation, and Dissemination (Theme 5), Research Resources, Methods, and Data Infrastructure (Theme 6), and Emerging Topics.

In this session, panelists will highlight emerging data and experiences that raise important questions about the kind of physical infrastructure needed for long term older adult care. Panelists include IMPACT Principal Investigator Vincent Mor, PhD.

The Fall Institute is designed to provide a foundation in implementation science and the conduct of studies that result in high impact in real-world settings.

Brown University and Marcus Institute’s Joint Clinical Trials Seminar Series* presents "Evidence base for 40 Winks: A pragmatic trial for improving sleep & meaningful engagement in nursing home residents with dementia" Thursday, December 10 @11am ET A. Lynn Snow, PhD University of Alabama & Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center Christine W. Hartmann, PhD University of Massachusetts […]

December 15-17, 2020 Conference Theme: Dissemination and Implementation Science in a Dynamic, Diverse, and Interconnected World: Meeting the Urgent Challenges of our Time. As the global health workforce continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the dissemination and implementation (D&I) science community, perhaps now more than ever, will be called upon to bridge the gap […]

Tomorrow live videocast of Vince Mor, PhD presenting at the National Advisory Council on Aging open session: “COVID in US Nursing Homes: The Power of Data” Join the live videocast tomorrow, January 13, for this presentation at the open session from 12:15 to 12:45pm. See full details here: https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/naca/national-advisory-council-aging-agenda-january-12-13-2021

SPEAKERS Vincent Mor, Brown University Tricia Neuman, Kaiser Family Foundation Paul Kaplan, Florida Blue Event Details and Registration: January 15, 2021 @ 1pm ET https://nihcm.org/events/the-challenges-of-aging-during-covid-19-long-term-care-vaccination-and-isolation

34th Annual Katz Lecture Featured Speaker: Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, University Kenan Distinguished Professor Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research Director of Aging Research, School of Social Work The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Event Details: Changing Practices in Long-Term Care One Stage at […]

Virtually | March 10, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST | funded by the National Institute of Aging and led by editors of three leading geriatrics journals -- JAMDA (The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine), JAGS (The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society), and Geriatric Nursing – will identify priorities and […]

The Summer Institute is an immersive, no-cost opportunity for early career researchers in psychosocial care and public health to launch a career in dementia science and accelerate breakthroughs in the field. I'm helping to organize it along with Julie Bynum, Matthew Baumgart, Carl Hill, and Sam Fazio as the lead. Several IMPACT members are serving as faculty. […]

Jonathan Jackson, PhD, member of the Executive Committee of the IMPACT Health Equity team will be the keynote speaker for this virtual event. April marks National Minority Health Month – highlighting health disparities that persist among racial and ethnic minority populations and the ways in which legislation, policies, and programs can help advance health equity. […]

The AGING Initiative, AGS, and RCCN are co-hosting an upcoming webinar. IMPACT's Leah Hanson, PhD will be providing introductions. The webinar will be presented by Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, Staff Epidemiologist for the CDC and Lieutenant Commander for the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Dr. Link-Gelles will be discussing the massive effort and success story […]

The AGING Initiative is pleased to share an upcoming virtual meeting opportunity on behalf of the National Institute on Aging (NIA): The NIA will be hosting a virtual meeting on Friday, April 30 from 2:00–5:00pm EST on the "Development of an NIA Practice-Based Research Network to Conduct Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Clinical Research." The meeting will discuss […]

In  collaboration with LINC-AD (Leveraging an Interdisciplinary Consortium to Improve Care and Outcomes for Persons Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia), the Alzheimer's Association is currently accepting applications for the new Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurements (ARCOM) funding program.  The goal of the program is to address gaps in care and outcome measurement and […]

The HCSRN annual conference is the nation’s preeminent gathering for researchers based in real-world health care systems and our numerous collaborators in academic health systems, funding agencies, and patient-partner communities. The conference offers a diverse slate of content, showcasing rigorous, relevant research on important conditions affecting millions of patients. IMPACT members are among the panelists […]

On May 13th and 14th, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET each day, the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) will convene its 2021 Education Conference online. People and families affected by FTD will find help, support, and opportunities to connect. Researchers and experts will offer information and guidance through interactive presentations. Health professionals will […]

The NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory is launching a special workshop series on its popular Grand Rounds program to explore the inclusion of diverse participants in pragmatic clinical trials. This series will include topics on increasing engagement of diverse participants and building trust, including diverse sites, learning from implementation science to maximize diversity, and […]

Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, REACH Equity, and Roybal Center will present "Using the NIA Health Disparities Framework to Optimize Equity in Aging Research" on May 21 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EST. Registration closed.

Please join us for a lecture from the Joint Seminar Series on Clinical Trials in Aging: Strategies to Improve Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake featuring Sarah Berry, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School & Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research. Nursing homes residents represent about 1% of the US population but, at the height […]

The NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory is launching a special workshop series on its popular Grand Rounds program to explore the inclusion of diverse participants in pragmatic clinical trials. This series will include topics on increasing engagement of diverse participants and building trust, including diverse sites, learning from implementation science to maximize diversity, and […]

Guest Moderator: Emily O’Brien, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke University School of Medicine Panel: Jonathan Jackson, PhD Executive Director Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Judith Schlaeger, PhD, CNM, LAc, FAAN Associate Professor, Department of Human Development Nursing […]

The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) virtual forum will occur on Friday, June 25th (1:00-4:00 PM EDT). This virtual forum aims to bring together stakeholders across academia, federal agencies, the data science/tech industry, and health care systems and centers who are interested in leveraging artificial intelligence and […]

The NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory is launching a special workshop series on its popular Grand Rounds program to explore the inclusion of diverse participants in pragmatic clinical trials. This series will include topics on increasing engagement of diverse participants and building trust, including diverse sites, learning from implementation science to maximize diversity, and […]

15:15-16:45 (9:15 am ET) Session OC4B: Cluster randomized trials CHAIR: Andrew Copas 9:15 ET Kendra Davis-Plourde, Monica Taljaard and Fan Li Sample size calculation for stepped wedge cluster randomized trials with multiple levels of clustering ABSTRACT. The stepped wedge cluster randomized trial is an attractive design for evaluating health services delivery or policy interventions. In this design, clusters […]

The NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory is launching a special workshop series on its popular Grand Rounds program to explore the inclusion of diverse participants in pragmatic clinical trials. This series will include topics on increasing engagement of diverse participants and building trust, including diverse sites, learning from implementation science to maximize diversity, and […]

IMPACT principal investigator, Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, presenting on "Evidence- and Goal-Based Decision-Making in Dementia at the End of Life" at the National Institute on Aging's Focus on Aging: Federal Partners’ Webinar Series. This webinar series will address important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other […]

The UsAgainstAlzheimer's National Alzheimer's Summit will be held virtually October 13-14, 2021.  Stay tuned for summit details and registration coming soon.

The Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting will be held online from November 10-13, 2021. Several members of the IMPACT Collaboratory will be presenting during the event. Learn more and register at https://www.gsa2021.org/ .

The US Deprescribing Research Network is pleased to announce two new Request for Applications for Pilot Awards and Grant Planning Awards. The total budget per award is up to $60,000 over 1 year (combined directs and indirects), and one of several awards will be made in collaboration with the AGING Initiative (HCSRN-OAIC). Informational Webinar: October […]

This webinar is open to members of the Gerontological Society of America. Click here for more information. Monday, November 15, 2021 1 to 2:30 p.m. ET, Session I – Exemplary Studies 4 to 5:30 p.m. ET, Session II – Supporting Further Research See registration instructions above Free for members; $75 for nonmembers The webinar speakers will […]

Overview Penn’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) is seeking applications for the 2021–2022 cohort of CICADA Scientists. In collaboration with Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics (LDI), CICADA seeks to enhance the diversity of the aging research workforce by mentoring promising scientists from under-represented backgrounds interested in a career focused on improving health […]

The Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health Conference (D&I) brings together individuals on the frontlines of D&I science, and aims to ensure that evidence is used to inform decisions that will improve the health of individuals and communities. 2021 Theme Broadening Horizons for Impact: Incorporating Multisectoral Approaches into D&I Science Registration […]

The US Deprescribing Research Network 2022 Annual Network Meeting will be in-person on Wednesday May 11th in Orlando, Florida in conjunction with the American Geriatrics Society’s annual meeting. Please save the date in your calendars, and visit https://deprescribingresearch.org/ for more information.

IMPACT Health Equity Team member, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD will be the keynote speaker at this event providing a framework for integrating social justice, clinical research on dementia in America, and the care that is provided to diverse groups of older people and their families in America. Event Details Topic: Robert L. Kane Memorial Lecture; Social […]

Vince Mor, PhD, IMPACT Multiple Principal Investigator, will participate as a panelist discussing challenges, solutions and lessons learned. Essentials of Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Date/Time: Friday, June 3, 2022 | 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Location: TBD Registration: $300 Register Here » This workshop introduces concepts in the design, conduct, and implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials […]

Event Details: June 4-7, 2022 Multiple IMPACT members will be participating in the AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) June 4-7, 2022, which highlights "new research, innovative methods, and robust discussions about the impact of health services research on health policy and practice." Learn more about the meeting here: https://academyhealth.org/ARM Sunday, June 5th: Multiple Principal […]

IMPACT members Joe Gaugler, PhD and Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, are participating in this hybrid conference intended for BOLD public health programs; public health departments (local, state, tribal); service providers and/or community-based organizations serving dementia caregivers; researchers and policy makers. Organizers invite all interested attendees to participate in the poster session of the conference, […]

The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will hold a virtual 2 half-day workshop June 15-16, 2022, to explore questions critical to designing and implementing pragmatic clinical trials conducted within healthcare systems. NIA IMPACT Collaboratory multiple principal investigator Vince Mor will be among the panel members for the workshop. This workshop is an opportunity to glean the most salient lessons […]

Friday, July 29 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Pre-Conference Presentation at Alzheimer's Association International 2022 Conference (AAIC), San Diego, CA. Vince Mor, PhD, IMPACT Multiple Principal Investigator, will lead this symposium, which is designed to share key considerations in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for persons […]

Call for submissions! The Abstract Submission (closed) and Panel Presentation Submission (closed) sites for the Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) 2023 Conference are now open. The deadline for submitting is Friday, October 7, 2022. Registration for the HCSRN 2023 Conference, which will take place in Denver, CO on February 21-23, will open Monday, October […]

NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory has launched a special Grand Rounds 6-part series to examine ethical and regulatory challenges in pragmatic clinical trials. The October session will be on "Responding (or Not) to Signals of Potential Clinical Significance in Pragmatic Clinical Trials" with Joseph Ali, JD; Leslie J. Crofford, MD; and Tanya Matthews, PhD. Speakers: Joseph […]

This workshop on November 2 at the Gerontological Society of America’s preconference will focus on the pragmatic clinical trial as an exemplar of an innovative research design that can foster the performance of trials in real world settings, with representative patient populations, and outcome measures that “matter most” to patients and caregivers. Leaders of funded […]

NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory has launched a special Grand Rounds 6-part series to examine ethical and regulatory challenges in pragmatic clinical trials. The November session will be on “Data Sharing and Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Law & Ethics Amidst a Changing Policy Landscape” with Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH, and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics.   Speakers: Stephanie […]

The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) will host a webinar with Dr. Paige Lin, Ms. Terry Montgomery, Dr. Elena Fazio, and Dr. Tisamarie Sherry on disparities in Alzheimer's care on November 17, 2022 at 12pm ET. Registration closed.

NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory has launched a special Grand Rounds 6-part series to examine ethical and regulatory challenges in pragmatic clinical trials. The December session will feature discussion on "The Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial: Friend or Foe?” with Monica Taljaard, PhD, and David Magnus, PhD.   Speakers: Monica Taljaard, PhD Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology […]

This webinar is the first of a series relating to the AGS/AGING LEARNING Collaborative multi-disciplinary online curriculum with a focus on training new and emerging investigators on MCC research. The soon-to-be released curriculum will include self-directed PowerPoint™ presentations, podcasts, and webinars on 22 topics released over the next year. To learn more about the LEARNING […]