The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 2B, Career Development Award, and two new funding mechanisms: the Demonstration Projects Program and Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program. Awardees of these funding opportunities will be supported by the IMPACT cores and teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners. IMPACT prioritizes applications that promote health equity and address dementia care for people of all backgrounds. Learn more about the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on the website. Read more about these opportunities and our newest awardees below.
The Pilot Grant Program funds several one-year pilot ePCTs that test non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care systems to improve care for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. Pilot studies are conducted to generate the preliminary data necessary to design and conduct future full-scale Stage IV effectiveness ePCT (based on the NIH Stage Model) that will be funded through other grant mechanisms (National Institutes of Health or other sources).
Recipients of the Pilot Cycle 2B awards:
- Michael Lepore, PhD, LiveWell Alliance
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Mild to Moderate Dementia
- Medha Munshi, MD, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
Deprescribing of Diabetes Treatment Regimens in Long Term Care Residents with ADRD
- Aanand Naik, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
Patient Priorities Care for Hispanics with Dementia (PPC-HD)
- Annette Totten, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University
ADVANCE-PC: Testing Critical Components for a Trial of Advance Care Planning in Primary Care for Dementia
Demonstration Projects Program
The Demonstration Projects Program is a new funding mechanism to support full-scale, Stage IV effectiveness ePCTs testing non-pharmacological interventions for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners that are linked to the needs of a health care system. The intervention typically includes relatively simple system changes, direct patient outreach, or successfully piloted programs ready for testing at scale. The goal of the demonstration project is to generate evidence on effective care delivery practices that can be expanded and/or implemented in other systems.
Recipients of the Demonstration Projects awards:
- Xiaojuan Li, PhD and Richard Platt, MD, MSc, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Collaborative Care Coordination Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (Co-CARE-AD)
- Michael Parchman, MD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente of Washington Health Research Institute
Can Value Champions Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing for People with Dementia?
Career Development Award Program
The Career Development Award Program prepares early-stage investigators for research careers designing and conducting ePCTs for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners.
Recipients of the Cycle 2 Career Development Awards:
- Rupak Datta, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
Antibiotic Stewardship in Homebound People Living with Dementia
- Chanee Fabius, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Engaging and Integrating Direct Care Workers in Care Delivery for Persons Living With Dementia in the Community
- Cameron Gettel, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Development and Validation of a Novel Caregiver-Reported Outcome Measure
The new Health Care Systems Embedded Research Scholars Program offers investigators an opportunity to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. The goal of the HCS Scholars Program is to embed investigators in health care systems to strengthen collaborations and learn how to successfully implement new programs that may lead to pilot studies or demonstration projects.
Recipients of the first HCS Scholar awards:
- Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Extraordinary Partners in Dementia: UCHealth Capacity for Pragmatic Interventions
- Quincy Samus, PhD, MS, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Health Care Systems Embedded Research Program: MIND at Home at Centene Corporation