Barbara Healy, RN, BSN, MSN, CCM, NC-BC, Care Coordinator, MassGeneral Brigham Integrated Care Management Program provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory 3rd Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 5, 2022.

Ms. Healy shared her unique experience in her role as nursing care manager working on the front line as a care coordinator in a pilot pragmatic clinical trial embedded within a healthcare system.

Ms. Healy provided valuable insights from the perspective of a frontline member of the healthcare team working with researchers to conducting pragmatic clinical trial among people living with dementia in real world care settings. She also shared lessons learned and themes for consideration as researchers design and implement pragmatic trials embedding in real world settings in the future.