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  • Pilot awardee Peter Serina receives Best Fellow Abstract Award May 15, 2024
    Pilot awardee Peter Serina, MD, MPH, received the 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Best Fellow Abstract Award for “Standardizing nursing home to emergency department care transition form improves documentation.” To honor Dr. Serina’s accomplishments, AGEM recognized him during the 2024 SAEM Annual Meeting held May 15th.
  • IMPACT researchers explore differences in COVID-19 vaccine brand usage by rural/urban demographics May 1, 2024
    COVID-19 Vaccines: Moderna And Pfizer-BioNTech Use Varied By Urban, Rural Counties May 2024 A team of researchers, including IMPACT members Daniel Harris, PhD, Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, and Vincent Mor, PhD, examined geographic variations in the use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines among Medicare beneficiaries throughout the US. Using a novel data set including CVS ...
  • IMPACT’s Harrison and McCreedy, receive Brown School of Public Health Dean’s Awards in honor of research excellence April 30, 2024
    Congratulations to IMPACT  executive director Jill Harrison, PhD, and executive committee member Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH, for receiving Brown University’s School of Public Health Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research. As executive director, Harrison orchestrates and participates in research collaboration with researchers and people impacted by dementia across the U.S. She received the Dean’s Award for ...

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  • PR Newswire announces Joseph E. Gaugler, Ph.D to be honored as the 2024 Distinguished Ambassador in Aging by the Aging Life Care Association® April 16, 2024
    PR Newswire distributed a press release announcing that Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD will be honored as the 2024 Distinguished Ambassador in Aging by the Aging Life Care Association®. Dr. Gaugler will be recognized following his keynote address “Alzheimer’s Disease Update: Testing, Treatment and Teamwork” on April 18 at the Royal Sonesta Downtown during the association’s 40th annual ...
  • IMPACT highlighted in NIA 50th anniversary blog post April 11, 2024
    The IMPACT Collaboratory is highlighted in a blog post by Lis Nielsen, director of NIA’s Division of Behavior and Social Research (DBSR), celebrating the National Institute on Aging’s 50th anniversary. In the blog, Dr. Nielsen reflects on NIA’s developments over its first five decades and looks forward to opportunities ahead. IMPACT is featured as an example ...
  • Karlawish quoted in NY Times article on proposed Alzheimer’s blood test March 6, 2024
    IMPACT member Jason Karlawish, MD, weighs in on a proposed Alzheimer’s diagnosis tool – a simple blood test. An independent Alzheimer’s working group is finalizing its recommendations for diagnosing Alzheimer’s based on the presence of amyloids in a blood test alone, independent of symptoms. Karlawish voices concern that the amyloid blood test is not yet ...

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