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.

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 ...

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 ...

Insights into designing educational materials for persons living with dementia: a focus group study April 29, 2024 IMPACT pilot study awardee, Donovan Maust, MD, MS, is among authors that describe a series of focus groups of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners to learn about ways to optimize  the design of PLWD-facing education and ...

Technology Assistance in Dementia (Tech-AiD): A Framework for Care in the Digital Age April 24, 2024 IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Andrew Kiselica, PhD, is among authors exploring digital technologies for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). They discuss how a Technology Assistance in Dementia (Tech-AiD) framework could help people living with dementia (PLWD) and their caregivers use ...

IMPACT’s Laura Hanson MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will assist Stacy Fisher, MD, who was recently selected as the new Scientific Advisor of The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). The positions will guide AAHPM’s efforts to advance research in hospice and palliative care ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory held the 5th annual Business Meeting on April 2, 2024, and hosted the 3rd annual Scientific Conference on embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) in dementia care on April 3-4, 2024. The meetings, held in Bethesda MD and via zoom for virtual attendees, were attended by more than 200 participants. Annual Business Meeting Highlights from ...

 IMPACT members Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS and Health Care Systems Scholar Gail Towsley, PhD, MS, NHA published an article  in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The editorial article, Learning from the experience of dementia care for nursing home residents during the pandemic, comments on an article by Gadbois et al, about nursing home care ...

COVID-19 and influenza vaccine coadministration among older U.S. adults February 23, 2024 IMPACT’s Multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, and executive director Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, are among the authors of an American Journal of Preventive Medicine article exploring COVID/influenza vaccine coadministration between 2021-2022. The study included community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries ages 66 years old and older who ...

Adherence to key recommendations for design and analysis of stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: A review of trials published 2016–2022 November 21, 2023 IMPACT Design and Statistics core members, Fan Li, PhD, Kendra Plourde, PhD, and Monica Taljaard, PhD, are among authors reviewing stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-CRT) from 2016 to 2022 to understand how well the studies ...