IMPACT’s most recent newsletter covering news, events, and highlights since January 2024 is now available. In addition to a list of recent publications, it provides information about current and upcoming events and opportunities. Read the full newsletter here.

A new guidance document from IMPACT’s Design and Statistics Core describes essential considerations for using dyadic data and analysis in research with people living with dementia and their care partners. The guidance document by Katie Newkirk, PhD, and Joan Monin, PhD, MS, defines dyadic data, how it differs from proxy data, and the information that can ...

Integrating Health Equity into a National Infrastructure to Support Pragmatic Trials in Dementia Care May 17, 2024 IMPACT members and leaders Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, Ladson Hinton, MD, Jill Harrison, PhD, and Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, have published commentary in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) citing IMPACT as a nationwide ...

Two IMPACT funded investigators received awards at the 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting held May 15th, 2024. IMPACT Career Development Awardee and Faculty Scholar Cameron Gettel, MD, received the SAEM Early Investigator Award and Pilot Grant awardee Peter Serina, MD, MPH, received the SAEM Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Best Fellow Abstract Award for “Standardizing ...

COVID-19 Vaccines: Moderna And Pfizer-BioNTech Use Varied By Urban, Rural Counties May 1, 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 ...

Sample size and power calculation for testing treatment effect heterogeneity in cluster randomized crossover designs May 1, 2024 IMPACT Design and Statistics Core members Xueqi Wang, PhD, Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, Monica Taljaard, PhD, and Fan Li, PhD, author new article considering the two-treatment two-period cluster randomized crossover design under either a cross-sectional or closed-cohort sampling ...

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 Grant 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 ...