The IMPACT Collaboratory will host a special webinar event featuring leaders from the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative, who will provide an introduction and overview to this powerful new resource. The webinar will be December 7 from 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST and will feature IMPACT’s Vince Mor, PhD, David Dore, PharmD, PhD, from Exponent, ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is happy to announce a Request for Applications for Cycle 3 of the Health Care Systems Scholars Program. The Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars program offers researchers an opportunity to partner with healthcare systems to develop embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) focused on improving the care provided to people living with dementia (PLWD) ...

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) will hold their annual scientific meeting in Indianapolis November 2-6, in Indianapolis, IN. The theme of the conference is, “Embracing our Diversity. Enriching Our Discovery. Reimagining Aging.” Members of the IMPACT Collaboratory will be presenting their work throughout the conference. For more information about the meeting, including registration, click ...

Development of an Advance Care Planning Portal-Based Tool for Community-Dwelling Persons Living With Cognitive Impairment: The ACPVoice Tool October 14, 2022 IMPACT Career Development Awardee Jennifer Gabbard, MD is the lead author for this study of how to increase understanding of advance care planning through patient portals in community-dwelling persons living with cognitive impairment. The study team ...

A Postdoctoral Research Associate position based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now available. This full time, temporary position will support new and ongoing research initiatives with members of IMPACT’s Patient Care and Relevant Outcomes Core (PCRO), led by Laura Hanson, MD, MPH. The Research Associate will work on an existing ...

The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: The Next Generation of Data Integration  October 6, 2022 A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) describes the innovation of the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative and how it fills the data gap for nursing home residents in clinical trials. The LTC Data Cooperative assembles residents’ electronic ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is happy to announce to announce the awardee of the IMPACT Pilot Grant Program Cycle 4A. The recipient was selected from an impressive group of competitive applications. IMPACT Collaboratory Pilot Grant Award Recipient (RFA 2022) Katherine Abbott, PhD, MGS, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University (Oxford, OH) Testing the Feasibility of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial ...

Members of the IMPACT Collaboratory Design and Statistics Core recently contributed to a curated list of statistical analysis programs for biostatisticians engaged in studies of human aging. Heather Allore, PhD, and Joan Monin, PhD, MS and colleagues authored the Analyzing Dyad Data with Additional Clustering resource in GRASP, an online resource developed by the Claude D. ...

The Health Care Systems Research Network is accepting abstract and panel submissions for their upcoming Annual Conference until October 7, 2022. The conference will be held in Denver, CO, on February 21-23, 2023. The theme of the annual conference will be Leveraging the Power of the Network in Rapidly Changing Times. For full details and information ...

Heather Allore, PhD, Core Leader for the IMPACT Design and Statistics Core, recently appeared on the JAMAevidence podcast to discuss latent class analysis to identify hidden clinical phenotypes. A latent variable is an unobserved variable that investigators don’t have a construct or measure for, but believe it exists and could impact outcomes. Dr. Allore uses ...