IMPACT Health Equity Team Leader, Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, will participate in a moderated Steering Committee panel discussion focusing on health equity entitled “Focus on Health Equity: The ePCT Landscape/Ecosystem,” as part of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory annual meeting. Quinones will contribute to the Steering Committee panel goals of identifying national programs and initiatives that ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will present at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine public workshop exploring the current state of mental health care for older adults in the United States and potential strategies to address the mental health needs and challenges of an aging population. Mor, who is a National Academy ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD is profiled as an honoree by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and McKnight’s Home Care, part of McKnight’s Senior Living. Mor was honored with an “Industry Ally” award at McKnight’s 2023 Pinnacle Awards in March for his decades of research to improve long-term care. McKnight’s will profile other Pinnacle ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory (U54AG063546) is pleased to announce the 2023 Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program awardees. This program offers investigators an opportunity to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with ...

Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, member of the executive committee of the IMPACT Design & Statistics Core, recently published a blog post inspired by discussions with collborators from the IMPACT Collaboratory. Goldfeld discussed how the question of variable cluster sizes has come up a number of times in recent discussion with IMPACT Collaborators about setting the sample sizes ...

The Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) will hold its 44th Annual Meeting May 21-24 in Baltimore, MD. The theme is “Championing High-quality Evidence to Optimize Human Health.” Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH, member of the executive committee of the Ethics & Regulation Core, will be presenting, “Physician Gatekeeping in Pragmatic Trials: A Qualitative Study of Clinical ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host an Ad Hoc workshop planning for the addressing the rising mental health needs of an aging population in Washington, DC on May 15 and 16. IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, is an invited presenter at the workshop, which will cover the areas of: mental ...

The National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment Mentorship Program (NCAEM) is seeking a new cohort for its one-year mentorship program to support clinicians, service providers, researchers, policymakers, and advocates who are focused on improving care for older adults experiencing or at risk of experiencing elder mistreatment. Each year a newly selected cohort participates in the ...

IMPACT members will participate in the three-day 2023 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons Living with Dementia (PLWD) and Their Care Partners/Caregivers. Daily sessions will explore the latest research for PLWD and their partners and caregivers, as well as facilitated sessions with the Lived Experience and Stakeholder panels. Registration is now open. ...

IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core Leader, Jason Karlawish, MD, hosted a virtual conversation on the shortcomings and challenges of nomenclature in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and learn about the opportunities to address these challenges. He was joined by IMPACT Stakeholder Advisory Committee member, Angela Taylor, BA of the Lewy Body Dementia Association. Karlawish and Taylor ...