The Center for Aging and Serious Illness (CASI) is offering a ten-month training program for early- to mid-career researchers and health professionals interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials in persons with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias (ADRD). The program will include a combination of webinars, small group ...

NIA IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, has been named to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Panel of Health Advisers. The panel is a group of widely recognized experts in health policy and the health care sector who provide feedback and recommendations to the CBO. Panelists usually serve three-year terms, and meet in person once ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory had a strong presence at the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 30-August 4, in San Diego, CA. Members of the IMPACT Administration Core led a pre-conference workshop on July 29th designed to share key considerations in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for persons living with dementia. IMPACT members ...

Evaluation of a state-wide effort to improve COVID-19 infection control in Massachusetts nursing homes August 3, 2022 IMPACT members Vincent Mor, PhD and Thomas Travison, PhD are among the authors of this publication sharing the results of  a multicomponent infection control intervention aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 in 360 nursing homes in Massachusetts. This research ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is happy to announce a Request for Applications for two separate funding opportunities: Pilot Grant Program and Demonstration Projects Program.  These opportunities support research and training to increase the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials ...

The Alzheimer’s Association is seeking applications for a Senior Director of Health Services Research. The role offers an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the scientific and medical community, payers and other health systems researchers and experts, to discuss the social determinants of health, health behavior, intervention methods, program planning and evaluation, health communication, and ...

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded a research team including several IMPACT members more than $500,000 to study ethical issues in cluster randomized trials (CRTs). IMPACT members Monica Taljaard, PhD, Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, Emily Largent, PhD, JD, RN, Alex John London,PhD, and Cory Goldstein, PhD, MA are on the research team seeking ...

IMPACT’s Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD received the Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research at the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC). This award recognizes a senior investigator whose contributions have shown a lasting impact on the field and whose body of work has demonstrated a career-long commitment towards progress against Alzheimer’s and dementia. ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce plans to publish new Requests for Applications (RFA) for Pilot Grants and Demonstration Projects on August 1, 2022*. Letters of Intent for both opportunities are due mid-September 2022. *August 1st is the new RFA release date. This date has been modified from the original date, which was August 15th. Pilot ...

Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, IMPACT Health Care System Scholar, has created a brief video sharing the story of her 1-year journey with The University of Colorado UC Health preparing to conduct real world research to improve dementia care. The brief video describes the goals and progress over the last year as Dr. Lum and her colleagues ...