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 care for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners (CPs). The program funds researchers to partner with HCS (or organization) for 12 months to: Develop relationships between the ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, along with colleagues Steven George, PT, PhD and Angelo Volandes, MD, discussed the complexities of intervention delivery in pragmatic clinical trials during an interview at this year’s NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Steering Committee annual meeting. The group explained that delivery complexities impact researchers’ ability to discern trial results ...

IMPACT funded investigator Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, was selected as one of 20 finalists for the 2023 NIA Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator: Fostering Entrepreneurial Diversity.  The project is a mobile app that facilitates communication among family members, loved ones, and health care providers, and community-based caregivers like adult day centers around the day-to-day ...

Comparative Risks of Potential Adverse Events Following COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination Among Older US Adults August 2, 2023 IMPACT COVID-19 supplement awardee and multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, and executive director of the IMPACT Administration Core, Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, are among a team of authors that published a supplement on COVID-19 vaccines in older adults in ...

Academic–Clinical Collaborations to Build Undergraduate Nursing Education in Hospice and Palliative Care August 1, 2023 IMPACT Healthcare System Scholar Zainab Toteh Osakwe, PhD, NP, RN is principal author on an article sharing the results of a hospice/palliative care survey in New York State. Hospice/palliative care nursing experts were asked to identify essential care work topics that should ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 4B, and the Demonstration Projects Program Cycle 3. Awardees of these funding opportunities will be supported by the IMPACT cores and teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator and longtime professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University, Vincent Mor, PhD served as a panelist during the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  Collaboratory Workshop. “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster.” The panel, held on June 29, was titled “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on ...

Evaluating the pragmatic characteristics of advance care planning outcome measures in dementia clinical trials: A scoping review July 13, 2023 To ensure that research results will impact real-world practices, ACP outcome measures must be meaningful to key partners, pragmatic, and psychometrically strong. IMPACT members Jennifer Gabbard, MD, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, authored ...

IMPACT Health Equity Team (HET) leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS and colleague Dr. Anne Trontell reflected on health equity in the embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) landscape during the 2023 NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee Meeting. The focus of the meeting was health equity in ePCTs and Quiñones spoke about the efforts of the ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 2023 IMPACT Faculty Scholars. This program aims to enhance the career development of investigators in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for people living with dementia and their care partners by integrating them into the activities of our Cores and Teams. Faculty Scholars attend monthly ...