Mission Moment: Dr. Brenda Nicholson on Living with Dementia During COVID-19

Posted on April 28, 2021April 22, 2022 by Sonya Sutton

Brenda Nicholson, MD, a member of the IMPACT Collaboratory Stakeholder Engagement Team Executive Committee and person living with dementia, shares her reflections on living with dementia in the context of COVID-19. Dr. Nicholson’s talk was the mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting on April 6, 2021. Dr. Nicholson shares her unique experience living with dementia and provides a valuable perspective into the feelings of both people living with dementia and their care partners.

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Mission Moment: Louise Phillips, MD

Posted on June 8, 2020April 25, 2022 by dcridigital

The mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners. Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, Louise Phillips, MD shares her experience as a person living with dementia and a retired physician.

Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW

Posted on February 7, 2020April 27, 2022 by Sonya Sutton

The mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners. Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, we hear from Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW, Director of Victim Services at the Human Trafficking Institute and care partner for her mother, a retired physician who is living with Alzheimer’s. Ms. Israelite spoke at the NIA IMPACT Steering Committee meeting in January 2020.