Grand Rounds September 2020

Not all approaches to data are equal: Data-related challenges for pragmatic trials involving PLWD

September 2020 – In Grand Rounds 9, Members of IMPACT's Technical Data Core (TDC) discuss how data algorithms from electronic health records (EHRs) are used to identify, characterize and capture relevant health outcomes of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners.

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Speakers

David Dorr, MD, MS

David Dorr, MD, MS

Executive Committee, Technical Data Core
Professor and Vice Chair of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Chief Research Information Officer, Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD

V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD

Executive Committee, Technical Data Core
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Learning Objectives

  • Understand key data-related steps involved in designing pragmatic trials and trade-offs
  • Identify data-driven approaches to identify people living with dementia and caregivers - focus on EHR
  • Identify challenges in validating approaches in different healthcare settings
Grand Rounds July 2020

Breaking the Cycle: Health Care Systems Interactions for Impactful Results

July 2020 – Grand Rounds 8, Members of the IMPACT Health Care Systems Core share how embedded pragmatic trials can benefit both health care systems and the research community.

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Eric Larson, MD, MPHEric Larson, MD, MPH

Core Leader, Health Care Systems Core
Member, Steering Committee

Vice President, Research and Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington
Executive Director and Senior Investigator, Kaiser Washington Health Research Institute

Leah Hanson, PhD

Leah Hanson, PhD

Associate Core Leader, Health Care Systems Core

Senior Research Investigator, Senior Director of Research at HealthPartners Neuroscience Center, HealthPartners Institute
Co-Director of Research, HealthPartners Center for Memory & Aging

Jeff Williamson, MD, MHS

Jeff Williamson, MD, MHS

Executive Committee, Health Care Systems (HCS) Core
Steering Committee Member

Professor, Chief of Geriatric Medicine, and Director for Center for Healthcare Innovation, Wake Forest School of Medicine

David Reuben, MD

David Reuben, MD

Executive Committee, Health Care Systems (HCS) Core

Archstone Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Learning Objectives

  • Communicate the need and promise for improvement of dementia care with embedded pragmatic trials within dynamic health care settings.
  • Review what we have found to be key components of ePCT trial design and conduct for ensuring that study results are implementable.
  • Provide learnings of two ePCT trialists from The Dementia Care Study: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial of Health System-Based Versus Community-Based Dementia Care (D-CARE)

 

Stakeholder Engagement in ePCTs for People Living with Dementia

May 2020 – In Grand Rounds 6, Ellen Tambor, MA from IMPACT's Engaging Partners Team presents on the special considerations for engaging stakeholders in ePCTs for AD/ADRD and provides an overview of plans for promoting meaningful stakeholder engagement in the IMPACT Collaboratory.

Speaker

Ellen Tambor, MA

Ellen Tambor, MA

Executive Committee, Engaging Partners Team

Research Director, Center for Medical Technology Policy

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the rationale for stakeholder engagement in research and the importance of engaging stakeholders in ePCTs
  • Understand special considerations for engaging stakeholders in ePCTS for AD/ADRD.
  • Describe plans for promoting robust stakeholder engagement throughout the IMPACT Collaboratory.