Congratulations to IMPACT Associate Pilot Core Leader, Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS, of IU School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute and team on recent 5-year award from the National Institutes of Health to develop NEXT STEPs (Nursing Home EXplanatory Clinical Trials: Supporting Transformation by Enhancing Partnerships), an innovative national nursing home clinical trials network.
Researcher-clinicians from the IU School of Medicine and Regenstrief will lead the initiative to increase nursing home resident participation in clinical trials by removing barriers to participation and creating a more inclusive approach.
Dr. Unroe is the principal investigator of the initiative which includes research sites in nine states and collaborative work with multiple institutions including:
- Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
- Brown University
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- University of Utah
- Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
- The Regents of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of Colorado Denver in the amount
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Rhode Island Hospital
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Duke University
- New York University
Learn more about this groundbreaking new initiative at https://www.regenstrief.org/article/award-funds-network-to-include-nursing-home-residents-in-clinical-trials/