Grand Rounds
The First 5 Years of the IMPACT Collaboratory: Building an infrastructure to Conduct Pragmatic Trials in Dementia Care
October 15, 2024
3:00 pm – 4:00 (ET)
Join us for the The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied
Research (2.0) Network – Advancing Dementia Care (GEAR
2.0-ADC) Grand Rounds“
Learning objectives:
- Understand the IMPACT Collaboratory’s mission to build and infrastructure to enable pragmatic trials in dementia care
- Learn about building real-world platforms in healthcare systems to conduct pragmatic trials
- Gain knowledge about opportunities for collaboration between IMPACT and geriatric and dementia emergency care.
About Susan Mitchell & Vincent Mor
Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a Harvard Medical School professor and senior scientist at Hebrew Senior Life’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research. She directs the Palliative Care in AgingResearch Center and co-directs the Interventional Studies in AgingCenter. A geriatrician and health services researcher, Dr. Mitchell focuses on improving outcomes for older patients with advanced illnesses, particularly dementia. She has led major NIH-funded projects, authored key publications, and is a Principal Investigator of the NIA U54 IMPACT Collaboratory. She has received an NIH-NIA K24Mid-Career Investigator Award for ten years and a current NIH-NIAMERIT Award.
Vincent Mor, PhD, is the Florence Pirce Grant Professor of Community Health at Brown University and a senior health scientist at the Providence VA Medical Center. He has led over 40 NIH-funded grants on health services
for frail and chronically ill individuals and published over 450 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Mor received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy investigator award, a MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging, and was honored with the Distinguished Investigator Award from Academy Health in 2011. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Science and Medicine and contributed to the development of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Nursing Home Resident Assessment. His recent work includes a large NIA-funded project focused on evaluating non- pharmacologic interventions for dementia within healthcare systems.