Dr. Ariel Green, associate professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, was recently named a recipient of the Demonstration Project Award from the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory. Awardees of this funding opportunity 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 living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners. IMPACT prioritizes applications that promote health equity and address dementia care for people of all backgrounds.
Demonstration Projects Program
The Demonstration Projects Program supports full-scale, Stage IV effectiveness ePCTs testing non-pharmacological interventions for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners that are linked to the needs of a health care system. The intervention typically includes relatively simple system changes, direct patient outreach or successfully piloted programs ready for testing at scale. The goal of the demonstration project is to generate evidence on effective care delivery practices that can be expanded and/or implemented in other systems.
Dr. Green's project is entitled "ALIGN: Aligning Medications with What Matters Most." Her collaborators include Dr. Halima Amjad, assistant professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Dr. Cynthia Boyd, professor and director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Kamryn Brown, research program coordinator in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Dr. Scott Feeser, office medical director at JHCP Remington Internal Medicine and instructor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Jessica Merrey, lead clinical pharmacy specialist at JHH and research associate in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Rosalphie Quiles, research program coordinator in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Dr. Nancy Schoenborn, associate professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Meghan Swarthout, director of JHHS Pharmacy Patient Care Services, Nicole Williams, research program coordinator in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Dr. Jennifer Wolff, professor of Health Policy & Management and in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Dr. Qian-Li Xue, associate professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and Dr. Elizabeth Bayliss from Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
