Cycle 2 Pilot Awardees

Justina L. Groeger, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Pilot Study Title:
Facilitating Skilled Nursing Facility Provision of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Dana Urbanski, AuD, PhD, CCC-A Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington
Pilot Study Title:
Adapting Audiology Best Practices and Outcome Measurement for a Future Explanatory Trial of Hearing Care in Nursing Home Residents
Cycle 1 Pilot Awardees

Connie Cole, PhD, DNP, APRN, NP-C, ACHPN Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine
Pilot Study Title:
Timely Identification of Unmet Palliative Care Needs in Nursing Homes

Ellen McCreedy, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Health Services, Policy, and Practice Brown University
Pilot Study Title:
Improving identification strategies and outcome measurement for a future explanatory trial of a personalized music intervention for dementia-related agitation

Cara McDermott, PharmD, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Duke University
Pilot Study Title:
Optimizing Medications to Reduce Hospitalizations for Multimorbid Adults with COPD

Evan Plys, PhD, MA Assistant Professor of Psychology Dept. of Psychiatry Harvard University
Pilot Study Title:
Adapting an evidence-based behavioral intervention for nursing homes
