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Funded Pilot Projects

Cycle 2 Pilot Awardees

Justina L. Groeger, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, 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, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, 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, Department 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, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University

Pilot Study Title:
Adapting an evidence-based behavioral intervention for nursing homes

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