The first-ever conference on intervention optimization will take place May 18-20, 2026 in Bethesda, MD. This in-person event will bring together a diverse group of scholars to discuss intervention optimization, including the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST), and to spark new collaboration across methods and application areas. The Agenda Will Feature: The science of intervention optimization, including MOST and related frameworks New experimental designs and associated

Join a webinar on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET, featuring Dr. Giampiero Tarantino, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. Dr. Tarantino’s work centers on adolescents’ physical and mental health in school settings, especially within physical education classes. In this talk, Dr. Tarantino will present findings from a new systematic review and meta-analysis of 40 randomized controlled trials evaluating “booster” strategies for mai

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET Cara Lewis, PhD Deputy Director Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS, NHLBI) Cara C. Lewis, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lewis has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with expertise in advancing pragmatic and rigorous measures and methods for

The Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will be held virtually on March 17-19, 2026.  The Summit offers a vital opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made in dementia care and caregiving research, as well as to address the persistent and emerging needs of people living with dementia, their care partners, and the communities and health systems that support them. The 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will cover: Economic impacts of dementia Ind

Translating evidence into practice is a complex process that often spans several years or decades. Recognizing the need to urgently act in the quickly evolving healthcare landscape, TIARA provides physicians, nurses, pharmacists, students/trainees, researchers, and other healthcare professionals with the implementation science and quality improvement knowledge needed to rapidly adopt evidence-based practices into clinical and community settings.   TIARA offers two types of vi

Thursday, January, 2026 |  12:00 – 1:00 pm ET About IMPACT Grand Rounds The IMPACT Collaboratory hosts free webinars on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 12 noon ET addressing issues conducting embedded pragmatic clinical trials on non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia and their care partners.

The RCCN is sponsoring a workshop series to address problems of high relevance to multiple NIA Center programs. These workshops will feature the sharing of paradigms, conceptual models, and key insights from perspectives of the participating centers programs. The fourteenth workshop, “Multidisciplinary Research in Aging/Team Science,” will be held May 20-21, 2026, in Bethesda, Maryland. The scope of the workshop is broad and includes these themes: Multidisciplinary Teams, Ear

Thursday, December 18, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET Amanda Szabo-Reed, PhD Research Associate Professor, Physical Activity & Weight Management, University of Kansas Medical Center Amber Watts, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas; Director, BRANCH Lab About IMPACT Grand Rounds The IMPACT Collaboratory hosts free webinars on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 12 noon ET addressing issues conducting embedded pragmatic clinical trials on non-pharmacol

The Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will be held virtually on March 17-19, 2026.  The Summit offers a vital opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made in dementia care and caregiving research, as well as to address the persistent and emerging needs of people living with dementia, their care partners, and the communities and health systems that support them. The 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will cover: Economic impacts of dementia Ind

In collaboration with the NEXT STEPs Network  and the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative , the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory (U54AG063546) is now accepting applications for the 2025 Real World Data Scholars Program .   The 1-year mentored training program is designed to build practical skills and professional networks for postdoctoral fellows, advanced

MassAITC is hosting the Digital Frontiers in Frailty: Opportunities for Early Detection and Clinical Action Workshop. The free workshop will be held on January 23rd, 2026 at the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst in Newton, MA and aims to bring together technologists (engineers, computer scientists, academic researchers, start-up founders) and clinicians (geriatricians, neurologists primary care providers) to redefine how we measure, assess, and provide time appropriate care f