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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 virtual formats:

  • TIARA Synchronous –you progress with a cohort of learners and attend a virtual, one-hour, live “learning lab” every other week. February 9 – May 6, 2026. Final session features keynote from Dr. Anne Sales.

  • TIARA Self-Paced – learn at your own pace and schedule.


Why TIARA?
  • Gain Practical Knowledge: Integrates implementation science with quality improvement for actionable research

  •  Improve Healthcare & Communities: Provides investigators and trainees with a framework to rapidly implement improvement

  • Innovate: Receive customized tools to support implementations with faster, more efficient, and measurable success

  • Receive Certification: Be recognized as a TIARA Scholar with certificates from Frontiers CTSI & UMKC Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality

  • Obtain CE Credits: Advance your career while meeting continuing education requirements

  • Learn from and with Esteemed Partners: Learn from a myriad of diverse faculty and fellow TIARA Scholars from multiple prestigious US institutions


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-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia and their care partners. If you are not yet on our mailing list, join here to receive IMPACT updates and reminders. Registration is not required.














The 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will cover:
  • Economic impacts of dementia

  • Individual and community partnerships for people living with dementia

  • Dementia care and caregiving interventions: advancing rigorous intervention development

  • Dementia care models and care coordination strategies across systems and states

  • Advances in AD/ADRD data infrastructure to support dementia care and caregiving research

  • Sharing lived experiences from people living with dementia, care partners, and family and community members


In addition to the Summit itself, we will host a virtual Pre-Summit Listening Session.

Whether you're a care partner/caregiver, an interest holder, living with dementia yourself, or a passionate member of the dementia care and caregiving community, your insights are vital. Join the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging (NIA) for a FREE virtual Pre-Summit Listening Session to share your ideas for consideration at the 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit. Summit organizers are holding this event to ensure the agenda reflects our collective vision.


Listening Session Date and Time:

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

1pm- 2:00PM EST

 

If you have any questions or need reasonable accommodations, please e-mail the Care Summit Planning Team at least one week before the event.  All registered attendees will receive the event link in advance upon the completion of their registration. 

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