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StARS Learning Collaborative Featuring the LTC Data Cooperative

    Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 1 PM CT / 2 PM ET

    The State Alzheimer's Research Support (StARS) Center is excited to host a webinar featuring the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative, a project that is assembling electronic health record data from assisted living and skilled nursing facilities who voluntarily join. The data cooperative’s goal is to provide data that will help evaluate policy changes, care practices, and other interventions. When linked with CMS claims data, the data cooperative will be able to track care utilization before, during, and after a stay in either long-term care setting. In addition to describing the cooperative, the program will highlight its value in dementia program evaluation and comparative effectiveness studies.


    Presented by:

    • Stephanie M. Kissam, MPH Executive Director, Long-Term Care Data Cooperative American Health Care Association

    • Vincent Mor Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and the Florence Pirce Grant University Health Brown University School of Public Health


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    What is the Right Dose? The Role of Heterogeneity in Behavioral and Social Interventions

      October 23, 2025 |  12PM-1PM ET

      Join the EMBRACE webinar featuring Heather Allore, PhD and Guangyu Tong, PhD! This session will describe the concept of a dose in behavioral and social interventions. Presenters will cover challenges in determining optimal dose in behavioral and social interventions with single and multicomponent interventions and in the context of heterogeneity. This presentation provide an overview of approaches for testing doses and components including descriptive, inferential, and adaptive designs. Lastly, presenters will feature a real-world dementia intervention and implications for research.


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      The Art and Science of the Pilot Study: Challenges and Solutions

        October 16, 4-5pm ET | Clin-STAR Webinar

        "The Art and Science of the Pilot Study: Challenges and Solutions"

        Kenneth Schmader, MD

        with Carl F. Pieper, DrPH

        Duke University School of Medicine

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        Webinar Objectives:

        • To describe challenges and solutions in the design of a pilot study protocol

        • To describe challenges and solutions in the conduct of a pilot study

        • To list publication and funding opportunities for pilot studies



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