NIDUS Blog

Zachary Kunicki, PhD

Investigator of the Month (July 2023): Zachary Kunicki, PhD

Dr. Zachary Kunicki received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and he has master’s degrees in Psychology, Statistics, and Public Health. Dr. Kunicki is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he also serves as the assistant […]

Zachary Kunicki, PhD

The Trajectory of Cognitive Aging after Experiencing Postoperative Delirium

Contributed by Zachary Kunicki, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Richard Jones, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; and Sharon Inouye, MD MPH, Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair […]

Annmarie Hosie, PhD, RN

Investigator of the Month (June 2023): Annmarie Hosie, PhD, RN

Dr. Annmarie Hosie is Associate Professor, Palliative Care Nursing at the University of Notre Dame Australia and St. Vincent’s Health Network Sydney; and an Adjust Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her PhD at the University of Notre Dame Australia researched delirium epidemiology, systems, and nursing practice in palliative care units, and her […]

Flavia Barreto Garcez MD, PhD

The potential association between gut microbiota and delirium in acutely ill older adults: an important area for further investigation

Contributed by Flavia Barreto Garcez MD, PhD and Thiago Junqueira Avelino-Silva, MD, PhD Laboratorio de Investigacao Medica em Envelhecimento (LIM 66), Servico de Geriatria, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil The gut microbiota, the collection of microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract,1 has gained increasing attention in recent years. It […]

Meera Agar, PhD

Investigator of the Month (May 2023): Meera Agar, PhD

Professor Agar’s research aims to improve the support and care for people who are experiencing cognitive and other brain impacts as a result of advanced illness. She is particularly focused on improving interventions to prevent and manage delirium at the end of life, and measure their efficacy and harms through endpoints that are meaningful to […]

The NIDUS Delirium Research Hub: 10 Questions

Recently, Dr. Ed Marcantonio, NIDUS Delirium Research Hub Leader, created a list of 10 Questions about the NIDUS Delirium Research Hub. Below is a preview of the list: 1) What is the NIDUS Delirium Research Hub? The Delirium Research Hub, one of five NIDUS cores, is a repository of meta-data (like a “table of contents”) […]

Dr. Kelly Atkins, author or the blog post 'Using Qualitative Approaches to Understand the Subjective Experience of Postoperative Delirium'

Using Qualitative Approaches to Understand the Subjective Experience of Postoperative Delirium

Contributed by Kelly Atkins, DPsych (Clin Neuro), Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. Our Research Question Postoperative delirium is the most common adverse outcome affecting older adults after surgery and is associated with a cascade of negative outcomes1, 2. While research activity in the field of postoperative delirium has exploded, the subjective experience of postoperative […]

Citing a published NIDUS blog post on your CV

When citing a NIDUS blog post on your CV, list it in a section entitled ‘Other Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarship’. For the actual citation, list your name, blog title, organization (NIDUS), and the link to Blog. At the end, add ‘invited blog’ in brackets. This is the format suggested on the Harvard Med School CV template.

Example:
Sam Jones, My Delirium Blog Post, NIDUS, www.deliriumnetwork/my-delirium-blog-post.org (invited blog)