Announcements and News updates
Each month, we highlight news stories and articles featuring NIDUS Boot Camp alumni. If you are a Boot Camp alum and have an accomplishment that you’d like featured here, let us know. A.M. Barrett, MD UMass Chan Medical School: UMass Memorial Health gift, with matching funds from UMass Foundation, to fund five new endowed chairs […]
NIDUS will host two additional mentoring sessions in 2024. Our October 15, 2024 session will feature Dr. Sharon Inouye (NIDUS Multi-PI & Harvard Professor). In addition, our November 21, 2024 session will feature Heidi Lindroth, RN, PhD & Anirban Bhattacharyya, MD, MPH (both from the Mayo Clinic). Learn more about these sessions and register here.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 NIDUS Pilot Awards: Christina Boncyk, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Sunyang Fu, PhD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center. These one-year pilot grants provide $40,000 in funding for each awardee’s delirium research. The overarching goal of these pilot studies is to provide key preliminary […]
The US Deprescribing Research Network is pleased to announce a new Request for Application for Pilot Awards. The maximum budget per award is $30,000 in direct costs (and no more than $50,000 in combined direct and indirect cost). Letter of Intent (Required): Due November 12, 2024 Full application: Due January 31, 2025 Read more about […]
Join the USDeN October 1, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT) for a special webinar: N-of-1 Trials to Promote Deprescribing. The featured presenter will be Dr. Parag Goyal of Weill Cornell Medicine. This webinar will outline the potential value of N-of-1 trials as an innovative strategy to promote deprescribing. More broadly, it will […]
Each month, we highlight news stories and articles featuring NIDUS Boot Camp alumni. If you are a Boot Camp alum and have an accomplishment that you’d like featured here, let us know. Sevdenur Cizginer, MD Medscape: Healing Beyond the Hospital: Improving Post-Op Care for Older Adults Dae Kim, MD, MPH The New England Journal of Medicine: […]
On Monday, October 7, 2024, the AGS CoCare®: HELP GSA Special Interest Group will a special session on the Hospital Elder Life Program. Attendees will hear how one AGS CoCare®: HELP site got started and how they overcame barriers. In addition, the session will also discuss generial guidelines for starting an AGS CoCare®: HELP Program. […]
NOTE: Each month, we’ll highlight news stories and articles featuring NIDUS Boot Camp alumni. If you are a Boot Camp alum and have an accomplishment that you’d like featured here, let us know. A.M. Barrett, MD UMass Chan Medical School: Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect Sikandar Khan, […]
Are you a delirium researcher? Each year, NIDUS awards pilot grants to advance innovation in delirium research and support researchers like you! The next Pilot Award cycle will soon be underway. Learn more about NIDUS Pilot Awards.
The Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging will host a hybrid workshop entitled “Current Progress and New Directions in Delirium Research ” on August 5 – 6, 2024. The workshop will be held at the NIA’s Neuroscience Center in Rockville, MD with a virtual option on Zoom. Register here. The workshop will […]