Our fifth and final DEM-PCCT Clinical Trials Training Program cohort gathered in Chapel Hill, NC, for a week of learning, collaboration, and mentorship to advance dementia palliative care clinical trials research. Thank you to our scholars and faculty! #DementiaResearch

🎗️ This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, CASI recognizes those facing breast cancer, celebrates survivors, honors those we've lost, and thanks the healthcare professionals, researchers, caregivers, and advocates working to improve care and outcomes. #BreastCancerAwareness

The SPIRE Study team recently visited our partners at @AtriumHealthWFB, @GriffinHospital, @MassGenBrigham, and @bswhealth to learn how GRACE is implemented across sites. Grateful for our partners’ collaboration and shared commitment to improving care for older adults!

Our research team has spent the past several months reading and discussing The Art of Possibility with our Center Director, Dr. Christine Ritchie. 📚✨ We’re celebrating the end of our monthly discussions with a team get-together! Grateful for the conversations and connections.

👋 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Harry Han to the CASI community! Dr. Han is a palliative care physician whose academic work focuses on improving palliative care delivery and strengthening palliative medicine education.

Thank you to Dr. Christine Ritchie and everyone who joined our DCC Conversations with Caregivers session on minimizing stress during family vacations! 🌿 Sharing practical tips for safer, lower-stress, and meaningful time together. Watch here: youtu.be/dKTf1Cw228Q

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman, named the Thomas S. Durant, MD Fellow in Global Disaster Response by @MGHCenterGH! Her fellowship will strengthen palliative care education across Tribal communities.

👋 Please join us in welcoming the newest faculty member of CASI, Dr. Ethan Borre! Dr. Borre is a physician-scientist whose research uses decision science and cost-effectiveness analysis to improve care for older adults. Welcome, Ethan! #AgingResearch #HealthServicesResearch

Congrats to CASI investigators Dr. Jo Paladino and Dr. @sachinjshah on receiving an ASCENT Pilot & Exploratory Award! Their project will help people living with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers make informed decisions about anti-amyloid therapies. #Alzheimers #Research

#FacultyFriday We would like to highlight CASI Faculty Dr. BR Daubman who recently presented at the University of Colorado Anschutz ACCORDS (Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research & Delivery Science) Grand Rounds!

For this week's #FacultyFriday, we would like to highlight Dr. Sachin Shah, who was featured in a National Geographic article for his work on social frailty in aging!
nationalgeographic.com/health/article…

For this week's #TeamTuesday, take a look at some of our CASI team at the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine Holiday Party!

#FacultyFriday We would like to highlight CASI Faculty Dr. Sachin Shah who was featured in an AARP article for his work on solo aging!
aarp.org/family-relatio…

#FacultyFriday Two CASI faculty recently received AAHPM 2026 Awards! Dr. Christine Ritchie received the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in Palliative Care, and Dr. Laura Petrillo received the Early Career Investigator Award. Congratulations!
@RitchieCS @lpetrillz

Past and present DEM-PCCT scholars reunited recently at GSA in Boston! We are currently accepting applications for our fifth and final cohort! Please see here for more information on our application and informational webinars!
mghagingandseriousillness.org/2023-request-f…

To celebrate today's #TeamTuesday, we're highlighting CASI's Dr. Lisa LaRowe, Dr. Carine Davila, and Dr. Sevdenur Cizginer at #GSA2025!

#FacultyFriday
CASI faculty member Dr. Carine Davila participated in the CAPC Health Equity Accelerator pre-conference session at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) National Seminar in Philadelphia last week!

Highlighting our CASI faculty member @lpetrillz, who co-chaired the HMS CPC Palliative Care Research Workshop this year, and other CASI faculty and staff who attended!

#MondayResearchMinute
Check out these publications by CASI Faculty, Christine Ritchie, Sachin Shah, and Joanna Paladino!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40873665/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41103145/

We are recruiting for our fifth and final cohort of the Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials Training Program. View the QR code below to apply and visit tinyurl.com/DEMPCCT for more information!