Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

The Community Liaison & Recruitment Core (CLRC) conducts activities that are directly aligned with the Mass-ENVISION theme to provide resources, training, and sustained and tailored mentoring to underrepresented in medicine (UiM) scientists in ADRD (Alzheimer disease and related dementias) behavioral interventions that follow the NIH Stage model and incorporate the NIA Health Disparities Framework and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and NAM (National Academy of Medicine) prevention models, in both community and hospital settings.

 

The CLRC will advance the science of diversity in ADRD behavioral interventions research via 4 specific aims to:

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Aim 1: Operationalize a precision science of diverse recruitment, engagement, and retention into ADRD research.

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Aim 2: Convene a stakeholder group of Black and Latino individuals to determine optimal recruitment and engagement strategies for these populations in ADRD behavioral interventions research.

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Aim 3: Provide RCMAR Scientists with practical examples of RER (recruitment, engagement, and retention) strategies, such as the example of a trial at a local Federally Qualified Health Center.

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Aim 4: Train and provide sustained and tailored mentoring of RCMAR Scientists in a community-engaged science of recruitment, engagement, and retention.

  • Jin Hui Joo MD, MA

    Core Lead, Contact PI

    Dr. Joo’s outstanding background in building paraprofessional networks to support marginalized populations will be crucial in advancing Aim 2’s efforts to develop robust, multi-pronged community entrenchment and Aim 3’s study of retention in a FQHC digital trial.

  • Hugo Aparicio MD, MPH

    Co-I, BUMC Sub-PI

    Dr. Aparicio’s research interests include the identification of lifestyle risk factors, biomarkers, neuroimaging markers and genetic influences associated with cerebrovascular diseases. He is particularly interested in the contributions of vascular risk factors to stroke, brain injury and aging, cognitive dysfunction and the development of Alzheimer’s disease and the influence of racial and ethnic disparities on these outcomes.

  • Evan Plys PhD

    CLRC Member

    Dr. Plys will support Aim 3, particularly in addressing optimized retention programming in a dyadic and familial environment.

  • Christine S Ritchie MD, MPH

    CLRC Member

    Dr. Ritchie, who serves as Lead for the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC) Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement (ORE) Core, will act as liaison between the Mass-ENVISION CLRC and the MADRC ORE.n goes here