Funded Sites: Duke University

PI/Center Director: Elizabeth Clipp, RN, PhD

Co-PI:  Kenneth Schmader, MD

Focus: Older adults with cancer and frail elderly in nursing homes

Disciplines:

• Nursing
• Medicine
• Social Work
• Pharmacy
• Health Services/Policy
• Exercise Physiology
• Sociology
• Epidemiology

Activities:

• Organized 2 “idea generation” retreats to build relationships around shared interests and introduce junior faculty to existing databases
• Funded 3 pilot projects and conducted a bi-monthly interdisciplinary training series for the investigators
• Organized 6-part research training seminar and invited junior faculty with proposals under development to participate
• Sponsored 3 seminar series, including Health Services Intervention Training Series, Longitudinal Methods Training Seminar, and Latent Gold Training Seminar