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Mentoring Researchers in Advance Care Planning for Underrepresented Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers

Award Number: K24AG054415
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 02/15/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2028

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Mentoring Researchers in Advance Care Planning for Underrepresented Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers - The aims of this proposal are to (1) enable the candidate to further develop her research program focused on improving advance care planning (ACP) and medical decision making for older adults, particularly individuals and persons with limited health literacy; (2) expand her research to older persons with mild cognitive impairment (PMCI) at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and caregivers of PMCI or ADRD; and (3) use her research platform to mentor junior investigators interested in patient-oriented aging research, both within Geriatrics and other subspecialties. The candidate is a Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician who has established a well-funded, high-impact, independent clinical research program with an outstanding publication and mentoring record. In the past decade, she has established herself as a successful mentor of students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty who have published high-impact aging research, become successfully funded, and continue to participate in patient-oriented research in aging. The candidate has also developed an extensive research portfolio focused on creating and testing literacy-appropriate health education materials to improve ACP and medical decision making for older adults. She developed an expanded ACP paradigm that focuses not only on one-time treatment decisions, such as for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but also on the process of preparing patients and caregivers to communicate their wishes and to participate with clinicians in making complex, in-the-moment medical decisions over time. She operationalized this expanded paradigm into easy-to-understand, person-centered programs (i.e., PREPARE for YOUR Care for patients and PREPARE for THEIR Care for caregivers) that use video stories to teach people how to identify and communicate their medical preferences and to make informed medical decisions. The candidate has received ongoing R01 and other funding to test the efficacy of these programs in primary care settings. This K24 proposal will provide the candidate with protected time to expand her research in a new direction. Grounded in implementation science frameworks and community-engaged research, the candidate will conduct research to adapt the PREPARE programs with and for PMCI and caregivers and test the acceptability of a new delivery model of online, livestreaming, facilitated group classes. The candidate will also continue to develop her formal mentoring program with plans for the recruitment, selection, development, and evaluation of mentees who will become leaders in aging research. She will work with each mentee to establish an individualized career development plan in which they complete research projects and develop the skills needed to become independent investigators. These plans will make full use of the outstanding clinical research training environment at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She will leverage her leadership positions at UCSF and nationally to recruit mentees interested in aging research and ACP.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2026	2025	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	8	12/10/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $184,569 )
2025	2025	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	8	7/24/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$184,569
														Subtotal = $184,569

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $184,569 )
2024	2024	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	001	7	1/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$184,569
2024	2021	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	5	12/19/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $184,569

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $184,569 )
2023	2023	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	6	2/14/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$184,569
														Subtotal = $184,569

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $187,880 )
2021	2021	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	5	4/8/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$187,880
														Subtotal = $187,880

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $187,880 )
2020	2020	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	4	1/28/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$187,880
														Subtotal = $187,880

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $187,880 )
2019	2019	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	3	1/18/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$187,880
														Subtotal = $187,880

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $187,880 )
2018	2018	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 420	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	2	2/27/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$187,880
														Subtotal = $187,880

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $187,880 )
2017	2017	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Aging Research	000	1	2/9/2017	NEW	$187,880
														Subtotal = $187,880

Grand Total All Awards = $1,493,107

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Mentoring Researchers in Advance Care Planning for Underrepresented Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers

Award Number: K24AG054415

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 02/15/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2028

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