MGH CHOIR

We are thrilled to welcome to our CHOIR team, Mallory Morehead! Mallory is a new project manager on our HABIT Study and our Mass-ENVISION RCMAR. She has already made tremendous contributions in her first weeks!

📚Today in CHOIR Journal Club, led by @natgiraldosa, we are discussing the article titled “Cultural Adaptations and Cultural Factors in Evidence Based Intervention Implementation in Latinx communities” A very important conversation for our team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37026135/

🥳We are excited to welcome Monica Martinez and Gerardo Enriquez, two bilingual MSW students, to our team. They will be inetrumental in @natgiraldosa 's Get-Active together study funded by RCMAR and is a collaboration with the Memory Disorder Division at MGH!

He received the award at the organization’s 2024 Resuscitation Science Symposium following the presentation “Thematic analysis of cardiac arrest survivor-caregiver dyads’ psychosocial intervention needs.”

🏆🤩Congrats to our Dr. Alex Presciutti on being recognized as a finalist in the Max Harry Weil Early Career Award Competition for Resuscitation Science by the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation!

More information on his research can be found here: medicine.tufts.edu/people/faculty…

📢🎉We are so excited that today Dr. Mike Siegel will present on, "They’re Selling Carbonated Brown Sugar Water to Billions: Is There a Lesson for Us?" in our CHOIR research seminar! Dr. Siegel is a professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts.

Our very own @ZiyanWu_PhD attended the Yale / Wu Tsai Institute: fNIRS Workshop on November 8-9, 2024. An amazing opportunity exploring the latest advancements in neuroimaging! 🧠✨ We are grateful that you represent CHOIR! #fNIRS #Neuroscience @NIRx_NIRS

We had a great time at our annual CHOIR retreat Friday with fun team-building activities and good food!

Check out Drs. Grunberg, Presciutti, Vranceanu, & Lerou recent findings on NICU parents. Staff can help reduce parental anxiety by teaching them parenting skills. They also reduce posttraumatic stress by encouraging them to take breaks from bedside and take care of themselves.

We are excited that our very own Dr. Maggie Syme will be presenting on "Sexual Wellness in Later Life" in our Research Seminar today! nia.nih.gov/health/sexuali…

Clinical Research Coordinators Defne Yucebas, Makenna Law, and Claire Szapary represented CHOIR at @alzassociation ‘s #Walk2EndAlz in Cambridge, MA on Sunday💜

The second foundational study led by Dr. Presciutti, @sarahmperman, and @drAMVranceanu on developing a psychosocial intervention for cardiac arrest survivors and caregivers has now been published: doi.org/10.1016/j.genh… The open pilot trial is now underway – stay tuned!

Welcome to CHOIR our newest Clinical Research Coordinator, Yoojee Kim, who will be working with RCMAR Scientists @natgiraldosa and Dr. Dumichel Harley!

Funded by the NIA, our center is focused on the development, optimization, testing and implementation of dyadic behavioral interventions across the spectrum of ADRD in both hospital and community setting. Check out our website to learn more: mghconfide.org

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Massachusetts General Hospital Roybal Center for Behavioral Dyadic Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CONFIDE-ADRD).

📣🥳Today in our research seminar we'll be joined by Dr. Jen Sumner who will present on, "PTSD After Cardiovascular Events: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Intervention.” For more information on her work on cardiovascular health and PTSD, visit sumnerstresslab.psych.ucla.edu/our-team/

We are super thankful for our remarkable community partners @TheWellnessCol2 and Community Conversations: Sister-to-Sister that have been tremendously helpful and supportive during this study-start-up phase!

This study will be delivered in a group-based setting for Black older adults with bothersome pain and memory-related challenges and focuses on providing education and strategies to increase their physical activity to improve pain and memory challenges.

📣Our research study Healthy Aging as Black Adults: In it Together (HABIT) is now beginning recruitment! Email: mghhabitstudy@mgb.org  Phone: 617-726-1199 or 617-724-6598