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Hwang, newly appointed Emergency Medicine faculty receives NIA IMPACT grant
The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) is pleased to announce that recently appointed DEM faculty, Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, received a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory grant for her project, “Pathway to Detection & Differentiation of Delirium & Dementia in the ED (PD4ED)”. Connecting geriatrics, emergency care, outpatient care, and dementia evaluation, PD4ED will study whether care of the older adult population, many who might have cognitive impairment, can be improved when they interface with the emergency department.