Join Dr. Jerry Gurwitz, from UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, and Drs. Namrata Singh from University of Washington, Melissa Loh from the University of Rochester, and Rasheeda Hall from Duke University, as they highlight opportunities for rheumatology, oncology, and nephrology specialists to implement MCC Care. 

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Join Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH, John Hopkins Medicine, and Arlene Bierman, MD, MS, AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement and Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD, PhD, UT Health Houston as they discuss policy challenges and clinical care in relation to MCCs and aging, as well as knowledge gaps and areas to be improved.

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Join Jay Magaziner, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Stephanie Studenski, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & National Institute on Aging; Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, National Institute on Aging and Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD, PhD, UT Health Houston as they discuss important epidemiological and biological aspects of MCCs and aging, as well as, some knowledge gaps, where more work is needed.

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Join Jeff Williamson, MD, MHS, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Kathryn Callahan, MD, MS, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, as they discuss health system coalition building and the different kinds of skillsets of team members in the Learning Healthcare System (LHS). They also discuss implementing initiatives in an LHS.

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Join Leah Hanson, PhD, HealthPartners Institute and Tullika Garg, MD, MPH, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, as they discuss how clinical gaps play a role in practice and initiating research. They examine the different perspectives and roles of the patient, clinician, clinical staff and leadership in identifying those clinical gaps. They also consider barriers faced when trying to operationalize a research question. 

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Join Jeff Williamson, MD, MHS, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Leah Hanson, PhD, HealthPartners Institute, as they discuss learning healthcare systems (LHS) and their potential value. They define LHS, their importance and also the differences in the cycle of research in the LHS vs the traditional academic research study.

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Join Terrence E. Murphy, PhD, MS, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Qian-Li Xue, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as they discuss missing data. They review different types of missing data mechanisms, analytic approaches to approach missing data and good practice with missing data.

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Join Terrence E. Murphy, PhD, MS, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as they discuss usefulness of cluster analysis for the study of multimorbidity.

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Join Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Ravi Varadhan, PhD, John Hopkins University, as they discuss the challenges and limitations of randomized clinical trials, and observational data for providing evidence relevant to older adults with multimorbidity. They review a cross-design synthetic approach combining trials and real-world data to generate evidence for older adults with multimorbidity.

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Join Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Terrence E. Murphy, PhD, MS, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, as they discuss predictive risk modeling in the context of multimorbidity. They discuss the importance of model selection depending on the situation. They also discuss internal and external validation, statistical modeling and outcome events.

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