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Ellen McCreedy is an Associate Professor in Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research primarily focuses on the pragmatic evaluation of nonpharmaceutical interventions designed to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals living with dementia. Currently, she is leading an embedded pragmatic trial to assess the effects of personalized music on agitation and antipsychotic use among nursing home residents with dementia. Additionally, she is conducting a trial to evaluate the impact of an enhanced advance care planning intervention on documenting care wishes for individuals with dementia residing in assisted living centers. McCreedy has previously served as the measurement lead in a trial investigating the effects of tunable LED lighting on agitation and sleep among nursing home residents with dementia. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Technical Data Core at the National Institute on Aging, which is part of the IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Clinical Trials Collaboratory. McCreedy holds a Master of Public Health in Global Health from the University of South Florida and a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the University of Minnesota. She completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University, Center for Gerontology Healthcare Research.
Department: Department of Economics