Presidential Scholars Program

Ellen McCreedy is an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on pragmatic evaluation of nonpharmaceutical interventions for managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is currently leading an embedded pragmatic trial testing the effects of personalized music on agitation and antipsychotic use for nursing home residents with dementia, and a trial testing the effects of an enhanced advance care planning intervention on documentation of care wishes for people with dementia in assisted living centers. She has previously served as measurement lead for a trial testing the effect of tunable LED lighting on agitation and sleep for nursing home residents with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is also a Steering Committee member of the Technical and Data Core of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory. Dr. McCreedy received her MPH in Global Health from the University of South Florida, her PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Minnesota, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research.