# Leadership & Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $182,216

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Leadership & Administrative Core (LAC) will oversee daily operations
of the Northwestern Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC),
implementing its mission to generate novel research to improve quality of
life and independence for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.
The LAC will coordinate activities across all OAIC (a.k.a. `Pepper Center') Cores:
Research Education (REC), Pilot/Exploratory Studies (PESC), Resources
(Design, Measurement, Analytics), Information Dissemination (IDC), as well
as bridge to multiple healthcare systems, community, government, academic,
and industry partners. Administratively based within Northwestern's Center for
Applied Health Research on Aging (CAHRA), our proposed OAIC will be strongly
supported by the Department of Medicine, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) and Northwestern
University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute. An External Advisory Board will convene bi-
annually to review the progress of our new Pepper Center and provide objective feedback on how we might
further expand our impact. We have also intentionally linked the LAC + IDC. The LAC specific aims are to:
Aim 1 Establish the Northwestern Pepper Center and advance an innovative, applied research agenda
 focused on improving primary care for older adults with MCC.
Aim 2 Expand the Northwestern Pepper Center network of collaborators, and stimulate new research and
 education opportunities to address current issues related to primary care models for MCC.
Aim 3 Continually monitor and comprehensively evaluate Northwestern Pepper Center activities and its
 progress towards established goals.
The LAC will manage daily operations and external communications, and challenge Northwestern Pepper Center
faculty to consider how best to serve the national OAIC Network to uniquely contribute to the science related to
geriatrics-informed, primary care management of older adults with MCC to improve function and independence.
To do this, LAC faculty and staff will regularly encourage its Cores to collaborate with one another and find new,
innovative ways to leverage their expertise and functions in partnerships with the many involved, affiliated
external partners, other OAICs, and aging centers. Working with the IDC, the LAC will continually promote and
disseminate Center research and its available services, and be responsible for routinely monitoring and reporting
on Northwestern's OAIC progress towards clearly defined and measurable Pepper Center goals.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10455652
- **Project number:** 5P30AG059988-03
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL S WOLF
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $182,216
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-08-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10455652

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10455652, Leadership & Administrative Core (5P30AG059988-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10455652. Licensed CC0.

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