# Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · 2022 · $371,732

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
 The Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core (OREC) will be responsible for providing important
liaison and outreach between the Cleveland Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (CADRC) and people with
dementia, their care partners and both the professional and local lay community, so that information may be
communicated bi-directionally. The OREC will be led by Dr. Martha Sajatovic, a clinical investigator with over 2
decades of clinical trials and research experience, with focus on community outreach and engagement of
traditionally hard-to-reach or marginalized populations. To best meet the needs of the Center, the OREC must
develop and maintain a robust pool of volunteers within Northeast Ohio, with and without cognitive impairment,
who are willing to participate in the CADRC Clinical Core (CC) and other activities (e.g., clinical trials). The OREC
will accomplish this through 4 specific aims.
 The OREC will promote recruitment and retention of participants in clinical research in close collaboration
with the CC (Specific Aim 1). Both cores will continuously coordinate and evaluate recruitment and outreach
efforts to identify the most effective strategies, develop new recruitment methods, and build even more extensive
collaboration with community stakeholders and an expanded referral network. In Specific Aim 2, the OREC will
focus recruitment of key subgroups, including African-Americans (AA), individuals with dementia with Lewy
bodies and atypical Alzheimer's disease (AD), and cognitively normal controls. Taken together, these special
populations will provide valuable new data on asymptomatic, at-risk individuals, and individuals in the earliest
stages of neurocognitive decline. The OREC will leverage the existing Minority Advisory Board (MAB) to raise
awareness of the CADRC within the AA community. Recruitment of other sub-groups will build upon successful
funded programs to recruit from existing subject samples. Another goal of the OREC is to promote community
education and communication, disseminate research findings, and obtain feedback that will continue to improve
the academic-community partnership by engaging both the lay community as well as local and regional
professional groups (Specific Aim 3). The OREC will aim to support all other members of the CADRC cores as
it relates to linkage between the OREC and other cores. The OREC will facilitate communication between all
cores, optimize outreach activities and help ensure that all cores are actively collaborating in the central goal of
advancing AD research (Specific Aim 4).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10474604
- **Project number:** 5P30AG072959-02
- **Recipient organization:** CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU
- **Principal Investigator:** Martha X Sajatovic
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $371,732
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-09-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10474604

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10474604, Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core (5P30AG072959-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10474604. Licensed CC0.

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