# Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · 2020 · $251,006

## Abstract

OUTREACH, RECRUITMENT, AND ENGAGEMENT CORE
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 and Nevada, with and without cognitive
impairment, who are willing to participate in the CADRC clinical core and other activities (e.g., clinical trials).
The OREC will accomplish this through five specific aims.
 The OREC will promote recruitment and retention of participants in clinical research in close
collaboration with the Clinical Core (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 rapidly progressive AD, and 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). Finally, the OREC will coordinate
with Dr. Dylan Wint at the Nevada Satellite Core to assist with recruitment for that program, including providing
recruitment materials and other resources (Specific Aim 5).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9967985
- **Project number:** 5P30AG062428-02
- **Recipient organization:** CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU
- **Principal Investigator:** Martha X Sajatovic
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $251,006
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9967985

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9967985, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core (5P30AG062428-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9967985. Licensed CC0.

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