The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC), a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Collaboratory, will foster interdisciplinary research on the development, validation, and translation of AI-enhanced technologies to improve connections between older adults, caregivers, and clinicians in order to more effectively support healthy aging and the care of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) at home.

‍

MassAITC accomplishes this mission by:

• Conducting a rigorous and ongoing needs assessment and technology identification process with deep commitment to stakeholder engagement.
• Establishing and growing a multidisciplinary network of researchers and practitioners.
• Providing access to state-of-art validation facilities to enable rapid, robust and multi-faceted validation of AI-enhanced technologies that starts in the lab and extends to real-world at-home settings.
• Exploring innovative technologies by supporting pilot projects that propose forward-looking solutions with the potential to significantly improve successful aging and AD/ADRD care.
• Providing training to developers, clinicians, and other stakeholders.

‍

MassAITC spans five institutions within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts including the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brandeis University, and Northeastern University. Via its member institutions, MassAITC will bring to bear the combined resources of multiple existing centers and institutes and state-of-the-art research facilities.

‍

Centers

• Institute of Applied Life Sciences (IALS), UMass Amherst
• BWH Roybal for Therapeutic Optimization Using Behavioral Science, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
• Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions, Brandeis University
• Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC), Mass General Hospital.
• Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care, Northeastern University.

‍

MassAITC is led by two principal investigators from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an associate director from UMass Amherst:

‍

Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD

Center Director

Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

‍

Deepak Ganesan, PhD

Center Director

Professor, College of Computing and Information Sciences and Director of Center of Personalized Health Monitoring, UMass Amherst

‍

Benjamin Marlin, PhD 

Center Associate Director 

Associate Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst 

‍

Jason Molony, AM

Executive Director

College of Information and Computer Sciences

UMass Amherst

‍

David Paquette, PhD

Associate Director of Research

College of Information and Computer Sciences

UMass Amherst