CPHAR Fellows Biographical Information

Peter Reed

Research Area

Peter Reed completed his dissertation in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Reed's work examined issues related to care provided to residents of assisted living facilities and nursing homes who have a diagnosis of dementia. This work was part of a project of the Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care in the Sheps Center for Health Services Research called Dementia Care in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes.

His faculty advisory committee for the CPHAR training program included Bob DeVellis, PhD, Victor Marshall, PhD, Betty Mutran, PhD, and Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD.

Employment

In May, 2011, Dr. Reed was named Executive Director of Pioneer Network. Prior to this position, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Health Improvement, based in Sacramento, California.Other previous positions include Senior Director of Programs for the National Alzheimer's Association, and research associate at the Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care. There, he worked on research that formed the basis of his dissertation on the quality of care provided to residents with dementia in long-term care facilities. He has also been a research associate for the Center on Minority Aging, based at the UNC Institute on Aging, a summer intern at the NIA Behavioral and Social Research Program, and a student intern in the Duke University Leadership in an Aging Society Program.

Selected Publications

Hughes, S. & Reed, P.  (2010).  A Nationwide Performance Measurement System to Assess Professional Training in Dementia Care. Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(2): 100-108.

Zimmerman, S., Mitchell, M., Reed, D., Preisser, J., Fletcher, S., Beeber, A., Reed, P., Gould, E., Hughes, S., McConnell, E. Corazzini, K., Lekan, D., & Sloane, P.  (2010). Outcomes of a Dementia Care Training Program for Staff in Nursing Homes and Residential Care/Assisted Living Settings.  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(2): 83-99.

Zimmerman, S., Reed, P., Gould, E.  (2010).  Research Updates: Recognizing Care Needs in Assisted Living and the Importance of Staff Approaches [Editorial].  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(2): 80-82.

Gould, E., Reed, P., Sloane, P., & Zimmerman, S.  (2010).  What is new in Alzheimer's Care Today [Editorial].  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(2): 77-79.

Fletcher, S., Zimmerman, S., Preisser, J., Mitchell, M., Reed D., Gould, E., Beeber, A., & Reed, P.  (2010).  Implementation Fidelity of a Standardized Dementai Care Training Program Across Multiple Trainer and Settings.  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(1): 51-60.

Heid-Grubman, J., Reed, P., Gould, E., Westlund, J., & Bluethmann, S. (2010).  The Foundations of Dementia Care: Context for a Program Evaluation Research Study.  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(1): 6-16.

Reed, P., & Zimmerman, S. (2010).  Research Updates: The Importance of Relationships in Nursing Homes and Residentia Care/Assisted Living Settings [Editorial].  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(1): 4-5

Gould, E., Reed, P., Sloane, P., & Zimmerman, S. (2010).  Dementia Care Training in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Settings, Part 1 [Editorial].  Alzheimer's Care Today, 11(1): 1-3.

Reed, P.  (2009). The Challenge of Engaging People with Alzheimer's Across the Disease Continuum [Editorial].  Alzheimer's Care Today, 10(4): 181-182

Anderson, L., Day, K., Beard, R., Reed, P., & Wu, B.  (2009).  The Public's Perceptions about Cognitive Health and Alzheimer's Disease among the United States Population: A National Review.  The Gerontologist, 49(S1): S2-S11.

Gould, E., & Reed, P.  (2009). Alzheimer's Association Quality Care Campaign and professional training initiatives: improving hands-on care for people with dementia in the USA.  International Psychogeriatrics, 21, S1 (S25-S33).

Kurz, A., Schulz, M, Reed, P., Wortmann, M., Rodrigo, J., von Lützau Hohlbein, H., & Grossberg, G.  (2008).  Personal perspectives of persons with Alzheimer's and their carers: A global survey.  Alzheimer's and Dementia, 4: 345-352.