A new Susan G Komen funded study in NPJ Breast Cancer authored by Jennifer Wolff, Jennifer Aufill, Diane Echavarria, Amanda Blackford, Roisin Connolly, John Fetting, Danijela Jelovac, Katie Papathakis, Carol Riley, Vered Stearns, Nelli Zafman, Elissa Thorner, Howard Levy, Amy Guo, Sydney Dy, and Antonio Wolff found that a brief, scalable communication intervention led to greater care partner MyChart use and increased illness understanding among breast cancer patients with more engaged care partners. Patients whose care partners logged into MyChart were more likely to have complete illness understanding at 9 months, less symptoms of anxiety, and higher satisfaction with cancer care.

Read the new National Institute on Aging (NIA) summary report developed from the National Research Summit on Care, Services, Support for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers held during the summer of 2020. The summit was co-chaired by center director and summit steering committee Jennifer Wolff and David Reuben of UCLA. View the full report here.