Tatiana Sadak - She Her
Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics
Profile
Dr. Sadak synergistically dedicates her effort to administration, clinical work, education, research, and policy, focusing on identifying and applying innovative methods to optimize care for people with dementia and their families. Although her primary appointment is at the Yale School of Nursing, Tatiana remains a pivotal member of the UW School of Nursing team.
Tatiana’s mission is to transform the clinical care, research, policy, and education of healthcare professionals by fully integrating and leveraging specialized knowledge that too often exists in isolated silos. “The impact of dementia is personal, emotional, economic, and systemic. Yet health care for people with dementia and their families has changed remarkably little. We have for too long approached a complex and inherently multidisciplinary problem with fragmented care methods in which clinicians with minimal to no formal specialized training work independently of other disciplines.”
Dr. Sadak is leading the Dementia Palliative Education Network (DPEN), the UWSON Excellence in Long-Term Care Externship Program – an innovative initiative directed at inspiring nursing students to see themselves as having a career in long-term care, which has the most significant workforce deficit of any nursing sector. The program model is low-cost, effective, quickly disseminated, and easily duplicated, dissipating misperceptions about LTC.
Tatiana leads UWSON, national and international initiatives to develop a dementia-capable healthcare workforce and improve older adults’ outpatient and Long Term Care (LTC) through rigorous research, education, and policy. Dr. Sadak is a primary investigator on the National Institute of Health, HRSA, Foundations, and State-funded grants that generated over 10 Million in funding for geriatric and education-related initiatives.
Tatiana’s mission is to transform the clinical care, research, policy, and education of healthcare professionals by fully integrating and leveraging specialized knowledge that too often exists in isolated silos. “The impact of dementia is personal, emotional, economic, and systemic. Yet health care for people with dementia and their families has changed remarkably little. We have for too long approached a complex and inherently multidisciplinary problem with fragmented care methods in which clinicians with minimal to no formal specialized training work independently of other disciplines.”
Dr. Sadak is leading the Dementia Palliative Education Network (DPEN), the UWSON Excellence in Long-Term Care Externship Program – an innovative initiative directed at inspiring nursing students to see themselves as having a career in long-term care, which has the most significant workforce deficit of any nursing sector. The program model is low-cost, effective, quickly disseminated, and easily duplicated, dissipating misperceptions about LTC.
Tatiana leads UWSON, national and international initiatives to develop a dementia-capable healthcare workforce and improve older adults’ outpatient and Long Term Care (LTC) through rigorous research, education, and policy. Dr. Sadak is a primary investigator on the National Institute of Health, HRSA, Foundations, and State-funded grants that generated over 10 Million in funding for geriatric and education-related initiatives.
Classes
- NMETH 610: Research Practicum
Grants
- Saving the Long-Term Care Industry During the Pandemic, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
- Revolutionizing Dementia Education and Training for Health Care Professionals, Josiah Macy Jr., Foundation
- Saving the Long-Term Care Industry During the Pandemic, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
- Nursing Simulation Lab Modernization Grant, Washington Student Achievement Council
- Development of a high-fidelity emulator of a full physics model for dense observing systems in atmospheric science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 2020 California Carbon Dioxide Budget in a Changing Environment, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Developing and incorporating a machine learning (ML) model of the Stochastic Time Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model to be used in EDF’s Air Tracker, Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated
- Emulating atmospheric transport for dense observing systems, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dementia Outcomes with Optimal Nurse Practitioner Care, Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
- Web-Based Dementia Palliative Care Assessment and Resource Hub, Cambia Health Foundation