Pitch Partners: Community-Academic Partnerships for Aging-Relevant Issues

Join us for our bi-annual Pitch Partners. This event will focus on Community-Academic Partnerships Aimed at Aging-Relevant Research. Providing older adults with the best health care calls for innovative approaches in which citizens, community organizations, health care organizations, and universities work together to assure successful provision of services and treatment of older adults. At Pitch Partners, community members, organizations and faculty have the opportunity to pitch health-related project ideas in order to identify potential partners and receive critical feedback.

Five proposed ideas will be selected for 5-minutes pitch style presentations. The teams can use a variety of visual media, including but not limited to slides and videos. The pitches will be followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from a panel with a mix of expertise and audience members. The last 30 minutes of the event is dedicated to networking to share insights on the project ideas.

Pitches might address:

• Community-academic partnerships for aging-relevant health research or practice
• Research partnerships for aging well
• Plans for new or expanded research recruitment; collaborations in need of research/evaluation
• Development/planning new partnerships that provide direct service to older adults.

This is a free event. Light dinner will be served. To get accurate counts for food and seating, registration is required.

Please email a one page abstract with specific aims to Monica Villarruel (m.villar@wustl.edu) by April 8, 2019. Five project ideas will be selected by mid-April.
Selected participants will be invited to apply for a rapid seed funding opportunity in May. Participation does not guarantee a partnership or funding.

For questions related to the Pitch Partners series, please email Poli Rijos (prijos@wustl.edu).

Address: CIC @CET is located at 20 S Sarah St, St. Louis, MO 63108 (Corner of Sarah St. and Forest Park Ave.)

Driving directions can be found here. The N. Silo parking lot is free on Thursdays after 3PM. For a map of parking, click here. Metered parking is also available on Forest Park Ave. and Sarah St.

Attendees can also take advantage of the brand new Cortex Metrolink Station. To plan your trip on MetroLink, visit metrostlouis.org or contact Metro Transit Information at 314-231-2345 (call) or 314-207-9786 (text).