Kathleen Smith

BOLD Grant Program Manager

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Kathleen O’Toole Smith, BA, is the BOLD Grant Manager at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and is employed by the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The BOLD grant released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a public health approach to addressing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Building Our Largest Dementia Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s disease (BOLD) grant 2020-2023 is complete. Currently, work is underway on the BOLD grant (2023-2028) in Wisconsin which includes 18 projects. Kathleen has worked in support of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health since 1997.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Sustaining and Expanding a State-Wide IPE Healthy Aging Initiative Through the CDC Funded and DHS Collaborative BOLD 2.0 Grant at UW-Madison Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The Healthy Aging Initiative was born through the initial funding through the CDC-funded Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Disease Project in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Health. This funding created, and now supports the Interprofessional Learning Community Caregiving Badge (IPL Badge). The IPL Badge led by UW CIPE at UW–Madison, was initially funded as a 3-year telehealth community placement project, added the simulation learning, Advanced Dementia Interprofessional Clinical Simulation (ADICS), in Fall 2022 and recently this project was…