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President’s Grant
2022
Xavier University of Louisiana Medical School Feasibility Assessment
Xavier University of Louisiana
This award supports a feasibility study to develop a new medical school.
Principal Investigator: Dr. C. Reynold Verret, President, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Dr., Box 46, New Orleans, LA 70125 crverret@xula.edu o: (504)520-7541 f:(504)520-7904 Dr. Verret is President of Xavier University of Louisiana since his election in June 2015. Prior to acceding to the presidency, Dr. Verret served as provost and chief academic officer for Savannah State University and at as provost at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. He was Dean of the Misher College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Dr. Verret also served on faculty as biochemist and immunologist at Tulane University and also at Clark Atlanta University, where he was also chair of the department of chemistry for many years. Dr. Anne McCall, Provost, Xavier University of Louisiana, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Dr., Box 94, New Orleans,70125 amccall@xula.edu o: (504) 520-5470 f: (504)520-7912 Prior to joining Xavier University of Louisiana, Dr. McCall served as Dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, where she provided academic, financial, and external leadership for the largest college in New York’s top-ranked public university. Dr. McCall has served as a Dean at the University of Denver and Associate Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science at Tulane University.
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President’s Grant
2022
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship Program
National Medical Fellowships
This award supports the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship program, which will provide four scholarships on the basis of financial need and commitment to service to second- and third-year underrepresented minority medical students.
Principal Investigator: Joy L. Jones, PhD, MS: Dr. Jones joined National Medical Fellowships in 2012 as Program Director to launch NMF’s Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP), an innovative national service-learning program focused on building the primary care provider pipeline. Now in its eleventh program season, she has overseen PCLP’s ongoing expansion, development and evolution. In 2018, Dr. Jones assumed the role of NMF’s Director of Scholarships and Programs, and in 2021 became Chief Program Officer. In this role, she oversees the administration and implementation of NMF’s dynamic programs department, including portfolio of scholarships and awards. She is responsible for donor prospecting activities related to scholarships and programs development. She establishes and maintains strategic relationships with key stakeholders including funders, program partners, faculty advisors/mentors, distinguished healthcare experts and leaders, and scholars. Dr. Jones has more than 15 years experience providing technical assistance and institutional support for capacity development including proposal writing, program development and implementation, strategic planning, human capital development, and program monitoring and evaluation. She holds a PhD in International Development, Tulane University Law School’s Payson Center for International Development; Master of Science in International Development, Tulane University; Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies and Public Policy, George Washington University.
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President’s Grant
2022
The Pre-Health Scholars 3D Program
University of Tennessee Foundation
This award supports a program that helps conditionally accepted dental students from underrepresented backgrounds complete academic programming which will support their success in dental school. Students who successfully complete the program can matriculate in the University of Tennessee’s dental school.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Syreeta McTavous, DDS Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assistant Professor – Department of General Dentistry Chair of The Moving Forward Committee: The Moving Forward Committee was created in 2018 to help the College of Dentistry achieve this goal. The committee is designed to enhance the recruitment and retention of underrepresented students in the College of Dentistry. The committee recognizes that this begins with providing exposure to the dental profession, as well as resources and guidance, for socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students, who have yet to see a path to a career in dentistry. Our mission is to enable promising students to find their way to a future in dentistry or another health profession, and in doing so, improve health care for all.
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President’s Grant
2022
Expanding the Reach and Impact of Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine
Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Inc.
This award supports the expansion of Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine to a broader audience of students, educators, trainees, health professionals, and patients. The support includes social media internships, a brief non-fiction writing contest, and producing podcasts.
Principal Investigator: Paul Gross MD (pgross@pulsevoices.org), assistant professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, founding editor, Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine, leader of award-winning writing workshops, former faculty and team leader at Montefiore’s family medicine residency program, bilingual clinician, Montefiore Family Health Center. Olapeju Simoyan MD, MPH (OSimoyan@caron.org), board certified in family medicine, addiction medicine and dental public health, professor in the department of psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine, founding Executive Director of Research at Caron Treatment Centers, founding editor-in-chief of Black Diamonds, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine’s literary journal.
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President’s Grant
2022
The National Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission Summit 2022: Building Partnerships, Creating Spaces, and Developing Opportunities to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Physical Therapy.
American Council of Academic Physical Therapy, Inc.
This award supports a task force to increase racial and ethnic diversity in physical therapy. The recommendations from the task force will become the guidelines for schools to address diversity in physical therapy.
Principal Investigator: Dawn S. Brown, PT, DPT Dr. Brown was elected in 2020 as the director of clinical education representative to the NEDIC. Dr. Brown is Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education at Northern Illinois University Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Julia Chevan, PT, PhD, MPH Dr. Chevan is the Treasurer of ACAPT and the board representative to the NEDIC. Dr. Chevan is Professor of Physical Therapy and Program Director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Springfield College. Senobia Crawford, PT, PhD Dr. Crawford is the Chair of the ACAPT DEI Consortium and the consortium representative to the NEDIC. Dr. Crawford is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Hampton University. Ndidiamaka (Didi) Matthews, PT, DPT Dr. Matthews was elected in 2020 as the faculty representative to the NEDIC. Dr. Matthews is Associate Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy. Kim Nixon-Cave, PT, PhD, MS, FAPTA Dr. Nixon-Cave was elected in 2020 as the academic administrator representative to the NEDIC. Dr. Nixon-Cave is Professor and Program Director for the Hybrid Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Pittsburgh.
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President’s Grant
2022
Learn, Educate, Advocate and Promote (LEAP) into Leadership: A New, Innovative Fellowship Prepares Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Physicians for Healthcare Leadership Roles
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
This award supports the implementation of the Learn, Explore, Advocate, and Promote (LEAP) fellowship. The fellowship will develop future leaders capable of creating and overseeing health care programs that meet the needs of older adults.
Principal Investigator: Helen Fernandez, MD, MPH (Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is an internationally recognized geriatrician and palliative care physician. Worked tirelessly on the local, regional and national levels to enhance the training of healthcare professionals in geriatrics. In her capacity as co-director for the HRSA Consortium of New York Geriatrics Education Centers she developed more than 20 interactive workshops on the overlap of geriatrics and palliative care. At ISMMS, she co-created the first-ever integrated geriatrics and palliative fellowship, the model for which has been disseminated across the country. As a minority physician herself and the daughter of immigrants, she understands and has experienced the bias that comes from being the “other” in the room. Caitlyn Kuwata, MD (Assistant Professor at ISMMS) completed her integrated geriatrics and palliative medicine training at ISMMS. During her fellowship training, Dr. Kuwata participated in a small pilot leadership course which led her to participate in the Program for Postgraduate trainees: Future Academic Clinician Educators. In addition to her second year clinical responsibilities, Dr. Kuwata was selected as one of the chief fellows which is a role to administrate the largest fellowships in integrated geriatrics-palliative medicine and palliative medicine in the United States. Given her leadership and educator skills, Dr. Kuwata was recruited and retained as an Assistant Professor at ISMMS.
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Board Grant
2022
Professional Education for Anti-Ableist Health Care
The Hastings Center
This award will support the development of a program to address disability discrimination in health professions education. The principal investigators will conduct a scoping review of existing literature to assess anti-ableism in health professions education; develop and implement a structured questionnaire for key stakeholders; and convene meetings with experts and stakeholders to identify next steps in removing disability discrimination from health professions education.
Principal Investigator: PI: Erik Parens, PhD. Senior Research Scholar, The Hastings Center. Parens is a bioethicist with nearly three decades of research, publication, and programming on disability, medical technology, and human flourishing. He has led projects that engage disability theorists’ and activists’ views on: prenatal genetic testing, surgeries to “normalize” the appearance of children born with atypical anatomies, and gene editing to eliminate disability traits. Co-PI: Liz Bowen, PhD. Rice Family Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities, The Hastings Center. Bowen is a disability studies scholar involved with several disability projects at Hastings. She was the access coordinator for Columbia University’s Seminar on Disability, Culture, and Society for five years. A longtime member of the disability arts community, Bowen has deep connections to disability activists with valuable insight into the problem of ableism in health care. Co-Investigator: Mildred Solomon, EdD. President, The Hastings Center. In addition to her bioethics expertise, Solomon is an experienced medical educator and implementation scientist who has designed and carried out national continuing medical education programs, involving hundreds of health care systems. She has served as Senior Director for Implementation Science at the Association of American Medical Colleges, where she developed strategies to enhance the capacity of academic medical centers in comparative effectiveness research and implementation science.
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President’s Grant
2021
BNGAP: Designing Pre-Faculty Competencies for Diverse Medical Students and Residents
BNGAP
This award supports a national initiative to define the competencies necessary for historically marginalized students and residents to develop successful careers as faculty in academic medicine.
Principal Investigator: Rosa Lee MD, Dr. Lee is Associate Dean for Curriculum and Assessment at CUNY School of Medicine Raymond Lucas MD Dr. Lucas is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and former Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Health Affairs at George Washington University. A frequent speaker and developer of BNGAP conferences, he has experience in clinical education, hiring and promoting faculty, and developing faculty leadership competencies. JP Sanchez MD, MPH Executive Associate Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Center, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), UNM
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President’s Grant
2021
Harnessing School Nurse and School Counselor Collaborations: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Schools
George Washington University
This award supports a collaborative effort between the university’s schools of nursing and education and human development to develop interdisciplinary training for future school counselors and nurses on screening for the mental health effects of COVID-19 in elementary students.
Principal Investigator: Maggie M. Parker, PhD, LPC, BCS, RPT-S, CCPT-S is an Assistant Professor of School Counseling and Counselor Education in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the George Washington University working to advance research in child mental health, with a focus on play therapy. She provided counseling services in pre-schools, elementary and high schools, community clinics, intensive outpatient clinics, private practice, and juvenile detention centers. Her research interests focus on cross-discipline collaborations to enhance mental health provision within school systems, anti-racism and anti-colonialism, the impact of trauma on student functioning, and the impact of Child-Centered Play Therapy on child mental health. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD, NNP, FAAN, a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher, has worked throughout her career to advance nursing research, education, and practice, with a focus on developmental pediatrics. Her research has led to the creation of programs that improve health and developmental outcomes for at-risk and preterm infants. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses, a 2017 Josiah Macy Scholar, NS has earned numerous awards, including the 2014 March of Dimes Nurse of the Year, Florida Association of Neonatal Nurses President’s Award and the Lillian Sholtis Brunner Award for Innovation from her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
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Board Grant
2022
Addressing Indigenous health disparities by recruiting future doctors from Indigenous communities
Center of American Indian and Minority Health, University of Minnesota
This award will support the creation of clinical training site opportunities for medical students and residents with American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) patients at tribal and Indian Health Service clinics and hospitals. The Center will establish an exportable model for developing community-specific clinical curricula and experiential learning opportunities. Finally, they will provide mentorship and career development opportunities for AIAN students enrolled at the University of Minnesota.
Principal Investigator: Mary Owen, MD, Director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health, Assistant Professor of the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Sandra Stover, MD, Faculty of Rural Physician Associate Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Assistant Professor of the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Adjunct Faculty for Duluth Family Medicine Residency.