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Board Grant
2021
Relating Across Difference – An Improvement Process for Clinical Units
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
This award will support the implementation of a diversity training curriculum using relational coordination in three academic health centers across the country and in at least two clinical units in each. The work will also develop local trainers who, independent of the project, can spread the process within their institutions.
Principal Investigator: Jody Hoffer Gittell, PhD – PI Jody Hoffer Gittell is Professor of Management at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Co-Founder and Board Member of the Relational Coordination Collaborative. She is the founder of Relational Coordination Theory, which proposes that highly interdependent work is most effectively coordinated through relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect, supported by frequent, timely, accurate, problem-solving communication. The theory is laid out in The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance (2005), and in High Performance Healthcare: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience (2009), and in dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles published by Gittell. Gittell has also developed the Relational Model of Organizational Change to understand how organizations and their stakeholders strengthen relational coordination to achieve their desired outcomes using three types of interventions – relational, work process and structural – as described in Transforming Relationships for High Performance: The Power of Relational Coordination (2016). To support both research and organizational change, she developed the validated Relational Coordination Survey based on a network methodology, as described in a recent book co-authored with Heba Naim Ali titled Relational Analytics: Guidelines for Analysis and Action (2021).
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President’s Grant
2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Home-Based Primary Care: Developing and Implementing Best Practices
Home Centered Care Institute
This award supports the development and implementation of curricular resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion in home-based primary care (HBPC) for use by learners, academic institutions, health care organizations that employ HBPC individuals, and professional associations and special interest groups whose members provide HBPC.
Principal Investigator: Melissa Singleton, MEd, Chief Learning Officer, HCCI is Project Lead. With 25+ years of experience in continuing medical education (CME) and health care quality improvement, Melissa has held senior staff positions at medical specialty societies and has also served as an executive consultant to national and state level health care organizations. Melissa received both her MEd and her BA in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Paul Chiang, MD, Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, HCCI will lead from a medical and bioethics perspective as a practicing house call physician. Dr. Chiang attended medical school at the University of Illinois in Chicago, completed his residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and holds an MA in Bioethics. Dr. Chiang also serves as Medical Director for HomeCare Physicians. Dr. Chiang has made over 35,000 house calls to more than 3,000 patients over his 20-year career. Amanda Tufano, MHA, FACHE, CMPE, Chief Executive Officer, Genevive is Consultant to the project. Amanda holds an MHA from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Medical Practice Executive. She earned a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from USF. Amanda sits on the Boards of the Minnesota American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and Minnesota Association of Geriatric Inspired Clinicians (MAGIC) and serves on the National ACHE CEO Committee and LGBTQ Forum Committee.
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President’s Grant
2021
International Pediatric Simulation Symposia – Virtual conference for collaboration, resilience, inclusion
International Pediatric Simulation Society
This award supports the annual International Pediatric Simulation Symposia on Collaboration, Resilience, Inclusion: Tying it Together.
Principal Investigator: Travis Whitfill, MPH, MPhil, MACE Associate Research Scientist in Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine Treasurer, IPSS Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine President-Elect, IPSS
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President’s Grant
2022
Systematically Redressing Bias and Integrating Health Equity In Medical Education: A Multimedia, Web-Based Toolkit
SUNY Upstate Medical University
This award supports the expansion of the Upstate Bias Checklist to create a comprehensive interactive toolkit that can be used in all educational settings (e.g., courses, clerkships, degree-granting programs, graduate medical education programs) and promote collaboration by building an online community of practice.
Principal Investigator: Amy Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS, HEC-C is the Interim Chair of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is also the director of Patients to Populations, a required health systems science course for first-year medical students, and the Thread Leader for Ethics and Professionalism in undergraduate medical education. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BA, Cognitive Science, 2002), Emory University (MD, 2008), the University of Oxford (MSc, Medical Anthropology, 2008), and the University of Colorado (MS, Clinical Science, 2014), and completed residency in general pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Children’s Hospital Colorado (2011) and a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Children’s Hospital Colorado (2014). As a medical educator, she has created innovative content in health equity (including a textbook published in 2019) and developed methods to better integrate social justice into medical and health professions education, including through the use of the Upstate Bias Checklist.
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Board Grant
2021
Preparing medical students and their teachers for shared medical records with patients (OpenNotes)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
This award will support the development and implementation of a process for teaching medical students both in their pre-clinical curriculum and in their clinical clerkships how to write ethically and socially sensitive notes to share with patients.
Principal Investigator: Co-Principal Investigators: Katherine T. Johnston, M.D., M.A., M.Sc., F.A.C.P. is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Johnston has served as the Co-Director of the POM Course at HMS for the past three years and she serves currently as an Associate Site Director for the Core I Medicine Clerkship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has created and led the assessment of many faculty development sessions. Anita Vanka, MD, FHM, FACP, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and a hospitalist in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Vanka is the Course Director of the POM Course at HMS. She also serves as an Associate Site Director for the Core I Medicine Clerkship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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President’s Grant
2021
Building an Equity Practice Toolkit
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
This award supports Building the Equity Practice Toolkit, which is a continuous learning and process improvement program to address antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate medical education. The toolkit will be a part of the Equity Matters initiative from ACGME and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
Principal Investigator: William McDade, MD, PhD, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD, Vice-President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, ACGME Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, MACP, Chief Executive Officer, Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)
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President’s Grant
2021
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Social Mission in Health Professions Education Awards Program, 2022
The George Washington University
This award supports the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Social Mission in Health Professions Education Awards at the Beyond Flexner Alliance conference in 2022. The awards recognize people and programs that promote the social mission in health professions education.
Principal Investigator: Candice Chen, MD MPH, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at the George Washington University. Her work is focused on health workforce, primary care, and health professions and graduate medical education, and she is the Chair of the Beyond Flexner Alliance Board. Her research has examined the role of medical schools and graduate medical education in addressing priority health workforce needs including primary care, underserved communities, and diversity; the role of graduate medical education in the cost practice patterns of physicians; and the status and challenges faced by medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Chen was previously the Director of the Division of Medicine and Dentistry in the Bureau of Health Workforce at the Health Resources and Services Administration, where she led programs to enhance training in primary care, oral health, and geriatrics, including the Children’s Hospital and Teaching Health Centers GME programs. The Division’s programs focused on addressing health workforce needs, particularly in rural and underserved communities. Dr. Chen is also a board certified pediatrician who continues to practice primary care in Southeast Washington, DC. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from the George Washington University with a concentration in Community Oriented Primary Care.
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President’s Grant
2021
Resident Navigators: An Approach to Residency Transition
SUNY Upstate Medical University
This award supports a navigator and wellness program for new internal medicine residents. The program will provide skills necessary for a satisfactory work-life balance.
Principal Investigator: Waseem Sous, DO – Third-year Internal Medicine Resident Lauren Germain, PhD – Director of Evaluation, Assessment, and Research & Assistant Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Kaushal Nanavati, MD – Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Assistant Dean of Wellness & Director of Integrative Medicine and Survivorship Stephen Knohl, MD – Internal Medicine Program Director, Professor of Medicine & Vice Chair for Education
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President’s Grant
2021
Building the Parent Resources in Medical Education (PRIME) Initiative to Support Parents in Medicine
University of Chicago
This award supports the Parent Resources in Medical Education (PRIME) Network, a national platform to support parents in medical training through community, advocacy, and outreach.
Principal Investigator: Dana Suskind, MD Dana Suskind, MD is Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago. A Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, she is Founder and Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program. Her clinical work focuses on pediatric cochlear implantation and her research focuses on optimizing children’s foundational brain development and preventing early cognitive disparities and their lifelong impact. She received her MD at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her residency Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children’s Hospital at the Washington University School of Medicine. At TMW Center, she and her team develop evidence-based interventions that enable parents, caregivers, practitioners, and researchers to harness the power of language interactions to address early cognitive disparities at their onset. Dr. Suskind and team have developed and tested a suite of evidence-based behavioral interventions that have reached over 5000 families in Chicago and beyond. Her research includes over 50 peer-reviewed journals and 150 national and international speaking engagements. Author of the book, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain, she has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Crain’s Chicago Business, National Public Radio, and other national media outlets.
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President’s Grant
2021
Exploring a culture of fairness, respect, and anti-racism through diversity, equity, and inclusion in health professions education: A workshop series
National Academy of Sciences
This award supports a series of workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion within health professions education. The workshops will be hosted by the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education.
Principal Investigator: Patricia A. Cuff, Forum Director for 8 years and a National Academies employee for 20 years Hannah Goodtree, Research Associate for the Forum on Health Professional Education with two years of related experience