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President’s Grant
2021
Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership (WEL)
American Academy of Pediatrics
This award supports the evaluation of Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership (WEL) project. The WEL project brings together six medical associations to recruit and train a diverse cohort of 18 early- to mid-career women physicians by providing networking and education around leadership, equity, and wellness.
Principal Investigator: V. Fan Tait, MD, FAAP is the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Principal Investigator of the Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership (WEL) initiative. Dr Tait is a pediatric neurologist with extensive experience and expertise in child health and wellness, family-centered care in medical homes, children with special needs, and health care delivery systems. Over the past 5 years, her work has expanded to include physician-focused initiatives, as she directs the AAP Equity Initiative, the development of policy, the Pediatric Leadership Initiative, and Physician Wellness and Resilience. Dr. Tait led the initial WEL grant (WEL 1.0) in collaboration with five national health care organizations, and now serves as Principal Investigator of the new expanded WEL collaborative (WEL 2.0). For more than 10 years, Dr Tait directed the AAP Department of Child Health and Wellness which included early brain and child development; the Institute of Healthy Childhood Weight; Bright Futures; the Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council; AAP climate change initiatives, and the National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness, which addressed health in Head Start and Child Care. Dr Tait earned a BS from the University of Alabama, her MD from the University of Kentucky Medical Center, and completed her pediatric residency and pediatric neurology fellowship at the University of Utah Medical Center.
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Board Grant
2021
An Anti-Racist Future: Transformational Change in Medical Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
This award supports the implementation of the anti-racism and bias initiative at medical schools selected through a competitive process. There will be a virtual learning platform for participating schools to strengthen their capacity to implement the change management strategy. The participating schools will be part of a learning network where they will share knowledge and practices, which will inform future improvements to the platform and how the initiative can be broadly disseminated to all medical schools.
Principal Investigator: David Muller, MD David Muller is Dean for Medical Education and chair of the department of medical education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a clinician educator with almost thirty years experience in teaching, curriculum and program development, mentorship, and administration. Leona Hess, PhD, MSW Leona Hess is a change leader, systems thinker, and experiential facilitator with extensive experience supporting social change within institutions. In 2018, she joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as the Director of Strategy and Equity Education Programs where she is designing and leading the strategy of the Racism and Bias initiative to develop the capacity of leaders, staff and students to dismantle racism. Trained in change management methodologies and relationship systems coaching, she facilitates opportunities to engage in deeper dialogue, challenge the status quo, promote critical thinking and systems thinking, and identify sound actions and a strategy towards systemic change. A transformational educator, she has taught master level courses at Columbia University and CUNY on contemporary social issues, focusing on racism, sexism, ableism, heterocentrism, etc. Dr. Hess holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a MSW from NYU and a BS from George Washington University.
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Board Grant
2021
An Antiracism Curriculum to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Healthcare Education: An Online Module with Workshops for Learners, Faculty and Staff
Drexel University College of Medicine
This award supports the creation of antiracism healthcare modules for faculty and learners that will be accessible via ProfessionalFormation.org. The modules will be used and evaluated at seven partnering institutions within their professionalism and interprofessional education curricula.
Principal Investigator: Dennis H. Novack, M.D. is Associate Dean of Medical Education at Drexel University College of Medicine overseeing clinical teaching and assessment. He has been funded by the NIH and a number of foundations for his research and educational projects, most recently by the Josiah Macy foundation to enhance and pilot test ProfessionalFormation.org in interprofessional education. He edits DocCom, perhaps the most widely used resource on teaching communication skills, with almost 50,000 active subscribers. Dr. Camille Burnett (PhD, MPA, APHN-BC, RN, BSc.N, DSW, FAAN) is an Endowed Professor at UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky and Strategic Advisor, Office of the Provost, Community Engagement and Academic Partnerships. She holds several research affiliations and is a PI in population health funded studies that foster health equity and justice by critically examining structural influences that shape health outcomes amongst vulnerable populations. Leon McCrea II, MD, MPH, FAAFP is the Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is also the Program Director for the Tower Health/Drexel University College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency and the Director of the Drexel Pathway to Medical School. His current work focuses on health equity, pipeline program development and diverse workforce development.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2021
Sunny G. Hallowell, PhD, RN, PPCNP-BC
Villanova University
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Board Grant
2021
COVID Collaborative Vaccine Uptake Tracking Study
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
This award supports monthly surveys to track coronavirus vaccine experiences and hesitancy in the general population. The surveys will target 1,000 adults with oversampling in the Black and Latinx populations. The goal of the project is to understand vaccine attitudes and inform actions that will minimize hesitancy in the general population.
Principal Investigator: • Gary Langer, Founder and President, Langer Research Associates • Steven Sparks, Ph.D., Research Analyst and Project Manager, Langer Research Associates • Steven Phillips, MD MPH, Vice President of Science and Strategy, COVID Collaborative • Zac Hill, Chief Strategy Officer, Project Unite
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2021
Matthew J. Rustici M.D.
University of Colorado School of Medicine – Denver Health Medical Center
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2021
Jennifer Ann Best, MD
University of Washington
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President’s Grant
2021
Women and Minorities in Science and Medicine – Now!
Rosalind Franklin Society
This award supports the Rosalind Franklin Society’s initiative to increase women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. The initiative focuses on workforce, research, leadership and compensation, and recognition.
Principal Investigator: Karla Shepard Rubinger, Principal Investigator, is Executive Director of the Rosalind Franklin Society (www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org), Vice President and Director, Professional Education at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (www.liebertpub.com), and Executive Director of the Institute for Professional Education (www.instituteforprofessionaled.org). At Mary Ann Liebert Inc., she was instrumental in the launch of Health Equity (an Open Access journal) and its companion eNewsletter, Briefings in Health Equity, with initial support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and additional support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With an extensive background in foundations and philanthropy, she has worked to develop partnerships with funders to significantly expand the reach of important projects and publications. She has served on Advisory Committees for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and was previously Senior Program Officer of The Commonwealth Fund, Director of Research for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, Executive Director of the Ennis William Cosby Foundation, and Research Associate at the Institute for Research in Human Development at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. Her graduate work includes an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and the Ph.D. program at Princeton University.
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President’s Grant
2021
The History of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools
The Sullivan Alliance
This award supports the completion of a report on the history of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.
Principal Investigator: Louis W. Sullivan, MD President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989-1993 Founding President, AMHPS
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President’s Grant
2021
8-week Summer Intensive Preparatory Program for DPT Students
Maryville University
This award supports an eight-week summer intensive program for third- and fourth-year physical therapy students with a focus on underrepresented groups. The goal of the program is to improve students’ study skills and resilience and serve as a bridge to the graduate-level requirements so that students complete the Doctor of Physical Therapy program within the six-year timeframe.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aretha Hadrick, Ed.D Dr. Jill Heitzman, DPT, Ph.D Dr. Ashley Storman, Ed.D Dr. Olaide Oluwole-Sangoseni, DPT, Ph.D. MSc