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Board Grant
2021
Towards improving healthcare for people with disabilities: increasing education and training for healthcare students with regard to patients with disabilities.
Central Michigan University
This award supports implementation of a disability seminar for interprofessional students in their first and second years and faculty on best practices for caring for patients with disabilities. Interprofessional students will be provided standardized patient encounters and volunteer opportunities. Student behavior change will be measured using an objective structured clinical examination.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Neli Ragina, PhD is the PI on the study. She is an associate professor and director of clinical research for students and residents at the Central Michigan University College of Medicine. Dr. Ragina has done extensive work in understanding the healthcare barriers that patients with disabilities experience. She is trained in population health research and community service and leads a diverse team on several population health research projects, most of which are internally, regionally, and NIH funded. Dr. Ragina will oversee and coordinate the project and together with Dr. Yonder (Co-PI) will ensure that the goals are met within the timeline proposed. Dr. Sara Yonder, MD will serve as Co-PI on the study. She is an assistant professor, family medicine practicing physician, and Course Director of the Essentials of Clinical Skills (ECS). She will work to oversee the ECS and Initial Clinical Experience (ICE) activities. Dr. Shay Dawson, PhD is an assistant professor in the College of Education & Human Services at CMU. His expertise is in the development of interventions that positively impact the health of youth with chronic illnesses and disabilities. His work focuses on the development, testing, refinement, and dissemination of evidence-based programs to enhance individual and family functioning. Dr. Dawson will deliver the educational sessions in collaboration with Dr. Ariel Cascio, an assistant professor specializing in the social study of autism and cognitive disability.
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President’s Grant
2020
A Humanities-Based Approach to Anti-Racism for Medical Trainees: Training the Trainers
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
This award will support a health- and humanities-based anti-racism curriculum, which will be incorporated into emergency medicine curricula for learners at all stages of training. In addition, the principal investigators will train educators on this curriculum through virtual workshops and resource development so that they are prepared to teach their learners.
Principal Investigator: Drs. Kamna Balhara and Nathan Irvin are Assistant Professors of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Johns Hopkins and Co-Directors of the Health Humanities at Hopkins EM initiative, which offers social justice and humanities-based programming to a broad local and national audience. They have developed and taught the Hopkins EM residency’s longitudinal humanities and social justice curriculum for two years. Dr. Balhara is also an Assistant Director of the EM Residency at Johns Hopkins. She is an innovator in the health humanities and has experience implementing humanities curricula for medical students, residents, and faculty from across specialties. She directs a longitudinal interdisciplinary institution-wide health equity and humanities track for residents and has been invited to speak to national and international audiences on the humanities in medicine. She is a current Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education Fellow and has authored multiple publications on humanities, social determinants of health, and disparities in healthcare access. Dr. Irvin is an expert in social emergency medicine, a discipline that explores the impact of social forces on health. Dr. Irvin has spoken nationally and authored several manuscripts on social emergency related topics including violence prevention and trauma informed care. Additionally, he is a teacher and advisor within the School of Medicine and co-directs a pipeline program to increase diversity in healthcare.
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President’s Grant
2021
Midwestern University Alumni and Preceptor Diversity Initiative
Midwestern University
This award supports the creation of a continuing education-accredited diversity training curriculum for the 19,000 alumni and preceptors of Midwestern University’s medical, dental, and pharmacy colleges. The goal of the curriculum is to improve the delivery of healthcare services.
Principal Investigator: Staci Glass, Midwestern University Director of Institutional Advancement Felicia Trembath, Ph.D., M.P.H., Midwestern University Assistant Professor, Masters of Public Health Program
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Board Grant
2021
Building Trust and Equity in Inter-professional Internal Medicine Training
ABIM Foundation
This award supports a grants program to fund interprofessional teams conducting programs in the clinical learning environment that promote trust and create an equitable health system by incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion. A grantee learning network will be formed to share ideas and disseminate key lessons learned to national stakeholders.
Principal Investigator: The project was led by Jessica Perlo, the Executive Vice President of the ABIM Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has worked to design and implement health system improvement efforts, including roles at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, Strong Memorial Hospital, Mass General Brigham, and the Atlantic Health Equity Fellowship. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Wellbeing and Resilience and trained in community organizing at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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President’s Grant
2020
Medicine in Black and White
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
This award will support Medicine in Black and White, a comprehensive account of the African American experience in the medical profession from recruitment to admissions to learning as a student and trainee to professional opportunities.
Principal Investigator: Kenneth M. Ludmerer, M.D. Ludmerer is the author of four acclaimed books. Genetics and American Society (Johns Hopkins) is an account of the American eugenics movement. It is the book that stimulated a large amount of present-day interest in eugenics. Learning to Heal (Basic), Time to Heal (Oxford), and Let Me Heal (Oxford) provide a panoramic view of U.S. medical education, spanning two centuries and covering virtually every topic and consideration pertinent to the enterprise. They provide a vital framework for improving medical education and health care delivery the United States today, and they have already stimulated many notable reforms at American medical schools. The present project will benefit because it builds on each of these books.
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President’s Grant
2020
Implicit Bias Diversity Training for Physicians
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation
This award will support the development and distribution of educational films on implicit bias in healthcare. The 10-film series, which will include supplemental web-based resources, will be appropriate for practitioners at all experience levels.
Principal Investigator: Elise Swinehart, MBA, Senior Director of Membership & Global Affairs. Senior marketing professional with 20 years expertise in revenue generation to support global membership acquisition, publishing and institutional sales, educational products, conferences, events, philanthropic giving, and product launches and expansion. Experience in branding, digital marketing, market research, messaging campaigns, global outreaches, non-profit governance management, volunteer leadership oversight, and strategic planning and implementation. James C. Denneny III, MD, CEO and Executive Vice President. His career has spanned both private and academic practice. Before serving the Knoxville, TN, community for 24 years as a private practitioner, he held academic appointments in Houston and Indianapolis. In 2011, he left private practice to join the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Missouri, where he remains Adjunct Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology. He has a part-time practice at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as an Adjunct Professor. He assumed his current role as Executive Vice President/CEO in December 2014. Ross Rollins, Creative Director. Experienced Creative Services Director with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management, financial services and software industries. Skilled in design, branding, website content management, strategic messaging, social media management, and video and event production.
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President’s Grant
2020
A Four-Year Integrated Racism Curriculum for Medical Students: An Opportunity for Dissemination
Trustees of Tufts College
This award will support the dissemination of a toolkit to accompany an anti-racism curriculum developed for health professions students. The investigators will create a website for these tools and use them in at least three health professions schools.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha received a PhD in Public Health, focusing on Maternal and Child Health at the University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health. She received an MPH from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Maternal and Child Health. As a post-doctoral Kellogg Health Scholar, Dr. Amutah-Onukagha honed skills in community-based participatory research and health disparities focused on maternal morbidity and mortality in Black women. Dr. Anthony Schlaff has over 30 years of medical education and clinical experience working in predominantly Black communities. Dr. Schlaff received an MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and an MPH from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He chairs the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research’s (APTR) policy committee where he led the development of APTR’s anti-racism policy and anti-racism toolkit, a resource for educators teaching about combating racism. Dr. Fernando Ona received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, an MPH from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and an MSW from Boston University School of Social Work. He has worked with Black women in Boston and engages on a series of biopsychosocial and spiritual interventions with refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of torture at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at Boston Medical Center.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2019
Barret Michalec, Ph.D. (Transfer Award)
Arizona State University
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President’s Grant
2020
Interprofessional Collaboration: Scientific Editing Fellowship
University at Buffalo
This award will support a one-year scientific editing fellowship at the Journal of Student-Run Clinics. A cohort of 20 diverse interprofessional students will receive formal training and mentorship on the scientific editing process. The fellowship will complement existing curricula in the health professions schools.
Principal Investigator: Jessica Kruger, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor in Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo Jessica will be responsible for creating the training modules, facilitating meetings, and coordinating the fellowship. Jessica has served as the editor of the Journal of Student-Run Clinics for four years. She has brought on new members of the journal, developed an understanding of the gaps that need to be filled for the journal, and has seen the operations of student-run free medical clinics from student and faculty vantage points. Jessica is on the faculty board of directors for the Society of Student-Run Free Clinic and has served on the University at Buffalo Interprofessional Education Leadership team for three years. Kevin Chen, M.D., Director of Design and Evaluation at NYC Health + Hospitals Kevin will share responsibility for the development of the program curriculum, didactic modules and activities, and student mentorship network. His ongoing work in medical education has included designing and leading curricula and didactics for interprofessional healthcare students and medical residents in basic and clinical sciences, biostatistics, and scholarly writing. Kevin is the founder of the Journal of Student-Run Clinics and has been involved with achieving its mission and growth over the last 5 years. He remains directly active on local and national levels in student-run clinics and is an active health services researcher.
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President’s Grant
2020
The Value of Networking in Advancing Fully Inclusive Gender Equity: Assessment of the Carol Emmott Fellowship Program
The Carol Emmott Foundation
This award will support an evaluation of the development and leveraging of networks within the Carol Emmott Fellowship Program. The fellowship seeks to accelerate more women into health care leadership roles.
Principal Investigator: Sarah Stawiski, PhD, Director, Insights & Impact Group at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) will be the principal investigator. Her team partners with clients to use data to improve programs and show evidence of impact with a goal of helping clients achieve greater results. Dr. Stawiski has provided evaluation services to the Carol Emmott Fellowship from the first year (2016/17). The design and development of the fellowship program is led by Douglas Riddle, PhD, Senior Fellow at CCL. Beginning this year, the Fellowship has contracted with CCL for co-design and facilitation of the quarterly meetings of the program. CCL has been conducting research and evaluation in the field of leadership development for nearly 50 years. With extensive expertise in women’s leadership development, network analysis, and leadership program development and evaluation, CCL is uniquely positioned to partner with the Fellowship on the current study. For example, the Center was among the first to conduct research on the glass ceiling effect and has multiple recent publications about how gender differences can impact women’s careers and training programs dedicated to supporting women in leadership. Further, CCL has an extensive history in examining how social networks at the individual, group, organizational and societal level can be leveraged to improve leadership development, with an emphasis on enhancing individual well-being, intergroup collaboration, change implementation, and innovation.