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President’s Grant
2020
2020 Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit – The Transformative Value of IPCE: Overcoming Challenges Together!
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
This award will support the writing and dissemination of the report to come from the 2020 Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit, The Transformative Value of IPCE: Overcoming Challenges Together!
Principal Investigator: Kate Regnier, MA, MBA, Executive Vice President, ACCME Dimitra Travlos, PharmD, Assistant Executive Director, and Director, Continuing Pharmacy Education Provider Accreditation, ACPE Kathy Chappell, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, Senior Vice President, Accreditation, Certification, Measurement, and the Institute for Credentialing Research, ANCC
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Board Grant
2021
Improving Care Access and Realizing Equity (ICARE) with Teamwork and Telehealth: Interprofessional teams address social determinants and provide healthcare at the Texas-Mexico border.
McGovern Medical School at UT Health
This award supports the development of a longitudinal interprofessional education experience for medical, nursing, public health, dental, and biomedical informatics in a community health setting. The project includes didactic components and formation of student teams who, under the supervision of an interprofessional group of faculty, will have a direct telehealth experience with patients as well as undertake a community-based project related to learning about the health problems and social determinants of health of the Texas-Mexico border population.
Principal Investigator: Principle Investigator: Jennifer Swails, MD, FACP Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Program Director, McGovern Medical School Co-Director of Interprofessional Education, UTHealth Core Faculty: Padmavathy Ramaswamy, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, FNP-C Assistant Professor, Department of Graduate Studies Cizik School of Nursing Elda Ramirez, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, ENP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FAEN Dorothy T. Nicholson Distinguished Professor Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement Track Coordinator, Emergency/Trauma Care Co-Director, Center for Interprofessional Collaboration Cizik School of Nursing Leadership team: Lidiana Ramirez Chief Executive Officer Proyecto Juan Diego 3910 Paredes Line Rd. Brownsville, Texas, 78526 Robert Spears, PhD Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs, Professor, UTHealth School of Dentistry Erica Yu, PhD, RN Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs, Associate Professor of Nursing – Clinical, Cizik School of Nursing Rachel Jantea, MD Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine McGovern Medical School
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President’s Grant
2022
A flexible and adaptive GME certificate program to address LGBTQ+ health, wellness, and belonging in the Southern US
Prisma Health–Upstate
This award supports the development of a graduate medical education LGBTQ+ Health, Wellness, and Belonging (HWB) certificate curriculum.
Principal Investigator: Shannon Stark Taylor, PhD (she/her) Director of Behavioral Science and Senior Psychologist, Prisma Health Family Medicine Residency Greenville Clinical Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Clemson University School of Health Research Sarah Hinton, MD (she, her) Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Program Director, Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency, Prisma Health-Upstate Ann Blair Kennedy, DrPH (she, they) Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences Department, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Prisma Health Family Medicine Director of the Patient Engagement Studio, University of South Carolina Lisa Green, MD (she, her) Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Associate Program Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency, Prisma Health-Upstate Director of Fertility Preservation Program Kamla Sanasi-Bhola, MD (she, her) Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Fellowship Program Director- Prisma Health Midlands-Columbia Director of the PrEP initiatives of the SC-AETC Cramer McCullen, MD, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, Prisma Health Midlands-Columbia President – Prisma Health Pride Alliance
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President’s Grant
2020
Building Future Health Professionals’ Communication Skills to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas in the Context of Serious Illness: Phase I
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
This award will support an online communication skills curriculum for interprofessional students to help them navigate ethical dilemmas in treating patients with serious illness.
Principal Investigator: Diane E. Meier, MD, FAACP, FAAHPM, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care will lead the planning and execution of this project. Dr. Meier is one of the preeminent change-makers in US. health care. Under her leadership, the number of palliative care programs in US hospitals has more than tripled over the last fifteen years. Dr. Meier was named one of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the United States” by HealthLeaders Media in 2010, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. In 2017 she received both the Gustav O. Lienhard Award of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Hospital Association’s HRET TRUST Award. In September 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka a “genius award’). Dr. Meier served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, in 2009–10, working on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) and at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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President’s Grant
2020
COVID-19: Understanding the Supportive Role of Hospital Clinical Bioethicists During a Pandemic
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
This award will support an analysis of multidisciplinary clinical bioethicists in various health settings to define the infrastructure needed to support clinicians during a pandemic.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Connie Ulrich is a nurse bioethicist and will be the principal investigator on the grant. Dr. Ulrich is the Lillian S. Brunner Chair in Medical and Surgical Nursing and a Professor of Bioethics and Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing with a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Dr. Christine Grady is a nurse bioethicist and a senior investigator who currently serves as the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Her work is both conceptual and empirical. Dr. Nancy Berlinger is a Hastings Center research scholar whose work focuses on ethical and societal challenges arising from population aging, and the role of health practitioners, systems, and policymakers in the care and well-being of vulnerable populations. These themes reflect her longstanding interests in decision-making and care concerning safety and harm in health systems; and the moral dimensions of care work. Dr. Deatrick is a Professor Emerita of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania. Her research and scholarship focuses on potentially vulnerable populations and the development and use of innovative research strategies. She retired from the University after 28 years of service including various leadership roles in the Center for Health Equity Research. She held the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practice and is active in community based research.
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Board Grant
2022
Serious Illness Communication Education for Health Professional Students
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
This award will support the development of a high-impact clinical communication curriculum intended to equip learners with skills to navigate ethical dilemmas in the care of patients with life-threatening illnesses. The project will develop a learning ecosystem where online courses are complemented by interactive learning activities and supportive resources; revise existing courses to include content on health inequities, disparities, and cultural humility; and implement a strategic dissemination campaign to reach a greater number of health professions learners.
Principal Investigator: Brynn Bowman, MPA, Chief Executive Officer of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Assistant Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will serve as Principal Investigator. Ms. Bowman presides over the organizational and content strategy that serves 1,800 health care organizations, including more than 125,000 clinicians and administrators. She is a nationally recognized leader in palliative care education, specializing in skills-building for non-palliative care specialists. She has published on clinical education in multiple peer-reviewed publications, and has coauthored multiple CAPC publications, including The Case for Communication Skills Training (2019). Formerly vice president of education at CAPC, Ms. Bowman was responsible for developing CAPC’s online clinical training curriculum and a wide range of technical assistance used by tens of thousands of clinicians nationwide. Prior to joining CAPC in 2013, Ms. Bowman served as strategy director at LevelUp, a technology company specializing in mobile payment and small-business marketing. Ms. Bowman graduated from Harvard College in 2008 with an AB in biological studies and received her MPA from New York University in 2017.
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President’s Grant
2020
Health Workforce Diversity Tracker
The George Washington University
This award will support the development of a health workforce diversity tracker, an online database of health professions students and graduates. The tracker will collect and analyze data on the diversity of the health workforce with a focus on the educational pipeline; publish and disseminate the data and findings, with tailored reports for professions, states, and individual programs on a regular basis; and advocate through dissemination and convenings for more racial and ethnic parity in the health workforce.
Principal Investigator: Mr. Salsberg, a senior researcher at the Mullan Institute, established and led 3 health workforce research centers before joining the staff at George Washington University: the HRSA National Center for Health Workforce Analysis which was authorized by the Affordable Care Act; the Workforce Research Center at the Association of American Medical Colleges; and the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies. In these positions, Mr. Salsberg was extensively involved in developing and analyzing health workforce data, including data on diversity. While at HRSA he designed the national report on diversity in the health professions. Dr. Maria Portela, is a board certified family physicians. She also has a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Portela was a Kaiser Minority Policy Leadership Fellow and a Commonwealth Fund Mongan Fellow in Minority Health Policy. Dr. Portela has workforce diversity leadership experience, previously she served as Chief of the Primary Care Training and Geriatrics Programs at the Bureau of Health Workforce at HRSA where she oversaw a Workforce Diversity Center.
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President’s Grant
2020
Catalyzing Relationships at the End of Life (CAREol) Program
Kent State University Foundation
This award will support the development of an interprofessional curriculum for clinical faculty mentors, nursing students, and medical students to have critical conversations about serious illness with patients and families.
Principal Investigator: Dana Hansen, PhD, APRN, ACHPN, Principal Investigator Tracey Motter, DNP, Co-Investigator Jennifer Shanholtzer, MSN, PhD Candidate, RN, CHSE Marquita Belen, MD, Consultant Margy Sanders, LSW, Co-Investigator Julie Aultman, PhD, Consultant Maureen Keeley, PhD, Consultant Dana Hansen, PhD, and Tracey Motter, DNP, at Kent State University College of Nursing (KSU CON) will work in collaboration with Marquita Belen, MD, Julie Aultman, PhD, and Margy Sanders, LSW, at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) to develop the curriculum based on final conversation themes developed by Margaret Keeley, PhD, to prepare nursing and medical students to engage patients and families in effective end-of-life (EOL) communication. Jen Shanholtzer, KSU simulation expert, will assist in adapting our current live EOL simulation to ensure a quality experience. Dr. Hansen, Associate Professor, examines family-centered approaches and experiences during serious advanced illness, including family relationships in the context of continued bonds, illness blogs, and spiritual uncertainty. Her research findings have been presented nationally and internationally and published in a variety of palliative and hospice care journals. Dr. Motter, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, has expertise in student success and transition to practice in the RN role, as well as project development and evaluation. Her clinical experience includes hospice care nursing.
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President’s Grant
2020
Subway Summit Webinar Series: COVID-19 and Lessons Learned from the Epicenter.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
This award will support a series of webinars on medical school responses to and emerging best practices from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Principal Investigator: Tara K Cunningham, EdD, MS, Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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President’s Grant
2020
The NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund
New York Community Trust aka Community Funds, Inc.
This award will support the New York City COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund, a collaborative fund to aid nonprofit service providers meeting new needs related to the pandemic.
Principal Investigator: Kerry McCarthy