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President’s Grant
2020
OtoWLS Leadership Intensive Program
Otolaryngology Women’s Leadership Society
This award will support a leadership development program for early-to-mid-career women otolaryngologists.
Principal Investigator: Principal Investigator: Sarah Bowe, MD, EdM OtoWLS Board Member Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD 20814 Key Project Members: 1) Mona Abaza, MD, MS OtoWLS President Professor of Otolaryngology & Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and Diversity University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO 80045 2) Carol Bradford, MD, MS OtoWLS Vice President Professor of Otolaryngology & Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Michigan Medicine Ann Arbor, MI 48109 & President-Elect American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Alexandria, VA 22314 3) Priya Krishna, MD, MS OtoWLS Secretary Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Loma Linda University School of Medicine Loma Linda, CA 92350 4) Ronda Hamaker, MD OtoWLS Treasurer Medical Director of Children’s Surgery Medical Director of Ear Nose & Throat Center Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital Indianapolis, IN 46260
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President’s Grant
2020
The Harvard Macy Institute’s Step Back Process – Video-Based Training for Implementing Inter-Professional Team Training Projects
Harvard Macy Institute
This award will support the development of video-based trainings for facilitators of the Harvard Macy Institute Step Back Process.
Principal Investigator: The study team will be comprised of seven members (Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE (MEd), FACS; Michael G. Healy, EdD; Carl Gustaf S. Axelsson, MD, MPhil, MMSc; Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH; Subha Ramani, MBBS, PhD, FAMEE; Todd Fowler, B.S., and Elizabeth G. Armstrong, PhD) who represent four institutions in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Macy Institute). The Principal Investigator for this study is Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE (MEd), FACS. Dr. Phitayakorn is an Associate Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Surgery, the Department’s Director of Medical Student Education and Surgery Education Research; an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School; the Senior Education Research and Development Consultant at NEJM Group; and the Co-Course Director of Harvard Macy Institute’s Health Care Education 2.0 course. Biographical information for other members of the study team is available upon request.
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Board Grant
2020
Project ARIISE: Addressing Racial Inequities through Interprofessional Simulation and Experiential Education
University of Utah, College of Nursing
This award supports the creation of an inclusive interprofessional training program to identify and address biases that occur during maternity care and repair relationships through respectful communication and dialogue. The training will be offered to learners including enrolled students, graduate trainees such as residents and fellows, and interprofessional faculty members. The program will become a required part of the curriculum at the University of Utah for learners in multiple health professions schools and will be disseminated via a train-the-trainer approach to other institutions.
Principal Investigator: Susanna R. Cohen, DNP, CNM, CHSE, FAAN is a doctoral prepared Certified Nurse Midwife who joined the faculty at the University of Utah, College of Nursing in 2007. She is the Principle Investigator for the LIFT Simulation Design Lab, which uses experiential learning to elevate conversations, team communication, and system change that promotes respectful maternity care. Susanna received her Masters’ of Science with a Minor in Nursing Education from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her clinical training at San Francisco General Hospital and UC San Diego Medical Center. She also holds a BS in Community and Regional Development from the UC Davis. Susanna completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice at the University of Utah, where her scholarly work centered around sustainable simulation and team training in low-resource settings internationally. Susanna is a leader in the field of high-fidelity low-tech interprofessional simulation. She received the International Nursing Association of Clinical and Simulation’s Best Practice Innovator Excellence Award in 2016, the Hayden Vanguard Award in 2017, and in 2018 was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing for her work on global simulation. Susanna is the co-founder of PRONTO International, and designs curriculum, trains master facilitators and evaluates outcomes of an obstetric and neonatal simulation emergency interprofessional training program in Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya, and India.
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Board Grant
2020
The Promoting Diversity, Group Inclusion, and Equity (ProDiGIE) Study in Medical Education
Yale School of Medicine
This award supports using Association of American Medical Colleges’ data on medical students from enrollment to graduation to develop an index designed to assess a medical school’s diversity, inclusion, and equity climate. The index will be validated, and then analyzed to glean information about characteristics of a medical school’s learning environment associated with greater diversity, inclusion, and equity; and student wellbeing and academic success.
Principal Investigator: Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS, Principal Investigator Dr. Boatright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Boatright has received federal funding to support his research from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Marney White, PhD, MS, Co-Investigator Dr. White is an Associate Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. White is a nationally recognized expert on survey development and validation. Cary Gross, MD,MPH Co-Investigator Dr. Gross is a nationally recognized cancer outcomes and effectiveness researcher. Dr. Gross has published extensively about racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer outcomes. He is a demonstrated leader in his field with over 250 publications. James Dziura, PhD, Co-Investigator Dr. Dziura is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Dziura previously served as the Director of the Biostatistics Cores for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and Yale’s adult and pediatric General Clinical Research Centers. Dr. Dziura has extensive experience with observational studies, and as the epidemiologist/biostatistician on this project.
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President’s Grant
2020
Leveraging the IPEC Competency Framework to Transform Health Professions Education
Interprofessional Education Collaborative
This award will support a collaboration with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to develop a structured assessment tool for health professions education institutions to use for consistent evaluation of IPEC competencies.
Principal Investigator: Kelly R. Ragucci, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS is currently an Interprofessional Education Collaborative planning committee member and has a lengthy history of publishing scholarly works related to interprofessional education and practice. She has been a co-investigator on funded interprofessional projects, the most recent of which was funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and was titled “Virtual Interprofessional Learning” at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). In addition, Dr. Ragucci has been invited to give presentations at national and international interprofessional meetings such as All Together Better Health and Collaborating Across Borders and was also a co-director of simulated interprofessional rounding experiences (SIRE) at MUSC. Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, is an expert in interprofessional education with a research focus on assessment and accreditation. His analyses of IPE accreditation standards highlighted opportunities to utilize the accreditation process to advance IPE throughout the health professions. Dr. Zorek represented the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education on a project with the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) to develop the consensus document “Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions.” The HPAC guidance, endorsed by 24 health professions accrediting bodies, is considered a historic, seminal achievement within the field.
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President’s Grant
2020
Academic Medicine Supplement, “Addressing Bias and Reducing Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments”
Association of American Medical Colleges
This award will support a special supplement of Academic Medicine on discrimination and bias in health professions learning environments. The supplement will highlight the commissioned papers and recommendations from the February 2020 Macy Conference on Addressing Bias and Reducing Harmful Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments.
Principal Investigator: o Anne Farmakidis, Senior Director of Publishing, AAMC Anne directs publishing strategy for the AAMC, and her portfolio includes Academic Medicine. Anne acts as the liaison between the AAMC and the journal’s commercial publisher, Wolters Kluwer, who will be completing production and publication of the supplement. o Mary Beth DeVilbiss, Director and Managing Editor, Academic Medicine, AAMC Mary Beth manages the staff of Academic Medicine and oversees all journal-related projects. She has been the point of contact for Dr. Holly Humphrey, who is directing the content of the supplement, as well as for Peter Goodwin and Yasmine Legendre regarding the funding model. o Liza Karlin, Senior Staff Editor, Academic Medicine, AAMC Liza will take over Mary Beth’s duties as the journal staff lead on this supplement project while Mary Beth is on maternity leave (July 2020-November 2020). Liza is a senior member of the journal staff and will fill the same role Mary Beth has filled so far on this project.
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President’s Grant
2020
COVID-19 Student Service Corps (CSSC): An Interprofessional Response to the Pandemic Crisis
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
This award will support the development of educational tools for each of the health professions schools participating in the COVID-19 Student Service Corps. Interprofessional students will participate in credit-bearing service learning experiences while supporting clinicians caring for patients with COVID-19.
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Amiel, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Interim Co-Vice Dean for Education, and Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S). His scholarly work focuses on competency-based medical education (CBME). He is the faculty leader for the AAMC national study on the implementation of Core EPAs to Enter Residency, a member of the International CBME collaborators and past-chair of the AAMC Northeast Group on Educational Affairs. He chairs the membership committee of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Marina Catallozzi, MD, MSCE, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at VP&S and of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatrics. She directs the Pediatrics Clerkship, Pediatric Medical Student Education, and the Medical Education Scholarly Project track. At Mailman, Dr. Catallozzi is the Director of the General Public Health program. Dr. Catallozzi teaches qualitative research methods. Urmi Desai, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at VP&S. She directs of the first-year clerkship program for the Foundations of Clinical Medicine Course, co-medical director of the Columbia-Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership, and Director of Service Learning. She is also the director of Quality Improvement for the school’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She coordinates curricular interprofessional education at the medical school.
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President’s Grant
2020
A Clinical Toolkit for Placing Interprofessional Student Teams in the Clinical Learning Environment
Grand Valley State University
This award will support the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center’s (MIPERC) implementation and evaluation of an interprofessional clinical toolkit for preceptors at clinical care sites within the MIPERC membership.
Principal Investigator: Jean Nagelkerk, PhD, FNP, FNAP is the chair of the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research Center and Vice Provost for Health at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Nagelkerk has been the PI for numerous interprofessional research grants totaling over $3.5 million dollars since 2010. Amy Malheim – Central Michigan University Jyotsna Pandey – Central Michigan University College of Medicine Joy Doll – Creighton University Sabina Kupershmidt – University of South Dakota Ramona Benkert – Wayne State University, MI-AHEC Jeannette Pollatz – Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital Linda Myler – Eastern Michigan University Deb Doherty – Oakland University Michael Bouthillier – Ferris State University College of Pharmacy
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President’s Grant
2020
Patient-Centered Care for African Americans
Cleveland State University
This award will support the development of Patient-Centered Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes, a cultural humility course for pre-health professions students. The course will integrate with the undergraduate and graduate pre-professions programs, the general education program, and the interprofessional education program at Cleveland State University.
Principal Investigator: Vision and leadership will be provided by Gregory L. Hall, MD, an expert in African American health care. Dr. Hall has been a practicing physician in Cleveland since 1994 and is currently Co-Director of the Partnership for Urban Health at Cleveland State University (CSU). He holds faculty positions at CSU, Northeast Ohio Medical School (NEOMED), and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where the new curriculum content will be integrated in the future. Trained at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Hall has served as chair of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and is vice president of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. A popular educator in the classroom as well as on YouTube, his recent book titled, Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes [1] will serve as the foundation for this project.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2020
Danica Fulbright Sumpter, PhD, RN
University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing