Grants Database
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President’s Grant
2019
The History of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools
The Sullivan Alliance
This award supports a report on the history of collaboration among historically black medical schools to raise funding for their institutions to ensure their future.
Principal Investigator: Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., MACP President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989-1993 Founding President, AMHPS David Chanoff Writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Republic. He has written 18 books, including collaborations with Dr Louis Sullivan and Congressman Louis Stokes.
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Board Grant
2010
Fellowship in IP Learning
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
This program, “Fellowship in Interprofessional Learning,” will allow masterful healthcare professionals to deliver the highest quality and safest care to their patients. This pilot brings together students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work.
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Board Grant
2010
Promotion and Retention of Diversity in Medical Education (PaRoDiME)
Yale University School of Medicine
The project supports research on the racial/ethnic distribution, promotion rates and turnover rates of faculty in medical schools.
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Board Grant
2010
Harvard Macy Institute Evaluation Study
Harvard Macy Institute
This program is an evaluation study that will assist in understand the role of HMI in supporting health care educators, leaders of health care organizations and innovators in improving medical and health professions education, and supporting increased teamwork between and among health care professionals. The intent for this study is to provide data and insights for strengthening medical and health professions education for HMI and for other institutions.
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Board Grant
2010
Transitional Medicine Initiative
The New York Academy of Sciences
The project supports developing a live and virtual community of scientists, physicians, medical students and others focused on the pressing issues and challenges of transitional medicine, with a particular emphasis on the New York City community.
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Board Grant
2009
Medical and Nursing Education Impact and Dissemination Project
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
This project supports a conference co-sponsored by the Macy Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation to discuss the forthcoming Carnegie study of nursing and medical education.
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President’s Grant
2019
A Strategic Plan to Advance Interprofessional Collaboration on Diagnosis
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
This award supports a conference to improve interprofessional collaboration and improve diagnosis in medicine. Using 12 key competencies as a framework, conferees will develop action steps to improve diagnosis in all health professions.
Principal Investigator: Co-PI’s: Mark Graber MD and Andrew Olson MD, the active PI’s on the current Macy-funded “Consensus Curriculum” project. Mark L Graber MD FACP– Chief Medical Officer, Founder, and President Emeritus, SIDM Dr. Graber is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook Univ., NY. He has an extensive background in health services research, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 5000 citations. He originated Patient Safety Awareness Week in 2002, an event now recognized internationally. Dr. Graber is considered the ‘father’ of efforts to address diagnostic errors in medicine: In 2008 he convened the first Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference. In 2011 he founded the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and in 2014, the new journal, DIAGNOSIS. He is a recipient of John M Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor for advancing healthcare quality and safety. Andrew Olson MD FACP FAAP is Assoc Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Univ. of Minnesota. He serves as the Director of Medical Educator Development and Scholarship, and is the founding Director of the “Becoming a Doctor” course. His research centers on the development of expertise in decision-making, improving diagnostic reasoning education, and competency-based medical education. He is the PI of the DX: Diagnostic Excellence project, a national project to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel curriculum for medical students about diagnostic reasoning and error. He Co-Chairs the SIDM Education Committee.
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Board Grant
2009
Training for Health Care Team Effectiveness
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
The project will design and pilot unified education models to equip students and faculty at Columbia’s health sciences schools with knowledge, skills and practices required to work effectively in teams..
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Board Grant
2009
Tulane Rural Immersion Program
Tulane University
Supporting the project titled, “Tulane Rural Immersion Program,” will provide funding for a nine month program in rural Louisiana that will fulfill the majority of the core clinical rotation requirements for a selected group of third year medical students. This program will offer students the opportunity to reside in a rural community and complete a longitudinal clinical training experience with a focus of public health. The goal of this program is to improve health indicators in rural Louisiana.
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Board Grant
2009
Mapping Medical Schools in a Time of Expansion
The Robert Graham Center:Policy Studies in Family & Primary Care
The project supports, “Medical School Footprints Primary Care,” which will develop a novel mapping application that will measure and report the regional impact of medical schools; and create an online tool that will allow policy makers, planners and advocates to see the regional footprint of all allopathic medical schools in the US.