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President’s Grant
2018
Sharing Strategies for Health Equity: Social Medicine in Action
EqualHealth
This award will support the third meeting of Sharing Strategies for Health Equity: Social Medicine in Action. The meeting brings together health professionals, students, and community members to discuss best practices in social medicine.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michelle Morse is founding Co-Director of EqualHealth (EH), an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Global Health Equity (BWH DGHE), and Assistant Program Director for the BWH Internal Medicine residency. She works to strengthen and transform medical education and expand teaching on social medicine in the US and abroad through her role at EH and collaborations with Partners In Health. She is a founding leader of the Social Medicine Consortium (SMC), which aims to expand the practice and teaching of social medicine through advocacy, research and education. Dr. Morse works clinically as a hospitalist at BWH. Dr. Michael Westerhaus is a primary care physician at the Center for International Health in St. Paul, MN, which provides care to refugees and immigrants. As an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the University of Minnesota, he works both in Minnesota and in Uganda to improve community-based primary care delivery, teach about the social determinants of health, and build partnerships based upon solidarity that advances health equity. He co-founded SocMed, a social justice non-profit working to expand engagement with the social determinants of health through education and movement building.He is also a founding leader of the SMC.He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2006 and completed the DGHE residency at BWH in 2010. He earned a Master’s in medical anthropology at Harvard University in 2005.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2018
Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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President’s Grant
2018
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship Program
National Medical Fellowships
This award will support four NMF/Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarships for second- and third-year underrepresented minority medical students.
Principal Investigator: Esther R. Dyer, MLS, DLS: Since 2006, Dr. Dyer has been President and CEO of National Medical Fellowships. As the lead program officer for NMF’s community service programs, she works with community based organizations and foundations and scholarship applicants. She is an NIH reviewer for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities grants. Career highlights include: Executive Director of the American-Italian Cancer Foundation and US Representative of the European School of Oncology; Executive Director of the Greater New York March of Dimes; Public Affairs Director for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield; professor in the Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Academic credentials include: Doctorate in Library Science, Columbia University; Certificado del Curso Medio, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Dr. Dyer is author of more than 30 articles and monographs, she edited the New York Health Sciences Journal, and was adjunct faculty in Graduate School of Public Health, New York Medical College from 1995 to 2005.
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President’s Grant
2017
Team Centered Care for Vulnerable Populations: a comprehensive approach to educating and supporting primary care teams
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
This award will support the development and testing of a comprehensive, team-centered education intervention for primary care teams serving vulnerable and underserved populations. The intervention will focus on team performance and team self-care and the creation of a model for academic clinical collaboration. The grantee plans to use this work as a foundation to seek funding to implement at primary care clinical sites statewide.
Principal Investigator: The Principal Investigator for this project is Gerri Lamb, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Director of the Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research at Arizona State University. Dr. Lamb has been PI on previous grants from the Macy Foundation.
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President’s Grant
2017
Laying the Foundation for Boldly Advancing Interprofessional Healthcare in America
National Academies of Practice
This award will support Laying the Foundation for Boldly Advancing Interprofessional Healthcare in America, a forum to showcase national scholarly work and works in progress to advance interprofessional practice, education, policy, and research.
Principal Investigator: 2018 NAP Forum Planning Committee (28 Committee members representing 12 academies) • Co-Chairs: Janet DuBois, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FNAP (Nursing), Irma Ruebling, PT, MA, FNAP (Physical Therapy) • Subcommittee Chairs: • Keynote Speakers: Jody Frost, PT, DPT, PhD, FNAP (Physical Therapy), Chandice Covington, PhD, RN, PNP, FNAP, FAAN (Nursing) • Abstract Review: Elizabeth Rider, MSW, MD, SFNAP (Medicine & Vice President of Partnerships and Networking), Caroline Goulet, PT, PhD, FNAP (Physical Therapy) • Networking: Inge Corliss, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN (Nursing), Wendy Duncan, PhD, FNAP (Pharmacy) • Forum Evaluation: Patricia Pearce, MPH, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FNAP (Nursing) • Advocacy Pre-Session: Joanne Wisely, MA, CCC/SLP, FNAP (Speech-Language Pathology) NAP President: Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN NAP Council Liaison and President-Elect: Jody Frost, PT, DPT, PhD, FNAP NAP Executive Director: Melanie Bowzer, CAE
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President’s Grant
2018
The Voice of the Patient: Podcasts to Improve the Care of Underserved Populations
Safe Space Radio
This award will support the development of a podcast library specifically to educate health professions students on the health needs of underserved populations.
Principal Investigator: Anne Hallward, MD Sara Powers, MD
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Board Grant
2018
The Nexus Learning Ecosystem: Vision, Action, Results
Regents of the University of Minnesota
Principal Investigator: Barbara F. Brandt, PhD University of Minnesota Academic Health Center Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Renowned for her work in health professional education, and specifically, interprofessional education and continuing education, Dr. Barbara Brandt serves as the director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (National Center), a public-private partnership charged by its founders to provide the leadership, evidence, and resources needed to guide the nation on the use of interprofessional education and collaborative practice as a way to enhance the experience of health care, improve population health and reduce the overall cost of care. The National Center received initial funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, as well as the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Brandt holds a bachelor of arts in the teaching of history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master of education and doctor of philosophy degrees in continuing education (specializing in continuing professional education for the health professions) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship for faculty in adult and continuing education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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President’s Grant
2018
Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education Summit
Maine Medical Center
This award will support the Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education, a summit that will bring together senior leadership, faculty, front line workers, and stakeholders from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The summit will lay the foundation for expanding a clinical learning environment redesign, which began as a pilot within Maine Medical Center in 2016.
Principal Investigator: Peter W. Bates, MD is the Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Maine Medical Center (MMC). Prior to that, he served as MMC’s Chief Medical Officer and Academic Dean. Dr. Bates serves as a member of the President’s Council at MMC and the Dean’s Executive Council of Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM). Dr. Bates received both his BS and MD from the University of Washington. Marjorie S. Wiggins, DNP, MBA, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC, is Senior Vice President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Officer of MMC and Chief Nurse Executive of MaineHealth. An adjunct faculty in USM’s School of Nursing, Marge has numerous publications on care delivery models. Robert G. Bing-You, MD, MEd, MBA, FACP, is an endocrinologist and Vice President of Medical Education at MMC. He received an MD from George Washington University School of Medicine, a Masters in Adult Education at the University of Southern Maine and his MBA at the University of Massachusetts. Thomas E. Van der Kloot, MD, is the vice president of Chest Medicine Associates in South Portland, Maine, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at TUSM, and acts as physician leader for the Clinical Learning Environment Review at MMC. Laurie J. Burton, RN, BSN, has been a director of Patient Care Services within the cardiovascular service line for MMC for 13 years. She holds a BS in Nursing from the University of New England. She serves as co-director of the iPACE unit at MMC.
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President’s Grant
2017
Academic Medicine Supplement on Time Variability in Health Professions Education
Association of American Medical Colleges
This award supports an Academic Medicine supplemental issue on competency-based time-variable education in health professions. The issue is a direct follow up to the 2017 Macy Conference, Achieving Competency-Based, Time-Variable Health Professions Education.
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. Olle ten Cate, who is directing the content of the supplement, as well as for George Thibault and Peter Goodwin regarding the funding model. o Toni Gallo, Senior Staff Editor, Academic Medicine, AAMC Toni will take over Mary Beth’s duties as the journal staff lead on this supplement project while Mary Beth is on maternity leave (September 2017 – January 2018). Toni 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
2017
NCICLE Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment Symposium
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
This award supports a symposium for the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. The symposium will bring together stakeholders in the clinical learning environment to define the optimal interprofessional clinical learning environment and the implications for how these characteristics exhibit themselves in clinical service units, hospitals and clinics, and the health system. The symposium will be held jointly with the National Advisory Committee for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.
Principal Investigator: Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation ACGME Robin Wagner, RN, MHSA Vice President, CLER Program ACGME Morgan Passiment Director, Institutional Outreach and Collaboration ACGME