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President’s Grant
2018
Summit to Advance Medical Spanish in U.S. Medical Schools
National Hispanic Health Foundation
This award will support the Summit to Advance Medical Spanish in US Medical Schools. The summit will bring together health care leaders, medical school faculty, and Spanish language experts to review current medical Spanish curricula in medical schools and develop recommendations for strategies to increase medical Spanish in medical school curricula.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Elena Rios Dr. Rios earned her BA in Human Biology/Public Administration at Stanford University in 1977, MSPH at the UCLA School of Public Health in 1980, MD at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1987, and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and the White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles in 1990, and her NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship at UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine in 1992.
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President’s Grant
2017
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards for Excellence in Social Mission in Health Professions Education
The George Washington University
This award supports the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards for Excellence in Social Mission in Health Professions Education. The awards, which recognize achievements in social mission in health professions education, will be presented at the next Beyond Flexner conference in 2018.
Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD is a professor of Health Policy and Pediatrics at the George Washington University. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Medical School and served 23 years in the United States Public Health Service, starting as an NHSC physician in the in New Mexico and later as director of the program. Subsequently, he directed the Bureau of Health Professions and attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. He also served as the Secretary of Health and Environment for the state of New Mexico. His research and policy work focus on US and international health workforce issues including the Beyond Flexner Study, the Medical Education Futures Study, and the Sub-Saharan African Medical School Study. He has written widely for professional and general audiences. His books include White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician and Big Doctoring: Profiles in Primary Care. He is the Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, the Founding Board Chair of Seed Global Health, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences .
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President’s Grant
2017
Integrating Social Needs Care Into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation’s Health
National Academy of Sciences
This award supports an ad hoc committee to examine the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the education of health professionals and the delivery of health care. The goal is to achieve better health outcomes and to address major challenges to the US healthcare system.
Principal Investigator: Abigail Mitchell, Ph.D., is a senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has more than 20 years of experience directing studies in the areas of population, occupational, and environmental health. Specific study topics include military veterans’ health, prevention and control of hepatitis B and C, the public health effectiveness of the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance process for medical devices, and research priorities related to studying health effects from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Prior to joining the Health and Medicine Division, Abbe was a program officer in the Division on Earth and Life Studies, where she worked on projects in the areas of toxicology, environmental health, and risk assessment. Abbe received her B.S. in biology from Tulane University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Florida.
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President’s Grant
2017
Scoping Project: Columbia DrPH Program in Health Systems Leadership
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
This award supports Columbia DrPH Program in Health Systems Leadership, an analysis of the feasibility of creating and sustaining a new interprofessional doctoral education program designed to train health care and public health leaders in population health science, systems, and leadership.
Principal Investigator: Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, is Dean and DeLamar Prof of Public Health at Columbia Univ Mailman School of Public Health, where she is also Prof of Epidemiology. She is Prof of Medicine in the College of Physicians & Surgeons, and SVP, Columbia Univ Med Ctr. A renowned geriatrician and epidemiologist, she has defined the medical syndrome of frailty and led innovative science underlying health in longer lives and transitions to aging societies. She has led Mailman to be regarded nationally as the innovator in public health education, and led the development of new sciences of health systems for educating leaders to design systems that optimize health. She is an elected member of the Natl. Academy of Medicine and on its Board, and Pres of the American Assoc. of Physicians. Julie Kornfeld, PhD, MPH is Vice Dean for Education and Assoc Prof of Epidemiology at Mailman. An expert in pedagogic innovations and professional training for public health leaders, she provides academic guidance for the School’s education portfolio, which enrolls over 1400 students in doctoral and master’s programs. She leads the Columbia MPH, a curricular standard-bearer for graduate education that presents all students with an interdisciplinary approach to public health science, and directs admissions and financial aid, student affairs, and career services. She was Asst Dean of Public Health at Univ of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she developed innovative interdisciplinary public health programs.
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President’s Grant
2017
Hermann Biggs Society Student Scholars
New York University
This award supports interprofessional students attending the Hermann Biggs Society Health Policy meetings for three years.
Principal Investigator: Christine Tassone Kovner, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a highly-respected and widely-published nurse educator and researcher at New York University. Her primary appointment is with Rory Meyers College of Nursing, where she is the Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing and a Senior Faculty Associate at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. She is an affiliated faculty member of the recently created NYU College of Global Public Health and is on the Nurse Faculty at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Kovner is a Senior Associate Editor of the journal Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice. Dr. Kovner is the Principal Investigator for the NIH funded TL1 Pre- and Post-Doctoral Program of NYU’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She has a long history of successfully mentoring young scholars both in the TL1 program and in her role as a professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She has had numerous grants all of which were completed on time and resulted in all promised products being developed. She maintains an active research program involving studies on quality improvement, RN working conditions and nursing care cost. Dr. Kovner recently completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded 10-year grant in which she managed a large group of co-investigators and support staff. She has been an active member of the Herman Biggs Society for over 10 years.
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President’s Grant
2017
James R. Tallon, Jr. Strategic Initiatives Fund
United Hospital Fund
This award supports the James R. Tallon, Jr. Strategic Initiatives Fund, which will support objective analysis of affordable and comprehensive insurance coverage, the viability of the health care safety net, and the need for innovation to address cost and improve quality of care in New York.
Principal Investigator: Emily Regas, Director of Major Gifts Anthony Shih, President Chad Shearer, Vice President for Policy; Director, Medicaid Institute
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President’s Grant
2017
The Jo Ivey Boufford East Harlem Initiatives Fund
The New York Academy of Medicine
This award supports the Jo Ivey Boufford East Harlem Initiatives Fund, which will support ongoing and future efforts to make East Harlem a healthier place to live, work, and play and to support the education and training of staff for that work
Principal Investigator: Kathleen O’Donnell is Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration at the Academy. She is responsible for leading the financial and administrative operations of the Academy including the Conference Center, Finance, Information Technology, Grants Administration, Human Resources, and Facilities Management. Prior to joining the Academy, Kathleen spent over twenty years in leadership at Columbia University Medical Center, most recently as Vice President & Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Administration. Her strategic, financial and operations management experience at Columbia focused on oversight and support of clinical administration, clinical program development, faculty practice and related support services. Much of this work was done in collaboration with such affiliated hospital partners as New York Presbyterian, Harlem, St. Luke’s Roosevelt, and others. Kathleen O’Donnell has a Masters of Public Health and an MBA degree from Columbia University, as well as a Masters Degree in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
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President’s Grant
2017
Expand Addiction Medicine Fellowship Training and Export Competency-Based Learning Across Medical Education, Residency Training and Health Care Practice
The Addiction Medicine Foundation
This award supports the outreach and expansion of addiction medicine fellowship training programs across the country. Concurrently, the Foundation will work to export competency-based learning in prevention and treatment across medical education, residency training, and health care practice.
Principal Investigator: Kevin Kunz, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President, The Addiction Medicine Foundation Susan Foster, MSW, Senior Advisor, The Addiction Medicine Foundation Catherine Saunders, Chief Operating Officer, The Addiction Medicine Foundation
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President’s Grant
2017
Changing the Face of STEM
URU The Right To Be, Inc.
This award supports a congressional forum on Changing the Face of STEM initiative, which will include a screening at the National Academy of Medicine of Black Women in Medicine, a Macy-supported documentary on Black women in medicine.
Principal Investigator: Crystal R. Emery, Founder and Executive Director of URU, The Right to Be, served as the person responsible for the Thursday, June 22, 2017 Changing the Face of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) forum in Washington, D.C., for which URU sought funding from the Josiah Macy Foundation earlier this year. This prestigious forum was subtitled, “You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: A Forum on Ensuring Diversity and Inclusion in the Stem Fields.” She led this project with her usual “hands-on” management style; one that ensured this effort met her customary high standards of excellence and achieved its ultimate, and extraordinary, impact on its audience. An experienced and dedicated filmmaker, artist, author and social activist, Ms. Emery was – and is – eminently qualified to take on a project of this broad scope and national significance. She has more than 30 years’ experience producing programs and events that integrate art and education. She has written and produced full-length and short films; authored plays and books; and created and implemented creative workshops and other educational and cultural events for a wide variety of audiences locally, regionally and nationally. In so doing, she employs creative strategies to motivate, engage and support local community partners and stakeholders. This is the approach she took with the June 22, 2017 event.
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President’s Grant
2017
Interprofessional Spiritual Care Training for Senior Care Providers: A Collaboration Between Brandeis University and Hebrew SeniorLife
Brandeis University
This award supports the development of resources and trainings for non-chaplaincy interprofessional geriatric staff and clinicians in culturally competent care.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Wendy Cadge B.A., M.A., Ph.D