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Macy Faculty Scholar
2017
Maja Djukic, PhD, RN, FAAN
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
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President’s Grant
2017
Expanding Interprofessional Faculty Scholarship through Community, Mentorship and Leadership Education
Regents of the University of Minnesota
This award supports a faculty development initiative in interprofessional education and practice within the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC). The AIHC will implement, evaluate, and expand the programs (online networking community, career mentoring, how-to IPE vodcast series) across the United States.
Principal Investigator: Sarah Shrader, PharmD and Barbara Brandt, PhD Dr. Sarah Shrader is the current Chairperson of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative and Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Interprofessional Education at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. Dr. Shrader is the co-author of Preceptors in the Nexus, a widely embraced toolkit to support preceptor faculty development toward the integration of interprofessional education into clinical settings. Dr. Barbara Brandt is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, Associate Vice President for Education, and the Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Brandt is an internationally recognized expert in interprofessional education. She is the founding member and current Board Member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2017
Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD, RN, NNP
The George Washington University
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President’s Grant
2017
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship Program
National Medical Fellowships
This award supports the NMF/Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship program, which provides six scholarships on the basis of financial need and academic merit 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
Beyond Reimagining, Accelerating Praxis: Social Medicine In Practice Today
EqualHealth
This award supports Beyond Reimagining, Accelerating Praxis a conference hosted by the Social Medicine Consortium. The conference will bring together health professionals, educators, and social justice activists. The meeting’s goals are to create a deeper understanding of social medicine and health inequities, to develop advocacy skills, and to disseminate tools used in the practice of 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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President’s Grant
2017
Interprofessional Studies in Injury Prevention and Control
University of Washington Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
This award supports a new interprofessional curriculum in injury prevention that will be used in all UW health science schools (medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, and social work) for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Principal Investigator: Monica Vavilala, MD
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President’s Grant
2017
Arnold P. Gold Foundation 2017 National Conference: Cultivating Resiliency Through Humanism and Community
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
This award supports Cultivating Resiliency Through Humanism and Community, a conference of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. The meeting will include student posters, breakout sessions, and plenary talks to disseminate best practices for humanistic approaches to education and care and the culture of resiliency.
Principal Investigator: Dorothy Levine, MD, Director, Gold Humanism Honor Society Elizabeth Cleek, PsyD, Chief Program Officer & Vice President Richard Levin, MD, President and CEO
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President’s Grant
2017
Reducing Job Burnout Using an Interprofessional Facilitated Intervention
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
This award supports an interprofessional facilitated discussion group to address job burnout for physicians, residents, nurses, and social workers. The intervention is based on a curriculum designed to alleviate burnout symptoms in practitioners’ professional lives.
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Muller MD
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Board Grant
2017
A Longitudinal Educational Program to Advance the Health and Health Care of Refugees
Trustees of Boston University
Principal Investigator: Sondra Crosby, MD, and Suzanne Sarfaty, MD, will co-lead this project. Dr. Crosby, an Associate Professor in the departments of Medicine Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at the Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health, has focused her practice on care of refugees and asylum seekers for the last 17 years. She is Director and Co-Founder of the Immigrant and Refugee Health Program at Boston Medical Center and has participated in the Massachusetts Refugee Health Assessment Program for more than a decade. She is an internationally recognized expert in refugee and immigrant health and human rights based on her extensive experience in treating, advocating and often testifying on behalf of these patients, and is regularly asked to speak and teach about her experiences. She serves as a medical consultant to Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Sarfaty is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at BUSM. As Director of the Office of Enrichment at BUSM, she has more than a decade of experience in developing student educational programs that address urban and global health, research, service learning and advanced communication skills. She has co-developed and provides faculty oversight for two homeless health educational projects, including the Outreach Van Project and Homeless Health Immersion Initiative. She is a highly experienced mentor for medical students and has fostered multiple interprofesional collaborations.
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President’s Grant
2016
Vital Directions for Health and Health Care
National Academy of Sciences
This award supports the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care initiative, which will provide the next US presidential administration, policy makers, opinion leaders and the public with nonpartisan, evidence-based analysis of opportunities and priorities in health and health care for 2017 and beyond. Through the initiative, a series of papers with policy recommendations will be published; individual, group, and public meetings to discuss the papers will occur; and a synthesis report of the policy recommendations will be released and made available.
Principal Investigator: J. Michael McGinnis, M.D., M.P.P.