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Board Grant
2017
Enhancement and Expansion of Inter-professional Professionalism Education, Assessment, Remediation and Research: ProfessionalFormation.org
Drexel University College of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Dennis Novack, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean, Medical Education, Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM), oversees clinical skills teaching and assessment, and directs a first year medical student interviewing course and medical residency doctoring curriculum. He has been instrumental in instituting professionalism education at DUCOM, which received the AOA 2015 Edward D. Harris Professionalism Award. He is first editor of DocCom, a comprehensive online healthcare communication resource. He recently received two national awards: AAMC’s Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award and Society of General Internal Medicine’s Career Achievement Award in Medical Education. Kymberlee Montgomery, DrNP, CRNP-BC, CNE, FAANP is the Chair of Nurse Practitioner Program and is the first nursing faculty to hold a joint appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions and Drexel University College of Medicine. She is board certified as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Montgomery is currently the Director of the Drexel University Partnership for Interprofessional Education, an initiative coordinates collaboration between Drexel University College of Medicine and College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) students using mutli-level fidelity and standardized patients in simulated emergency situations in order to increase patient safety and quality of care.
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Board Grant
2010
New Integrated Interprofessional Curriculuim Model
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
This program creates an integrated, interprofessional, primary care curriculum to prepare physicians, nurse practitioners and pharmacists to work in rural and underserved areas.
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President’s Grant
2017
The Threads Among Us
Baylor College of Medicine
This award supports the development of a curriculum and film, The Threads Among Us, to address and increase physician-to-physician empathy. The film will explore the physician-to- physician dynamic while the curriculum will focus on interprofessional empathy and will be used with healthcare professionals in lectures and workshops.
Principal Investigator: Ellen Friedman Jordan Shapiro
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President’s Grant
2016
Cross-Institutional Collaboration to Impact Practice: Integrating Interprofessional Education Across the MGH Institute of Health Professions and Harvard Medical School
MGH Institute of Health Professions
This award supports the development of a cross-institution interprofessional program. The program will integrate first-year medical and dental students with first-year nursing, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology students into two experiential activities where the students will participate in simulation, health mentor learning, and home visits.
Principal Investigator: Mary Knab
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President’s Grant
2016
AΩA Best Practices in Medical Professionalism: Professionalism in the Modern Era Monograph
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
This award supports the dissemination of the proceedings from a conference entitled Medical Professionalism Best Practices in Education: Professionalism in the Modern Era. This conference will bring together leaders and experts in medical professionalism for a two-day think tank to identify best practices in medical professionalism and professional identity formation for medical students, residents, and physicians. These best practices and recommendations will be incorporated into a monograph to be distributed by Alpha Omega Alpha.
Principal Investigator: Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP
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President’s Grant
2016
Preparing Registered Nurses for Enhanced Roles in Primary Care Dissemination Planning
American Academy of Nursing
This award supports the dissemination of the recommendations from the Macy Conference Preparing Registered Nurses for Enhanced Roles in Primary Care. The Academy will host a policy discussion on the recommendations during the AAN annual conference; and regional meetings across the country with stakeholders such as universities, colleges, payers, state/federal agencies, elected officials, philanthropy, and health professional associations.
Principal Investigator: Cheryl G. Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Nursing, is the Project Director and is responsible for the project. Sullivan is an experienced administrator in health policy development at the federal and state levels. Ms. Sullivan formerly served as the principal advisor on social service policy to two Governors as Cabinet Secretary of Indiana’s largest agency, the Family and Social Services Administration, with direct oversight of the state’s Medicaid, disability, aging, and child services programs managing a budget of $4 billion. She is the former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to U.S. Senator Evan Bayh. She is participating in the Macy Conference on Preparing Registered Nurses for Enhanced Roles in Primary Care Dissemination Planning as staff.
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Board Grant
2016
ACNM/ACOG Maternity Care Education and Practice Redesign
American College of Nurse-Midwives
Principal Investigator: Dr. Melissa D. Avery is Professor and Chair, Child and Family Health Co-operative Unit, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota. Dr. Avery received the BS in Nursing at Northern Illinois University in 1976, MSN in nurse-midwifery, University of Kentucky in 1981 and PhD in Nursing, University of Minnesota in 1994. She directs the University of Minnesota nurse-midwifery education program and has 25 years full-scope clinical midwifery experience. Dr. Avery has led HRSA funded APRN education projects and is active in projects related to interprofessional practice and enhancing the use of simulation in midwifery and nurse practitioner education. She is a past President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. John C. Jennings M.D. is the Immediate Past President of the American College Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). He served as Regional Dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine where he is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has authored numerous publications including peer review articles, book chapters, and periodicals; serves as the senior editor for “Case Files in Obstetrics and Gynecology”, and as the Chair of the Editorial Board of TEXAS MEDICINE, the state medical journal. As his ACOG Presidential initiative, Dr. Jennings led the multi-disciplinary development and the 2016 publication of, “Collaboration in Practice: Implementing Team-Based Care”, endorsed by twenty+ national health care organizations.
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Board Grant
2010
Educating Future Leaders in the Primary Care of Persons with Chronic Illnesses and the Medically Disenfranchised Through Longitudinal Care Experiences
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
This project expands the longitudinal educational model by implementing InterAct, a curriculum that places third-year medical students in clinics for patients with chronic illness.
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Board Grant
2016
An Interprofessional Consensus Curriculum to Improve Diagnosis
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
Principal Investigator: Mark L Graber, MD FACP is a Senior Fellow at RTI International, President of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), and Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook University. Dr. Graber founded the Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference series in 2008, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine in 2011, and the journal DIAGNOSIS in 2014. He is the 2014 recipient of the John M Eisenberg award for his work in this field, and for establishing Patient Safety Awareness Week, an event now recognized at thousands of hospitals nationally. He has over 100 peer review publications and his research has been funded by the NPSF, the VA, the Office of the National Coordinator, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is the retired Chief of Medicine at the Northport VA Medical Center, NY. He has directed small and large local, regional, and national projects related to healthcare quality and safety, medical education, and health informatics. Related to medical education, he has served as a Nephrology Fellowship Director, the Site Director for the Stony Brook Internal Medicine training program, the VA liaison to the Stony Brook Dean’s Committee, and nationally on various committees and projects on behalf of the VHA Office of Academic Affairs. Dr Graber will have responsibility for coordinating this project and leading the Executive Committee. He will supervise the administrative support staff, and ensure that the project meets all expected goals.
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Board Grant
2016
Interprofessional Learning Exchange and Practice (I-LEAP)
Case Western Reserve University
Principal Investigator: The PI, Ellen Luebbers, MD, will provide leadership and management over the proposed program. Previously, Dr. Luebbers assumed the role of Co-Director for the Macy Foundation supported I-LEAD (Interprofessional Learning Exchange and Development) program, focusing on leadership and relationship building among the participating schools as well as development of interprofessional programming at Case Western Reserve University. She oversees curriculum development and assessment in interprofessional education and serves as a faculty advisor for the Student-Run Free Clinic. Currently, she is a Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Scholar Fellow, a postdoctoral program to develop leaders in systems change and quality improvement, where she has focused on the relational and team aspect of improvement work, completed research in interprofessional education and team learning and coached interprofessional resident teams. At the fellowship conclusion in June 2016, she become a full-time faculty in the School of Medicine’s Center for Medical Education. Four co-investigators join Dr. Luebbers as part of the I-LEAP leadership team. These include two clinical Co-PIs, Prabalini Rajendram, MD and Scott Wilkes, PhD, JD; one curriculum design Co-PI, Carol Savrin, RN, DNP, FNP, BC, CPNP, FAANP; and one evaluation co-PI, Catherine Demko, PhD. Further background may be found in the Project Purpose and Curriculum Vitae sections of the proposal.