Grants Database
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President’s Grant
2015
Global is Local: Enhancing the Care of Immigrants, Migrants, Torture Survivors, Asylum Seekers and
Georgetown University Medical Center
This award supports the development of a curriculum for health professions learners and providers to offer culturally appropriate and quality care to refugees and displaced persons who seek care in the US. The goal is to improve clinicians’ familiarity with cultural, social, psychological, rights-based, and clinical issues affecting refugee populations.
Principal Investigator: Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAP
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President’s Grant
2015
Changing the Face of Medicine
URU The Right To Be, Inc.
This award supports the educational tour of “Changing the Face of Medicine: Black Women in Medicine,” a full-length documentary that explores the history, status, and future of Black women in medicine and its allied fields. The tour focuses on early engagement for underrepresented students in medicine by screening the documentary in primary and secondary schools and community action agencies across the country.
Principal Investigator: Crystal R. Emery CEO URU, The Right to Be, Inc.
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President’s Grant
2015
Annals of Internal Medicine: “On Being a Doctor” Story Slam
American College of Physicians, Inc.
This award supports “On Being a Doctor” Story Slam, a new feature for the Annals of Internal Medicine journal. Expanding on the personal essay series in the journal, the story slam will invite eight physicians known for their skills as storytellers to share a brief personal experience as a doctor in front of a live audience that will vote for the best story. The slam will be live-streamed and recorded for on-demand viewing on the Annals of Internal Medicine website.
Principal Investigator: Christine Laine. MD, MPH (principal investigator) Editor In Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine Senior Vice President, American College of Physicians (2009). Dr. Laine is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Internal Medicine at Jefferson Medical College. She received her M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed residency training in internal medicine at the New York Hospital (Cornell University) and a fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at Beth Israel Hospital (Harvard University). Allan Detsky, MD, PhD (co-principal investigator) Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto He was Head of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto from 1988-1997. He was Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1997-2009. Dr. Detsky received his B.S. from MIT, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. (in Economics) from MIT in 1978. Michael Lacombe, MD (co-principal investigator) Associate Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine He is specifically the Associate Editor for the “On Being A Doctor,” “On Being A Patient,” and “Ad Libitum” sections of Annals of Internal Medicine. He attended University of Rochester and received his M.D. from Harvard University. He has recently been elected President-elect of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association.
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Board Grant
2011
Improving Quality and Safety for Diverse Populations: An Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Board Grant
2011
Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
National Academy of Sciences
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President’s Grant
2015
2015 Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit
Primary Care Progress
This award supports the 2015 Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit, a leadership development conference for selected Primary Care Progress chapter leaders and their faculty advisors. The award also supports the Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Collaborative, which brings together teams of interprofessional students to work with three to four complex care patients on care coordination, connection to community resources, education about their medical conditions, engagement with their care, and assistance managing some of the stressors in their lives.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, President. Andrew is a primary care clinician, educator and advocate who works actively in the primary care revitalization space. Dr. Morris-Singer is a proponent of interprofessional, trainee-led, grassroots efforts to reform primary care delivery and training. He is a former professional community organizer and trainer, with over 15 years of advocacy experience and is Board-certified in Internal Medicine. He is an Affiliate Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Marianne Roy, Director of Leadership Development. Marianne has spent 20 years working in organizational and leadership development in the healthcare industry. Her approach is grounded in an ability use the power of relationships to integrate the core mission of caring with the business of delivering it. Marianne is a co-founder of the Healthcare Initiative and a faculty member at the Gestalt International Study Center. She holds a BBA from Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec, and a M.Ed. from Boston University, Boston, MA. She is also a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Organization and Systems Development program. Prior to her career as an organization development consultant, Marianne spent over 12 years as an IT professional.
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Board Grant
2012
Development of a Repository for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Resources.
Association of American Medical Colleges
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President’s Grant
2015
The Fund for 2025
Philanthropy New York
This award supports the Fund for 2025 campaign to develop new physical space and programming for the organization. The new space will have improved technological capacity for staff and members which will allow expanded programming capacity. Support for the Fund will enable the organization to create a public policy fellows program and research and develop fee-based services to improve the organization’s fiscal sustainability.
Principal Investigator: Ronna Brown, President Kathryn O’Neal-Dunham, COO
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President’s Grant
2015
Creating better and much more-available health sciences education
Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health
This award supports the collection, sharing, and curating of digital learning objects for undergraduate medical education; and to make openly available medical education resources more widely used.
Principal Investigator: Erica Frank, MD, MPH
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Board Grant
2012
Innovations in Education and Training for a 21st Century Health Care Workforce
Mullan Institute, DHPM, SPH, GWU
The project, “Innovations in Education and Training for a 21st Century Health Care Workforce: Education and Dialogue for Federal Policy Makers,” is designed to sustain the momentum on workforce issues developed from the prior Macy grant by continuing to hold meetings and produce written reports on the health care workforce and ensure that workforce policies are given adequate attention in ongoing reform discussion.