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Macy Faculty Scholar
2015
Lisa A Kitko, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Penn State College of Nursing
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2015
Bridget C. O’Brien, PhD
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2015
Cheryl L. Woods Giscombé, PhD, MSN, RN, PMHNP
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Board Grant
2015
Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Faculty Development Program
University of Washington
Principal Investigator: Brenda K. Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor, Dept of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems University of Washington School of Nursing Adjunct Professor, UW School of Medicine and UW School of Public Health Director of Faculty Development, Institute of Simulation and Interprofessional Studies Co-Director, Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice Dr Zierler has been involved in IPE and faculty development for over a decade. She is the current Chair aand Board Member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative and a member of the IOM’s Innovation in Health Professions Education Forum. Dr. Les Hall (co-PI) is the incoming Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Hall has been involved in IPE and faculty development for more than a decade, too. He has led IPE initiatives at the University of Missouri (MU) and has participated in national IPE programs. Drs. Zierler and Hall were co-PIs on a pilot faculty development grant from the Josiah Macy Foundation from 2012-2013: Faculty Development in IP Team-based Care. Both PIs have participated in numerous faculty development programs in team-based care.
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Macy Faculty Scholar
2015
Lauren Gustafson Collins, MD
Thomas Jefferson University
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Board Grant
2015
PACER (Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign)
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator: This project will be co-led by Patrice Eiff, MD and Patricia Carney, PhD. Dr. Eiff is a family physician with faculty development fellowship training. She has served as associate residency director and interim residency director and is currently Director of Faculty Development and Vice Chair of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Dr. Carney, Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health & Preventive Medicine at OHSU, has doctoral training in Public Health and Community Medicine and Educational Psychology with a focus on measurement. In 2011-2012 she completed a Bishop Fellowship at the University of Toronto that focused on educational research. Each of these investigators brings unique skills to this endeavor, and they have a long history of collaborating on several educational research studies, including serving as co-investigators for the Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) project, the Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative (PCFDI) and the Family Medicine Length of Training Pilot. The combination of a doctoral trained educational researcher with measurement expertise working closely with an experienced family physician educator has resulted in well-constructed evaluation designs and successful project management. Drs. Eiff and Carney will work closely with the PACER Steering Committee, (as described in the Organizational Information & Support section), to accomplish the work required in this project.
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President’s Grant
2015
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship Program
National Medical Fellowships
This award will support four scholarships to underrepresented minority medical students through the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Scholarship program. The scholarship recipients are primarily economically disadvantaged second and third year medical students who come from, and often return to serve, communities most in need of quality medical care. The support helps the students to alleviate some of the financial barriers associated with completing their medical education.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Esther R. Dyer, President & CEO, National Medical Fellowships, Inc.
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President’s Grant
2015
Donald Jonas Legacy Nursing Scholars Program
Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare
This award will support a Donald Jonas Legacy Nurse Scholar who will pursue clinical research and leadership in topics such as school health, autism, veterans’ health care, and homelessness.
Principal Investigator: Darlene J. Curley, MS, RN is CEO of Jonas Philanthropies, investing grants in high need areas of nursing & veterans’ healthcare, low vision and blindness, and children’s environmental health. Curley is Executive Director of Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare (JNVH) at Columbia University. Since 2009, she has forged partnerships with 40 National funders and more than 140 leading academic and healthcare organizations, to develop the signature program: more than 1,000 Doctoral Nursing Scholars in all 50 States addressing the nation’s critical shortage of nursing faculty and primary care leaders. Ms. Curley was elected to the Maine State Legislature in 2002 and responsible for negotiation and oversight of an $8 billion state budget as a member of the appropriations committee. The Governor appointed her to the National Conference of State Legislatures charged with increasing healthcare access, improving quality, and reducing costs with legislative leaders from across the country. In 2006, she was a Congressional candidate in Maine’s 1st district. Previously, Curley was the Founder and CEO of a Medicare certified home health and medical staffing agency and National Director of Strategic Planning for HealthSouth.
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Board Grant
2015
Consortium of Medical Schools with accelerated pathway programs
NYU School of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Steven B. Abramson, M.D. is Vice Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs at the NYU School of Medicine, where he is also the Frederick H. King Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine. He has been Vice Dean for Education since 2006, and has led the education reforms, which resulted in the C21 Curriculum, including the inauguration of the 3-year pathway to the MD degree. Joan Cangiarella, M.D. is Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs where she is also Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Pathology. For the past year, she has worked extensively with Dean Abramson as the Director of the 3-year pathway to the MD degree. In this role, she has surveyed educational deans and residency program directors on their views of accelerated pathways and organized a national roundtable symposium for schools considering accelerated pathways. Marc M. Triola, M.D. is Director of the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, and Director of the Division of Educational Informatics. He is also the Chief of the Section of Medical Informatics. Dr. Triola has served as Principal Investigator of two NIH/NLM funded grants evaluating the use of technology in medical education of healthcare providers. He is principal investigator on the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Innovative Award and is a project chair of an AAMC subcommittee on distance learning in education.
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President’s Grant
2015
Beyond Flexner 2015 Conference
The George Washington University
This award will support Beyond Flexner 2015 Conference. The conference will examine the progress of social mission innovations and reforms in medical education. It will focus on schools with strong social mission agendas, create a forum for collaboration and shared innovations among socially accountable academic health centers, and legitimize the important role of health professions education in addressing the nation’s health inequities.
Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh Mullan