Grants Database
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Board Grant
2015
From Campus Curriculum to Rural Community Health Centers: A Statewide Model of Osteopathic IPE
University of New England
Principal Investigator: Shelley Cohen Konrad PhD, LCSW, FNAP is director of UNE’s Interprofessional Education Collaborative. A nationally-recognized scholar for interprofessional and collaborative practice education, she has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books, and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Dr. Cohen Konrad was appointed to the board of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative in 2013. Jane E. Carreiro, DO, Dean of UNE’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. She was previously UNE’s Director of Graduate and Continuing Medical Education, and Chair of the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She serves on the Osteopathic Recognition Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and as an expert advisor on training and practice guidelines for the World Health Organization.
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President’s Grant
2015
Development and Support for a Standardized EIP Competency for Integrative Health Academic Programs
Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH)
This award supports enhancing research literacy in complementary and integrative health disciplines. Building on previous support given by the Macy Foundation, the ACCAHC will develop and promote educational materials for achieving a standardized competency in evidence informed practice for all ACCAHC institutions. The project will support both interprofessional collaborative health care and lay the foundation for ACCAHC to develop a formal training to help sustain the program.
Principal Investigator: Deborah Hill, MS is the Project Manager for the Project to Enhance Research Literacy (PERL). Besides successfully building and leading PERL since she began work as an intern in her Georgetown M.S. program in mid-2013, and creating respect for her can-do abilities across our communities, Hill brings to this work extensive experience in sales and marketing in the medical field. In the past year, she has presented on PERL before multiple audiences, including the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the Board of Directors of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. Hill earned her first M.S.in Chemistry from George Washington University (1998) and her second M.S. in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University (2013). Martha Brown Menard PhD, LMT, is the director of the Crocker Institute, where she uses program evaluation as a means for helping nonprofit organizations, businesses, and institutions assess their outcomes and impact. Dr. Menard is the author of Making Sense of Research, a textbook on research literacy used in many graduate and professional training programs, and is an editor for the journal Global Advances in Health and Medicine. Dr. Menard completed her doctorate in research methods at the University of Virginia, where her dissertation research focused on the comparative effectiveness of massage therapy for improving post-surgical outcomes. She is a frequent keynote speaker and presenter at national conferences.
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President’s Grant
2014
2014-2015 Hermann Biggs Health Policy Scholars
Hunter College
This award will support 12 “full season” Scholars and 48 rotating Hermann Biggs Health Policy Fellows graduate students of different disciplines to each attend health policy meetings for the 2014 – 2017 seasons. The opportunity will enrich the Society’s conversations about health policy and provide enriching educational experiences for an interprofessional group of graduate students in the health professions.
Principal Investigator: Diana Mason
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Board Grant
2015
A New Model for Clinical Education and Progressive Entrustment of Residents in the Operating Room
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator: Gurjit Sandhu, PhD Assistant Professor Office for Surgical Education Research Depts of Surgery & Learning Health Sciences University of Michigan 2207 Taubman Center 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., SPC 5346 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5346 734-936-5155 (office) 734-763-5615 (fax) gurjit@umich.edu
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Board Grant
2014
Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
National Academy of Sciences
Principal Investigator: Patricia Cuff – has worked at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) for 16 years and has been the Forum Director for 6 years.
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President’s Grant
2014
A Follow-up Survey of Interprofessional Education in the United States
South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (SC AHEC)
This award supports a follow-up study to a previously Macy-funded survey assessing the progress being made with interprofessional education in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant studies, and public health. The results of the survey will provide a mid-decade report on the Healthy People 2020 interprofessional education objective.
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Garr – The principal investigator of both the original 2010 national interprofessional and prevention education survey and the follow-up survey conducted in 2015. Both surveys were funded by the Macy Foundation.
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President’s Grant
2014
Advancing Dental Education:Gies in the 21st Century
School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
This award supports a policy study on issues facing dental education. The goal of the study will be to develop practical strategies for restructuring dental education to address the current challenges of finance, education, interprofessional education, scholarship, and access. The study will also develop a long-term plan for implementing these strategies in the dental education system.
Principal Investigator: Howard Bailit
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President’s Grant
2014
Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice
Thomas Jefferson University
This award supports the biennial 2014 Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education conference, Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice. The conference will showcase national and international scholarly work and works in progress to advance team-based care by clinicians and students.
Principal Investigator: PI: Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, ANEF, FNAP. Dr. Speakman is the Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education at Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Professor in the Jefferson School of Nursing. Dr Speakman is a RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow and has received $500,000 in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to increase diversity in nursing education. Co-I: Christine Arenson, MD, Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education at Thomas Jefferson University and Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr Arenson has secured 6 million dollars in HRSA funding, and the PI on a AAMC/Josiah H Macy grant that examined chronic illness education and which became the framework for the Jefferson Health Mentors Program. Drs Speakman and Arenson are both interprofessional education (IPE) content experts and thought leaders with experience in IPE curriculum development and program planning.
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Board Grant
2012
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Regents of the University of Minnesota
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President’s Grant
2014
Interprofessional Team Training in High Value Care Delivery
American College of Physicians, Inc.
This award supports a meeting of 20 nurse practitioners and primary care physicians to identify and evaluate educational models to promote high value care (HVC) and interprofessional learning. The meeting will use the models to produce a blueprint for the creation and dissemination of team-based educational initiatives within the HVC program that include physician and nursing professionals co-learning. The meeting will also create a dissemination plan for the adapted HVC program with a possible pilot in the VA Centers for Excellence in Primary Care.
Principal Investigator: Diane Padden, PhD, CRNP, FAANP Cynthia D. Smith, MD, FACP