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President’s Grant
2013
AΩA and Professionalism in Medicine:
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society will collaborate with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to support a National Conference – Best Practices in Medical Professionalism, in July 2013. The goal is to identify best practices in interventions and remediation to address lapses in medical professionalism.
Principal Investigator: Richard Byyny
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Board Grant
2014
An Education and Practice Collaboration to Relieve Pain and Suffering
UC Davis Health System
Principal Investigator: Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing and Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Young is a nurse leader, educator and scientist and a nationally-recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care. Young’s research and clinical interest is the promotion of healthy aging, with a particular focus on the interface between family and formal health-care systems and innovative models of care. Scott Fishman, M.D., Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and The Charles and Patricia Fullerton Endowed Chair in Pain Medicine, Professor, and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He is past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, lectures on all aspects of pain and its treatment throughout the United States and has authored many books, peer-reviewed articles, and other scholarly reviews. He is senior editor of the journal Pain Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other medical journals.
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Board Grant
2012
Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief
Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City
Principal Investigator: Cindy Tom is the Director of Administration and is overseeing the distribution of funds from the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Ms. Tom oversaw the Fund’s application to and receipt of the federal Social Innovation Fund. She is also responsible for 25 other programs that support wide-ranging initiatives such as the Center for Economic Opportunity to reduce poverty in NYC, and the Green Carts initiative to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income neighborhoods.
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Board Grant
2013
Graduate Medical Education: Relationship of Training Characteristics to Graduate Outcomes
The George Washington University
Principal Investigator: Candice Chen, MD MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on workforce policy in the United States, particularly in the areas of primary care, underserved areas, and diversity in the workforce. Stephen Petterson, PhD, is the Research Director at the Robert Graham Center. His research interests include: national and state health policy, access to care and health insurance, the relationship between primary care and mental health treatment, and global health. He has a particular interest in understanding the barriers faced by disadvantaged populations in the health care system. He will be the primary statistical and methodological consultant on the studies. He has been the primary statistician on the previous studies on medical school rankings and GME outcomes. He brings expertise in statistical methods and workforce data sets.
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President’s Grant
2013
Establishing a National Baseline for Interprofessional Training in Graduate Medical Education
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
This award is to support the development of an analysis of the prevalence of current GME efforts to implement interprofessional education and to establish a baseline for the future. The ACGME database and surveys will be used to describe the nature of interprofessional education and practice offered by residency programs across the country.
Principal Investigator: DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr., MD
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Board Grant
2013
Interprofessional Primary Care Curriculum: Implementation and Evaluation
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
Principal Investigator: Gerri Lamb, PhD, RN, FAAN will serve as PI for the proposed project. Dr. Lamb is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s (ASU) College of Nursing and Health Innovation with a joint appointment in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She has been the PI on the 2-year curriculum planning grant funded by the Macy Foundation from 2010 through 2012. Dr. Lamb has been involved in several national IPE activities. She recently was appointed to the Board of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and represents ASU on the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Innovations Incubator Group. She has presented many papers about her experience teaching interprofessional courses in healthcare, engineering, and architecture, including presentations at each of the Collaborating Across Borders conferences. She was invited to speak on collaborative learning environments at the 2012 Nobel Forum Conference in Stockholm. In addition to these IPE activities, Dr. Lamb has been PI and Co-PI on numerous research and education projects in the related area of care coordination. She serves on several national interprofessional committees on quality and care coordination at the National Quality Forum, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Currently, she is a consultant on three HRSA funded projects on interprofessional education.
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President’s Grant
2013
Building a Core of Interdisciplinary, Interactive, Medical Educators by a Process of Transformation
Hofstra University
This award is to support a project titled, “Building a Core of Interdisciplinary, Interactive, Medical Educators by a Process of Transformation”. The purpose of this project is to provide competency-based, peer-assessment and self-assessment tools to develop “master transformative educators” in one of the new and developing medical schools. The tools will be broadly applicable to small group teaching in other medical and health professional schools.
Principal Investigator: Patrick Gannon, PhD
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President’s Grant
2013
GWish/Macy Foundation Interprofessional Reflection Rounds (G-MIPRR)
George Washington University
This award will help address the lack of compassion in patient care caused by clinician burnout, empathy decline, and loss of “authentic” self, which begins during professional formation. This problem can be addressed by integrating personal professional formation into the mainstream rounding for clinical medical students as is currently done in Reflection Rounds at George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) in partnership with the Templeton Foundation. Interprofessional spiritual rounds will be piloted in a network of Macy-supported institutions.
Principal Investigator: Christina Puchalski
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Board Grant
2013
Thematic Issue and Briefing On Creating The Optimal Health Care Work Force
Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs since May 2008 and health analyst for the PBS NewsHour. Formerly on-air health correspondent for PBS NewsHour. Elected member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations; fellow of the Hastings Center on biomedical ethics and the U.S. National Academy of Social Insurance; member of the board of directors of Research!America and board of overseers of the International Rescue Committee. Graduate of Dartmouth College in the United States; chair emerita of Dartmouth Board of Trustees; member, board of overseers, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
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President’s Grant
2013
Physician Advocacy Curriculum
Physicians for Social Responsibility
This award is to develop and pilot an advocacy curriculum for medical student advocacy groups and allow for co-ordination and use of the modules by other student organizations such as Physicians for a National Health Plan, Physicians for Human Rights and American Medical Student Association.
Principal Investigator: Catherine Thomasson, MD Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility Dr. Thomasson has been teaching and working with medical students for decades. She has worked with PSR for three years as ED and has actively taught advocacy skills.