Grants & You Spring 2021: Grants Submitted - Good Luck!

*Brandi Buchanan, OTD, OTR/L, Lori Reynolds, PhD, OTR/L, and Elton Bordenave, PhD, MEd, ATSU Center for Resilience in Aging, “Assessment of an Innovative Care Management Program for Caregivers of Older Adults,” American Occupational Therapy Foundation, $49,421, July 2021 – June 2022.

*Priscilla L. Phillips, PhD, KCOM Microbiology, and Richard J. Vargo, DMD, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “The Interaction of Pregnancy and Periodontal Pathogens on the Oral Metabolome,” National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R15), $398,311, September 2021 – August 2024.

**Lisa Archer, RN, KCOM Medical Education, “Nursing Education Incentive Program (Truman State University Prime, Sub to KCOM),” Missouri Division of Professional Registration, State Board of Nursing, $7,000, June 2021 – May 2023.

**Inder Makin, MD, PhD, SOMA Basic Medical Science, “Photothermal Biomaterials for Tissue Repair (ASU Prime, Sub to SOMA),” National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01), $326,249,
September 2021 – August 2025.

*Bernard Muriithi, PhD, OTR/L, and Jyothi Gupta, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, ASHS Occupational Therapy, “Improving Resilience, Well-being, and Quality of Life Among Adult Refugee Immigrants: A Pilot Study Exploring the Clinical Utility of Occupational Resilience as a Frame of Reference,” American Occupational Therapy Foundation, $50,000, July 2021 – June 2022.

**Kenneth Lam, ScD, ATC, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, and Cailee Welch Bacon, PhD, ATC, ASHS Athletic Training Program, “Optimization Through Telemedicine (ROTC) (UNLV Prime, Sub to ASHS),” Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, $231,174,
January 2022 – December 2023.