Grants & You: Fall 2023: Grants Funded & Grants Submitted

*Elton Bordenave, PhD, MEd, ATSU Center for Resilience in Aging, “CarePLaCe: Plan to Care, Learn to Care, Connect to Care,” US Department of Treasury (City of Phoenix Prime, Sub to ATSU), $400,000, April 2023 – December 2024.  

Dot Winslow, MFA, ATSU California Library, “Collection Equity Award,” National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Network of the National Library of Medicine (University of Washington Prime, Sub to ATSU), $1,500, May 2023 – April 2024.  

*Wayne Cottam, DMD, MS, and Robert Trombly, DDS, JD, ASDOH, “Supporting a Faculty Workforce to Prepare Compassionate Community-Minded Oral Health Healers,” Year 3, Health Resources & Services  Administration Bureau of Health Workforce, $194,817, September 2023 – August 2024.

*Tabitha Parent‐Buck, AuD, ASHS Audiology, “Maricopa County Hearing Screening & Assistance Project,”  Year 1, Vitalyst Health Foundation, $40,382, July 2023 – June 2024. 

*Michelle DiBaise, DHSc, PA‐C, DFAAPA, ASHS Physician Assistant Studies, Clinton Normore, MBA,  ATSU Diversity, and Deanna Hunsaker, DHEd, ATSU Enrollment Services, “Recruiting, Retaining, and Placing Disadvantaged Students as Primary Care Physician Assistants in Underserved Communities,” Year 4, Health Resources and Services Administration–Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students, $625,000, July 2023 – June 2024.  

*Saroj Misra, DO, FAAFP, FACOFP, KCOM AHEC, “MAHEC 2022-2027: A Statewide Network to Transform  Missouri's Health Workforce by Targeting the Needs of Rural and Underserved Communities,” Year 2, Health Resources & Services Administration, $1,152,613, September 2023 – August 2024.  

*Saroj Misra, DO, FAAFP, FACOFP, KCOM AHEC, “State Support for Missouri Area Health Education Centers  Network,” Year 6, Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, $485,000, June 2023 – May 2024.  

*Jane Clark, MPH, MCHES®, and Poonam Jain, BDS, MS, MPH, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “Improving Quality of Life: Oral Care for STL Older Adults (OCOA),” Year 1, St. Louis City Senior Fund, $249,984, July 2023 – June 2024

**Joy H. Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, Eboni Anderson, DHEd, MSW, MEd, Debosree Roy, PhD, SOMA Public  Health, and Curt Bay, PhD, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Million Hearts: Preventing Heart Attacks  and Strokes in Primary Care,” Year 6, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NACHC Prime, Sub to SOMA),  $30,000, August 2023 – July 2024.  

*Stephanie McGrew, MHA, ATSU Diversity, “Dreamline Pathways™: Inspiring and Nurturing Underrepresented Youth to Pursue a Career in Dentistry,” Delta Dental of Missouri, $99,994, January 2024 – December 2024. 

*Stephanie McGrew, MHA, ATSU Diversity, “Expanding ATSU's Dreamline Pathways™ Program,” Delta Dental Institute, $177,948, January 2024 – December 2024. 

*Scott Howell, DMD, MPH, Carleigh Canterbury, DDS, and Austin Shackelford, DMD, ASDOH Pre-Doc Education, “Using Teledentistry to Deliver Specialty Care to Low-Income Rural and Medically Underserved Urban Communities,” CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, $125,000, October 2023 – September 2024.

*Kenneth Lam, ScD, ATC, FNATA, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Recovery Optimization through Telemedicine Care (The R.O.T.C. Study),” Department of Defense (University of Nevada-Las Vegas Prime, Sub to ASHS), $309,395, October 2024 – March 2029. 

*Neal Chamberlain, PhD, FNAOME, KCOM Microbiology, “Characterization and Purification of Extracellular Staphylococcal Factors that Awaken Staphylococcal Persister Cells,” National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R15), $381,716, April 2024 – March 2027. 

*Jane Clark, MPH, MCHES®, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “Oral Care for Older Adults (OCOA): Improving Quality of Life for St. Louis Older Adults,” Marillac Mission Fund, $40,044, November 2023 – October 2024.

*Inder Raj S. Makin, MD, PhD, SOMA Basic Medical Science Education, Deborah M. Heath, DO, James F. Keane, DO, MEd, FACOI, FACP, SOMA Osteopathic Principles & Practice, Jonathon R. Kirsch, DO, KCOM Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Kellie C. Huxel Bliven, PhD, ATC, and R. Curtis Bay, PhD, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Noninvasive Multiparametric Characterization of Myofascial Pain Syndrome and its Response to Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment,” National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R01) (SOMA Prime, Sub to University of Cincinnati),  $3,456,967, April 2024 – March 2029. 

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