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*Satish Kumar, DMD, MDSc, MS, ASDOH Pre-Doc Education, “Supporting a Faculty Workforce to Prepare Compassionate Community-Minded Oral Health Healers” Year 4 plus supplemental funding, Health Resources & Services Administration Bureau of Health Workforce, $258,148, September 2024 – August 2025.
*Ann Spolarich, RDH, PhD, FSCDH, Maureen Perry, DDS, MPA, MAEd, and Seena Patel, DMD, MPH, ASDOH Administration and Advanced Care Clinic, “The Southwest EDRN Clinical Validation Center for Head and Neck Cancer” Year 2, National Institutes of Health–National Cancer Center (Arizona State University Prime, Sub to ASDOH), $136,285, August 2024 – July 2025.
*Brittney Hulsey, DMSc, MSPAS, MS, PA-C, 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 5 supplemental funding, Health Resources and Services Administration–Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students, $20,000, July 2024 – June 2025.
*Tabitha Parent-Buck, AuD, ASHS Audiology, “Maricopa County Hearing Screening & Assistance Project”
Year 2, Vitalyst Health Foundation, $40,382, July 2024 – June 2025.
*Vineet Singh, PhD, KCOM Microbiology, “Impacts of Host Lipid Composition on Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Staphylococcus aureus” Year 2 supplemental funding, National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01) (University of Georgia Prime, Sub to KCOM), $2,544, December 2023 – November 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 2, St. Louis City Senior Fund, $270,978, July 2024 – June 2025.
*Ammar Musawi, BDS, MDS, MPH, MOSDOH Administration, and Herbert Silva, DMD, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health Scholarship Program,” Health Resources and Services Administration (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Office of Dental Health Prime, Sub to MOSDOH), $40,000, June 2024 – August 2024.
*Heather Rudy, MA, ATSU Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, “Collection Mobile Storage Project,” Institute of Museum and Library Services, $134,638, September 2024 – August 2025.
*Virginia Young, PhD, SOMA Basic Medical Science Education, LeAnn Allgood, MD, SOMA Anatomy, and Eboni Anderson, DHEd, MSW, MEd, SOMA Public Health, “Diversity Beyond the Numbers: How Mission-Oriented Recruiting and Holistic Admissions Review Promotes URM Enrollment in Medical Education,” American Medical Association, $40,000, July 2024–June 2026.
*Elton Bordenave, PhD, MEd, ATSU Center for Resilience in Aging, “Memory Cafe Meets CarePLaCe: A Collaboration to Engage Individuals with Dementia and Empower Care Partners,” CVS Health Foundation, $1,000,000, October 2024 – October 2029.
*Brian Degenhardt, DO, C-NMM/OMM, A.T. Still Research Institute, “GUIDE (Generating Understanding in Complementary and Integrative Health Research),” National Institutes of Health–National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U24) (Duke University Prime, Sub to ATSU), $783,660, April 2025 – March 2030.
*Sumitra Miriyala, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “Mitigating Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Cancer Survivors: Early Doxorubicin and Adult Stress Effects,” American Heart Association, $200,000, January 2025 – December 2026.
*Saroj Misra, DO, FAAFP, FACOFP, KCOM Clinical Affairs, and Teresa Leatherman, MHA, KCOM AHEC, “MAHEC 2022-2027: A Statewide Network to Transform Missouri's Health Workforce by Targeting the Needs of Rural and Underserved Communities” Year 3, Health Resources and Services Administration, $1,125,404, September 2024 – August 2025.
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