Grants & You Newsletter Summer 2017: Grants Submitted - Good Luck!

*Joy Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, and Kate Whelihan, MPH, SOMA Public Health, “Vaccination Capacity Inventory of Community Health Centers (National Association of Community Health Centers Prime, Sub to SOMA),” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $175,000, October 2017 – April 2018.

*Frederic Schwartz, DO, FACOFP, SOMA Clinical Science Education, “Serving, Teaching, and Learning Where the Need is Greatest, Year 2 (The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Prime, Sub to SOMA),” Health Resources and Services Administration – Primary Care Training Enhancement, $100,000, July 2017 – June 2018.

*Jack Dillenberg, DDS, MPH, ASDOH Dental, “Expanding Dental Workforce Training within Collaborative, Team-based Care Targeting FQHC/Underserved Populations, Year 8,” Health Resources and Services Administration, $344,928, July 2017 – June 2018.

**Yvette Thornton, RDH, MPH, and Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, ASDOH Integrated Community Service Partnership, and Justine Angeles, ASDOH D2, “Improving Oral Health of Children Through Innovative Dental Education and Active Learning,” Arizona Community Foundation (Arizona Public Service Grant), $4,349, July 2017 – June 2018.

**Yvette Thornton, RDH, MPH, and Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, ASDOH Integrated Community Service Partnership, and Cayla Ray, ASDOH D2, “Teen Pregnancy Outreach: Oral Health Education,” American Dental Association Foundation: Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children's Dental Health, $4,974, May 2017 – April 2018.

**James Lynskey, PT, PhD, ASHS Physical Therapy, “Assessing the Potential of Startle-evoked Movement to Enhance Upper Extremity Function Following Stroke (ASU Prime, Sub to ASHS),” National Institutes of Health (R01), $77,264, April 2018 – March 2023.

*Herbert Silva, DMD, MOSDOH St. Louis Clinic, “MOSDOH Veterans Project (MVP),” Oral Health Foundation of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, $9,600, January 2018 – December 2018.

*Zulfiqar Ahmad, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “ATP Synthase as a Therapeutic Molecular Drug Target,” National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Internal Medicine (R01), $1,611,276, April 2018 – March 2023.

*Janet Head, EdD, RN, MS, KCOM Area Health Education Center, “MAHEC 2017-2022: A Statewide Network for Interprofessional Health Care Workforce Development and Practice Transformation in Rural and Underserved Missouri,” Health Resources and Services Administration, $5,574,592, September 2017– August 2022.

*Tatyana Kondrashova, MD, PhD, KCOM Family/Preventive Medicine and Community Health, “Development of Guided Paracentesis Skills in Second, Third, and Fourth Year Osteopathic Medical Students and Residents Using a Paracentesis Ultrasound Training Model,” Northeast Missouri Osteopathic Charitable Trust, $9,353, July 2017 – June 2018.

**Robert Ligorsky, DO, KCOM Academic & Clinical Education Affairs, “Class of 2019: New Student Workshops in Hospital Medicine and Suture and Surgery,” Ethicon, $3,000, June – July 2017.

*Arielle Willis, KCOM Area Health Education Center, “Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center, Year 33,” Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, $53,250, July 2017 – June 2018.

*Margaret Wilson, DO, KCOM Dean, and Patricia Sexton, DHEd, FNAOME, KCOM Curriculum, “Preparing Primary Care Trainees to Transform Health Care Systems, Year 3,” Health Resources and Services Administration – Primary Care Training and Enhancement, $227,870, July 2017 – June 2018.

*Brian Degenhardt, DO, C-NMM/OMM, Jane Johnson, MA, and Geoffroey-Allen Franklin, MBA, ATSU Still Research Institute, “Digital Surveillance System of Patient- and Clinician-Reported Outcomes for Evaluating Effectiveness and Safety of Manual Therapy,” National Institutes of Health – National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R34), $601,431, April 2018 – March 2021.

*Debra Loguda-Summers, ATSU University Library, “Anatomy Models for the Missouri Campus Library,” Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association, $3,000, November 2017 – October 2018.