Grants & You Newsletter Spring 2018: Grants Submitted - Good Luck!

*Joseph Creech, Jr., DDS, ASDOH, “ASDOH’s Pediatric Clinic Anesthesia Grant,” American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, $20,000, June 2018 – May 2019.

*Mai-Ly Duong, DMD, MPH, ASDOH Advanced Care Clinic, “Oral Cancer Prevention & Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)-related Oral Cancer,” Academy of General Dentistry Foundation, $5,000, April – September 2018.

*Joy Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, SOMA Public Health, Kelli Glaser, DO, FACOFP, SOMA Family & Community Medicine, and Valerie Sheridan, DO, FACOS, FACS, SOMA Clinical Education Department, “Leading and Teaching in the Nation’s Health Centers: The Primary Care Transformation Executive Fellowship,” Health Resources and Services Administration – Primary Care Training and Enhancement, $1,999,650, September 2018 – August 2023.

*Joy Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, Kate Whelihan, MPH, Earla White, PhD, MEd, SOMA Public Health, and Lise McCoy, EdD, SOMA Medical Humanities, “Reversing the Cycle of Opioid Pain Medication Misuse: Using Virtual Patient Simulation to Train Health Center Safety-net Providers,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R18), $2,000,000, October 2018 – September 2023.

*Tara McIsaac, PT, PhD, ASHS Physical Therapy, “Hippotherapy for Axial Symptoms and Amplitude-focus Exercise for Bradykinesia, Addressing Gait and Posture in People with Parkinson Disease,” Human Animal Bond Research Institute, $56,334, September 2018 – August 2021.

*Herbert Silva, DMD, MOSDOH St. Louis Dental Education & Oral Health Center, “MOSDOH Veterans Project (MVP): Phase 3,” Express Scripts Foundation, $25,769, June 2018 – May 2019.

*Zulfiqar Ahmad, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Selective Inhibition of ATP Synthase to Combat Drug Resistant Microbial Infections,” National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R15), $388,512, September 2018 – August 2021.