Grants & You Summer 2019: Grants Funded - Congratulations!

External Grant Awarded:

**Joy H. Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, Kate Whelihan, MPH, SOMA Public Health, and Curt Bay, PhD, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Building Capacity in FQHCs to Improve Postpartum Diabetes Screening" (National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Prime, Sub to SOMA), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, $6,750, January 2019 – July 2019.

**Joy H. Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, Kate Whelihan, MPH, SOMA Public Health, Curt Bay, PhD, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, and J. Michael Menke, PhD, A.T. Still Research Institute, “Dissemination of the Cancer Screening Transformation Project" (NACHC Prime, Sub to SOMA), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, $20,000, January – July 2019.

**Joy Lewis, DO, PhD, FACP, Curt Bay, PhD, J. Aaron Allgood, DO, and Kate Whelihan, MPH, SOMA Public Health, “Million Hearts: Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes in Primary Care" (NACHC Prime, Sub to SOMA), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, $30,000, February – July 2019.

*Rupal S. Vora, MD, FACP, SOMA, and Lise McCoy, EdD, SOMA Medical Humanities, “Pathways to Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in the Nation’s Health Centers: Creating Master Adaptive Learners Where the Need is Greatest,” Health Resources and Services Administration, Grants for Primary Care Training and Enhancement, $399,339, July 2019 – June 2020.

*Kelli Glaser, DO, FACOFP, Denise Sackett, DO, SOMA Clinical Science Education, and Valerie Sheridan, DO, FACOS, “Determining if a Required Online Graded Curriculum in the Clerkship Years Enhances Student Performance on National Standardized Exams,” American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, $3,500, July 2019 – December 2020.

External Grant Awarded:

*Keith Elmslie, PhD, KCOM Pharmacology, “Excitability of Afferents Evoking the Exercise Pressor Reflex" Year 10 (Penn State Prime, Sub to KCOM), National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01), $184,235, April 2019 – March 2020.

*DeEtta Jones, KCOM AHEC, “Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center" Year. 35, Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, $47,300, July 2019 − June 2020.

*Margaret Wilson, DO, KCOM Family Medicine, Preventative Medicine, and Community Health, “Preparing Primary Care Trainees to Transform Health Care Systems" Year 5, Health Resources and Services Administration, $239,187, July 2019 – June 2020.

Intramural Grant Awarded:

Warner/Fermaturo

Zulfiqar Ahmad, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Identification of Antimicrobial Peptide Inhibitors of E. coli ATP Synthase,” $10,000.

Yingzi Chang, MD, PhD, KCOM Pharmacology, “Role of β3-adrenergic Receptor in Vascular Injury-induced Neointima Formation,” $10,000.

External Grant Awarded:

*Patricia Inks, RDH, MS, MOSDOH St. Louis Dental Education & Oral Health Center, “Providing Education and Direct Dental Services to St. Louis Older Adults,” Marillac Mission Fund, $30,000, May 2019 – April 2020.

**Herbert Silva, DMD, MOSDOH St. Louis Dental Education & Oral Health Center, “MOSDOH Veterans Project (MVP): Phase 3,” Express Scripts Foundation, $25,769, August 2019 – July 2020.

External Grant Awarded:

*Wayne Cottam, DMD, MS, ASDOH, “Expanding Dental Workforce Training within Collaborative, Team-based Care Targeting FQHC/Underserved Populations" Year 10, Health Resources and Services Administration, $347,681, July 2019 – June 2020.

Maureen Perry, DDS, MPA, MAEd, ASDOH Advanced Care Clinic, “Ryan White Part A HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program" (Maricopa County of Arizona Prime, Sub to ASDOH), Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV AIDS Bureau, HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants, $215,000, March 2019 – February 2020.

External Grant Awarded:

*Tabitha Parent-Buck, AuD, ASHS Audiology, “Maricopa County Hearing Screening & Assistance Project,” Vitalyst Health Foundation, $150,288, July 2019 – June 2022.

Internal Grant Awarded:

Warner/Fermaturo

Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Alison Valier, PhD, ATC, and Michelle Weber, MS, ATC, ASHS Athletic Training and Kenny Lam, ScD, ATC, Curt Bay, PhD, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Science, “Reliability, Validity, and Responsiveness of the Concussion Quality of Life-Youth Patient Report Outcomes Instrument,” $10,000.