Holiday Award Season!
It’s been another successful proposal season at MHRI with several
new federal and foundation awards as well as commercial contracts all within the last quarter of the year. I would like
to extend a BIG congratulation to the investigators below for their recent
accomplishments. It’s wonderful to see how their science will extend from the
bench to the bedside to the community and ultimately make healthcare safer,
better and more accessible. From a new PCORI contact to a high profile CDC
study to a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award to an impressive
AHRQ R01, the studies below all represent truly innovative and transformative
research at the most elite level. To all investigators – thank you for your
hard work and contributions to research across MedStar!
Kathryn A. Walker, PharmD, will
be leading a project with Abt Associates to develop a coordinated care plan for
safe opioid prescribing for U.S. health systems. As part of the contract,
awarded to Abt Associates by the CDC, MedStar will become the first healthcare
system in the nation to develop, pilot and test a safe opioid prescribing plan
which will then be available as a guide for any health care provider or system
to implement in their practice. MedStar’s subcontract is for an 18 month
period.
Sarah E. Henrickson Parker, PhD, Research Scientist at the National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare was recently awarded an 18 month grant titled “Leveraging the informal social networks that exist in health care settings to improve patient safety” from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. More information about the grant can be found here: http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/grant-records/2014/07/leveraging-the-informal-social-networks-that-exist-in-health-car.html
Rollin J. "Terry" Fairbanks, MD, MS, director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and director of the Simulation Training & Education Laboratory (MedStar SiTEL), emergency physician at MWHC, and associate professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University received an AHRQ R01 award for “Cognitive Engineering for Complex Decision Making & Problem Solving in Acute Care.” This five year, $2.5 million award is being lead by Dr. Fairbanks and his co-PI Zach Hettinger, MD MS, Medical Director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, emergency physician at Union Memorial, and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University, and continues a productive collaboration with the department of industrial systems engineering at the University at Buffalo. This grant is a follow-on to work the team completed as part of Dr. Fairbanks' NIH K08 career development award from the NIBIB which ended recently.
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