Research Announcements: Good & Great News and Online Training Modules

June 10, 2016

From the Center for Nursing Research...

Kudos to Debra Brandon and her entire research team for the submission of their NIH application entitled “Infant Feeding Tube Insertion Measurement Methods: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Patient Safety." This proposal requests funds for a four-year period with a start date of April 1, 2017. Dr. Leslie Parker, University of Florida, will be serve as PI in this multi PI proposal. Site agreements will be established with the University of Florida, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, The Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Colorado Denver, and Duke University Health Systems.
Kudos to Isaac Lipkus and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R21 application entitled "Increasing Physical Activity in Colorectal Cancer Survivors Using a Stepped-Care Design." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of April 1, 2017.
Kudos to Isaac Lipkus and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R21 application entitled "Effects of Messages of Harm and Ad Themes on Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Risk Appraisals, Attitudes, and Desire to Quit." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of April 1, 2017.

Congratulations to Allison Lewinski, and her faculty sponsor Constance Johnson, who has received an AWARD for her NIH NRSA F31 proposal entitled "Social Interaction and Support in a Type-2 Diabetes Computer Mediated Environment." This award is for an 18-month period, awarded July 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017. This project was awarded at $45,501 for the project period.

These training modules are offered from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and includes modules on "Sex and Gender in Biomedical Research," "Sex and Gender in Primary Data Collection with Humans" and "Sex and Gender in the Analysis of Data from Human Participants." Click here for more information.