Currently Funded Grants and Contracts

By VUSN Communications
October 9, 2018

Research Grants

Susie Adams
Child Protective Services Assessment Track Training Academy
VUMC — State of Tennessee
7/1/2018–6/30/2023
$147,727

Michelle Collins
Use of Nitrous Oxide During Labor and Birth & Perinatal Outcomes, Development of a U.S. Repository of Nitrous Use
Porter Instrument Division — Parker Hannifin Corporation
1/2014–10/2018
$44,100

Terrah Foster Akard
Impact of a Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)-Supported Legacy Interventions in Pediatric Palliative Care
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Nursing Research
9/26/2014–6/30/2019
$1,857,880

Leanne Boehm
Collaborative Assessment of ICU Recovery Needs (CAIRN)
VUMC — Society of Critical Care Medicine/National Institutes of Health
10/1/2017–9/30/2018
$17,476

Leanne Boehm
Vanderbilt Scholars in T4 Translational Research
(V-STTaR) Program
VUMC — National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
9/1/2018–8/31/2021
$460,500

Mary Dietrich
Mitigating ACEs in Pediatric Primary Care and a Home Visiting Program
State of Tennessee
7/17/2017–6/30/2019
$6,749

Mary Dietrich
Establishing Lymphedema and Fibrosis Measures in Oral Cancer Patients
University of Pennsylvania — National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
3/1/2018–2/28/2019
$313,070

Mary Jo Gilmer
Canines and Childhood Cancer Animal-assisted Therapy
Zoetis Animal Health
7/1/2014–12/31/2018
$125,582

Jennifer Kim
RCT to Deprescribe for Older Patients with Polypharmacy Transferred from the Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facilities
VUMC — National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging
11/1/2016–10/31/2020
$118,743

Ruth Kleinpell
Demonstrating the Outcomes of NP Care Using a National Collaborative
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
8/1/2017–12/31/2018
$3,000

Jana Lauderdale & Michelle Collins
Barriers to Initiating or Completing the HPV Vaccine Series: Perceptions of Hispanic and African American Women of Childbearing Age
Vanderbilt Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
10/1/2018–6/30/2019
$3,473

Kanah Lewallen
RCT to Deprescribe for Older
Patients with Polypharmacy
Transferred from the Hospital o Skilled Nursing Facilities
VUMC — National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging
11/1/2016–10/31/2020
$100,946

Melanie Lutenbacher
Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program Evaluation RCT — Catholic Charities
Tennessee Dept. of Health Services
10/1/2017–6/30/2019
$306,828

Ann Minnick
AANA Foundation Postdoctoral Health Services Research Award
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
10/1/2016–9/30/2018
$27,675

Shelagh Ann Mulvaney
Increasing HPV Vaccine Uptake In Community-based Pediatric Practices
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute
12/1/2017–11/30/2018
$18,741

Julia Phillippi
Interpersonal Perinatal Consults to Improve Communication Quality, Satisfaction and Team Cohesion
Health and Human Services Administration/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
4/1/2018–3/31/2020
$421,023

Bethany Rhoten
Body Image and Functional Status in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
VUMC/Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — American Cancer Society
12/31/2017–12/30/2018
$30,000

Sheila Ridner
A Randomized Trial Evaluating Bioimpedence Spectroscopy Versus Tape Measurement in the Prevention of Lymphedema Following Locoregional Treatment for Breast Cancer
ImpediMed, Inc.
6/1/2015–5/31/2019
$1,431,741

Sheila Ridner
Pilot Study to Evaluate the Feasibility and Potential Effectiveness of the Flexitouch System Head and Neck Treatment
Tactile Medical
8/15/2017–9/30/2018
$324,649

Deonni Stolldorf
Implementing and Sustaining Complex Interdisciplinary Healthcare Interventions:
Learning from Medication Reconciliation
Health and Human Services Administration/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
9/30/2017–9/29/2020
$424,270

Nonresearch

Rolanda Johnson & Mavis Schorn
Summer Professional Immersion in Nursing (SPIN)
Promise of Nursing Grant Program
Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association and Tennessee Hospital Association
12/14/2017–12/31/2018
$20,000

Linda Norman
Nurse Faculty Loan Program (EO1)
Health and Human Services Administration/Health Resources and Services Administration
7/1/2018–6/30/2019
$1,283,679

Bonita Pilon
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Behavioral Health Integration into the Mercury Courts Model
Health and Human Services Administration/Health Resources and Services Administration
7/1/2017–6/30/2019
$999,101

Clinical-Community Partnerships Grants

Susie Adams
“Health Care Trust” Scales for Use in Adult Women at The Next Door — a Community-based Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core
7/1/2017–12/31/2018
$10,000

Leah Branam
Collective Impact through Community Health Initiatives
United Way of Metro Nashville
7/1/2018–6/30/2019
$89,500

Carrie Plummer
Medical-Legal Partnership: Counseling and Assistance to Seniors about Advance Care Plans and Powers of Attorney
West End Home Foundation
1/5/2018–12/31/2018
$49,000

Currently Funded Grants and Contracts

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