NIH Awardees and Projects Funded in FY 2023*

Gregory Alexander, PhD 

• Impact of Nursing Home Leadership Care Environments and Health Information Technology on Outcomes of Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) (Lusine Poghosyan) 

Veronica Barcelona, PhD 

• Epigenomic Pathways from Racism to Preterm Birth  

Natalie Benda, PhD 

• Maternal Outcome Monitoring and Support (MOMS): An Mhealth Symptom Self-monitoring and Decision Support System to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Outcomes 

Lauren Ann Bochicchio, PhD   

• Understanding the Individual and Combined Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Minority Stress on Hazardous Drinking among Sexual Minority Women: Is Emotion Dysregulation a Key Factor?  

Walter Bockting, PhD 

• Social Connectedness and Health among Gender Minority People of Color 

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD   

• The Efficacy of CAMP Air, a Web-based Asthma Intervention, Among Urban Adolescents with Uncontrolled Asthma 

Billy Caceres, PhD   

• A Daily Diary Examination of the Influence of Intersectional Stigma on Blood Pressure 

• Examining Associations of Sexual Identity, Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sisters 

Elizabeth Corwin, PhD 

• The Impact of a Culturally-based Live Music Intervention on the Metabolites and Metabolic Pathways Associated with Chronic Stress and the Risk of Preterm Birth in Black Women (Joanne Loewy) 

Kylie Dougherty, PhD candidate 

• Leveraging Informatics to Enhance the Obstetrics Emergency Supply Chain in Amhara, Ethiopia 

Maureen George, PhD   

• BREATHE: An Efficacy-implementation Trial of a Brief Shared Decision Making Intervention Among Black Adults With Uncontrolled Asthma in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC). 

Tonda Hughes, PhD  

• Stress, Hazardous Drinking and Intimate Partner Aggression in a Diverse Sample of Women and Their Partners 

Jung Kang, PhD candidate 

• Health Disparities in Timely Goals of Care Discussions and Hospitalizations Due to Infections in Nursing Home Residents 

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, PhD  

• Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: An All-facility Intervention to Reduce Structural Racism and Discrimination and Its Impact on Patient and Healthcare Staff Wellbeing (Felicia Brown) 

• Preparing for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in Central-Eastern European Countries With Low Access to Biomedical Prevention 

Sarah Leonard, PhD candidate 

• Weight Discrimination and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and their Peers 

Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD   

• Randomized Comparison of the Clinical Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts: Cognition (ROMA:Cog) (two grants: a parent award and a supplement) (Mario Gaudino, Richard Swartz) 

• Improve the Meaning of Patient Reported Outcomes to Evaluate Effectiveness for Cardiac Care (IMPROVE-Cardiac Care) 

Allison Norful, PhD 

• Physiologic Stress and Epigenetic Mechanisms that Precipitate Risk for Suicidal Behavior in Nurses 

Lusine Poghosyan, PhD   

• Care for Persons with Dementia in Nurse Practitioner Practices and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 

• Systems Science and Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists (S2CER2) (Patricia Stone) 

• Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Delivery to Address Social Determinants of Health and Reduce Health Disparities: A Mixed-methods National Study 

Rebecca Schnall, PhD   

• MyPEEPS Mobile Plus: A Multi-Level HIV Prevention Intervention for Young MSM (Robert Garofalo)  

• Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (two grants) (Suzanne Bakken) 

• Promoting Viral Suppression through the CHAMPS+ Intervention in the Deep South (David Batey) 

• Development and Testing of MyPEEPS Mobile for Young Transgender Men (Robert Garofalo) 

• Examining Social Ecological and Network Factors to Assess Epidemiological Risk in a Large National Cohort of Cisgender Women (Amy Kristen Johnson, Mirjam-Colette Kempf) 

• MyPEEPS Mobile LITE: Limited Interaction Efficacy Trial of MyPEEPS Mobile to Reduce HIV Incidence and Better Understand the Epidemiology of HIV among YMSM (Dustin Duncan, Robert Garofalo) 

• CHAMPS: A Randomized Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention for Persons Living With HIV in Two High Priority Settings (David Batey) 

Jingjing Shang, PhD   

• Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME) (Patricia Stone) 

• ImpAct of COVID-19 on CaRe TransitOns and Health OutcomeS for Vulnerable PopulationS in Nursing Homes and Home HealthCARE Agencies (ACROSS-CARE) (Patricia Stone) 

Patricia Stone, PhD   

• Health Disparities in Hospice in Nursing Homes (Lara Dhingra, Andrew Dick) 

Maxim Topaz, PhD 

• Using Automated Speech Processing to Improve Identification of Risk for Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Home Healthcare (Julia Hirschberg, Zoran Kostic) 

• Identifying and Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Home Healthcare: The ENGAGE Study (Scott Sittig, Jacquelyn Taylor) 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD   

• Data-driven Shared Decision-making to Reduce Symptom Burden in Atrial Fibrillation 

Maryam Zolnoori, PhD 

• Development of a Screening Algorithm for Timely Identification of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia in Home Healthcare 

* Awardees listed are contact Principal Investigators, per NIH Reporter FFY23 data. Multiple PIs are noted in parenthesis.