NIH Awardees and Projects Funded in FY 2022*

Suzanne Bakken, PhD

  • Reaching Communities through the Design of Information Visualizations (ReDIVis) Toolbox for Return of COVID-19 Results (Adriana Arcia)

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? 

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD 

  • Translating an Evidence-based Urban Asthma Program for Rural Adolescents: Testing Effectiveness & Cost-effectiveness and Understanding Factors Associated with Implementation 
  • The Efficacy of CAMP Air, a Web-based Asthma Intervention, Among Urban Adolescents with Uncontrolled Asthma 

Billy Caceres, PhD 

  • Examining associations of sexual identity, life experiences, and cardiovascular disease risk in sisters 

Kylie Dougherty, PhD candidate 

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

Leah Estrada, PhD candidate 

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Palliative Care Services and Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations at End-of-Life in Nursing Homes Nationwide 

Maureen George, PhD 

  • Contextualizing Asthma Self-Management with Measures of Indoor Air Quality for Black Adults with Uncontrolled Asthma 
  • The Development and Pilot Testing of a Caregiver-Child Shared Decision-Making Intervention to Improve Asthma in Urban Youth (Jean-Marie Bruzzese)
  • 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 

  • Preparing for pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation in Central-Eastern European Countries with low access to biomedical prevention (John Pachankis) 
  • Building mobile HIV prevention and mental health support in low-resource settings (John Pachankis) 
  • 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 Browne)

Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD 

  • Randomized comparison of the clinical Outcome of single versus Multiple Arterial grafts: Cognition (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) 

Lusine Poghosyan, PhD 

  • Home Based Primary Care for Persons Living with Dementia: Nurse Practitioner Teams and Outcomes (Zainab Osakwe)
  • Care for Persons With Dementia in Nurse Practitioner Practices and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (two grants: a parent award and a supplement) 

Rebecca Schnall, PhD 

  • CHAMPS: A randomized trial of a Community Health Worker intervention for persons living with HIV in two high priority settings (Scott Batey)
  • Examining Social Ecological and Network Factors to Assess Epidemiological Risk in a Large National Cohort of Cisgender Women (Amy Johnson, Mirjam-Colette Kempf)
  • Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (Suzanne Bakken)
  • 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)
  • Development and Testing of MyPEEPS Mobile for Young Transgender Men (Robert Garofalo)
  • mLab App for Improving Uptake of rapid HIV self-testing and Linking Youth to Care (Robert Garofalo)
  • Development and Pilot Testing of a Just in Time Mobile Smoking Cessation Intervention for Persons living with HIV (Ming-Chun Huang)
  • Mentoring and Research in Self-Management for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 

Jingjing Shang, PhD 

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

Katherine South, PhD candidate 

  • Expectations and Outcomes of Healthcare Transition in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis 

Patricia Stone, PhD 

  • Center for Improving Palliative Care for Vulnerable Adults with MCC (CIPC) (Jingjing Shang)
  • Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists (Lusine Poghosyan)

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD 

  • Data-driven shared decision-making to reduce symptom burden in atrial fibrillation 

Sarah Zollweg, PhD candidate 

  • The Influence of Multilevel Minority Stress on Hazardous Drinking among Sexual Minority Women 

* Awardees listed are contact Principal Investigators, per NIH Reporter FFY22 data. Multiple PIs are noted in parenthesis.