Research Projects & Awards
Current R01 Projects
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) highly sought Research Project grant — commonly known as the ‘R01’ — is one of the most competitive grants in health-related research. In 2018, less than 18% of applications for R01 grants received funding.
For this reason, the UNC School of Nursing is especially proud that a number of our researchers’ innovative projects have been chosen by the NIH to receive R01 grant awards. With long-term vision and results-oriented project design, our faculty are leading in the creation of new knowledge and development of best practices that improve the quality of life for individuals across the lifespan.
A Safer Assisted Living: Creating a Toolkit for Person and Family Engagement
Principal Investigator: Anna Beeber, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Many aging individuals and their families choose assisted living communities for a variety of support services: round-the-clock supervision, meal preparation, assistance with personal care and medication management. Assisted living care can help individuals remain as independent as possible as they age and require more support. However, it is a common challenge for assisted living communities to support residents’ independence and equally maintain their safety. One way to achieve this balance is through encouraging engagement by the resident and family in their care.
The primary focus of the Engage study, developed and directed by Anna Beeber, is to create a toolkit that helps residents and families to get more involved in assisted living care. The study also explores how to make this toolkit usable by assisted living providers. The Engage toolkit is designed around person and family engagement (PFE), which enables assisted living communities to proactively partner with residents and their families to enhance the safety of their living environments.
Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention with Hispanic Mothers and their Young Children
Principle Investigator: Diane Berry, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute for Nursing Research
While it is well documented that obesity contributes to cardiometabolic disease and other chronic illnesses, little has been done to find real-world approaches to reducing obesity that work best for Hispanic women and their children. Practical solutions to confront the health risks associated with obesity are urgently needed to decrease morbidity and mortality, and to reduce health care costs for a population that already faces devastating health inequities.
Diane Berry’s 12-week community-based program for local Hispanic women and their 3-5-year-old children provides relatable nutrition and exercise education, ways to increase physical activity at home and training for developing healthy coping mechanisms to manage stress. This study could lead to an easy-to-replicate intervention that communities could implement within their Hispanic populations to help mothers maintain a healthy weight and change the trajectory for children at risk of becoming obese.
The Harmony Study – A culturally-relevant, randomized-controlled, stress management intervention to reduce cardiometabolic risk in African American
Principal Investigator: Cheryl Woods Giscombe, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
African American women have disproportionately high rates of disability and death from chronic cardiometabolic illnesses — including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke — compared to other groups of women in the U.S. Gender- and race-specific factors that lead to elevated risk for cardiometabolic illnesses have been historically understudied for African American women, and Giscombe and her team are setting out to change that.
This study for African American women with elevated cardiometabolic risk — those who are overweight or have a family history, for example — will test how culturally relevant social support, stress management and mindfulness tools will reduce their risk before they actually develop the disease. By addressing factors that may impact their risk, and helping participants develop healthier eating habits and increase physical activity, this project could ultimately lead to cardiometabolic risk reduction and better health outcomes for African American women.
NC Works4Health: Reducing Chronic Disease Risks in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, Unemployed Populations
Principal Investigator: Shawn M. Kneipp, PhD, RN, ANP, PHNA-BC, FAANP
Funded by: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Health disparities faced by those living in poverty can be exacerbated by the realities of unemployment — a period of stress and worry that can trigger a host of unhealthy coping mechanisms. These behaviors can lead to weight gain, high blood pressure and psychological distress, which are all common risk factors for the development of chronic diseases.
Shawn Kneipp is revising existing prevention programs that can be paired with employment assistance programs and job placement services and developing ways employers can make a positive impact on the health of vulnerable employees. In partnership with key stakeholders across health, social service, employment, and economic development sectors, findings from this study will not only advance the science of chronic disease prevention for this vulnerable target population, but also inform public health and community efforts to address social determinants of health and reduce the burden of chronic disease.
Genetic and Epigenetic Effects on Childhood Cognitive Trajectories
Principal Investigator: Hudson Santos, PhD, RN
Funded by: National Institute of Nursing Research
Children born extremely preterm exhibit much higher rates of cognitive function impairment— such as trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating or making decisions — during early childhood and through to adulthood when compared to those born full-term. Ranging from mild to severe, cognitive function impairment can significantly impact an individual’s day-to-day life.
Hudson Santos’s study will examine relationships among gene variants, DNA methylation, neonatal inflammation and developmental trajectories of cognitive function in extremely preterm children from ages 2 to 17 years. This study will be among the first to identify genetic and epigenetic factors that can be used to determine a child’s risk level, as well as molecular processes that can be the targets of early risk-mitigating interventions to improve quality of life for children born extremely preterm.
Efficacy of a Couple-focused, Tailored, Symptom Self-Management mHealth Intervention for Prostate Cancer Patients and Partners
Principal Investigator: Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institutes of Nursing Research
Curative treatment for prostate cancer may save lives, but its side effects can be hard on the quality of life of both the patients and their intimate partners. Survivors may experience urinary, sexual, bowel and hormonal problems, general distress, pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances — which can disrupt intimacy and create stress for both survivors and partners. As partners are often also caregivers, including their participation in survivorship care is vital to the couple’s quality of life.
Lixin Song sought to create an online, couple-focused program as a convenient, cost-effective way for couples to develop strategies together that can help them manage the negative effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Song’s interdisciplinary team is pilot-testing the efficacy of an evidence-based, tailored mobile health (mHealth) intervention that could serve as a model everywhere for couples facing other types of chronic illnesses as they work to maintain strong relationships and regain their quality of life as a team.
Symptom Trajectories in Infants and Toddlers at Risk for Chronic Feeding Problems
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Thoyre, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institutes of Nursing Research
It is not uncommon for infants who spend time in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) — whether due to illness or prematurity — to struggle with developmental complications such as feeding. For some, that problematic feeding issue will escalate into a full-blown chronic feeding disorder that continues into childhood and jeopardizes health. Detecting symptoms indicative of a disorder early on and finding ways to manage those symptoms could improve outcomes.
Suzanne Thoyre is working to identify and recognize the early signs of feeding disorders before they progress into worsening problems. By following a group of former NICU babies for two years, and assessing their feeding skills, behaviors and family environments, she is finding the link between early symptoms of problematic feeding and the subsequent behaviors that signal a disorder. Such discovery will lead to targeted interventions that can bypass bigger problems before they start and improve the health outcomes for these children.
Connect-Home: Testing the Efficacy of Transitional Care of Patients and Caregivers during Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facilities to Home
Principal Investigator: Mark Toles, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health
Each year, 1.6 million older adults receive care in a hospital, followed by a short stay in a nursing home. After the transition back home, these patients and their caregivers often lack the knowledge, skill and support required to manage the older adults’ serious illnesses. It is no surprise that about half of these individuals return to the hospital or die within three months.
Mark Toles’ research suggests that more intentional care surrounding the transition to home-based care saves lives. Toles is conducting a randomized and controlled trial of his successfully piloted Connect-Home intervention in nursing homes and home care offices across North Carolina. Connect-Home includes creating an individualized transition care plan and implementing the plan at home. This intervention has the potential to improve the lives of seriously ill older adults and reduce the burdens on caregivers.
Promoting stretching exercise to reduce cardiovascular health risk in late pregnant women with obesity
Principal Investigator: SeonAe Yeo, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute for Nursing Research
For most pregnant women, regular aerobic exercise — as much as 30 minutes, five days a week — is a recommended part of a healthy pregnancy. In fact, a sedentary lifestyle during pregnancy can put both mother and baby at risk for complications such as preeclampsia, which is a significant contributor to cardiovascular disease later in life. However, due to fatigue and discomfort, exercise naturally becomes more difficult in the later months of pregnancy.
SeonAe Yeo’s project tests how stretching exercises may be the key to promoting health and preventing complications when pregnant women are starting to feel less mobile. In sedentary, overweight pregnant women with a history of preeclampsia, 10 or more weeks of stretching exercise reduced their risk of preeclampsia by lowering blood pressure and enhancing antioxidant uptake. As many pregnant women from underserved groups are at risk for obesity, stretching exercise is a practical, cost-effective prenatal regimen they can stick with.
Other NIH Research
CARE-PARTNER ASSISTED INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MILD DEMENTIA
Principal Investigator: Ruth Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | U01 Grant with Multiple Principal Investigators
Individuals living with dementia — a common chronic disease in older adults — have significantly poorer oral health than cognitively intact older adults. Maintaining good oral hygiene is a critical step in preventing deterioration of oral health and general overall health for persons with living with dementia. This innovative intervention will help participants and care partners carry out a cooperative oral hygiene care plan to prevent deterioration of oral health, which in turn will help the individuals independently complete their daily activities and maintain their quality of life. Dr. Anderson is a principal investigator with Dr. Bei Wu from New York University and Dr. Brenda Plassman at Duke Univeristy.
MEDICAL OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PREGNANCIES WITH OVERT TYPE 2 DIABETES (MOMPOD)
Principal Investigator: Dianne Berry, PHD, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | R01 Grant with Multiple Principal Investigators
Over 100,000 pregnant women with overt type 2 diabetes give birth in the United States every year, and strict maternal glycemic control is the key to improving infant
outcomes. Currently, over one-third of infants born to women with type 2 diabetes experience an adverse outcome, such as premature delivery, large-for-gestational age, or birth trauma, suggesting that current treatment regimens fall short of optimizing outcomes. The long-range goal of this study is to optimize maternal and infant outcomes by studying the efficacy and safety of metformin — the pharmacologic treatment of choice for type 2 diabetes outside of pregnancy — for treatment of type 2 diabetes among pregnant women. Dr. Berry is a principal investigator with Dr. Kim Boggess at the UNC School of Medicine.
INFLAMMATORY MARKERS, HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS
Principal Investigator: Jada Brooks, PhD, MPSH, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | K23 Grant
American Indian women experience particularly high rates of illness and death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Reducing this burden requires addressing preventable factors in the physical and psychosocial environment that are known to be important for the inflammatory responses involved in CVD, however, there is little evidence about the roles of environmental pollutant exposures and psychosocial factors in shaping immunologic function in American Indian women. This study proposes to address inflammation as a potential biological pathway linking environmental pollutant exposure and psychosocial factors to CVD in American Indian women.
PLACENTAL DNA METHYLATION, MATERNAL HARDSHIP AND CHILD NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES
Principal Investigator: Hudson Santos, PhD, RN
Funded by: National Institute for Nursing Research | K23 Grant
Children born extremely preterm may experience impairment of the growth and development of their brain and central nervous system. DNA methylation is a biological process that can change the activity of a DNA segment, and this study will determine how that process relates to maternal hardship and neurodevelopmental impairment in extremely preterm children with an ultimate goal toward preventing or minimizing that impairment. By providing the groundwork to inform future interventions, this research could lead to improved quality of life for the 16,500 families with a child surviving extremely premature birth annually in the US.
PLACENTAL ORIGINS OF POSITIVE CHILD HEALTH
Principal Investigator: Hudson Santos, PhD, RN
Funded by: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | R03 Grant
Despite many challenges early in life, some children born extremely preterm experience no negative outcomes and have a good quality of life. The biological mechanisms that lead to positive health outcomes among extremely preterm children are not well-understood, however, we do know that placental biology plays a key role in determining child health. In this study, Dr. Santos’ team will integrate multi-omics placental data and genotype to identify molecular pathways early in life that can inform the design of therapies to increase the likelihood of positive child health, thus decreasing healthcare costs and improving quality of life across the lifespan for thousands of children born extremely preterm worldwide.
INTERVENTIONS FOR PREVENTING AND MANAGING CHRONIC ILLNESS
Principal Investigator: Sheila Santacroce, Phd, RN, APRN, CPNP
Funded by: National Institute for Nursing Research | T32 Grant
To reduce the burden of chronic illness, prevention and management interventions must be effective, adopted and implemented with accuracy, and reach those at greatest risk for greater illness burden and poorer outcomes. Yet, many research-tested interventions are slow to translate into practice. This pre- and postdoctoral training program emphasizes six methods to speed translation into practice: stakeholder engagement, patient-centered outcomes, mixed-method approaches, intervention optimization and sequential multiple randomized trial (SMART) designs, pragmatic trial designs, and implementation science strategies. All trainees also receive training in the responsible conduct of research.
AURA—CONNECTING AUDIO AND RADIO SENSING SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE CARE AT HOME
Principal Investigator: Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN
Funded by: National Library of Medicine | R01 with Multiple Principal Investigators
A collaboration with Dr. Shahriar Nirjon and Dr. Mohit Bansal in the UNC Department of Computer Science, this project will leverage the existing novel web-based intervention PRISMS (PI: Song, funded by the NCI Cancer Alliance) and the audio-based voice assistant devices, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home to optimize the personalized intervention for post-surgical cancer patients and their family caregivers. By combining audio and radio sensing, the audio-based voice assistant devices will gather relevant patient information automatically and interactively, and store patients’ health records in an electronic system used by the entire care team, including the patient, family members, caregivers and healthcare providers at remote sites. While this project will study the performance of AURA when used in the homes of post-surgery cancer patients, AURA is designed to help recovering patients in a wide range of scenarios.
OPTIMIZING A DYADIC PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTION FOR HISPANICS WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS AND THEIR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SUPPORTER
Principal Investigator: Sandra Soto, PhD, MPH, BSN
Funded by: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | K01 Grant
Hispanic individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) have disproportionately high rates of joint pain, functional limitations, and work limitations compared to non-Hispanics. Physical activity can help relieve these symptoms; however, most Hispanics with OA are not sufficiently active. In this study, Dr. Soto’s team will develop and test dyadic intervention components and their impact on the physical activity of Hispanic individuals with OA. By creating culturally sensitive interventions for Hispanic patients with OA, Dr. Soto and her team hope to improve health behaviors and relieve symptoms, which will in turn prevent and manage chronic diseases.
PATIENT-REPORTED SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME IN PREHOSPITAL CARDIAC CARE
Principal Investigator: Jessica Zègre-Hemsey, PHD, RN
Funded by: National Institute of Nursing Research | K23 Grant
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS), a condition brought on by a sudden reduction or blockage of blood flow to the heart, is a potential life-threatening emergency that depends on rapid diagnosis and life-saving reperfusion therapies to prevent devastating outcomes such as heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Patient-reported symptoms and early physiological changes (e.g., ECG) have not yet been well described in the period leading up to hospitalization. This research will provide new insight about symptoms and ECG very early in ACS and their association with patient and clinical outcomes, which can then inform the development of new interventions for better clinical decision-making and long-term outcomes for this vulnerable population.
REDUCING CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN PERIMENOPAUSAL LATINAS: PILOT STUDY OF A MULTI- COMPONENT INTERVENTION
Principal Investigator: Yamnia I. Cortés, PhD, MPH, FNP
Funded by:National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | K23 Grant
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death among women, and risk of CVD increases substantially during the menopause transition, a midlife stage beginning 4 to 10 years before a the final menstrual period. Increasing evidence suggests that Latinas have a significantly higher risk of developing CVD than non-Latina White women, which can be attributed to multiple sociocultural and environmental factors, including lower socioeconomic position, discrimination and stress. This study will examine whether a community health worker-led behavioral intervention consisting of cardiovascular health education, physical activity, coping skills training, and stress management will reduce CVD risk in midlife Latinas.
A NURSE-LED PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE INTERVENTION FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED ADULTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
Principal Investigator: Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Nursing Research | R34 Grant
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a disease of older adults, with a median age at diagnosis of sixty eight and five-year survival rate of 28%. After diagnosis, adults with AML depend on their caregivers for support and care from home, but often caregivers lack the knowledge and skill required to manage the older adults’ serious illness. This funding will be used to plan and develop a nurse- led palliative and collaborative care (PACT) study, which will prepare caregivers to deliver palliative and supportive care, ultimately increasing patients’ chances of returning home after treatment and leading to better quality of life.
DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE U01 PROJECT-CARE PARTNER ASSISTED INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH FOR PERSONS WITH MILD DEMENTIA
Principal Investigator: Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, FAAN
Funded by: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | U01 Grant Supplement
This diversity supplement to Dr. Ruth Anderson’s U01 project, Care-Partner Assisted Intervention to Improve Oral Health for Individuals with Mild Dementia, will expand Dr. Bryant’s understanding of theory-based interventions, dissemination and implementation science, care partners research, and intervention delivery in community settings. At completion of this supplement, Dr. Bryant will have acquired the necessary skills to submit a R01 testing an adaptive leadership framework intervention in adults and their care partners with acute myeloid leukemia in the clinic and community setting.
All Currently Funded Research
External Funding
| Principal Investigator | Project Ttitle | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Ruth Anderson | Care-Partner Assisted Intervention to Improve Oral Health for Individuals with Mild Dementia | NYU/NIH/NIDCR |
| Dr. Ruth Anderson | The Influence of Context on Implementation and Improvement (ICII) project | Subcontract: University of Alberta |
| Dr. Ruth Anderson | Optimizing Antimicrobial Use in Maintenance Dialysis Units (OPTIMUS) | Subcontract: Rhode Isand Hopsital |
| Dr. Anna Beeber | A Safer Assisted Living: Creating a Toolkit for Person and Family Engagement | AHRQ |
| Dr. Linda Beeber | Improving Maternal and Child Outcomes for Vulnerable Infants, Toddlers and Families: National Implementation of a Mental Health Innovation (MHI) to the Nurse Family Partnership | Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation |
| Dr. Diane Berry | Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention with Hispanic Mothers and their Young Children | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Diane Berry and Kim Boggess | Medical Optimization and Management of Pregnancies with Overt Type 2 Diabetes (MOMPOD) | NIH/NICHD |
| Dr. Diane Berry | War of Attrition: Predicting dropout from pediatric weight management - UNC Subcontract | Subcontract: Wake Forest University |
| Dr. Jada Brooks | Inflammatory Markers, Hazardous Air Pollutants, and Psychosocial Factors | NIH/NIEHS |
| Dr. Jada Brooks | Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and the Occurrence of Hypertension in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study | Subcontract: Washington University in St. Louis |
| Dr. Ashley Bryant | Diversity Supplement to Care-Partner Assisted Intervention to Improve Oral Health for Individuals with Mild Dementia | NYU/NIH/NICDR |
| Dr. Ashley Bryant | A Nurse-Led Palliative and Supportive Care Intervention for Newly Diagnosed Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Yamnia Cortes | Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Perimenopausal Latinas: Pilot Study of a Multi- Component Intervention | NIH/NIMHD |
| Dr. Louise Fleming | Development of an Adrenal Crisis Prevention Mobile Health Application - A Pilot Study | Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Society/ Multi-Center Research Grant |
| Dr. Cheryl Giscombe | THE HARMONY Study - A culturally-relevant, randomized-controlled, stress management intervention to reduce cardiometabolic risk in African American women | NIH/NIMHD |
| Dr. Cheryl Jones | HeartHome™: A Nurse-Driven, Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to Reduce Health Disparities for Cardiac Patients Living in Rural and Underserved Areas of the Carolinas | The Duke Endowment |
| Dr. Saif Khairat | Overcoming the Barriers to Clinical Trial Recruitment through Teleconsent | Subcontract: Medical Univeristy of South Carolina |
| Dr. Shawn Kneipp | NC Works4Health: Reducing Chronic Disease Risks in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, Unemployed Populations | NIH/NIMHD |
| Dr. Jennifer Leeman and C. Samuel-Hodge | Taking the Med-South Lifestyle Program to Scale, Center for Health Promotion Disease Prevention Core Project | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Dr. Jennifer Leeman and Allison Brenner | Comprehensive Cancer Control Collaborative of North Carolina (4CNC) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Dr. Barbara Mark | Enhancing Nursing Care Reliability in Neonatal Intensive Care | Subcontract: Ohio State University |
| Dr. Deborah Mayer | Effectiveness trial of a head and neck cancer survivorship tool | Subcontract: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Dr. Sheila Santacroce | Interventions for Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Hudson Santos | Placental DNA Methylation, Maternal Hardship and Child Neurodevelopmental Outcomes | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Hudson Santos | Placental Origins of Positive Child Health | NIH/NICHD |
| Dr. Hudson Santos | Genetic and Epigenetic Effects on Childhood Cognitive Trajectories | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Patricia Silveyra | Sex Based Differences in Airway Structural Properties and Immune Response in HDM Challenged Animals | NIH/NHLBI |
| Dr. Patricia Silveyra | Sex differences in ozone-induced asthma exacerbations: role of the microbiome | CEHS Pilot Projects Program |
| Dr. Lixin Song | SCH: INT: AURA - Connecting Audio and Radio Sensing Systems to Improve Care at Home | NIH |
| Dr. Lixin (Lee) Song | Testing the Efficacy of a Couple-focused, Tailored mHealth Intervention for Symptom Self-Management among Men with Prostate Cancer and Their Partners | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Lixin (MPI) Song | Feasibility Testing of Patient Reported Outcomes-informed Caregiving Education and Symptom management System (PROCESS): | Subcontract: Mayo Clinic |
| Dr. Sandra Soto | Optimizing a dyadic physical activity intervention for Hispanics with osteoarthritis and their physical activity supporter | NIH/NIMHD |
| Dr. Suzanne Thoyre | Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Oral Feeding in Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease | Subcontract: Ohio State University |
| Dr. Sue Thoyre | Symptom Trajectories in Infants and Toddlers at Risk for Chronic Feeding Problems | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Mark Toles | Connect-Home: Testing the Efficacy of Transitional Care of Patients and Caregivers during Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facilities to Home | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Mark Toles | Adapting Connect-Home Transitional Care to Fit the Unique Needs of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias and their Caregivers: A Pilot Study | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Jessica Williams | Longitudinal Prescription Opioid Use among Patients Experiencing Interpersonal Violence | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Injury Prevention Research Center |
| Dr. Jia-Rong Wu | Vitamin C Supplementation Intervention for Patients with Heart Failure: A pilot study | Sigma Theta Tau International |
| Dr. Rose Mary Xavier | Unraveling Functional Mechanisms of Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms Using Predicted Gene expression Profiles | Sigma Theta Tau International |
| Dr. Rose Mary Xavier | Data-driven Identification of Neurobiologically Informed Psychosis Symptom Profiles and Subject Groups | Rockefeller University/Heilbrunn |
| Dr. Seonae Yeo | Promoting stretching exercise to reduce cardiovascular health risk in late pregnant women with obesity | NIH/NINR |
| Dr. Jessica Zegre-Hemsey | Center for Physiological Research Subcontract | Subcontract: University of California San Francisco |
| Dr. Jessica Zegre-Hemsey | Patient-reported Symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Prehospital Cardiac Care | NIH/NINR |
Subcontract Funding
| Co-Investigaor | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Deborah Mayer | Effectiveness trial of a head and neck cancer survivorship tool |
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Funding
| Principal Investigaor | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Ashley Bryant | Feasibility of Novel Symptom Management and Supportive Care Intervention for Acute Myeloid Leukemia |
| Dr. Lixin Song | Feasibility Testing of Patient Reported Outcomes-informed Caregiving Education and Symptom management System (PROCESS): A Personalized mHealth Program for Cancer Symptom and Complication Management, |
Internal Funding
| Principal Investigator | Project Ttitle | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jada Brooks | Engaging Community Stakeholders in the Formative Stage to Design Culturally-Appropriate Studies Aimed at Promoting Health Equity in American Indian Communities | NC TRACS |
| Dr. Yamnia Cortes | Menopausia, Salud, Corazón: A Multi-Component Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Perimenopausal Latinas | Junior Faculty Development Award/Office of the Provost |
| Dr. Yamnia Cortes | Reproductive hormones as risk factors for progression of carotid plaque burden and characteristics | NC TRACS |
| Dr. Rachel Hirschey | African American Cancer Survivor Engagement to Develop a Physical Activity Intervention | Oncology Nursing Foundation |
| Dr. Eric Hodges | Intervention mapping for a novel obesity prevention trial during infancy | NC TRACS |
| Dr. Saif Khairat | SOM/Pilot Award | Center for Health Innovation, School of Medicine, UNC |
| Dr. Marcia Van Riper | Family Management of Sleep Problems in Children with Down syndrome | UNC Sleep Innovation Research Program |
| Dr. Marcia Van Riper | Families and Congenital Heart Disease: Family Adaptation in Three Groups of Families | Dhillon Jordon Shar Innovation Fund in CHD |
| Dr. Patricia Silveyra | Sex differences in allergic lung inflammation: transcriptional regulation by sex hormones | Junior Faculty Development Award/Office of the Provost |
PhD Student Funding
| Principal Investigator | Project Ttitle | |
|---|---|---|
| Adynski | Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation | Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation |
| Martha Grace Cromeens | Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation | Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation |
| Martha Grace Cromeens | Pathways to Diagnosis Among a Diverse Sample of Women with Endometriosis | Sigma Theta Tau International |
| Martha Grace Cromeens | Pathways to Diagnosis of Endometriosis among Women of Different Socioeconomic Statuses and Races | NIH/NINR |
| Martha Grace Cromeens | Qualitative Inquiry into the Pathways to Diagnosis of Endometriosis Across a Diverse Sample of Women | American Nurses Foundation |
| Tyra Girdwood | Discovering Pediatric to Adult Health Care Transition Readiness: A Comparison between Child and Parent/Caregiver Perspectives within the Cystic Fibrosis Community | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
| Sherita House | Healthcare Providers’ Relational Coordination, Job Satisfaction, and Retention | TriService Nursing Research Program |
| Ya-Ning Chan | Chemotherapy-related Cognitive Impairment in Adults with Acute Leukemia | ACS |