This $498,042 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program supports the development and evaluation of multi-modal clinical diagnostic reasoning models for automated diagnosis generation. The project aims to address diagnostic errors that affect 12 million patients and contribute to 80,000 deaths annually. The key products to be delivered include: A multi-modal generative model that can read...
This federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 was made on September 30, 2024 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. The grant was awarded to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a subsidiary of the larger Partners Healthcare System Incorporated, to conduct research on the relationships between diagnosis quality, clinician time and stress. The key objectives of the 4-year project are to: 1)...
This three-year $179,727 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund research at the University of Arizona examining the social and structural predictors of delays in diagnosis of medical conditions with ambiguous symptoms. The research aims to determine whether marginalized status and the structure of patient-physician network ties are associated with longer...
This $642,859 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to validate approaches for detecting and predicting pediatric prescribing errors in inpatient settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Validating an algorithmic approach to detect a broad range of pediatric prescribing errors by comparing the algorithm to expert review of...
This $376,226 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund research to quantify the experiences and adverse impacts of medical ableism among people with disabilities. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop survey modules to measure medical ableism and its effects, 2) characterize experiences of medical ableism, and 3) identify adverse care and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $344,357 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) to validate non-linguistic laboratory biomarkers for detecting depression in individuals with aphasia. The study aims to assess the ability of three laboratory tests - heart rate variability, pupil dilation, and gaze duration - to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support a $2,010,598 research project on the relationship between intergenerational disadvantage and pediatric health disparities in acute respiratory illness and diarrhea. The project aims to: 1) estimate the association between persistent disadvantage and the illness burden of diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $163,080 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. The objective of this project is to develop and validate longitudinal machine learning-based prediction models that leverage high-frequency physiological monitor data and clinical variables to accurately identify children at risk of new or...
The University of Rochester received a $2.667 million Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director to conduct testing for COVID-19 in high risk children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The grant is funded through the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), which provides assistance awards and supplements for multiple offices in the NIH Office of the Director. Under the award, the University...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to identify novel noncoding mechanisms of disease associated with developmental disorders (DDs). The $499,055.48 award, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2027, will support a research program led by Dr. Chelsea Lowther at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The project will:...