Cooperative Agreement U01CK000480

This Project Grant award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (CFDA 93.350) provides $159,103 to investigate the experiences of parents seeking emergency care for their injured children with special healthcare needs. The study will engage at least 35 family caregivers to gather qualitative data on factors contributing to poor care quality and hospital complications for this population. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms behind adverse outcomes in injured...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $812,343 to test the efficacy of teleconsultation in reducing serious safety events during prehospital care for critically ill infants and children. The award funds a multicenter, simulation-based randomized controlled trial to compare the impact of teleconsultation with pediatric emergency physicians (using video)...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, provides $1,435,358 over 5 years to fund the Emergency Medicine Research Career Development Program in the Neurological Sciences (EMRCDP-NS). The program aims to recruit, mentor, train, and support early career emergency medicine faculty to conduct NIH-funded research focused on neurological disorders commonly treated in emergency care settings....

This $582,959 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) aims to integrate a "Universal Test-and-Connect" (UTC) strategy for HIV prevention and treatment services into two high-volume emergency department (ED) settings in Cape Town, South Africa. The 3-year project, running from September 2024 to September 2027, has three key objectives: Integrate HIV assessment into...

This federal Project Grant award, totaling $2,382,836.00, was provided by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) program (CFDA 93.127) to support the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). The award will fund research and infrastructure development to expand and improve emergency medical services for children requiring trauma or critical care treatment. Key activities include collecting pediatric emergency care data,...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) will provide $374,592 to the University of Rochester to conduct a research study on electronically-delivered home rehabilitation programs for patients who have experienced acute pulmonary embolism. The study aims to evaluate whether a prescriptive exercise program with heart rate monitoring is more effective than regular electronic contact in reducing post-pulmonary embolism...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program supports research to improve understanding of delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in ambulatory care settings. The project aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and stakeholder expertise to identify risk factors, disparities, and outcomes associated with delayed and missed VTE diagnosis in...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) aims to develop a modern Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) device for monitoring children in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The $299,900 award to Goodlife Inventors LLC will fund efforts to (1) generate initial designs for an advanced lightweight EIT belt and (2) assess the technical feasibility of a miniaturized, easier to use EIT core device. If...

This Project Grant award of $752,495 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) aims to develop a deep learning-based method to remove cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) artifacts from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The University of Connecticut will create a database of CPR-contaminated ECG data, evaluate and optimize a deep learning CPR artifact removal algorithm, and integrate the validated...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $1,815,882 five-year Project Grant (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to expand and transform the Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) into an open resource to study therapeutic outcomes and improve health outcomes for patients with inborn errors of immunity. The PIDTC will consolidate tools and infrastructure to...