Category Archives: Grants

Resident Teams Receive CATCH Grants from the AAP

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Two AAP CATCH grants were awarded to resident teams recently. This is a national, competitive process through the AAP to encourage pediatricians to collaborate within their communities to advance Child Health initiatives.  Of the 18 proposals awarded nationally, two were right here in our program!  The teams will have up to $2000 awarded to advance their initiatives.

  • A LatinXchange project will be lead by Dr. Melanie Reyes-Hernandez (PL3), with mentoring provided by Dr. Marguerite Oetting.

  

  • A Healthy Hawkeye Smiles project will be lead by Drs. Rachel Segal and Michael Cole (PL2’s) and Elizabeth Wilkinson (pediatric dental resident), with mentoring provided by Dr. Jody Murph.

   

Pediatrics Faculty Receive New Grants

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Congratulations to the faculty below on receiving new grants!

Peg Nopoulos, MD in Psychiatry received a new UG3 from NHLBI for which two Pediatrics faculty are co-investigators: Drs. Amy Conrad and Ed Bell. The award, titled “Transfusion of prematurity early school age follow-up clinical coordinating center” grants $3.97 million over 5 years.

 

 

 

 

On behalf of the CHSC, Dr. Tom Scholz received an award from HRSA for “Increase access to pediatric mental health services, especially in underserved communities, through telehealth-based behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care in Iowa”. The grant awards $2.2 million over 5 years.

Dr. Kathy Mathews received a grant from the FDA for “2018 Institute for Advanced Clinical Trials for Children”. The award provides $7,500 for the trials.