Grant Awards

Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD received a grant in the amount of $93,000 over a two-year period from the New Investigator Program of the Medical Education and Research Committee (MERC). The funding source is The Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future. The grant is called "Supporting Caregivers in Improving Lifestyles" (SCIL), and adds an adult caregiver component to Dr. Adams' Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF) study on prevention of pediatric obesity in American Indian families. The HCSF provides for assessment of certain outcomes measures in both caregivers and children of enrolled families; however, the SCIL component will allow assessment of more detailed outcomes measures in the adult caregivers, including markers of metabolic syndrome and behavioral indices. Individual baseline results of these assessments will be utilized to help caregivers become more motivated to adopt personal and family level lifestyle changes.

Dennis Baumgardner, MD's small grant, "A Tale of Two Cities-'Urban' Blastomycosis," was approved for funding in the amount of $1,870 through the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine. The grant funds were used almost exclusively to fund his pre-med research student, Erica Knavel, a recent graduate of Northwestern University.

Alan Wolkenstein, MSW is the principal investigator on a Department of Family Medicine small grant, "Partners of Prostate Cancer Patients: Beliefs, Experiences and Outcomes," which was funded at $4,000. An additional $4,000 grant for this project was awarded by Aurora's Clinical Research Department.

Craig Gjerde PhD and K. Mae Hla MD, Internal Medicine, are co-principal investigators for a new Primary Care Faculty Development Grant (PCFDP) from HRSA for 2005-2008. The Principal Investigator is Pat Kokotailo, MDM (Pediatrics).

The Research Team of Mark Linzer, MD and Linda Baier Manwell, MS received the following two grants from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:

• "Measurement Tools for Assessing the Impact of the Ambulatory Care Workplace on Quality of Care in Chronic Disease" - $54,500. Project Dates: August 15, 2005 - August 14, 2006
• "Workplace Contributions to Healthcare Disparities" - $53,846. Project Dates: June 15, 2005 - June 14, 2006.