DFM Again Ranks in Top Ten for NIH Funding

The UW Department of Family Medicine (DFM) has again ranked as one of the top ten family medicine departments in the country for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding.

The DFM ranked 7th for 2008, with awards totaling $1,658,442. Our NIH funding includes grants on:

• alcohol prevention;
• childhood obesity prevention;
• training fellows for primary care and alcohol research;
• the use of drug court programs;
• prolotherapy for knee osteoarthritis; and
• training of physician assistants.

The department thanks the following investigators for all their hard work:

• Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD
• Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD
• Randall Brown, MD
• Michael Fleming, MD, MPH
• Virginia Snyder, PhD, PA-C
• David Rabago, MD

The department also receives substantial additional funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, the state of Wisconsin, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for alcohol prevention studies.

Funding from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Wisconsin Partnership Program, and the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research also supports the research of Richard Brown, MD, MPH; Jennifer Eddy, MD; Sarah Khan, MS, MPH, PhD; Nancy Pandhi, MD; Adam Rindfleisch, MD; Paul Smith, MD; Jon Temte, MD, PhD; Georgiana Wilton, PhD; and Aleksandra Zgierska, MD, PhD.