NIH Awardees and Projects Funded in FY 2024*

Gregory Alexander, PhD

  • R01AG080517: Impact of Nursing Home Leadership Care Environments and Health Information Technology on Outcomes of Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) (Lusine Poghosyan)  

Veronica Barcelona, PhD

  • R01HD110429: Epigenomic Pathways from Racism to Preterm Birth   

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD 

  • R21NR021310: Navigating Financial and Health-Related Social Needs in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (AHA-NAV): A Digital Intervention Pilot Study 

Natalie Benda, PhD  

  • R00MD015781: Maternal Outcome Monitoring and Support (MOMS): An Mhealth Symptom Self-monitoring and Decision Support System to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Outcomes 

Lauren Ann Bochicchio, PhD    

  • F32AA029957: Understanding the Individual and Combined Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Minority Stress on Hazardous Drinking among Sexual Minority Women: Is Emotion Dysregulation a Key Factor?   

Walter Bockting, PhD   

  • R01MD017085: Social Connectedness and Health Among Gender Minority People of Color 

Ulf Bronas, PhD 

  • R01AG076456: Accelerated Age-Related Cognitive Decline: Impact of Exercise on Executive Function and Neuroplasticity 

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD  

  • R33HL151958: The Efficacy of CAMP Air, a Web-based Asthma Intervention, Among Urban Adolescents with Uncontrolled Asthma 

Billy Caceres, PhD

  • R01HL168489: A Daily Diary Examination of the Influence of Intersectional Stigma on Blood Pressure 

Elizabeth Corwin, PhD

  • R01MD016899: The Impact of a Culturally-Based Live Music Intervention on the Metabolites and Metabolic Pathways Associated with Chronic Stress and the Risk of Preterm Birth in Black Women (Joanne Loewy) 

Tyler Gaedecke, MS, PhD candidate 

  • F31NR021239: Personal Healthcare Networks of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults After Gender-Affirming Surgery 

Maureen George, PhD    

  • R01NR019275: BREATHE: An Efficacy-implementation Trial of a Brief Shared Decision Making Intervention Among Black Adults With Uncontrolled Asthma in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) 

Alexandria Hahn, PhD candidate 

  • F31NR021330: The Role of Social Determinants in Reproductive Coercion: Understanding Health Information and Support Needs 

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, PhD   

  • R01NR020583: Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: An All-facility Intervention to Reduce Structural Racism and Discrimination and Its Impact on Patient and Healthcare Staff Wellbeing (Felicia Brown)  
  • R33TW011752: Preparing for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in Central-Eastern European Countries With Low Access to Biomedical Prevention (John Pachankis) 

Sarah Leonard, PhD  

  • F31NR020733: Weight Discrimination and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and their Peers 

Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD    

  • R01NS123639: Randomized Comparison of the Clinical Outcome of Single Versus Multiple Arterial Grafts: Cognition (ROMA:Cogparent award) (Mario Gaudino, Richard Swartz)  
  • R01NS123639-04S1: Strengthening Healthcare and Research Engagement through Data Sharing: SHARE (ROMA:Cog supplement) (Mario Gaudino, Richard Swartz)  
  • R01HL161458: Improve the Meaning of Patient Reported Outcomes to Evaluate Effectiveness for Cardiac Care (IMPROVE-Cardiac Care) 

Allison Norful, PhD  

  • K08MH130652: Physiologic Stress and Epigenetic Mechanisms that Precipitate Risk for Suicidal Behavior in Nurses 

Lusine Poghosyan, PhD    

  • R01AG069143: Care for Persons with Dementia in Nurse Practitioner Practices and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities  
  • T32NR014205: Systems Science and Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists (S2CER2) (Patricia Stone)  
  • R01NR021007: Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Delivery to Address Social Determinants of Health and Reduce Health Disparities: A Mixed-Methods National Study 
  • R01AG085479: Social Networks in Nurse Practitioner Teams Caring for Patients with Dementia and Impact on Racial and Ethnic Disparities 

Rebecca Schnall, PhD    

  • R01MD019181: MyPEEPS Mobile Plus: A Multi-Level HIV Prevention Intervention for Young MSM (Robert Garofalo)   
  • T32NR007969: Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (Suzanne Bakken)  
  • R01MD019184: Promoting Viral Suppression through the CHAMPS+ Intervention in the Deep South (David Batey)  
  • R34MH128163: Development and Testing of MyPEEPS Mobile for Young Transgender Men (Robert Garofalo)   
  • UH3AI169658: MyPEEPS Mobile LITE: Limited Interaction Efficacy Trial of MyPEEPS Mobile to Reduce HIV Incidence and Better Understand the Epidemiology of HIV among YMSM (Dustin Duncan, Robert Garofalo)  
  • U01CA275110: Implementation of Screen, Treat, and Triage for Women Living with HIV in La Romana (Pamela Baez) 

Jingjing Shang, PhD    

  • R01NR016865: Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME) (Patricia Stone)  
  • R01AG074492: ImpAct of COVID-19 on CaRe TransitOns and Health OutcomeS for Vulnerable PopulationS in Nursing Homes and Home HealthCARE Agencies (ACROSS-CARE) (Patricia Stone) 

Patricia Stone, PhD    

  • R01NR020601: Health Disparities in Hospice in Nursing Homes (Lara Dhingra, Andrew Dick) 

Maxim Topaz, PhD  

  • R01AG081928: Using Automated Speech Processing to Improve Identification of Risk for Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Home Healthcare (Julia Hirschberg, Zoran Kostic)  
  • R01MD018028: Identifying and Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Home Healthcare: The ENGAGE Study (Scott Sittig, Jacquelyn Taylor) 

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD     

  • R00NR019124: Data-Driven Shared Decision-Making to Reduce Symptom Burden in Atrial Fibrillation 

Maryam Zolnoori, PhD  

  • K99AG076808 and R00AG076808: Development of a Screening Algorithm for Timely Identification of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia in Home Healthcare  

* Awardees listed are contact Principal Investigators, per NIH Reporter FFY24 data. Multiple PIs are noted in parenthesis.