Scholars@Duke
Christopher Ethan Cox

Research Interests

Palliative care delivery interventions
Psychological distress interventions
Health technology
Mobile app interventions
Narrative medicine
ICU-based clinical trials
Echocardiography
Collaboration

Selected Grants

2/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030

Improving needs among older adults: the ICUconnect 2 primary palliative care RCT

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2024 - 2029

Implementation partner-guided strategy to promote health equity in ICU prognostication

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2029

Mid-Atlantic praGmatic NETwork for Inclusive Clinical trials in emergency care (MAGNETIC)

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2023 - 2028

Blueprint-COPD: Coping skills support for patients with comorbid COPD and anxiety or depression

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by American Lung Association · 2025 - 2028

Racial disparities in shared decision making for patients with acute respiratory failure

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2027

Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2026

Pneumonia Direct Pilot (PDP)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by DCRI-Duke-Site · 2023 - 2026

Towards a trauma-informed intensive care unit

ResearchMentor · Awarded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Inc. · 2023 - 2026

Pain Management Decision Making in Advanced Kidney Disease

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by Regents of the University of Michigan · 2023 - 2026

Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Palliative Care for Older African Americans Through Improved Advance Care Planning

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute · 2017 - 2026

PCplanner: Operationalizing needs-focused palliative care for older adults in ICUs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2026

A Randomized Trial of Scalable, Interactive Tool to Support Surrogate Decision Makers of Elderly Critically Ill pAtients

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pittsburgh · 2022 - 2026

Optimizing a self-directed mobile mindfulness intervention for improving cardiorespiratory failure survivors' psychological distress

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2025

Decision Making for Infants with Neurologic Conditions

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

FHCC - Fixed Price

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2022 - 2024

1/2 Ganciclovir To Prevent Reactivation Of Cytomegalovirus In Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure And Sepsis

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · 2022 - 2024

Racial Disparities in Emotion-Handling in the ICU

ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Thoracic Society · 2022 - 2023

NCCN Foundation 2021 Young Investigator Award - Intervention Mapping to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Among Black Veterans

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Comprehensive Cancer Network · 2021 - 2023

Ganciclovir to Prevent Reactivation of Cytomegalovirus in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure and Sepsis

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · 2022 - 2022

Prediction of Functional Outcomes from Chronic Critical Illness

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2016 - 2021

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2021

Optimizing a self-directed mobile copying skills training intervention for improving cardiorespiratory failure survivors

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Needs and triggers: improving intensive care unit-based palliative care delivery

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021

HABP/VABP

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Food and Drug Administration · 2016 - 2019

Improving decision making for patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2018

Reevaluation Of Systemic Early neuromuscular blockade

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University · 2017 - 2018

Mobile Mindfulness to Improve Psychological Distress after Critical Illness

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2017

Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: An RCT

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2010 - 2016

Early Rehabilitation in Critical Care-Supine Cycling and Functional Electrical Stimulation

Clinical TrialCollaborator · Awarded by American Thoracic Society · 2014 - 2015

SAILS

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2014

Mitochondrial biogenesis in sepsis-induced organ dysfunction

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2013

Measuring/Improving Quality of Life in Acute Lung Injury

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2010