Selected Grants
2/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Building Relationship, Improving Dialogue, and Growing Empathy (BRIDGE): An intervention to support decision-making for critically ill children
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research · 2024 - 2029Feasibility of cue-based treatment intervention to promote cessation among people who smoke lightly (<=10 cigarettes per day) or non-daily
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028Duke KURe Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2013 - 2028Improving patient-provider communication and medication adherence in systemic lupus erythematosus
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028Co-Developing a Nurse-Led, Community-Engaged Intervention to Improve Labor Pain Management and Build Trust in Obstetric Care
ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation · 2026 - 2027Planning grant for clinical trial of implicit bias mitigation training for clinicians
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2024 - 2027Improving outcomes of patients with advanced prostate cancer through a better understanding of provider decision-making
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027Equity-Focused Communication Intervention for Family-Centered Rounds
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities · 2024 - 2027Duke ACS Institutional Research Grant
ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2024 - 2026Improving decision-making for older adults with melanoma
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026Multimedia caregiver education program to improve outcomes for children with cancer in low-resource settings
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2026Testing a Clinician and Patient Intervention to Promote smoking Cessation Among Pregnant Women
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2021 - 2026Diversifying and Strengthening Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital · 2022 - 2026The Role of Implicit Bias on Outcomes of Patients with Advanced Solid Cancers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2021 - 2026Duke Center for Advancement of Child Health (CAtCH).
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2021 - 2026A Text-Based Scheduled Reduction Intervention for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Decision Making for Infants with Neurologic Conditions
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024Improving Advance Care Planning in Oncology: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial Integrating Patient Videos and Clinician Communication Training
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2018 - 2024Evaluating effectiveness of a communication facilitator to reduce distress and improve goal concordant care for critically ill patients and their families: A randomized trial
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2018 - 2023Racial Disparities in Emotion-Handling in the ICU
ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Thoracic Society · 2022 - 2023Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) Refinement and Expansion
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Colorado - Denver · 2018 - 2023Optimizing a standalone text messaging-based weight loss intervention
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2023The Mathematics of Breast Cancer Overtreatment: Improving Treatment Choice through Effective Communication of Personalized Cancer Risk
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2022Decreasing the Financial Burden for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer By Understanding Provider Decision-Making
ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Urological Association Foundation · 2021 - 2022Examining Best Practices for Factoring Out-Of-Pocket Expenses into Patients' Health Care Decisions
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Patrick & Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation · 2018 - 2021Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC): Refinement and Expansion-Administrative Supplement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · 2019 - 2020Decision Making for Critically Ill Infants
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Kennedy Krieger Institute · 2018 - 2020Teaching palliative care clinicians Motivational Interviewing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Colorado - Denver · 2017 - 2020University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control Supplemental Pilot Funds
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Colorado - Denver · 2018 - 2019SMS scheduled gradual reduction text messages to help pregnant smokers quit
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019Cancer Treatment Disparities in the HIV Population: Exploring the Impact of HIV on Physician and Patient Decision-Making
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019HIV cure studies: risk, risk perception, and ethics
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Harvard University · 2016 - 2019PAPNavigator STTR (Fast-Track)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Vivor, LLC · 2016 - 2019Addressing Tobacco Use Disparities through an Innovative Mobile Phone Intervention: The textto4gosmokelesstobacco
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2018Improving Communication Between Cancer Patients and Oncologists Using Patient Feedback on Actual Conversations and the ABIM Maintenance of Certification
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2016 - 2018Translation of a Lung Cancer Palliative Care Intervention for Clinical Practice
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by City of Hope · 2014 - 2018Impact of a PCRC-Supported Legacy Intervention in Pediatric Palliative Care
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University · 2014 - 2018A Woman's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) program at Duke University School of Nursing
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2014 - 2018Refinement and Expansion of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group
ResearchSite PI · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2018TRIADIC EXPECTATIONS: DECISION-MAKING IN ADVANCED CANCER
ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Palliative Care Research Center · 2014 - 2017Improving Communication Between Cancer Patients and Oncologists Using Patient Feedback on Actual Conversations and the ABIM Maintenance of Certification
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2015 - 2016Teen CHAT:Improving physician communication with adolescents about healthy weight
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2016Communication in Oncologist Patient Encounters: A Patient Intervention
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2016Tailored Internet Program to Improve OB Providers' Smoking Cessation Counseling
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by People Designs · 2013 - 2014En Pareja: A Latino couples intervention to help expectant fathers quit smoking
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2014Smoking Resumption-Prevention in Postpartum Women
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2014Obesity as a Barrier to Patient-Physician Communication
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2010Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2010Race effects in oncologists' end-of-life communication
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2009Enhancing patient-oncologist communication
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2009Testing Pharmacological Therapies for Pregnant Smokers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2008Partner Assisted Interventions For Pregnant Smokers
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 2003Recruiting Teen Smokers Into A Self-Help Quit Program
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1999 - 2002External Relationships
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