Healthcare Innovation Seed Grants

The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP) in partnership with the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), Emory Synergy Award Program, and the Emory Health Services Research (HSR) Center, is pleased to announce the recipients of the seventeenth round of research seed grants in Healthcare Innovation. 

A Novel Web-based Decision Aid Tool for Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

PI: Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Co-PI: Emily Wall, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Emory University 

Co-I: Shivani Patel, PhD
Rollins Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Co-I: Zanthia Wiley, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Co-I: Belinda Adeje, RN, MBA
Senior Nurse Manager, Clinical Services & Operations, Emory Healthcare East Cobb Internal Medicine, Marietta, Family Dunwoody

Awardees from previous rounds of faculty and student seed grants can be sorted according to program topic, year, and round number in the table below.

Previous Award Recipients

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NumberTitlePrincipal Investigator(s)YearTopicRecipient Type
Round 17 A Novel Web-based Decision Aid Tool for Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, PhD 2022 Technology and Informatics, Education and Communication, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 15 Contributions of Social Determinants of Health to Susceptibility and Severity of COVID-19 Across the U.S. Julie Gazmararian, PhD, MPH 2021 Social Determinants and Disparities Faculty
Round 16 Psychological Effects of Long COVID on Healthcare Workers Sarah Cook, MD 2021 Outcomes and Evaluations, Population Safety and Risk Faculty
Round 14 Community-Focused Assessment of the Experiential Impact of COVID-19 Nadine Kaslow, PhD 2020 Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics, Social Determinants and Disparities, Education and Communication Faculty
Round 11 Nephrologists’ Patient Evaluation Criteria and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Transplantation and Home Dialysis Adam Wilk, PhD 2019 Social Determinants and Disparities Faculty
Round 12 Improving the Match of Organ-Donor Pairs via Decision-Support Tools and System Optimization for Improved Post-Transplant Survival, Shorter Waitlist Time, and Fewer Deaths on the Waitlist for Georgians in Need of Transplants Rachel Patzer, PhD, Pinar Keskinocak, PhD, Hannah Smalley, MS, PhD, Joel Sokol, PhD 2019 Population Safety and Risk Faculty
Round 10 Intensive Care Unit Provider Sentiment and Diagnostic Imaging Utilization Falgun Chokshi, MS, MD, Shamim Nemati, MS, PhD 2016 Outcomes and Evaluations Faculty
Round 10 Phenotyping of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Via Tensor Factorization Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD, Jimeng Sun, MS, MPhil, PhD 2016 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 8 Assessing the Accuracy of the Technology-based Eye Care Services (TECS) Protocol to a Standard Clinical Ophthalmic Exam April Maa, MD, Danny Haddad, MD 2015 Outcomes and Evaluations, Population Safety and Risk Faculty
Round 8 Barriers to tuberculosis preventive treatment in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus and latent tuberculosis infection Matthew Magee, PhD, MPH 2015 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 8 Clinical Decision Support Systems for Effective Management of Patients with Barrett-s Esophagus using Optical Endomicroscopy May D. Wang, PhD, Kevin E. Woods, MD, MPH 2015 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 8 Next-generation prognostic models for patients with lymphoma Christopher R. Flowers, MD, Turgay Ayer, PhD 2015 Population Safety and Risk, Social Determinants and Disparities Faculty
Round 6 Assessing Gait speed to Inform fraiLty Evaluation (AGILE) Theodore M. Johnson, II 2014 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 6 An Assessment of the Feasibility of Call Center Data for Syndromic Surveillance Douglas W. Roblin, PhD 2014 Population Safety and Risk Faculty
Round 6 Mitigating Conflict and Error in the Operating Room Frans de Waal, PhD 2014 Social Determinants and Disparities, Population Safety and Risk, Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Faculty
Round 7 Examining the Safety and Efficacy of Early Fecal Transplant in Patients Infected with Clostridium Difficile at High Risk of Relapse Tanvi Dhere, MD 2014 Population Safety and Risk, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 7 MartialHearts: An Interactive Taekwondo Game Targeting Executive Functioning and Anxiety in Children with Congenital Cardiac Disease Lindsey Cohen, PhD 2014 Technology and Informatics, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 7 Non-invasive Detection of Retained Surgical Items Using Near-Infrared Fluorescence Maged Henary, PhD 2014 Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 4 Accelerating Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients by Engaging Synchronous Tongue and Wrist Motion Maysam Ghovanloo, PhD, Andrew Butler, PhD 2013 Technology and Informatics, Outcomes and Evaluations Faculty
Round 4 A Preliminary Test of a Care partner-Integrated Telehealth Rehabilitation Program for Persons with Stroke Sarah Blanton, PT, DPT, NCS 2013 Delivery and Payment Models, Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 5 D-Cycloserine & Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Delivered on an iPad: Increasing Access to Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder Page Anderson, PhD 2013 Technology and Informatics, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 5 A Pilot Feasibility Study of Parent Training for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rural Georgia Via Telehealth Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD 2013 Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 5 Using Speech Analysis to Explore the Clinical Effectiveness of Stress and Depression Assessment in Adults with Aphasia Jacqueline Laures-Gore, PhD, CCC-SLP 2013 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 2 DiaSys: Computerized Decision Support to Improve Diabetes Management in Primary Care Arun Mohan, MD, MBA 2012 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
Round 2 A Preliminary Test of iHealthHome for Improving outcomes in Persons with Heart Failure and Diabetes Sandra B. Dunbar, RN, DSN, FAAN, FAHA 2012 Outcomes and Evaluations Faculty
Round 3 mHealth Communication Tool - Reproductive Health Behaviors Anne Lang Dunlop, MD, MPH 2012 Social Determinants and Disparities, Delivery and Payment Models Faculty
Round 3 Tagging Medical Data Streams with patient Photographs to Decrease Patient Misidentification Errors S. Tridandapani, PhD, MD 2012 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 1 Validation of a device to diagnose pneumonia from coughed droplets Larry J. Anderson, MD 2011 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 1 VR-in-a-Box: Surgical Simulator – Supplementing surgical training for medical residents using a low-cost virtual reality simulator with real-time haptic feedback. Ayanna M. Howard, PhD 2011 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 13 Feasibility of Measuring Natural Gait Speed to Identify Falls Risk in Individuals with MCI Jon Sanford, M.Arch., Joe Nocera, MS, PhD Faculty
Round 13 Sleep, Language, and Diurnal Cortisol Dynamics in Poststroke Aphasia Lynn Marie Trotti, MD, MSc Faculty
Student Round 6 The Potential for Anti-Occlusion Technology in Drainage Catheters Wallace Garrett 2021 Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 6 Developing a Novel Toolkit (Empower-Connect) to Improve Telemedicine Experience for Patients and Providers Vinta Subramanya 2021 Social Determinants and Disparities, Technology and Informatics, Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Students
Student Round 6 PocketDoc: Empowering Patients Through Recovery and Beyond Christopher Awad 2021 Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 5 OmniMed: Providing Information Access as a Mechanism to Reduce Inappropriate Emergency Care Use Sharvil Patel 2020 Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 5 The PONCE Initiative: Peer Outreach and Network for Condom Education Leah Loerinc, MD/MPH Candidate 2020 Education and Communication, Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 5 A Qualitative Study of Vietnamese-American Parents' HPV Vaccine Uptake for Their Adolescent Children Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu 2020 Social Determinants and Disparities Students
Student Round 5 Using Engaged Education and Social Support to Improve Postpartum Outcomes Among Refugee Mothers and Infants in Clarkston, GA Sabreen Mohamed 2020 Education and Communication, Social Determinants and Disparities, Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 4 Atlanta Interprofessional Student Hotspotting at Grady Health System Hannah Spero 2019 Education and Communication Students
Student Round 4 Effects of the Addition of a Single Bout of Whole-Body Vibration to a Single Bout of Treadmill Training on Gait and Spasticity in Ambulatory Children with Cerebral Palsy Gena Henderson 2019 Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 4 Effects of Intra-Operative Opioid Use on Patient Recovery Following Surgery Anna Woodbury, MD 2019 Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 4 Refugee Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Understanding Experiences with Accessing and Utilizing Services Ghenet Besera 2019 Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 4 The Role of Family Network Structures and Support in Family Cancer History Collection Among African Americans Caitlin Allen 2019 Education and Communication Students
Student Round 4 Using Engaged Education and Social Support to Improve Postpartum Outcomes Among Refugee Mothers in Clarkston, GA Yesenia Ramirez 2019 Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Students
Student Round 3 Exploring the Role of Community Health Workers in Improving Uptake of Family Health History Assessment Among Patients and Providers Caitlin Allen, MPH 2018 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Students
Student Round 3 Feasibility, Acceptability, and Design of Real-Time Adherence Monitoring Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men Kathy Trang, MA 2018 Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 3 Interprofessional Student Hotspotting at Grady Hospital Colin McNamara, Renanda Dear, Ed. D., LMSW 2018 Education and Communication Students
Student Round 3 Measuring and Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes Through Tablet-Based Data Collection and Educational Outreach Among Refugee Women in Clarkston, Georgia Leonard Mackenzie 2018 Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Students
Student Round 1 Building the Capacity of Lay Health Professionals to do Pediatric Vision Screenings Rebecca Russ 2016 Education and Communication Students
Student Round 1 HIV Care Equity & Access through Linkage (HEAL) Atlanta Innovation Project Rosemary Kinuthia MPH, RN 2016 Social Determinants and Disparities, Delivery and Payment Models Students
Student Round 1 Innovative Civic Engagement as a Tool for HIV Prevention in Port Elizabeth, South Africa Marcel Foster 2016 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Students
Student Round 1 mPowering Maternal Health In Ghana (MHIG) Erica Bass-Flimmons 2016 Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 1 Urban Health Initiative's Ear, Nose and Throat Telemedicine Screening Program Khadijah Ameen 2016 Social Determinants and Disparities, Technology and Informatics Students
Student Round 2 Distinguishing Medical Marijuana Use From Recreational Use Among Young Adults: Addressing a Critical Issue in Healthcare Jingjing Li, MBBS, MPH, Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu 2016 Students
Student Round 2 Enabling Factors for Promoting HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Healthcare Providers: A Qualitative Study of Active PrEP Prescribers in Georgia Jingjing Li, MBBS, MPH, Elisa Ignatius, MD, MSC 2016 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Students
Student Round 2 Enhancing Linguistic Competency at Clarkston Community Health Center Joyce (Juhee) Kim 2016 Education and Communication Students
Student Round 2 Measuring and improving maternal and child health outcomes through tablet-based data collection and educational outreach among refugee women in Clarkston, Georgia Jacqueline Cutts, MPH, 2016 Education and Communication, Outcomes and Evaluations Students
Student Round 2 Novel Text-Message Interventions to Improve Surgical Outcomes Manav Sevak 2016 Outcomes and Evaluations, Technology and Informatics Students
Round 9 Effectiveness of Functional Strength Training in Virtual Reality Games for Improving Arm Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy – A Pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) Design Yuping Chen, ScD, PT 2015 Technology and Informatics Faculty
Round 9 High Intensity Interval Training in Heart Failure: The Gold Standard of Future Patient Care. Gerald Zavorsky, PhD, MA 2015 Outcomes and Evaluations Faculty
Round 9 Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Courtney Crooks, PhD 2015 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Faculty
NumberTitlePrincipal Investigator(s)YearTopicRecipient Type