Healthcare Innovation Seed Grants
The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the Emory Synergy Award Program, Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, Emory Health Services Research (HSR) Center, Winship Cancer Institute (Winship), Emory+Children’s Pediatrics Institute, and Georgia Institute of Technology, is pleased to announce the twenty-first round of research seed grants in Healthcare Innovation. Seed grants will fund multi-investigator & multi-disciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness involving adult and/or pediatric patients that are consistent with the goals of HIP. Check back for deadline details.
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
| Number | Title | Principal Investigator(s) | Year | Topic | Recipient 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 18 | Machine Learning-Based Spatial And Temporal Dynamics Network Analysis for Diabetic Kidney Disease in COVID-19 Survivors | Dong Li, MD, PhD | 2022 | Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Outcomes and Evaluations, Technology and Informatics | Faculty |
| Round 18 | Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga to treat PTSD in minoritized women in a safety net hospital | Ursula Kelly, MSN, PhD, Abigail Powers Lott, PhD, ABPP | 2022 | Social Determinants and Disparities, Access to Healthcare | 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 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 | Social Determinants and Disparities, Education and Communication, 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 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 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 | ReliefLink: A Preventative Mobile Toolkit for Follow-Up Behavioral Health Care | Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Courtney Crooks, PhD | 2015 | Disease Prevention and Patient Management | Faculty |
| Number | Title | Principal Investigator(s) | Year | Topic | Recipient Type |