2022 Pilot Awards

March 13, 2022

2022 CLINICAL/POPULATION HEALTH PILOT RECIPIENTS

	Gretchen Brenes, PhD Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine “Implementation of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults with Generalized Anxiety Disorder”
	Carolyn Huffman, PhD Nursing “Battlefield Auricular Acupressure for Pain Management“
	Simon Mahler, MD, MS Emergency Medicine “Accessing Sex and Race Healthcare Disparities across the Atrium Health Network to Improve Emergency Department Chest Pain Care” —co-funded by the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity and the Cardiovascular Sciences Center —Project also awarded a $10,000 supplement from the Wake Forest Center for Biomedical Informatics.
	Lindsay Munn, PhD, MSN, RN Emergency Medicine, Charlotte “A Pilot Study to Investigate Predictors and Outcomes of Nurse Burnout in the Emergency Department”

	Reto Asmis, PhD Molecular Medicine “Role of Myeloid Monoamine Oxidase A in Diet-Induced Obesity (DIO) and Adipose Tissue Inflammation” ⏤co-funded by the Center on Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
	Zhiheng He, PhD Microbiology & Immunology “Determining the Potential of an FDA-Approved Pathogenic-Immune Cell Selective Inhibitor to Treat Human IBD“
	Jean-Luc Mougeot, PhD Oral Medicine, Charlotte “Haemophilus Parainfluenzae-encoded Chimeric Peroxiredoxin-Glutaredoxin (PdgX) Formulation to Alleviate Cancer Therapy-induced Oral Mucositis (CTOM)” ⏤co-funded by the Comprehensive Cancer Center
	Terrence Stanford, PhD Neurobiology & Anatomy “Development of a Non-Invasive Behavioral Biomarker of Neurodegenerative Disease State” ⏤co-funded by the Neuroscience Clinical Trial and Innovation Center