Healthcare Innovation Seed Grants is sponsored by Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP). These seed grants fund multi-investigator and multi-disciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness involving adult and/or pediatric patients.

Healthcare Innovation Seed Grants | Emory University | Atlanta GA 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.

Delivery and Payment Models Disease Prevention and Patient Management Economic Values and Models Education and Communication Population Safety and Risk Social Determinants and Disparities Technology and Informatics Number Title Principal Investigator(s) Year Topic Recipient Type A Novel Web-based Decision Aid Tool for Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, PhD Technology and Informatics, Education and Communication, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Machine Learning-Based Spatial And Temporal Dynamics Network Analysis for Diabetic Kidney Disease in Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Outcomes and Evaluations, Technology and Informatics 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 Social Determinants and Disparities, Access to Healthcare Contributions of Social Determinants of Health to Susceptibility and Severity of COVID-19 Across the U.S. Julie Gazmararian, PhD, MPH Social Determinants and Disparities Psychological Effects of Long COVID on Healthcare Workers Outcomes and Evaluations, Population Safety and Risk Community-Focused Assessment of the Experiential Impact of COVID-19 Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics, Social Determinants and Disparities, Education and Communication Nephrologists’ Patient Evaluation Criteria and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Transplantation and Home Dialysis Social Determinants and Disparities 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 Population Safety and Risk Intensive Care Unit Provider Sentiment and Diagnostic Imaging Utilization Falgun Chokshi, MS, MD, Shamim Nemati, MS, PhD Phenotyping of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Via Tensor Factorization Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD, Jimeng Sun, MS, MPhil, PhD Disease Prevention and Patient Management Assessing the Accuracy of the Technology-based Eye Care Services (TECS) Protocol to a Standard Clinical Ophthalmic Exam April Maa, MD, Danny Haddad, MD Outcomes and Evaluations, Population Safety and Risk Barriers to tuberculosis preventive treatment in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus and latent tuberculosis infection Disease Prevention and Patient Management 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 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Assessing Gait speed to Inform fraiLty Evaluation (AGILE) Technology and Informatics An Assessment of the Feasibility of Call Center Data for Syndromic Surveillance Population Safety and Risk Mitigating Conflict and Error in the Operating Room Social Determinants and Disparities, Population Safety and Risk, Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Examining the Safety and Efficacy of Early Fecal Transplant in Patients Infected with Clostridium Difficile at High Risk of Relapse Population Safety and Risk, Disease Prevention and Patient Management MartialHearts: An Interactive Taekwondo Game Targeting Executive Functioning and Anxiety in Children with Congenital Cardiac Disease Technology and Informatics, Disease Prevention and Patient Management Non-invasive Detection of Retained Surgical Items Using Near-Infrared Fluorescence Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics Accelerating Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients by Engaging Synchronous Tongue and Wrist Motion Maysam Ghovanloo, PhD, Andrew Butler, PhD Technology and Informatics, Outcomes and Evaluations A Preliminary Test of a Care partner-Integrated Telehealth Rehabilitation Program for Persons with Stroke Sarah Blanton, PT, DPT, NCS Delivery and Payment Models, Population Safety and Risk, Technology and Informatics D-Cycloserine & Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Delivered on an iPad: Increasing Access to Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder Technology and Informatics, Disease Prevention and Patient Management A Pilot Feasibility Study of Parent Training for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rural Georgia Via Telehealth Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Technology and Informatics Using Speech Analysis to Explore the Clinical Effectiveness of Stress and Depression Assessment in Adults with Aphasia Jacqueline Laures-Gore, PhD, CCC-SLP Technology and Informatics DiaSys: Computerized Decision Support to Improve Diabetes Management in Primary Care Disease Prevention and Patient Management A Preliminary Test of iHealthHome for Improving outcomes in Persons with Heart Failure and Diabetes Sandra B.

Dunbar, RN, DSN, FAAN, FAHA mHealth Communication Tool - Reproductive Health Behaviors Anne Lang Dunlop, MD, MPH Social Determinants and Disparities, Delivery and Payment Models Tagging Medical Data Streams with patient Photographs to Decrease Patient Misidentification Errors Technology and Informatics Validation of a device to diagnose pneumonia from coughed droplets Technology and Informatics VR-in-a-Box: Surgical Simulator – Supplementing surgical training for medical residents using a low-cost virtual reality simulator with real-time haptic feedback.

Technology and Informatics Feasibility of Measuring Natural Gait Speed to Identify Falls Risk in Individuals with MCI Jon Sanford, M. Arch.

, Joe Nocera, MS, PhD Sleep, Language, and Diurnal Cortisol Dynamics in Poststroke Aphasia Lynn Marie Trotti, MD, MSc The Potential for Anti-Occlusion Technology in Drainage Catheters Disease Prevention and Patient Management, Technology and Informatics Developing a Novel Toolkit (Empower-Connect) to Improve Telemedicine Experience for Patients and Providers Social Determinants and Disparities, Technology and Informatics, Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication PocketDoc: Empowering Patients Through Recovery and Beyond Technology and Informatics OmniMed: Providing Information Access as a Mechanism to Reduce Inappropriate Emergency Care Use The PONCE Initiative: Peer Outreach and Network for Condom Education Leah Loerinc, MD/MPH Candidate Education and Communication, Outcomes and Evaluations A Qualitative Study of Vietnamese-American Parents' HPV Vaccine Uptake for Their Adolescent Children Social Determinants and Disparities Using Engaged Education and Social Support to Improve Postpartum Outcomes Among Refugee Mothers and Infants in Clarkston, GA Social Determinants and Disparities, Education and Communication, Outcomes and Evaluations Atlanta Interprofessional Student Hotspotting at Grady Health System Education and Communication 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 Technology and Informatics Effects of Intra-Operative Opioid Use on Patient Recovery Following Surgery Refugee Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Understanding Experiences with Accessing and Utilizing Services The Role of Family Network Structures and Support in Family Cancer History Collection Among African Americans Education and Communication Using Engaged Education and Social Support to Improve Postpartum Outcomes Among Refugee Mothers in Clarkston, GA Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Exploring the Role of Community Health Workers in Improving Uptake of Family Health History Assessment Among Patients and Providers Disease Prevention and Patient Management Feasibility, Acceptability, and Design of Real-Time Adherence Monitoring Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men Technology and Informatics Interprofessional Student Hotspotting at Grady Hospital Colin McNamara, Renanda Dear, Ed.

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, LMSW Education and Communication Measuring and Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes Through Tablet-Based Data Collection and Educational Outreach Among Refugee Women in Clarkston, Georgia Outcomes and Evaluations, Education and Communication Building the Capacity of Lay Health Professionals to do Pediatric Vision Screenings Education and Communication HIV Care Equity & Access through Linkage (HEAL) Atlanta Innovation Project Rosemary Kinuthia MPH, RN Social Determinants and Disparities, Delivery and Payment Models Innovative Civic Engagement as a Tool for HIV Prevention in Port Elizabeth, South Africa Disease Prevention and Patient Management mPowering Maternal Health In Ghana (MHIG) Technology and Informatics Urban Health Initiative's Ear, Nose and Throat Telemedicine Screening Program Social Determinants and Disparities, Technology and Informatics Distinguishing Medical Marijuana Use From Recreational Use Among Young Adults: Addressing a Critical Issue in Healthcare Jingjing Li, MBBS, MPH, Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu 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 Disease Prevention and Patient Management Enhancing Linguistic Competency at Clarkston Community Health Center Education and Communication Measuring and improving maternal and child health outcomes through tablet-based data collection and educational outreach among refugee women in Clarkston, Georgia Education and Communication, Outcomes and Evaluations Novel Text-Message Interventions to Improve Surgical Outcomes Outcomes and Evaluations, Technology and Informatics Next-generation prognostic models for patients with lymphoma Christopher R.

Flowers, MD, Turgay Ayer, PhD Population Safety and Risk, Social Determinants and Disparities 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 Technology and Informatics High Intensity Interval Training in Heart Failure: The Gold Standard of Future Patient Care.

ReliefLink: A Preventative Mobile Toolkit for Follow-Up Behavioral Health Care Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Courtney Crooks, PhD Disease Prevention and Patient Management Number Title Principal Investigator(s) Year Topic Recipient Type Principal Investigator(s)