Patient Safety Grants for Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Clinics
This year, the Cardinal Health Foundation will award $1 million in grant funds to support initiatives by healthcare institutions which provide direct patient care to enhance patient safety and quality of care. The Cardinal Health Foundation will issue grants up to $50,000 commensurate with the scope of the patient safety project.In 2007, the review committee awarded 34 grants averaging $30,000 per grant.Please submit online the organization’s patient safety grant letter of intent by Friday, October 31, 2008. Hard copy or email proposals will not be accepted. Letters of intent received after this deadline will not be considered.Visit the following link to submit the letter of intent in a PDF or Word document. Only these two formats will be accepted.
www.cardinalhealth.com/communityFollowing review of the letters of intent submitted under the Cardinal Health Patient Safety Grant Program, those selected by our external review committee, comprised of clinicians and clinical experts, will be invited to submit a full proposal. Invitations to select organizations will be extended on Monday, January 12, 2009 with a final proposal deadline of Friday, February 20, 2009. Grant awards will be announced in Spring 2009.
The primary criteria for the awarding of these grants will be that they address one of the National Quality Forum’s seven priority areas (www.qualityforum.org). The Foundation is especially interested in the following two areas in 2009:
Eliminating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), specifically MRSA (methicillin-resistant 1. staphylococcus aureus) andC. difficile infection prevention and management; with the goal of taking ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), surgical site infections (SSI) and blood site infections (BSI) to zero.
Medication safety and reconciliation. These initiatives can range from prescribing correct medication to ensuring the right 2. medication gets to the right patient at the right time and assuring information is communicated and understood at key transition points. Use of technology is encouraged.
Submit a NominationNominations for the 2009 Tech Awards are now being accepted.The Tech Awards accepts nominations year-round. Nominations received after March 27, 2009 will be considered for the 2010 Tech Awards.
The Tech Museum Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing individuals, organizations, and companies that are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent issues facing our planet.The Tech Laureates are profoundly improving the human condition through the use of technology. It is the goal of The Tech Museum Awards to showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments.Nominations and applications are evaluated according to the following criteria: * The technology application significantly improves the human condition in one of the five award areas: economic development, education, environment, equality, or health. * A serious problem or challenge with global significance is addressed by this use of technology. * The application of this technology, which may be either a new invention or an innovative use of an existing technology, makes a noteworthy contribution that surpasses previous or current solutions. * The technology application has the potential to serve as an inspiration or model for further innovation. * The technology application is in the field and has demonstrated a measurable benefit.
The Tech Museum AwardsThe Tech Museum of Innovation 201 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113(408) 795-6338 techawards@thetech.org
IBM ScholarshipSponsored by IBMBeacon PartnersThe IBM Scholarship, established to advance the field of Healthcare Information Technology, is awarded to a student pursuing a degree (Undergraduate, Masters or PhD) in the IT Healthcare field. In addition to the $7000 scholarship award, the winner will also receive an all-expense paid trip to the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition. (Some restrictions may apply.)Criteria:Applicants for the IBM Scholarship must fulfill these minimum requirements: * The applicant must be a member in good standing of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. * The applicant must be a member of National HIMSS. * Applicants must be enrolled full or part-time at an accredited university or college and pursuing an advanced degree in the field of healthcare informatics at the time the scholarship is awarded. * Applicants must be able to demonstrate financial need. * Previous Foundation Scholarship winners are ineligible.
Scholarship applications will be accepted until October 31, 2008For more information, contact:HIMSS Member Services Coordinator Yvonne Horton312.915.9276.
Eclipsys Clinical Informatics ScholarshipSponsored by Eclipsys CorporationThe Eclipsys Clinical Informatics Scholarship, established to advance the field of Healthcare Information Technology, is awarded to a student pursuing a degree (Undergraduate, Masters or PhD) in the IT Healthcare field. In addition to the $5000 scholarship award, the winner will also receive an all-expense paid trip to the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition. (Some restrictions may apply.)Criteria:Applicants for the Eclipsys Corporation Scholarship must fulfill these minimum requirements: * The applicant must be a member in good standing of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society * The applicant must be a member of National HIMSS * The primary occupation of the applicant at the time the scholarship is awarded must be that of a full-time student enrolled in an accredited Masters or PhD program related to the healthcare information management systems field. The specific degree program is not a critical factor, however, students enrolled in a Nursing, Medical or Health Informatics program is highly preferred. * Undergraduate applicants must be at least a first-term junior when the scholarship is awarded. * Previous Foundation Scholarship winners are ineligible.
Beacon Partners ScholarshipThe Beacon Partners Scholarship, established to advance the field of Healthcare Information Technology, is awarded to a student pursuing a degree (Undergraduate, Masters or Ph.D) in the IT Healthcare field. In addition to the $7000 scholarship award, the winner will also receive an all-expense paid trip to the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition. (Some restrictions may apply.)Applicants for the Beacon Partners Scholarship must fulfill these minimum requirements: * The applicant must be a member in good standing of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society * The primary occupation of the applicant at the time the scholarship is awarded must be that of a full-time student enrolled in an accredited undergraduate, Masters or PhD program related to the healthcare information management systems field. The specific degree program is not a critical factor, however, students enrolled in a MIS or Healthcare Administration-like program highly preferred. * Undergraduate applicants must be at least a first-term junior when the scholarship is awarded. * 500 word essay * Previous Foundation Scholarship recipients are ineligible.
Healthcare Information Management Systems3 scholarships are awarded (one per level of study) to an undergraduate, Masters and PhD student enrolled in a program related to the healthcare information and management systems field. In addition to the $5000 scholarship award, the winner will also receive an all-expense paid trip to the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition. (Some restrictions may apply.)Applicants for the Healthcare Information Management Systems scholarships must fulfill these minimum requirements: * The applicant must be a member in good standing of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society * The primary occupation of the applicant at the time the scholarship is awarded must be that of student in an accredited undergraduate, Masters or PhD program related to the healthcare information or management systems field. The specific degree program is not a critical factor, although it is expected that programs similar to those in industrial engineering, operations research, healthcare informatics, computer science and information systems, mathematics, and quantitative programs in business administration and hospital administration will predominate. * Undergraduate applicants must be at least a first-term junior when the scholarship is awarded. * Previous Foundation Scholarship winners are ineligible.Scholarship applications will be accepted until October 31, 2008For more information, contact:HIMSS Member Services Coordinator Yvonne Horton312.915.9276.
Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences
Application deadlines for 2010 awards: Letter of Intent: March 2, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Full Application (by invitation only): May 15, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time By electronic application only. Five-year institutional training awards provide $500,000 a year to bridge the gap between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory-based biological sciences. The award will support the training of researchers between existing concentrations of research strength in population approaches to human health and in basic biological sciences. The goal is to establish training programs by partnering researchers working in schools of medicine and schools (or academic divisions) of public health.
Eligibility Understanding human health will be a focal priority for the programs that are funded. There is ample room for building on institutional strengths to achieve this focus, for example: institutional interests in chronic diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, toxicology and environmental exposures, reproductive health, and other areas where questions relating to human health are ripe for exploration at both the population and molecular scales. Likewise, institutional strengths in applied mathematics and modeling, statistics, genomics, bioinformatics and other informatics and data-driven sciences including geography and demographics, and phenomic approaches could provide excellent foundations for programs which encourage such work, as would strengths in population biology; epidemiology; human or disease ecology, anthropology, econometrics, and other population-focused quantitative fields. Supported programs will train graduate students to the Ph.D. level, but programs may additionally propose giving training access to postdoctoral fellows, medical students, medical residents, masters students, undergraduates, or other kinds of trainees. Some examples of problems where such an approach would be beneficial include but are not limited to multifactorial disease processes evolution of and relationships between host, pathogen, vector, and reservoirs biomarker identification and validation effects of environmental exposure to toxins, allergens, and immunogens Proposals Degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada may submit applications. Proposals must be driven by core components within medical and public health schools, but beyond those required components, departments or centers located within non-medical parts of a university, existing inter-institutional collaboratives, research museums, free-standing research institutes, and other non-profit institutions that provide advanced-level training are all acceptable as potential additional partners. Dental, osteopathic, and veterinary medical schools are appropriate applicants. Comparative medicine and animal science departments are advised to discuss their planned proposal with the program officer to ensure that their proposal will be human-focused enough to be competitive. Proposals that cross institutional boundaries are encouraged. Research groups working at national laboratories and within the federal government are allowable as partners, but funding to students doing research within these institutions must be channeled through an appropriate degree-granting institution. For-profit companies may not participate in the application, but could be valuable partners in such training programs. Proposals that may offer students access to research opportunities involving work in or data from the for-profit sector are welcome.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Post Office Box 13901 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901 Telephone: (919) 991-5100 Fax: (919) 991-5160
Career Awards at the Scientific InterfaceApplication Deadline: April 15, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time By electronic application only. Five-year awards provide $500,000 to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are intended to foster the early career development of researchers with backgrounds in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens or permanent residents. There is limited eligibility for temporary residents.
Eligibility Career Awards at the Scientific Interface provide $500,000 over five years to support up to two years of advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of a faculty appointment. Candidate eligibility and institutional nomination requirements are set out below. Candidates Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering. Exceptions will be made only if the applicant can demonstrate significant expertise in one of these areas, evidenced by publications or advanced course work. Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 48 months of postdoctoral research at the time of application. No exceptions to this requirement will be made. Candidates cannot hold nor have accepted, either in writing or verbally, a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor at the time of application. Candidates must be committed to a full-time career in research as an independent investigator at a North American degree-granting institution. Citizens of the U.S. and Canada are eligible. Non-citizen Permanent Residents of the U.S. and Canada are eligible with certification by the nominating institution. Temporary residents of the U.S. are eligible, however see “Institutional Nomination Guidelines” for restrictions. Temporary residents of Canada are not eligible. All candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada. Institutional Nominations A degree-granting institution—including its medical school, graduate schools, and all affiliated hospitals and research institutes—may nominate up to two candidates for the award. To encourage applications from women, institutions that nominate a female candidate will be allowed three nominations. To encourage applications from members of underrepresented minority groups, institutions may have a single additional nomination if they nominate an African-American, Hispanic, or Native American candidate. No more than one of an institution’s nominees may be a temporary resident of the U.S. No exceptions will be made. Institutions with questions about the eligibility or number of nominees must contact BWF in advance of the application deadline. BWF will make no exceptions to its policies. For temporary residents, institutions must certify that the applicant’s visa will allow him/her to remain in the U.S. long enough for him/her to be productive on the project. Note—If a grant is awarded and the individual’s visa does not allow for such a stay, BWF may terminate the grant. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) may nominate candidates from its intramural program, with the same restrictions listed above. The NIH will support these award recipients during the postdoctoral years, and BWF will support them for the faculty portion of the award only, for a total of $360,000. Postdoctoral fellows at the NIH should contact its Office of Intramural Studies for information about its nomination procedures. During the postdoctoral and faculty periods, Grants must be made to degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada on behalf of the award recipient. Award recipients are required to devote at least 80 percent of their time to research-related activities. Indirect costs may not be charged against BWF grants. Burroughs Wellcome Fund Post Office Box 13901 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901 Telephone: (919) 991-5100 Fax: (919) 991-5160
Hospital Libraries Section/Medical Library AssociationProfessional Development Grants This award, sponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section, provides librarians working in hospital and similar clinical settings with the support needed for educational or research activities. This award was established in 1996, and up to two awards may be granted each year. The application deadline is December 1.
For more information about any of MLA's grants or scholarships, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094 x28.
Medical Library Association 65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900 Chicago, IL 60601-7246 Tel., 312.419.9094 Fax, 312.419.8950 info@mlahq.org
American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Awards Fellowship Details * Maximum award: up to $140,000 per project, with no more than $60,000 awarded to a single participant for salary replacement * Tenure: up to a total tenure period of 24 months, to be initiated between July 1, 2009 and September 1, 2011 * Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, November 12, 2008. * Notifications will be sent in April 2009.ACLS invites applications for the inaugural competition for the ACLS Collaborative Research Awards. These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences (1). A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. Collaborations need not be interdisciplinary or inter-institutional, but must involve at least two scholars; applicants at the same institution must demonstrate why local funding is insufficient to support the project. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help demonstrate the range and value of both collaborative research and inquiry in the humanities, and model how such collaboration may be carried out successfully. Collaborations that involve the participation of assistant and associate faculty members, or that of scholars at different kinds of institutions, are particularly encouraged.ObjectivesThe aim of this program is to offer teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. Each project should * Provide release time to pursue collaborative research; * Yield tangible research outcomes, such as joint publications, web projects, or other collaboratively produced projects.The award is for a total period of up to 24 months, to be initiated between July 1, 2009 and September 1, 2011. The award includes stipends to allow up to an academic year’s leave from teaching for participants, as well as up to $20,000 in collaboration costs to facilitate face-to-face and virtual interactions. Funds not dedicated to stipends may be used for such purposes as 1) travel to meet periodically during the tenure of the award; 2) materials, such as books or modest technical support to enable collaborative work; or 3) research assistance as is necessary to facilitate the collaborative project. Awards amounts will range from $60,000 to $140,000 in total, depending on the nature and duration of the collaboration, the kinds of expenses projected to carry out the research, and the number of participants. Salary-replacement stipends are based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full Professor and career equivalent.Projects will be judged by their quality and the extent to which project participants have the expertise appropriate and necessary to carry out the work.The Project Coordinator and the Application ProcessOne member of the project team must be designated as the Project Coordinator. The Project Coordinator is responsible for starting the application, entering the names and email addresses of the other participants, completing the project sections of the application, and submitting the application. The Project Coordinator is further responsible for ensuring that all participants in the project have submitted their elements of the application. It is anticipated that the Project Coordinator’s institution will administer the funds for collaboration costs.Once the Project Coordinator has entered the participant list into the application, each participant will receive an email with registration information and a code to link them to the group application. Each project participant will complete the individual sections of the application (including personal and professional information), enter information for two reference letters, and upload a publications list. The Project Coordinator will complete the project section of the application and will the upload the project proposal. All participants will have reading access to the project section of the application, but only the Project Coordinator will be able to enter and update the project section.Eligibility Guidelines: 1. The project coordinator must have an appointment at an institution of higher education; other project members may be independent scholars. 2. The project coordinator must be at a U.S.-based institution; other project members may be at institutions outside the United States. 3. All project participants must hold a Ph.D. degree or its equivalent in publications and professional experience.Application RequirementsApplications must include: * Completed application form * Proposal (no more than 10 pages, double-spaced). The proposal should explain the process and product of the collaboration. It should make clear the goal of the collaboration, its structure, how credit and acknowledgement would be determined, and how the process and project of collaboration would be mutually informing. Finally, the proposal should explain how collaboration enables research that is intellectually innovative and produces a final outcome that would be more productive than the sum of individual efforts of the project members. * Up to two additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials * Participant Information Sheet, listing all project members and identifying the project coordinator for administrative purposes * Research Plan, including a timeline of the proposed research activities, including the location, duration, and names of individuals involved in each stage. This may be in the form of a graphic timeline or narrative description. * Bibliography (no more than three pages) that places the project in intellectual context and should include representative work in all of the disciplines involved in the project * Budget statement, outlining: salary replacement, and costs of research assistance, travel, and research materials * Publications list for each participant (no more than three pages for each participant) * At least four reference letters, with two letters for each project participantCriteria Used in Judging Collaborative Research Award ApplicationsPeer reviewers in this program are asked to evaluate all eligible proposals on the following five criteria: 1. The intrinsic quality of the proposal and the clarity with which it is conveyed, 2. The significance of the project for research in the humanities (the general and specific fields in which it figures), 3. The plan of work, 4. The training and professional experience of the researchers (relative to their career stages), and 5. The extent to which the proposed project would serve as a model for other collaborative research projects. 1. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.
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