Funding Opportunities

CBMH Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients

• Examining Cancer Survivors' Knowledge of Disability & Employment-Related Legal Protections and Supports (2025)
  Amy McArthur
  Mentor: Sofia Garcia, PhD
• Improving Informed Consent: Visual Icons to Support Participant Comprehension (2025)
  Brady Daitch
  Mentor: Mohammad Hosseini, PhD
• Institutional Culture at the Limit of Viability: A Multi-Center Mixed Methods Study (2024)
  Shannon Adams-Hartung
  Mentors: Jessica Fry, Natalia Henner, and Dalia Feltman
• A Multi-Center Retrospective Review of the Characteristics of Pediatric Patients with Ethics Consults (2023)
  Jordan Nicole Drawbridge, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
  Mentors: Drs. Kelly Michelson, Erin Paquette, and Irini Kolaitis
• Associations Between Perceived Financial Distress and Non-Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses Among Caregivers of Critically-Ill Children (2023)
  Vidya Mahavadi, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
  Mentors: Drs. Denise Goodman, Erin Paquette, Carolyn Foster, Anna Chorniy
• Family-Initiated Interpretation: A Novel Approach to Communication in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (2023)
  Mary Pilarz, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
  Mentor: Dr. Stacy Cooper Bailey
• The Impact of Neighborhood-Level Social Needs and the Build-Environment on Patient Disease Severity on Presentation to the PICU (2021-2022)
  Paula Magee, MD, MPH (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
  Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
• Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination Consent Study (2021-2022)
  Ashwin Sunderraj (Medical Student)
  Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
• Ethics of Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies-Pilot Phase (2021-2022)
  Mohammad Hosseini, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher, Preventive Medicine)
  Mentor: Kristi Holmes, PhD
• Comparison of Ethical Decision-Making Climate Among Subspecialty ICUs at a Single Institution (2019-20)
  Courtney Furlough, MD
• Prognostic Discussions with Parents of High Risk, Critically Ill Pediatric Patients (2019-20)
  Lauren Rissman, MD
• Provider Perspectives on Communication and Consent in Evaluations for Brain Death (2018-19)
  Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics
• Optimizing Palliative Care for Critically Ill Adults: A Mixed Methods Evaluation (2018-19)
  Katharine Secunda, MD
• The Perceptions of Resident Physicians Regarding the Performance of Abortions Under Limited Anesthesia at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital (2017-18)
  Ashish Premkumar, MD and Whitney You, MD, MPH
• How Should My Doctor Talk about End of Life Care with Me and My Family?: A Qualitative Study on Latino Patients’ Preferences (2017-18)
  Margaret Russell, MD
• Humanism in Interventional Radiology: Helping a New Specialty Find Its Clinical Identity (2016-17)
  Eric Keller, MA
• Pathways to Chronic Critical Illness: A Qualitative Evaluation (2016-17)
  Jacqueline Kruser, MD
• ABCs in Pediatrics: Engaging Parents in the Development and Legally Valid Approaches to Biorepository Consent in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients (2016-17)
  Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant Recipients

• Ethics at Eye Level: Exploring the Bioethical Implications of AI-Powered Smart Glasses for Health & Well-being Self-Management (2025)
  Tim Schwirtlich
  Mentor: Abel Kho, MD
• Prediction of Intra-abdominal Injury using Generative Large Language Model Application to Electronic Medical Record Data (2025)
  Wilson Ting
  Mentor: Anne Stey, MD, MSc
• Exploring Shared Decision Making, Informed Consent, and the Use of AI in Infertility Care: Perspectives of Patients, Physicians, and Embryologists (2024)
  Sarah Cromack
  Mentor: Jessica Walter
• Co-designing Equitable Generative AI Tools for Inclusive Sexual Health Education with Queer Teens (2024)
  William Liem
  Mentors: Andrew Berry and Kathryn Macapgal
• Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Exploring the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Medical Student Assignments in the Psychiatry Clerkship (2024)
  Kaitlyn Kunstman
• Trends in US Newspaper Coverage of Healthcare AI Controversies (2023)
  Joshua Faber (Medical student)
  Mentor: Dr. Chad Teven
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Intersectional Socio-Demographic Risk for Child Maltreatment in Illinois (2023)
  Zhidi Luo (PhD student, Health Sciences Integrated Program)
  Mentor: Dr. Richard Epstein
• Physician Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence and Result Management (2021-2022)
  Jonathan Huang (Medical Student)
  Mentor: Mozziyar Etemadi, MD, PhD
• Management of Facial Images as a Biometric in a Healthcare Setting (2021-2022)
  Sara H. Katsanis, MS (Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics)

COVID-19 Ethics and Humanities Grant Recipients

• COVID-19: Creative/Critical Studies in Music, Image, and Text (2020-21)
  Jacob Leveton and Tamar Kharatishvili (Graduate Students, Department of Art History)
  Mentor: Kathleen Bickford Berzock, PhD
• Unblinding in Randomized Control Trials: A Clinical Ethics Pandemic Evaluation (2020-21)
  Ayesha Bhatia, MPH (Research Study Coordinator, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
  Mentor: Katherine L. Wisner, MD
• Ethical Principles of PPE Allocation During COVID-19 (2020-21)
  Tazim Merchant, Tricia Pendergrast, and Roger Smith (Medical Students)
  Mentor: Mark Sheldon, PhD 

Program Development Grant Recipients

• The PICU Equity Project (2019-20)
  Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe and Sabrina Derrington, MD, MA
• Ethics in Practice: An Online Interactive Ethics Education Platform (2018-19)
  Shelly Benjaminy, PhD
• Addressing Barriers to Special Education for Children by Enabling Collaboration Between Schools and Health Care Providers (2018-19)
  Jenifer Cartland, PhD
• Nurse Ethics Champion Program (2016-17)
  Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA and M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC