Funding Opportunities
The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities is providing two types of funding opportunities for the 2021-2022 year. Applications were accepted in August–September 2021. Awardees were announced in December 2021.
CBMH Pilot/Exploratory Grant
This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health, or healthcare policy. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.
Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients (2021-2022)
- The Impact of Neighborhood-Level Social Needs and the Build-Environment on Patient Disease Severity on Presentation to the PICU
Paula Magee, MD, MPH (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
- Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination Consent Study
Ashwin Sunderraj (Medical Student)
Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
- Ethics of Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies-Pilot Phase
Mohammad Hosseini, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher, Preventive Medicine)
Mentor: Kristi Holmes, PhD
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant
Provided jointly with the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), this award funds research in bioethics and artificial intelligence (AI). This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore bioethics problems associated with any type of AI in healthcare. Projects can address issues from conception, development, testing, and implementation of AI and can be normative or empirical work. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant Recipients (2021-2022)
- Physician Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence and Result Management
Jonathan Huang (Medical Student)
Mentor: Mozziyar Etemadi, MD, PhD
- Management of Facial Images as a Biometric in a Healthcare Setting
Sara H. Katsanis, MS (Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics)
Past CBMH Grant Recipients
Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients
- 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
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
If you have any questions about these awards, please contact Bryan Morrison.