Funding Opportunities
The Pilot/Exploratory Grant
The goal of the pilot/exploratory grant is to provide funding for pilot/exploratory projects that help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy.
The Program Development Grant
The goal of the program development grant is to provide funding for projects that provide a foundation for sustainable programing in bioethics and medical humanities.
This year's recipients have been selected. We expect to begin accepting proposals for 2019-20 awards in summer 2019, and to announce and disperse the awards in fall 2019.
If you have any questions about either of these awards, please contact Bryan Morrison.
Current Award Recipients (2018-19)
Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients
Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics – Provider Perspectives on Communication and Consent in Evaluations for Brain Death
Katharine Secunda, MD – Optimizing Palliative Care for Critically Ill Adults: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
Program Development Recipient
Shelly Benjaminy, PhD – Ethics in Practice: An Online Interactive Ethics Education Platform
Jenifer Cartland, PhD – Addressing Barriers to Special Education for Children by Enabling Collaboration Between Schools and Health Care Providers
Previous Award Recipients
Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients
Ashish Premkumar, MD and Whitney You, MD, MPH – The Perceptions of Resident Physicians Regarding the Performance of Abortions Under Limited Anesthesia at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital
Margaret Russell, MD – How Should My Doctor Talk about End of Life Care with Me and My Family?: A Qualitative Study on Latino Patients’ Preferences
Eric Keller, MA – Humanism in Interventional Radiology: Helping a New Specialty Find Its Clinical Identity
Jacqueline Kruser, MD – Pathways to Chronic Critical Illness: A Qualitative Evaluation
Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics – ABCs in Pediatrics: Engaging Parents in the Development and Legally Valid Approaches to Biorepository Consent in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients
Program Development Recipient
Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA and M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC – Nurse Ethics Champion Program