NC TraCS Award Announcements
The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the third cycle of Carolinas Collaborative grants.
The four Carolinas CTSA hubs are Duke University, the Medical University of South Carolina, Wake Forest University, and UNC (a CTSA hub made up of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in partnership with RTI International [RTI], North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University [N.C. A&T], and North Carolina State University [NC State]). They have partnered with the Carolinas Collaborative, managed by Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC), to provide a data resource (i2b2/Shrine) that harmonizes the electronic health record data elements highlighted in the CDMv3.0 across the institutions to expedite clinical research and quality improvement activities. This pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. These awards are comprised of funding from the four Carolinas CTSA hubs and The Duke Endowment.
In total, 12 applications were received and 4 were chosen for funding. The 4 projects are listed below, alphabetically by PI last name.
Daubert, Melissa, Duke University
Urrutia, Rachel, UNC-Chapel Hill
Project Title: Optimizing Postpartum Cardiovascular Care in Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Goodwin, Andrew, Medical University of South Carolina
Simpson, Annie, Medical University of South Carolina
Bice, Thomas, UNC-Chapel Hill
Files, D. Clark, Wake Forest University
Topaloglu, Umit, Wake Forest University
Project Title: Development and validation of a multi-center ventilator dependent respiratory failure (VDRF) computable phenotype to facilitate lung protective ventilation research
Ranapurwala, Shabbar, UNC-Chapel Hill
Wu, Li-Tzy, Duke University
Korte, Jeffrey, Medical University of South Carolina
Wolfson, Mark, Wake Forest University
Project Title: Measuring Opioid Use Disorders in Secondary Electronic Health Records Data
Tailor, Tina, Duke University
Henderson, Louise, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chiles, Caroline, Wake Forest University
Project Title: Detection of Coronary Artery Calcification in the Lung Cancer Screening Population: Clinical Implications for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification and Statin Pharmacotherapy
View a complete list of Pilot awardees at tracs.unc.edu/pilot.