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Nancy Byatt, DO, MS’15, MBA, current KL2 Program mentor, former KL2 and Pilot Project Program Awardee continues to shine! A research team led by Dr. Byatt, pictured here with Christopher Sheldrick, PhD, has secured a $21 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to conduct a perinatal mental health equity study. Read full story HERE.
Pilot Project Program awardee, Melissa Anderson, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, pictured here with Alexander Wilkins, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are co-directors of the DeafYes! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery at UMass Chan. They have been awarded a $3.6 million award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to start a nationwide virtual clinic testing evidence-based therapy for Deaf people with trauma symptoms and alcohol use disorders. Read full story HERE.
Research supported by a K23 grant is under way by KL2 scholar Lara Kovell, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, on a project titled, “Development of a Mobile Health Intervention for Blood Pressure Management in Pregnancy”.
The goal of the study is to support home BP monitoring (HBPM) and hypertension self-care in pregnant women with hypertension. By developing a culturally-relevant digital health approach, the proposed Moms@Home intervention will integrate storytelling videos from women with similar lived experiences with a Social Cognitive Theory-based proven approach to support behavior change. Storytelling, a culturally relevant approach that taps into the wisdom of the community, is a way to bring group prenatal care to our patients who are often managing hypertension without peer support.
UMass Chan Medical School awarded
AAHRPP Re-Accreditation
On December 15, 2023, the Council on Accreditation of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP) once again awarded UMass Chan Medical School Full Accreditation for a period of five years. This is a continuation of the Medical School’s AAHRPP Accreditation, first issued in 2015 and renewed in 2018.
AAHRPP is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body headquartered in Washington, DC which promotes high-quality research through accreditation. According to AAHRPP, “As the “gold seal,” AAHRPP accreditation offers assurances—to research participants, researchers, sponsors, government regulators, and the general public—that an HRPP is focused first and foremost on excellence.”
For questions and additional information about AAHRPP and UMass Chan, please contact Meg Johnson, JD, CIP at Meg.Johnson@umassmed.edu
Congratulations to our IRB staff who hosted the FDA with only a few days notice and successfully aced the inspection!
UMass Chan MD/PhD student Pryce Michener has received an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to further his research on substance use and medications for opioid use disorder. Full story HERE.
Congratulations to our New TL1 Postdoc Fellow
