Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum Scholarship recipient. (December 2021). The IHI provides funding to support the registration for the IHI Forum for a limited number of exceptional applicants who make a contribution to the field of person-and family-centered care and Quality Improvement.
Anti-TNF Monotherapy versus Combination Therapy with Low Dose Methotrexate in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease (COMBINE), 2015-Present ($7,900,000). Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Consultant. Large, pragmatic clinical trial designed to determine whether an intervention using an anti-TNF drug plus low-dose oral methotrexate is more effective than anti-TNF therapy alone among naïve children with moderate-to-severe Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. Principal Investigator, Michael D. Kappelman, MD, MPH of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the ImproveCareNow Network.
Healthy Mind Healthy You: A Dose Finding Study of Mindfulness. 2016- Present ($3,996,702). Co-investigator. Clinical trial of dose-based study of mindfulness that randomized participants to either eight sessions of online mindfulness-based treatment ("standard") or a briefer, three-session online mindfulness-based treatment ("light") to compare the treatments' efficacy and acceptability across a wide range of conditions and special populations. Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Director, Clinical Research Programs.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum Scholarship recipient. (December 2020). The IHI provides funding to support the registration for the IHI Forum for a limited number of exceptional applicants who make a contribution to the field of person-and family-centered care and Quality Improvement.
Co-producing Learning Health System Culture and Process to Accelerate PCOR in the ImproveCareNow Network. 2019-2020. Consultant. Served on the Project Leadership Team to collaborate on Site Recruitment, participate in the Phase 2 Design Meeting; consult on adaptation of I-ACT tools, measures and resources to ICN; review data monthly; develop agenda for and chair leadership team calls. Coached and mentored parents and patients on the Trailblazer teams on co-production of research and improvement to ensure that project questions and design, conduct, and dissemination of results are consistent with the needs and goals of patients and parent stakeholders.
Optimizing IBD Pediatric Treatment for Improving Patient Outcomes. 2020-2023 (application) Consultant. This research project aims to understand the therapeutic treatment patterns for children and adolescents who were diagnosed to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and to identify the right treatment for the right patients. Nanhua Zhang, PhD. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Steven Steiner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine
Leverage a Learning Health Network for Optimal Pediatric IBD Treatment. 2021-2023. Consultant. Place Outcome Research Award grant which aims to understand the therapeutic treatment patterns for children and adolescents who were diagnosed to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and to identify the right treatment for the right patients. Nanhua Zhang, PhD. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics.
Chancellors Distinguished Five-Year Fellowship Award, 1996-2002 ($150,000), awarded full five-year graduate fellowship including tuition, stipends, and research support, University of California, Riverside.
Departmental Fellowship Award, 1999 ($6,000.00), University of California, Riverside.
Dissertation Research Grant, 2001 ($600.00), University of California, Riverside.
Who's Who Rising Young Americans in Business & Society, 1998.
Nominated for National Addy Award: Best Advertising Promotion, KVBC TV Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998.