Congratulations to Pilot Awardees Kirsten Dickins, Chuka Emezue, Li-Ting Longcoy, Elizabeth Tung, and Anna Volerman on receiving grants and honors from NIH!

Cycle 2 Pilot Awardee Kirsten Dickins, assistant professor at Rush University College of Nursing, received an NIH R01 for Improving Traumatic Stress in Black Women Experiencing Homelessness: Evaluation of a Stakeholder Engaged Intervention

Cycle 2 Pilot Awardee Li-Ting Longcoy, postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois Chicago, begins the second year of her NIH K99 for Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention 

Cycle 2 Pilot Awardee Chuka Emezue, assistant professor at Rush University College of Nursing, is an NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute 2024 Scholar and received a Rush to Progress Pilot Award for A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of a Culturally Tailored Digital Therapeutic for Violence-Impacted Young Black Males

Cycle 2 Pilot Awardee Elizabeth Tung, assistant professor at University of Chicago, and Cycle 4 Pilot Awardee Anna Volerman, associate professor at University of Chicago, received an NIH R01 for CHAMP-V + LAW: A program to prevent youth violence by addressing upstream structural determinants through community health worker and civil legal aid interventions