VCU School of Medicine Grant Generating Project announces 2013-2014 fellows

By Tammy Carter
Department of Family Medicine

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine has selected 11 scholars from across the  United States and Canada to participate in the Grant Generating Project, a year-long program based at VCU designed to equip and mentor family medicine researchers with grant writing skills.

The goal of the fellowship, which brings established health professionals together for two semesters of study and related professional experiences, is to increase research capacity in securing competitive funding for grants and contracts in the discipline of family medicine.

The fellowship, which was established in 1995, is open to all faculty of family medicine programs, both university- and community-based, who are interested in pursuing competitive externally funded research on topics of interest to family medicine.

Since GGP’s inception in 1995, its alumni have reported $726 million in funded grants as either principal investigators, co-investigators or in other significant roles since participating in the program. Sources of funding include the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research, various state and local government entities, pharmaceutical companies, charitable organizations such as the American Cancer Society and United Way and numerous private foundations such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Organizational sponsors of the GGP include the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, the North American Primary Care Research Group, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the College of Family Physicians of Canada/le Collège des Médecins de Famille du Canada.

The program is directed by Daniel R. Longo, Sc.D., professor, senior investigator and special assistant to the Family Medicine Chair for the Department of Family Medicine in the VCU School of Medicine.

The 11 fellows for 2013- 2014 GGP are:

• Jennifer Bello Kottenstette, M.D., The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
  
  
• Suzanne M. Bertollo, M.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
  
  
• Beth A. Careyva, M.D., Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pa.
  
  
• Tammy Chang, M.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
  
  
• Anne Doran Halli-Tierney, M.D., The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
  
  
• Christina Hester, Ph.D., The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
  
  
• Monica Kidd, M.D., University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
  
  
• Clare C. Luz, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
  
  
• Victoria A. Osborne, Ph.D., Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
  
  
• Dorothy Siaw-Asamoah, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y.
  
  
• Brian Wells, M.D., Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

For more information about the GGP call (804) 828-9652 or visit: http://www.familymedicine.vcu.edu/research/ggp/index.html.

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