2024 Pilot Awardees

Leveraging causal genetic mechanisms to achieve generalizable polygenic prediction of health and disease in underrepresented populations

• Xiang Zhu, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Statistics
  Penn State
  

• Siming Zhao, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science
  Dartmouth College

Strengthening community coalitions and empowering public health professionals for translational and implementation science

• William Calo, PhD, JD, MPH
  Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
  Penn State
  

• Prajakta Adsul, MBBS, PhD, MPH
  Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  University of New Mexico

Pilot Gestational diabetes Aftercare and Postpartum Screening (GAPS) Study

• Karen Roper, PhD, MS
  Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
  University of Kentucky
  

• Aubrey Jones, PhD, MSW
  Assistant Professor, College of Social Work
  University of Kentucky
  

• Sara Marie E. Simonsen, PhD, MSPH, MSN
  Associate Professor and the Annette Poulson Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair in Women’s & Reproductive Health, College of Nursing
  University of Utah

Development of an informatics knowledge base for medical-dental EHR integration

• Brenda Heaton,PhD, MPH
  Associate Professor, College of Dentistry
  University of Utah
  

• Luciana Shaddox, DDS, MS, PhD
  Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Dentistry
  University of Kentucky
  

• Jeffrey Talbert, PhD
  Professor and Division Chief for Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine
  Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, College of Pharmacy
  University of Kentucky
  

• Jie Xie, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
  Indiana University
  

• Boyd Knosp, MS
  Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics Operations, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
  Associate Dean for Information Technology, Carver College of Medicine
  University of Iowa