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DUSON gets NIH grants
posted October 10th, 2008The Duke University School of Nursing has been awarded two new competitive research grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute for Nursing Research. One is for Self-Management Interventions in Life-Limiting Illness and another is for Decision-Making for Infants with Complex Life Threatening Conditions.
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Self-Management Interventions in Life-Limiting Illness
Professor of Medicine and Nursing and Director of the Center for Palliative Care James Tulsky is the Principal Investigator. Project Collaborators include: from DUSON, Assistant Professor Cristina Hendrix, Associate Professor Chip Bailey, and Clinical Associate Julie Hudson; Karen Steinhauser of the VA Medical Center; Maren Olsen from Biostatistics & Bioinformatics; Francis Keefe and Laura Porter from Medical Psychology; Amy Abernethy from Oncology; Jennifer Garst of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center; Joseph Moore from Oncology & Transplant Services; and Andrew Muir from Gastroenterology. The award for the five-year project (2008-13) is estimated at nearly $3.4 million.
Decision-Making for Infants with Complex Life Threatening Conditions
Assistant Professor Sharron Docherty is the Principal Investigator. The Project Co-Investigators are Associate Professor Debbie Brandon, Consulting Professor Margaret Miles, and Professor of Medicine and Nursing and Director of the Center for Palliative Care James Tulsky. Project collaborators include: Margarete Sandelowski of UNC-Chapel Hill; Karen Kavanaugh of the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Chris Feudtner from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Project Research Team includes: Research Assistant Julie Thompson, Research Coordinator Donna Ryan, and Research Nurse Angel Barnes. The award for the five-year project (2008-13) is estimated at $1.95 million.