Irving Institute Announces 2017-2018 CaMPR Pilot Awardees
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, home to Columbia University’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hub, announces the winners of the 2017-18 Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) pilot awards.
The Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research Pilot Award (CaMPR) is a two-phase award that provides planning and start-up funds to support the formation of newly-configured investigative teams with the aim of addressing a significant health problem at the cellular, individual, or community level. The pilot awardees are:
Using Narrative Medicine to Reduce Weight Bias Across the Health Professions: Toward Improved Health Care for Persons with Obesity
- Sharon Akabas, PhD, Pediatrics - Gastroenterology (Principal Investigator)
- Rebekah Ruppe, DNP, Nursing (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Laurel Abbruzzese, BA, MSPT, EdM, EdD, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
- Tirissa Reid, MD, Medicine
- Folarin Odusola, DMD, Dental Medicine
- Rita Charon MD, PhD, Medicine
Effectiveness of spinal cord stimulation for the management of freezing of gait and locomotion in Parkinson’s disease
- Nora Vanegas, MD, Neurology (Principal Investigator)
- Stanley Fahn, MD, Neurology
- Sunil Agrawal, PhD, Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Christopher Winfree, MD, Neurosurgery
- Lan Luo MD, Neurology
- Antonio Prado, MS, Engineering and Applied Sciences