Project Title
Principal Investigator
Institution
Year
Amount
Program
Research Topics

Improving End-of-Life Care in the Nursing Home

Joann Reinhardt

The New Jewish Home Research Institute on Aging

2014

$56,800

Another Look: Research to Improve Health for Older Adults in Long Term Care Facilities

Geriatrics

A Community-Based Skilled Nursing Facility for Difficult-to-Place Patients

Lisa Barry

University of Connecticut

2014

$97,790

Another Look: Research to Improve Health for Older Adults in Long Term Care Facilities

Geriatrics

Training for Journalists on Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care Guidelines

Mildred Solomon

The Hastings Center

2014

$25,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Bioethics, Health Policy and Systems

Scaling and Implementation of a Worksite Healthy Eating Program

Anne Thorndike

Massachusetts General Hospital

2014

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Behavioral Sciences, Nutrition

Pain Care Quality Improvement: From Research to the Marketplace

Robert Kerns

Yale University

2014

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Primary Care

Healthy Food Marketing in Hartford Food Stores

Martha Page

Hartford Food System

2014

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Nutrition

SEED Greater Understanding of Sickle Cell Disease

William Zempsky

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

2014

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Pediatrics, Chronic Illness and Disability

Replicating a Healthy Lifestyle Program in FQHCs

Anne Camp

Fair Haven Community Health Center

2014

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Primary Care, Public Health

Consumer-directed financial incentives to increase advance care planning among Medicaid beneficiaries

Amber Barnato

University of Pittsburgh

2013

$200,000

Funding Partnerships

Behavioral Sciences, Health Policy and Systems

Advancing Effectiveness Research and Implementation Science in our Own Backyards: Donaghue Grant Opportunity for Academic Medical Centers

Ann Bonham

Association of American Medical Colleges

2013

$600,000

Funding Partnerships

Focused Program of Research

Hospital Strategies to Reduce Risk Standardized 3- day Mortality

Elizabeth Bradley

Yale School of Medicine

2013

$112,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical Practice

Enhancement of CAPC Registry™–Data Drives Access to Palliative Care

Diane Meier

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Clinical Practice

Reaching Non-Self-Identifiers in End-of-Life Care

Nancy Berlinger

The Hastings Center

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Clinical Practice

HELP 2.0: Relevant, Ready, Reachable

Sharon Inouye

Hebrew SeniorLife

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Geriatrics

Payer-Provider Portal to Enhance Easy Breathing Adoption

Michelle Cloutier

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Pediatrics, Primary Care

Minding the Baby Home Visitation Service: Transitioning from research to service

Linda Mayes

Yale University

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Psychiatry, Pediatrics

Translating SisterTalk Hartford for Dissemination in New York City

Judith Fifield

University of Connecticut Health Center

2013

$55,000

R3-Research Relevant & Ready

Public Health

Fighting Viruses with Viral Marketing? Using Online Social Endorsements to Enhance Incentives to Sign Up for Flu Vaccinations

Ellen Magenheim

Swarthmore College

2012

$100,000

Funding Partnerships

Behavioral Sciences

Using Behavioral Economics to Promote Medication Adherence and Habit Formation

Judd Kessler

University of Pennsylvania

2012

$100,000

Funding Partnerships

Behavioral Sciences

Primary Care Workforce Requirements and Supply – Alternative Care Models

David Auerbach

RAND

2012

$53,670

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Health Policy and Systems

Development and Implementation of Patient-Centered Guidelines

Terri Fried

Yale School of Medicine

2012

$880,000

Program for Research Leadership

Geriatrics, Chronic Illness and Disability

Big Food: Health, culture and the evolution of eating

Jeannette Ickovics

Yale University

2011

$15,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Public Health, Nutrition

Hospitalomics

Harlan Krumholz

Yale School of Medicine

2011

$880,000

Program for Research Leadership

Cardiovascular Diseases, Obstetrics and Gynecology

First Contact to Care Research Planning Grant

Evelyn Barnum

Community Health Center Association of Connecticut

2010

$13,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Health Policy and Systems

Implementation of a Stepped Care Model for Veterans

Robert Kerns

Yale School of Medicine

2010

$400,000

Program for Research Leadership

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Primary Care

Treatment for Comorbid Alcohol use disorders and domestic abusers

Peggilee Wupperman

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

2009

$239,972

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences

Changing life-styles for better health

William Tamborlane

Yale University School of Medicine

2009

$927,286

Program for Research Leadership

Primary Care, Public Health

Contingency Mgmt and Pharmacotherapy for Smoking Cessation

Sheila Alessi

University of Connecticut Health Center

2008

$238,490

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Behavioral Sciences

The effect of early range of motion on clinical outcomes

Augustus Mazzocca

University of Connecticut Health Center

2008

$239,581

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Clinical Practice

Prefrontal Development in Youths at Risk for Schizophre

Naomi Driesen

Yale University School of Medicine

2008

$239,938

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Pediatrics, Psychiatry

Gene-expression algorithms to predict lithium response

Robert Beech

Yale University

2008

$240,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Genetics

Restoring Hope and Health to Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Larry Davidson

Yale School of Medicine

2008

$240,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Primary Care

Sickle Cell Pain: A novel approach to assessment and relief

William Zempsky

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

2008

$595,795

Donaghue Investigators

Behavioral Sciences, Health Policy and Systems

Ethics & Economics of Healthcare Disparities

Jennifer Prah Ruger

University of Pennsylvania

2008

$595,795

Donaghue Investigators

Bioethics, Health Services

Contribution of Life Trauma to the Neurobiology of Depre

Alexander Neumeister

New York University of Medicine

2008

$224,000

Donaghue Investigators

Psychiatry

Factors Associated with Successful Palliative Care Programs

Diane Meier

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

2008

$210,363

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Geriatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Engaging Leaders in Patient Safety through Simulation

Gregg Meyer

Massachusetts General Hospital

2008

$325,196

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Safety Through Knowledge Improving Institutional Learning

Kenneth Sands

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2008

$257,550

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Improving Patient Safety through Leadership & Teamwork

Mary Finnegan

Goodall Hospital

2008

$283,579

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Empower: Leadership initiative to education and monitor paraprofessionals

Moreen Donahue

Danbury Hospital

2008

$306,498

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology