Wisconsin Network for Research Support
Improving ambulation during a hospital stay Lead Researcher: Barb King, PhD, RN, APRN-BC; UW-Madison School of Nursing What is the focus of your research? The focus of my research is to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults. The route I’m taking to do this is to find out how we can improve ambulation during a …
Provider-patient communication in managing chronic childhood conditions Lead Researcher: Gwen Costa Jacobsohn, PhD, Primary Care Research Fellow; UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health What is the focus of your research? My research looks at the role of provider-patient communication in management of chronic childhood conditions; more broadly, relationship between socioeconomic determinants of health and …
ICTR-CAP Funding Opportunities Released On November 1st, ICTR-CAP released their 2018 Request for Applications. WINRS has worked with several research teams who have received these grants and would love to work with your team! We help researchers develop strong recruitment and stakeholder engagement sections for grant proposals and partner with research teams to implement these …
Dawn Lynch Member of the Pitt Patient and Family Advisory Board since 2016 What is one thing you really like about being a member of a patient advisory committee? When something totally unexpected happens to you, like what happened to me, it’s not like you say “poor me”, but ultimately, you want a way to …
Spreading awareness and preventing healthcare-associated infections Lead Researcher: Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD; UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health What is the focus of your research? Our team’s research agenda focuses on healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention and treatment with a specific interest in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. To better inform our work, we applied for and …
WINRS co-directors present at community engaged research conference in DC WINRS co-Directors, Gay Thomas and Betty Kaiser, shared a package of “tips and tools” during a 90-minute “Learning Lab” at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research conference in Washington, DC, September 24-15. The WINRS team drew on their experience consulting on 9 …
Comparing treatment strategies for patients taking long-term opioid pain medications Lead Researcher: Erin Krebs, MD, MPH at Minneapolis VA Co-Principal Investigators: Karen Seal MD MPH at San Francisco VA, William Becker MD at West Haven VA What is the focus of your research? We will be comparing two treatment strategies for patients with pain who …
Directory of Resources for Researchers Would you like to know more about resources available to researchers at the UW-Madison? The Office of Campus Cores (within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education) recently launched an online directory of resources that might be useful to research teams. You can access the directory …
Preventing misuse of OTC medications by older adults Lead Researcher: Michelle Chui, PharmD, PhD; UW-Madison School of Pharmacy What is the focus of your research? The goal of our current AHRQ funded research grant is to prevent the misuse of over-the-counter medications by older adults by implementing a system-redesign intervention in community pharmacies. How has …
Mike Arndorfer Member of the Cox Parent Advisory Board from 2014-2017 What is one thing you really like about being a member of a patient advisory committee? The thing I like most about being a member of the patient advisory committee is giving back to the medical community and patient population that has helped us …