1R56HL123797 -- 01 (Martin) NHLBI
The Asthma Action at Erie Trial
This Community Based Participatory Research study is based on work that Dr. Martin and I did in her study of a Family Intervention for Pediatric Asthma Self-Management in Puerto Ricans. In this trial, a two-arm behavioral randomized controlled trial will be conducted in partnership with a federally-qualified health center (FQHC) serving a low income, minority population that is at high-risk for significant asthma morbidity. The intervention arm will receive an integrated CHW home intervention for pediatric asthma education. The comparison arm will received clinic-based certified asthma educator (AE-C) services. As an investigator in this study, I participate in overall study oversight, CHW training, analyses, and manuscript preparation.
Role: Investigator
1R01DK098256-01A1 (Rothschild) NIDDK
The Multi-clinic Action Trial to Control Hyperglycemia and Hypertension (MATCH2)
The purpose of the MATCH2 Study is to adapt and optimize the MATCH Community Health Worker behavioral intervention for implementation in clinic settings. This study will first use qualitative methods to refine the MATCH intervention to work with multiracial, multiethnic clinic populations and then test that refined intervention to determine effectiveness in simultaneously improving levels of both Hemoglobin A1c and blood pressure when compared to an attention control. This community-engaged study will also seek to better understand the mechanisms of CHW effectiveness, and to determine if benefits can be maintained over time in a general clinic population.
Role: Principal Investigator
P50 HL 105189 - 01 (Powell) NHLBI
The Rush Center for Urban Health Equity
This P50 Center is a multidisciplinary program to reduce health disparities and increase careers in health research by individuals from underrepresented communities. The mission of the Rush Center is to partner with underserved communities to develop, conduct, evaluate and sustain rigorous multi-level interventions to reduce disparities in cardiopulmonary diseases. Study 2 within the Center is the BRIGHTEN-Heart trial, A randomized controlled trial testing whether a virtual interprofessional team can improve depression outcomes in older minority adults (African Americans and Latinos, age 60 and over) with comorbid metabolic syndrome and depression.
Role: Associate Center Director; Principal Investigator on Study 2 BRIGHTEN Heart Trial; Co-investigator on Study 3 CURA2
1 R01 DK061289-01A2 (Rothschild) NIDDK
Mexican-American Trial of Community Health Workers (MATCH)
The MATCH trial tested the use of indigenous Community Health Workers, recruited from the target community and trained to provide culturally appropriate diabetes education, in promoting pro-active self-management among inner-city dwelling Mexican-Americans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study demonstrated that the CHW intervention arm had clinically significant improvements in Hemoglobin A1c at one and two years post intervention as compared to an attention control group.
Role: Principal Investigator
SELECT Southwest Oncology Group
Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial
This international multi-center randomized trial evaluated the roles of Vitamin E and Selenium supplementation in reducing the risk of prostate cancer in men over the age of fifty.
Role: Site PI
R01 NR011142-1 (Rothschild) NINR
Block-By-Block: the Humboldt Park Campaign Against Diabetes
This Community Based Participatory Research study develop and evaluated an approach to reducing diabetes health outcomes disparities in a medically underserved inner city community using Diabetes Block Captains.
Role: PI
5R25CA114084 (Faut-Callahan) NCI
Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Education Program
Over the five-year project period, this project achieved the following goals: a) develop and implement a novel Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Education Program that builds upon existing end-of-life and palliative care initiatives and incorporates interdisciplinary didactic coursework, case conferences, and clinical activities for graduate-level health care students; b) implement a comprehensive evaluation plan for the proposed Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Education Program; and c) sustain the Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Education Program within Rush University Medical Center and disseminate the education model to other academic medical centers by sharing our experiences and course and clinical materials.
Role: Co-Investigator
R21 HL093346 (Martin) and 1 R21 HL087769 (Martin) NHLBI
A Family Intervention for Pediatric Asthma Self-Management in Puerto Ricans
These two studies tested the feasibility and effectiveness of a structured community-based intervention to improve asthma control for high-risk minority children in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood.
Role: Co-Investigator
200-0312 Rothschild (PI) John A. Hartford Foundation of New York
Virtual Integrated Practice: A New Approach to Health Care Teams
This study evaluated the efficacy of a virtual interprofessional team in primary care to improve the health of older adult patients.
Role: Principal Investigator
Geriatric Interdisciplinary Teams in Practice -- Dissemination Project (Coleman) Hartford Foundation/University of Colorado
The major goal of this project is to disseminate models of team care that have been shown to improve the health of older adult patients, including the Rush Virtual Integrated Practice model.
Role: Site PI
