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May 2008 Edition
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UCSF scores $439 million in 2007 NIH funding, ranks among top universities | The University of California, San Francisco, received $439 million in research support from the National Institutes of Health last year, UCSF said late Friday.
That made it the nation's third-largest recipient of such NIH aid in 2007, trailing only Johns Hopkins University's $582 million and the University of Pennsylvania's $451.5 million.
The UCSF total included $373.1 million in NIH support for the UCSF School of Medicine, which ranked third nationally behind Johns Hopkins' and Penn's medical schools.
The $439 million total included research and training grants, fellowships and other awards, but did not include research contracts, which the NIH will announce later this year.
In addition, UCSF reported, its School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy all ranked first nationally in total NIH dollars in 2007, as they have consistently in recent years .....Full Story
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A new Web resource that allows users to learn, share, and adopt innovations in the delivery of health services was launched last week by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The resource--called the Health Care Innovations Exchange--is available at www.innovations.ahrq.gov. Designed as a tool for health care leaders, physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who seek to reduce health care disparities and improve health care overall, the site is the federal government's repository for successful health care innovations, but it also includes useful descriptions of attempts at innovations that failed.
"Sharing information about important new developments in methods of delivering effective health care is typically a hit-or-miss process," said AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. "Such information exchanges often occur only within organizations, through conferences, and by chance over the Internet ..... Full Story
| At Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, the announcement Friday that construction would soon begin on a $43-million research and nursing school building did more than lift spirits around the campus.
It gave the medical school an opportunity to boast about a number of firsts.
The building represents the largest investment in South Los Angeles in decades. The new school will be the first comprehensive training facility for nurses to be built in California in several years and the first ever in that community ..... Full Story
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| The Foundation of New York State Nurses has established two new research awards entitled the “Novice Nurse Researcher Award” and the “Evidence-Based Practice Award.” These are in addition to the Foundation’s “Distinguished Nurse Researcher” award, established in 1980. The Novice Researcher Award recognizes a novice researcher who demonstrates excellence in an emerging program of research. The Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award recognizes excellence in a coherent program of research. The Evidence-Based Practice award recognizes excellence in implementation of nursing research into practice. The Awards Program showcases nursing excellence both within the profession and to the public. The deadline for submission of nominations is May 12, 2008 .....Full Story
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing a $10 million grant to investigate better ways of managing sedation for children on life-saving ventilators. The grant, the largest in the school’s history, will be devoted to conducting one of the most comprehensive studies ever undertaken in pediatric critical care.
The children, who range in age from infant to 18 years, are typically the victims of trauma, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, asthma and other conditions, and are often critically ill, requiring the insertion of ventilation tubes into the throat to assist breathing. The study will involve more than 2,750 patients in 18 of some of the most prestigious pediatric hospitals in the United States and Canada.
“This research asks an important question that will directly inform doctors how to care for critically ill pediatric patients,” said Dr .....Full Story
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