Clinical & Community Health

Currently the Foundation is not accepting letters of intent or applications in the Clinical and Community Health Issues program.

Clinical and Community Health Issues program is an investigator-initiated, project-based award of up to $240,000 over two or three years.  Applications are invited based upon the submission of a two-page letter of intent.  Letters of intent are reviewed six times a year, and the application deadlines are in January and September of each year.

During the Spring and Fall 2008 cycle of of Donaghue's Clinical and Community Health Issues program, 13 applications were reviewed and the following three grants were awarded:

Peggilee Wupperman, PhD Yale University School of Medicine "Treatment for Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorders and Domestic-Violence Perpetration in Women" $239,969

Augustus Mazzocca, MS, MD University of Connecticut Health Center

 

"The effect of early range of motion on clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cuff integrity following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair"

$239,851

Robert M. Beech, MD Yale University

"Gene-expression algorithms to predict lithium response" $240,000

During the Spring and Fall 2007 cycle, six Clinical and Community Health Issues grant made:

Vinod Srihari, MD
Yale University School of Medicine

“Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP)”

$239,502

Thomas Gill, MD
Yale University School of Medicine

 

“Enhancing Independent Bathing in Community Living Elders”

$239,999

Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD
Yale University School of Medicine

 

“Survivors of Cancer in Adolescent and Young Adults”

$240,000

Naomi Driesen, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine

 

“Prefrontal Development in Youths at Risk for Schizophrenia”

$239,938

Sheila M. Alessi, PhD
University of Connecticut Health Center

 

“Contingency Management and Pharmacotherapy for Smoking Cessation”

$238,490

Larry Davidson, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine

“Restoring Hope and Health to Adults with Serious Mental Illness”

$240,000