GRANTS MADE 2005

Columbus Children's Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio, "Effectiveness of Auxiliary Management Guidelines on Hospitalized Children with Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Episodes"
A grant of $20,390 to support an intervention study designed to examine the effects of consistent adherence to inpatient guidelines for management of vaso-occulsive pain episodes in patients with Sickle Cell Disease. Contact: Kathleen L. Lemanek
Web Site: http://www.columbuschildrens.com

University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, "Parenteral Opioid Effectiveness Assessment"
A grant of $80,500 representing the first payment of a two-year grant of $161,000 to measure the effectiveness of existing intravenous opioid dosing in a busy emergency department. The results of the study will be used to create an educational initiative supported by computer provider order entry prompting to try to improve opioid prescribing practices at the hospital. Alec B. OíConnor, Frank Zwemer, Daniel Hays
Web Site: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/

The American Pain Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland, "Resources to Respond to National Media Coverage on Pain"
A grant of $10,000 to help create a strategy to respond to large numbers of questions about pain that resulted from national network coverage in the spring of 2005 on various type of pain and research about pain. Contact: Will Rowe
Web Site: http://www.painfoundation.org/

Dalhousie University Foundation, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) "Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research Devoted to Pain in Child Health (PICH)"
A grant of $39,900 (US) representing the second payment of a three year grant in the total amount of $119,700 to create the ìMayday Pain in Child Health" network of international trainees. The trainees, from many different countries, participate in the Canadian Strategic Training Initiative, which is the only known training network in pediatric pain ñ worldwide. The strategy behind the Canadian initiative is to create a network of pediatric pain researchers and practitioners, which will extend beyond the limits of any particular institution. Mayday was asked to contribute to the support of international participants as the CIHR guidelines allow only for support of Canadians. Contacts: Patrick McGrath, Bonnie Stevens, Allen Finley, Ken Craig, Celeste Johnson, Carol von Baeyer
Web Site: http://www.dal.ca/~pich/

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, "Development of Systems for Evidenced Based Management of Pain, Anxiety and Itch in Children with Burn Injury"
A grant of $60,000 representing the first payment of a three-year grant in the amount of $180,000 to support the project, which includes the creation of a database with on-going monitoring to allow more timely review and speed improvements in pain and anxiety treatments to injured children. Contact: Walter J. Meyer
Web Site: http://www.utmb.edu/

McGill University, Anesthesia Research Unit, Montreal, Ontario, "Development of analgesics for treatment of chemotherapy-evoked painful peripheral neuropathy"
A grant of $111,234 (US) representing the final payment a two-year grant of $222,467 to support a research project. Contact: Gary Bennett
Web Site: http://www.mcgill.ca/dentistry/research/bennett/

University of California at San Francisco, UCSF Pain Management Center
A grant of $59,800 for the first year of a three-year unrestricted grant of $179,400 to the UCSF Pain Management Center. This is a matching grant. Contact: Pamela P. Palmer and Laurie E. Snyder
Web Site: http://mountzion.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/
pain_management/index.html

New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, "The Use of Ultrasound for IV Placement in Infants and Children"
A grant of $10,000 to support the research project. Contact: Truman J. Milling
Web Site http://www.nym.org/

Beth Israel Medical Center, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute, New York, New York, "EM Painline: Proposal to Establish a Web-based Bibliographic Resource for Emergency Medicine Clinicians, Researchers and Policy Makers"
A grant of $123,625 representing the first payment two year grant in the amount of $238,625 to support the educational initiative, a web-based resource, to promote and support reforms in emergency medicine pain management practice. EM Painline will include a critically appraised bibliography of existing pain research literature pertinent to emergency medicine practice, and include summary abstracts, critical commentary provided by emergency medicine experts, standardized grading of study quality, and specific recommendations resulting from the synthesis of this literature, graded by the strength of supporting evidence. Contact: Knox Todd
Web Site: http://www.wehealnewyork.org/
patients/bimc_description.html

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, "The Use of a Multidisciplinary Team and a Quality Improvement Approach to Assessing and Managing Pain in the Neonatal ICU"
A grant of $15,467.50 to support the project, which will study the impact of an interdisciplinary team approach to improving post-operative and other pain management in a large tertiary NICU. Contact: Brian S. Carter
Web Site: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/

ECRI, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, "Chronic Pain as a Health System Priority: Can Evidence Inform Policy and Practice?"
A grant of $5,000 to support the conference held November 1-3, 2005. Contact: Jeffrey C. Lerner
Web site: http://www.ECRI.org

Village Center for Care Fund, New York, NY, "Cross-Institution Pain Management Initiative"
A grant of $14,500 to evaluate the ìPain Management Initiative," an innovative model of care that addresses the pain needs of elderly and AIDS populations. This initiative is part of a new design to deliver nursing home care that includes small congregate care units located in home-like settings. Contact: Patricia Cafferty and Ellen Flaherty Web Site http://www.vcny.org/mission_statement.html

Patient Centered Education and Research, PC Heart Collaborative, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Investigating Pain in Heart Failure Patients"
A grant of $136,400 to support a study to identify the prevalence, features and impact of pain in persons living with advanced heart failure. Contact: Sarah Goodlin
Web Site: http://www.pc-heart.org/

Brown University, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Providence, Rhode Island, "Web Based Resources to Aide Nursing Homes in Improving Pain Management"
A grant of $96,444 representing the final payment in a two-year grant of $178,247 to support the project, which will make available tools and resources to better address the care of pain in nursing homes. Contact: Joan Teno
Web Site: http://www.chcr.brown.edu/Contents.htm

IWK Health Centre, Research Service, Halifax, Nova Scotia, "Painful Procedures in the Emergency Department: Does a formal program in distracting techniques for parents and children reduce pain and anxiety in children?"
A two-year grant in the amount of $133,322.16 (Canadian) to study how and if a systematically employed program of distraction techniques will reduce pain and anxiety in venepunctures. The prime outcome will be the self-report of the child. It involves using a portable DVD player that will play a video that trains parents and children in distraction and coping techniques. Contact: Patrick J. McGrath. Doug Sinclair, Christine Chambers, Eleanor Fitzpatrick
Web Site: http://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Boston, Massachusetts, Support for the concurrent session on "Pain Management as a National Health Problem" at the CDC Public Health Law Conference in June 2006
A grant of $16,800. Contact: Benjamin M. Moulton
Web Site: http://www.aslme.org/

The University of Pennsylvania, Center for Pain Medicine, Research and Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, A supplement to Pain Medicine entitled, PAIN AFTER LAND MINE INJURY: ORIGINS, IMPACT, AND MANAGEMENT -- A Guide to the Care of Post Amputation Pain and Suffering
A grant of $16,500 to support the publication of a supplement to Pain Medicine. Contact: Rollin Gallagher
Web Site: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/
journal.asp?ref=1526-2375&site=1

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Outcomes and Parent Satisfaction Associated with Parent/Nurse Controlled Analgesia (PNCA) in Pediatric Patients with Developmental Delay"
A grant of $65,000 as the first payment a three-year grant of $344,528 to support the research project. The study addresses the challenge that children who are unable to clearly communicate their pain experience are atwith cognitive impairment (CI) or developmental delay are at great risk for sub-optimal pain control. It will provide recommendations regarding optimal pain management regimen for this very high-risk pediatric patient population. Contact: Steven J. Weisman, Michelle Czarnecki, Antonella Ferrise, Lynn Rusy, Jaya Varadarajan, Yvonne Anderson Web Site: http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/12082/router.asp

NYRAG (New York Regional Association of Grantmakers),
$750 Web Site: http://www.nyrag.org/

The Council on Foundations,
$2,570 Web Site: http://www.cof.org/

The Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media & Policy Initiative is designed to equip physicians, nurses, social workers, scientists, and ethical and legal scholars with the skills to become effective advocates and spokespeople about pain issues in the United States. The Fellowship was established to build a community of experts in the pain management field that can effectively communicate to the public and policymakers.

The Mayday Fund's Trustees approved the new three-year fellowship program in September 2003. Eighteen fellows will be chosen over the three-year period. The Fellowship is steered by an advisory committee made up of some of the nationís leading experts in the pain management field. Contact: Carol Schadelbauer, Burness Communications
Web Site: http://www.burnesscommunications.com/

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