Faculty Grants

FY2025 Faculty Principal Investigator External Grant Awards 

Eunice Areba 
Understanding the Experience of Suicide Risks among Black Adolescents: A Qualitative Inquiry  
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention  

Mary Benbenek 
APRN Nursing Workforce Partnership for Northern Minnesota  
Minnesota Department of Health  

Rozina Bhimani 
Identifying Healthcare and Telehealth Access for People with Hand Spasticity (R03) 
National Institutes of Health   

Cynthia Bradley 
The Big 10 Practice-Ready Nurse Initiative 
American Nurses Foundation  

Gert Bronfort 
Spinal Manipulation and Patient Self-Management to Prevent Back Pain Chronicity  
National Institutes of Health  

Sherry Chesak 
A Cluster-Randomized Control Trial of a Workplace Resilience Intervention for Child Care Providers' Mental Health & Well-Being (R01) 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / National Institutes of Health 

Chih-Lin Chi 
Personalized Statin Treatment Plan to Optimize Clinical Outcomes Using Big Data (R01) 
National Institutes of Health  

Joanne Donnelly 
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship 2023-2027 
Health Resources and Services Administration  

Roni Evans and Brent Leininger (Co-PIs) 
Partners for Pain & Wellbeing Equity: A Randomized Trial of Community Supported Complementary and Integrative Health Self Management for Back Pain (R61/R33) 
National Institutes of Health   

Roni Evans 
Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (UG3/UH3) 
Veterans Affairs / National Institutes of Health 

Roni Evans 
Testing Two Scalable, Veteran-centric Mindfulness-based Interventions for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A pragmatic, multisite trial  
Veterans Affairs / U.S. Department of Defense 

Jayne Fulkerson 
Innovation in Measurement for Diet-Related Disease Research: Optimizing Utility and Reach to Reduce Health Disparities (R01) 
National Institutes of Health   

Jayne Fulkerson 
CTSA Postdoctoral T32 at University of Minnesota  
National Institutes of Health  

Jayne Fulkerson 
CTSA Predoctoral T32 at University of Minnesota  
National Institutes of Health  

Melissa Horning 
Evaluating Diet, Food Insecurity, and Food Purchasing Outcomes of a Full-Service Mobile Food Market with a Cluster Randomized Trial (R01) 
National Institutes of Health   

Jiwoo Lee 
Reducing the Summer Health Gap: Evaluation of Community (K23) 
National Institutes of Health  

Wendy Looman 
Development and Evaluation of an Online Curriculum for the LEAPP Cystic Fibrosis Fellowship Program  
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation  

Jenna Marquard 
Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease  
University of Massachusetts / National Institutes of Health 

Lauren Martin 
A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of the Not a Number Program to Prevent the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth in Minnesota  University of New Hampshire / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Lauren Martin 
D-ISN: Track 1: Modeling Effective Network Disruptions (MEND) for Human Trafficking  
Clemson University / National Science Foundation 

Lauren Martin 
Disrupting Youth Sex Trading in the African-American Community: A Collaboration between MYST and the Northside Healing Space  
University of Minnesota Foundation / World Childhood Foundation 

Lauren Martin 
Planning CRISES: Human-Centered Action Research to Disrupt Trafficking (HART)  
National Science Foundation 

Lauren Martin 
Prevention Research to Disrupt Sexual Exploitation of Youth in Minnesota: The Minnesota Youth Sex Trading (MYST) Collaborative  
University of Minnesota Foundation / Carlson Family Foundation 

Lauren Martin 
Research in Relation to the Mission and Goals of Safe Harbor Minnesota 2024-2025  
Minnesota Department of Health  

Ryan Mays 
Community-based Exercise to Improve Physical Functioning and Cardiovascular Health Following Revascularization for Peripheral Artery Disease  
University of Minnesota Foundation / Olofson Trust 

Anne McKechnie 
Extending an eHealth Enhanced Care Approach: Development of Nurse-Guided Patient Engagement Content to Support Human Milk Feeding of Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease (ODAT Translational Grant Program) 
University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational Science Institute   

Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu 
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Help Seeking of American Indian and Black Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence (R01) 
National Institutes of Health 

Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu 
Successful Training and Retention of SANEs (STARS) 
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / Health Resources and Services Administration 

Carrie Neerland 
U.S. Birth Center Transfer Study  
Sigma Theta Tau International  

Huong Nguyen 
Advancing Alzheimer's Family Caregiving Interventions and Research Capacity in Vietnam (R01) 
University of California Davis / National Institutes of Health 

Carolyn Porta 
Restoring Survivors with an Excellent SANE Workforce: The Re LAB Trauma-Informed Community of Practice & Wellbeing (SANE) 
Health Resources and Services Administration  

Sripriya Rajamani and Rebecca Wurtz (CoPI) 
Training in Informatics for the Underrepresented Minority Students in PH Consortium (TRIUMPH)  
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 

Dereck Salisbury 
Concurrent Aerobic Exercise and Cognitive Training to Prevent Alzheimer's in at-risk Older Adults  
Moai Technologies / National Institutes of Health 

Dereck Salisbury 
Precision Medicine in Alzheimer's Disease: A SMART Trial of Adaptive Exercises and Their Mechanisms of Action Using AT(N) Biomarkers to Optimize Aerobic-Fitness Responses (R01) 
Arizona State University / National Institutes of Health 

Kristin Sandau 
Person-Centered Priorities to Support Coping and Wellbeing with Heart Disease  
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing  

Erica Schorr 
Wearable and Mobile Technologies to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes  
University of Minnesota Foundation / Olofson Trust 

Renee Sieving 
Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH)  
Health Resources and Services Administration  

Kristine Talley 
Incontinence Helping Others Manage (I-HOME)  
University of Pennsylvania / Tenderheart Health Outcomes 

Mary Fran Tracy 
2024-2026 Jonas Scholars Program  
American Association of Colleges of Nursing  

Mary Fran Tracy 
Learning How Expert Critical Care Nurses Think: An Action Approach  
American Association of Critical Care Nurses 

Diane Treat-Jacobson 
BEET root juice to reverse functional impairment in PAD: The BEET PAD Trial  
Northwestern University / National Institutes of Health 

Diane Treat-Jacobson 
COCOA PAD II: Effect of Cocoa Flavanols on the Gut Microbiome and Functional Performance (R21) 
University of Chicago / National Institutes of Health 

Diane Treat-Jacobson 
INTERmittent pneumatic ComprEssion for Disability rEversal in PAD: the INTERCEDE Trial (R01) 
Northwestern University / National Institutes of Health 

Diane Treat-Jacobson 
PROmote Weight Loss in Obese PAD Patients to Prevent Mobility Loss: The PROVE Trial (U3) 
Northwestern University / National Institutes of Health 

Diane Treat-Jacobson 
Sequential Multiple Assessment Randomized Trial of Exercise for PAD: SMART Exercise for PAD Trial (R01) 
Northwestern University / National Institutes of Health 

Misty Wilkie 
Pathway to Graduate Nursing Degree for American Indian Students  
Health Resources and Services Administration