The UAB Center for Palliative Care and the AIM Research Program is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Pilot Grant Request for Proposals (please see attachment)
The Advanced Illness and Multimorbidity (AIM) Research Program of the UAB Center for Palliative Care is seeking research proposals within the interest area of advanced illness and multimorbidity research with a focus on aging and older adults.
The AIM Research Program funded by the National Institute on Aging seeks to encourage research for those with multiple medical conditions and/or advanced illness and provides funds for pilot research projects that facilitate interdisciplinary AIM research. Acceptable AIM research projects include, but are not limited to:
- Optimal measurement of illness burden and severity in AIM,
- Quality of life and symptom burden in AIM,
- Physician-provider communication, decision making and goal setting,
- Health care policy and determinants of health care quality,
- Care transitions and other interventions to minimize fragmented care,
- Use of emerging technologies to improve health care quality in AIM,
- Caregiver issues in AIM,
- Health disparities and health literacy issues in AIM,
- Prognostication and illness trajectories, and Symptom management.
The grant program is open to postdoctoral trainees and full-time UAB faculty. It is anticipated that this program will fund at least two awards for up to $20,000 each.
For more information and an application please go to www.aging.uab.edu/aim. Deadline for proposals: Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Questions may be directed to AIM Program Manager Joyce Crump at sjcrump@uab.edu.
AIM Request for Proposals
AIM Research Program PI Christine Ritchie, M.D. MSPH, Associate Professor and Director UAB Center for Palliative Care.