The Acceptability of Early Infant Screening for Sickle Cell Disease by Sickle Cell Carrier Mothers in Anambra State Nigeria

Faculty to Faculty Mentoring Award

Applicants: Chilota Efobi, MBBS, MWACP, FMCPath; Jose Carol Jara Aguire, MD; Chisom Nri-Ezedi, MBBS, FMCPath; Andrew Campbell, MD, Megan Delaney, DPO, MPH.

Objectives:

To determine the acceptability of early diagnosis of SCD in at risk infants, using point of care testing (POCT) device.

Simulation educator training and low fidelity simulation education implementation and sustainability in a LMIC pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.

Interdisciplinary Research Award

Applicants: Leah Arnold, RN, MSN; Gregory Yurasek, MD; Justine Fortkiewicz, RN, MSN; Cara Pleau, RN, BSN; Tania Ahluwalia, MD, MPH; Anna Jaikol, RN, BSN.

Objectives:

1. To determine the efficacy of low-fidelity simulation in improving identification of specific patient emergencies, improving response time, and appropriateness of interventions, measured in established acute events in the pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI).
2. Evaluate the sustainability of simulation education run within and by a local team in a low-middle income country (LMIC) as measured by simulations run by the local team and identifying barriers and successes through continued re-evaluation with the local team. We aim to create a simulation educator training and simulation education model that are reproducible across multiple institutions within the context of LMIC restraints and advantages.

Utz laj ch’ob’oneem (Healthy Thoughts): Pilot Testing a Culturally-Centered Perinatal Depression Program for Indigenous Mayan Women in Guatemala.

Faculty to Faculty Mentoring Award

Applicants: Brieanne K. Khort, PhD; Katherine Wisner, PhD.

Objectives: to pilot Utz laj ch’ob’oneem, a culturally centered adaption of the Thinking Health Program, within a community health center serving Tz’utujil families to:

1. determine prevalence of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs),
2. determine the feasibility and efficacy of Utz laj ch’ob’oneem, and
3. iteratively adapt Utz laj ch’ob’oneem for future scale-up studies.