Research
Consortium on Aging Executive Committee Announces Funds for Pilot Studies
The Consortium on Aging endorses innovative research on aging and has earmarked up to $12,000 for small pilot projects. We invite Consortium members to apply for pilot grant funds.
Criteria:
- Project proposals must address aging-related issues. Clinical, basic science, health service or policy research will be considered and projects may relate to patient or caregiver issues.
- Proposed studies must be interdisciplinary and collaborative.
- As appropriate, proposed studies must be representative of Houston's ethnically diverse community.
- Grant funds will not support travel or equipment.
Aging-Related Research at UTHealth
Some examples of aging-related research grants at UTHealth include:
- Faith, Hope, and Life Satisfaction Among Stroke Survivors and Spousal Caregivers (Sharon K. Ostwald, PhD, RN, School of Nursing)
- TEAM Intervention in Elder Mistreatment (Carmel B. Dyer, MD, School of Medicine)
- Feasibility of Vitamin D Replacement in Self-Neglecting Elders (Carmel B. Dyer, MD, School of Medicine)
- Preventing Ulcers: A Multi-site RCT in Nursing Facilities (Nancy Bergstrom, PhD, RN, School of Nursing)
- Basic science research in Alzheimer's disease (Claudio Soto, PhD, School of Medicine)
- Quality outcomes in geriatric and palliative medicine - prevention of acute incontinence in hospitalized patients (Multiple investigators)
In addition UTHealth has two geriatric education and training grants - TEXAS (Training Excellence in Aging Studies) and the Houston Geriatric Education Center.
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Geriatric Studies for Junior Faculty
Through a generous gift from the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, the Consortium on Aging was able to offer pilot grant funding to junior faculty. The goals of the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Geriatric Studies for Junior Faculty are to integrate geriatrics studies across all the schools of the health science center, increase collaboration and cooperation between school faculties, instill geriatrics studies into all student curriculum, and foster future geriatrics practitioners.
Grants awarded in 2011 were:
- The South Asian Aging Experience
Principal Investigator: Nasiya Ahmed, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston - Treatment Efficacy of Multi-Component Fall Prevention Programs for Community Dwelling Older Adults
Principal Investigator: Pei-Fen Chang, PhD, OTR
Assistant Professor
School of Occupational Therapy
Texas Woman's University - Novel Assessment of admission sarcopenia and nutritional adequacy in the injured elderly requiring ICU admission
Principal Investigator: Laura J. Moore, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
The University of Texas School Medical School at Houston - Determining prevalence of serum vitamin D testing and vitamin D deficiency in patients 65 years or older undergoing treatment for osteoporosis, osteopenia, vertebral fracture or hip fracture in the UTHealth outpatient Family Medicine and Geriatrics clinics between January 2009 and December 2010
Principal Investigator: Nahid Rianon, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Recruitment of Subjects for Clinical Research
The Consortium on Aging is pleased to work with investigators who wish to recruit subjects for clinical research. For procedural information please click on Process for Recruitment of Subjects for Clinical Subjects.
