The Duke Center for REsearch to Advance HealthCare Equity (REACH Equity) selected the fifth cohort of Career Development Awardees – REACH Equity Scholars. Targeting junior faculty, these two-year awards support mentored research projects focusing on the REACH Equity theme: addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health by developing and testing interventions that improve the quality of patient-centered care in the clinical encounter – a setting in which racial and ethnic disparities are well-documented. The following three awardees will begin their time as REACH Equity scholars immediately:
Matthew Sinclair MD, MHS
Instructor, Department of Medicine/Division of Nephrology
Project title: “Improving Screening and Therapy Provision among Hispanics/Latinx at Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease”
Primary mentor: Clarissa Diamantidis, MD
Isaac Smith, MD
Instructor, Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Project title: “Reducing disparities in hypertension care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis”
Primary mentor: Hayden Bosworth, PhD
A. Ian Wong MD, PhD
Department of Medicine/ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Project title: “Bringing equity to inequitable pulse oximetry with EHR data”
Primary mentor: Christopher Cox, MD
The REACH Equity Career Development Award program is co-directed by Laura P. Svetkey, MD, Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Bryan C. Batch, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology). Scholars engage in a mentored research and a career development program provided by the REACH Equity Center that includes a core curriculum, training in community engagement, statistical guidance, supplemental mentorship from REACH Equity faculty, a works-in-progress seminar series, and an annual disparities research colloquium. Prior to the end of the 2-year award period, each scholar is expected to submit a grant application for next-stage funding.
“Our REACH Equity Scholars work across disciplines, settings, and diseases to advance health equity for racial and ethnic minorities,” said Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, Director of the REACH Equity Center. “We are elated to welcome this fifth cohort of scholars. We believe their research will create broadly applicable, creative solutions to address health disparities at the patient, provider, and system levels. Drs. Svetkey, Batch, and I are excited to work with them over the next two years of their REACH Equity support. We look forward to witnessing their growth as health disparities investigators.”
The REACH Equity Center is a Specialized Centers of Excellence (U54), funded by the NIH through the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIHMD).
For questions, please contact:
Francis Karia, MBA, MSc-PH
Research Program Leader
Email: francis.karia@duke.edu
Office: 919-684-1352