{"id":21600,"date":"2024-08-26T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=21600"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:35:11","slug":"28m-federal-grant-to-fund-medical-innovations-from-dartmouth-health-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2024\/28m-federal-grant-to-fund-medical-innovations-from-dartmouth-health-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$28M Federal Grant to Fund Medical Innovations from Dartmouth Health Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth Health\u2019s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) received a $27.7 million, seven-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund projects that will speed the implementation of proven medical innovations as part of a national consortium of biomedical research centers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NIH\u2019s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) will fund Dartmouth SYNERGY, also known as the Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a joint initiative that includes Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth College\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine and Thayer School of Engineering; the White River Junction VA Medical Center, and collaborating institutions in Vermont and Maine. SYNERGY joins 60 other CTSAs in the United States and is one of eight with a significant focus on rural healthcare delivery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis award is an important milestone in the development of the biomedical research enterprise in the Upper Valley,\u201d said Joanne M. Conroy, MD (D'77), CEO and president of Dartmouth Health. \u201cThe strength of SYNERGY is in its ability to bring together the resources of the health delivery system with the research and teaching assets of our partners at Dartmouth College, and regional collaborators at MaineHealth and the University of Vermont.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With 50 percent of northern New England\u2019s population living in rural areas, the challenges of rural healthcare delivery are a particular focus of SYNERGY\u2019s work, Conroy said. \u201c<\/span>Rural Americans are more likely to <\/span>develop chronic illnesses and die<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0compared to their urban counterparts. However, we are at an exciting time of breakthroughs and improvements in healthcare. This grant fortifies the infrastructure for SYNERGY to drive these innovations from the laboratories to the bedside and beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translational science is a growing field that seeks to turn discoveries made in the laboratory, clinics and community settings into interventions that improve the health of individuals and populations.<\/span>SYNERGY initially received a five-year CTSA grant in 2013. SYNERGY focuses on finding ways to overcome barriers to the adoption of ideas, tools, and treatment approaches that have been proven to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steven L. Bernstein, MD, chief research officer at DHMC, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Geisel, says a major element of SYNERGY\u2019s successful grant proposal was embedding individuals with translational science expertise in operational roles in healthcare systems. Typically, researchers who have developed and proven the success of a treatment method or tool must reach out to administrators and providers and persuade them to consider new approaches. At DHMC, there are already clinicians and others with training in healthcare delivery science, implementation science, quality improvement, and related fields who are best positioned to facilitate the adoption of new evidence-based therapies, diagnostics, and practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a strength for us \u2013 because we were already doing it,\u201d Bernstein said. \u201cWhat we are learning, we can generalize for others to learn from and adopt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

SYNERGY will play a role in training more translational scientists. Part of this work will be led by Anna N.A. Tosteson, ScD, James J. Carroll 1948 Professor of Oncology in the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Practice. Bernstein notes that Tosteson, one of three principal investigators on the CTSA, has already received another federal grant focusing on training in learning health system science that will complement the work of SYNERGY.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The development of technology to improve healthcare is another important element of SYNERGY. The third principal investigator in the CTSA is Keith D. Paulsen, PhD, the MacLean Professor of Engineering at Thayer and director of the Center for Surgical Innovation at DHMC. Paulsen is an expert on medical imaging technologies that have improved the accuracy and safety of complex surgical procedures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth Health\u2019s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center received a $27.7 million, seven-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund projects that will speed the implementation of proven medical innovations as part of a national consortium of biomedical research centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":21604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[1056,598,397],"class_list":["post-21600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-dartmouth-health","tag-dhmc","tag-nih","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/DHMC_featured2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-5Co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21605,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions\/21605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}