2017-18 Pilot Study Awards
Awardees BTC Institution Title of Project

James N. Jarvis, MD

Tao Liu, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Neutrophil-based Biomarkers in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Blair D. Johnson, PhD

John J. Leddy, MD

Barry Willer, PhD

Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD

Michael G. Dwyer, PhD

Jeffrey C. Miecznikowski, PhD

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Blood Pressure Control in Concussion

Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD

Kenyani Davis, MD, MPH

Brian M. Quigley, PhD

Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

 

Cutting the risk of colorectal cancer by developing a novel, evidence-based, community based program for increasing screening uptake in Black males

John Leddy, MD

Barry Willer, PhD

Jeffrey Miecznikowski, PhD

Scott Darling, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Exercise Treatment for Concussion

Indrajit Majumdar, MBBS

Lucy Mastrandrea, MD, PhD

Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH

Teresa Quattrin, MD

Carrol M. Harmon, MD, PhD

Leonard H. Epstein, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

Role of contingency management in the treatment of youth and their parents in a pediatric tertiary care weight management program

Manoj J. Mammen, MD, MS

Sanjay Sethi, MD

Heather Ochs-Balcom, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Determinants of Treatment Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Exacerbation

Robert F. McCormack, MD, MBA

Christine Verni, EdD

Heather A. Lindstrom, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

The Diagnosis of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (DaSH) Study

Rajendram V. Rajnarayanan, PhD

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Discovery of Circadian Modulators Selectively Targeting Melatonin Receptors

Jessica L. Reynolds, PhD

Bruce R. Troen, MD

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD

Michael J. LaMonte, PhD, MPH

James N. Jarvis, MD

Zihua Hu, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Exosomal biomarkers as predictors of sarcopenia and frailty in WHI participants

Ferdinand Schweser, PhD

Lawrence Wrabetz, MD

Sarah F. Muldoon, PhD

Robert Zivadinov, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences

Multimodal multiparametric brain mapping for pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment development in Krabbe Disease

Kimberly S. Walitzer, PhD

Javier G. Blanco, PhD

Scott Stewart, MD

Denise Swiatek, PharmD

Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Integrating Naltrexone Treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous Facilitation, and the OPRM1 Polymorphism in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependent Outpatients

Jun Xia, PhD

Linda M. Harris, MD

Sikandar Khan, MD

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

Three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography for diagnosis and treatment monitoring of chronic leg ulcers

N.B. Jennifer P. Read, PhD, College of Arts and Sciences, Treating violence-related PTSD and substance risk in low-income urban adolescents, received pilot funding 2017-18 as a continuation of Dr. Ellen Volpe’s KL2 project.

1.    Ellis MJ, Leddy J, Cordingley D, Willer B. A Physiological Approach to Assessment and Rehabilitation of Acute Concussion in Collegiate and Professional Athletes. Front Neurol. 2018 Dec 20;9:1115. PMCID: PMC6306465

2.    Haider MN, Leddy JJ, Du W, J Macfarlane AJ, Viera KB, Willer BS. Practical Management: Brief Physical Examination for Sport Related Concussion in the Outpatient Setting. Clin J Sport Med. 2018 Nov 7. PMID 30418199

3.    Harmon KG, Clugston JR, Dec K, Hainline B, Herring S, Kane SF, Kontos AP, Leddy JJ, McCrea M, Poddar SK, Putukian M, Wilson JC, Roberts WO. American Medical Society for Sports Medicine position statement on concussion in sport. Br J Sports Med. 2019 Feb;53(4):213-225. PMID: 30705232

4.    Johnson BD, O’Leary MC, McBryde M, Sackett JR, Schlader ZJ, Leddy JJ. Face cooling exposes cardiac parasympathetic and sympathetic dysfunction in recently concussed college athletes. Physiol Rep. 2018 May;6(9):e13694. PMCID: PMC5941219

5.    Lawrence JB, Haider MN, Leddy JJ, Hinds A, Miecznikowski JC, Willer BS. The King-Devick test in an outpatient concussion clinic: Assessing the diagnostic and prognostic value of a vision test in conjunction with exercise testing among acutely concussed adolescents. J Neurol Sci. 2019 Mar 15;398:91-97. PMID: 30690413

6.    Leddy JJ, Haider MN, Ellis MJ, Mannix R, Darling SR, Freitas MS, Suffoletto HN, Leiter J, Cordingley DM, Willer B. Early Subthreshold Aerobic Exercise for Sport-Related Concussion: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Apr 1;173(4):319-325. PMID: 30715132; PMCID: PMC6450274

7.    Leddy JJ, Haider MN, Ellis M, Willer BS. Exercise in Medicine for Concussion. Curr Sports Med Rep. 2018 Ayug;17(8):262-270. PMCID: PMC6089233

8.    Leddy JJ, Haider MN, Hinds AL, Darling S, Willer BS. A Preliminary Study of the Effect of Early Aerobic Exercise Treatment for Sport-Related Concussion in Males. Clin J Sport Med. 2018 Sep 19. PMID: 30239422; PMCID: PMC6424660

9.    Leddy J, Lesh K, Haider MN, Czuczman N, Baker JG, Miecnikowski JC, Willer B. Derivation of a Focused, Brief Concussion Physical Examination for Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion. Clin J Sport Med. 2018 Oct 29. PMCID: PMC6488454

10.    Leddy JJ, Wilber CG, Willer BS. Active recovery from concussion. Curr Opin Neurol. 2018 Dec;31(6):681-686. PMID: 30382949

11.    Wang Y, Lim RSA, Zhang H, Nyayapathi N, Oh KW, Xia J. Optimizing the light delivery of linear-array-based photoacoustic systems by double acoustic reflectors. Sci Rep. 2018 Aug 29;8(1):13004. PMCID: PMC6115359

12.    Willer BS, Haider MN, Bezherano I, Wilber CG, Mannix R, Kozlowski K, Leddy JJ. Comparison of Rest to Aerobic Exercise and Placebo-Like Treatment of Acute Sport-Related Concussion in Male and Female Adolescents. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Aug 1. Pii: S0003-9993(19)30505-2. PMID: 31377190

13.    Johnson BD, Sackett JR, Schlader ZJ, Leddy JJ. Attenuated Cardiovascular Responses to the Cold Pressor Test in Concussed Athletes. J Athl Train. 2020 Feb;55(2):124-131. PMCID: PMC7017893

14.    Wang Y, Zhan Y, Harris LM, Khan S, Xia J. A portable three-dimensional photoacoustic tomography system for imaging of chronic foot ulcers. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2019 May;9(5):799-806. PMCID: PMC6571196