{"id":99409,"date":"2023-05-09T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=99409"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:11:52","slug":"nursing-faculty-secure-major-research-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/05\/09\/nursing-faculty-secure-major-research-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing faculty secure major research grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>UNMC College of Nursing faculty members received two major research grants in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windy Alonso, PhD, and Michele Balas, PhD, were each awarded National Institute of Health (NIH) grants in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alonso\u2019s project, \u201cHEART Camp Connect: Promoting Adherence to Exercise in Adults with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction,\u201d is a five-year, $3.85 million National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored project.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BALAS061121-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99410\" width=\"571\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BALAS061121-002.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BALAS061121-002-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michele Balas, PhD, secured a $6.6 million, five-year, bi-phasic study grant through the National Institute of Health. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the project summary, \u201cheart failure with preserved ejection fraction is one of the greatest unmet needs in cardiovascular medicine today.\u201d The study is a randomized controlled trial testing the effects of two behavioral interventions against enhanced usual care on adherence to moderate intensity exercise in 300 adults experiencing the condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Alonso\u2019s team includes Bunny Pozehl, PhD, Kevin Kupzyk, PhD, and graduate research assistant Erin Salahshurian, PhD student from the UNMC College of Nursing. Her team also includes Sara Bills, DPT, and Joseph Norman, PhD, from the UNMC College of Allied Health; Cheng Zheng, PhD, from the UNMC College of Public Health; Scott Lundgren, DO, and Alfred Fisher, MD, PhD, from the College of Medicine; and collaborators from Henry Ford Health of Detroit and the University of Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Balas, in collaboration with Breanna Hetland, PhD, earned funding for \u201cBehavioral Economic and Staffing Strategies to Increase Adoption of the &#8220;ABCDEF Bundle in the ICU.\u201d The project is a $6.6 million, five-year, bi-phasic study dually sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the project, Dr. Balas\u2019 team will develop and support the \u201creal world\u201d assessment of strategies used to foster adoption of several safe and highly efficacious mechanical ventilation liberation and symptom management practices in health care systems that provide care 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