SHM Converge Scientific Abstract ePoster Gallery-Hospitalist "Niches" : Small Grants to Promote Hospitalist Faculty Research

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The document describes the Johns Hopkins Division of Hospital Medicine’s “Hospitalist Innovation Grant” program, created in 2021 to support early-career hospitalist faculty and address barriers to academic promotion, especially limited research productivity, mentorship, and funding. The program provides $75,000 annually and can fund salary support as well as project costs.<br /><br />Applicants submit proposals including background, specific aims, deliverables, stakeholder roles, budget, and timeline, and then present their projects to the division. The goal is to identify innovative academic work that strengthens the division’s academic profile while giving faculty seed funding to build a portfolio for future larger grants.<br /><br />The program has supported several different projects. These include research on adverse outcomes related to commonly prescribed central nervous system drugs, COVID-19 treatment outcomes in special populations, interventions to reduce hospital length of stay, and trends in diagnostic testing across healthcare systems.<br /><br />The reported career impacts were substantial. One recipient produced a first-author publication and poster and gained further research training. Another secured external research salary support, produced a first-author publication and poster, had a paper in review, and later received a KL2 training award. A third used the grant to generate a poster and expand into an administrative role. A fourth advanced diagnostic intensity research and ultimately earned a K08 clinical investigator award.<br /><br />Overall, the initiative appears to be a practical model for supporting scholarly development, research productivity, and career advancement among hospitalist faculty.

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William M. Garneau

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Author List Daniel J. Brotman, Rebecca Engels, William M. Garneau, Yoseob Joseph Hwang

Category Innovations

Concept Hospitalist Innovation Grant

Concept Seed Funding

Concept Early-Career Faculty

Concept Innovation Grant Proposal

Concept Specific Aims

Distinguished Non-Finalist

Presenter Organization Johns Hopkins Hospital/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Presenting Author William M. Garneau

Track Other

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Hospital Medicine

Hospitalist Innovation Grant

academic promotion

early-career faculty

research productivity

mentorship

seed funding

salary support

scholarly development

career advancement

Hospitalist Innovation Grant

Seed Funding

Early-Career Faculty

Innovation Grant Proposal

Specific Aims