eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Open Chat Room Open Phone
• Session With Workshop Mentors
• Pose your grant writing questions to NCI program
  managers.
• Objectives
• Grant writing questions addressed
• Agenda
• Mentors will answer questions from participants
  online and via phone

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Workshop Agenda
• -         Participants' questions and comments
  to grant writing mentors, Sabra Woolley, Connie
  Dresser and Chuck Rafferty
• -       News from the Health Communication and
  Informatics Research Branch/ Behavioral Research
  Program at NCI
• -         Sabra Woolley will give eHealth
  express grant writing workshop participants a
  preview of a new research priority at NCI Mixing
  ethnographic methodologies and metrics to achieve
  sustainable behavioral change. Sabra will
  describe an upcoming NCI sponsored conference on
  this topic and encourage you to submit
  suggestions and examples for potential
  publication.

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Todays Workshop Mentors
• Connie Dresser,
• SBIR Mentor
• Sabra Woolley,
• Grantmanship Mentor
• Chuck Rafferty,
• Scientific Review
• Brad Hesse
• Guest Mentor

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Connie Dresser, SBIR Mentor
• Connie Dresser is the Program Director for the
  National Cancer Institute's Multimedia
  Technology/Health Communication SBIR/STTR Grant
  Program and the Acting NCI SBIR Liaison to the
  Office of the Director at the National Institutes
  of Health. Her program, which funds eHealth
  applications in nine research categories, has
  produced three Science and Business SBIR
  Showcases and an informative web site for new
  and experienced applicants that highlights grant
  synthesis and developed products. She has
  championed eHealth research activities at NCI and
  with the Department of Health and Human Services.

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Sabra Woolley, PhD - Grantmanship Mentor
• Sabra Woolley is a medical anthropologist and
  Program Director in the Health Communication and
  Informatics Research Branch at the National
  Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of
  Health. Her interests are focused on the cultural
  component of health seeking behaviors among
  diverse ethnic groups in the United States, as
  well as upon the study of biomedical
  practitioners as a cultural subgroup. Sabra
  manages a large portfolio of grants, many of them
  involving health disparities and communications
  issues.

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Chuck Rafferty - Scientific Review Mentor
• Chuck Rafferty a Scientific Review Administrator
  and Referral Officer at the Center for Scientific
  Review (CSR), National Institutes of Health
  (NIH). His main job is to manage peer-review of
  investigator-initiated grant applications related
  to health services research and environmental
  diseases and injuries. His main study section is
  the Health Services Organization and Delivery
  (HSOD) Study Section. He also runs a Small
  Business Innovation Research (SBIR) study
  section. In addition to his main job as a
  scientific review administrator, Chuck is also a
  Referral Officer in the CSR Division of Receipt
  and Referral where he looks at newly-arrived NIH
  grant applications and then assigns them to
  specific CSR study sections for review and to NIH
  Institutes and Centers for funding consideration.

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eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

• Todays Workshop Guest
• Brad Hesse, Director of the User Centered
  Informatics Research Laboratory.
• Brad Hesse is the Research Director of the User
  Centered Informatics Research Laboratory at NCI,
  will describe the new Laboratory (formerly the
  Usability Lab), and his vision for its future.
  and encourage participants to suggest ways health
  communication and informatics researchers can
  participate.