About The Grant
Helping with the cost of travel and registration fees.
The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation offers a unique competitive award program to help defray the cost of travel and registration fees for trainees (residents, fellows, pharmacy, social work, and others), nurses or other healthcare professionals who wish to present best practice from delivering innovative care at a national symposium. All applicants must be affiliated with the University of Chicago or University of Chicago Medicine. Travel Grant recipients are awarded up to $1000 to offset the cost of registration, poster development and/or travel expenses. Awardees are acknowledged at the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation’s annual Quality & Safety Symposium.
Eligibility
Minimum Project Criteria
- Must be a completed project
- Contains a method to judge success of the project through metrics and outcomes
- Ideally innovative in nature.
HOW TO APPLY
The Application Process
Fill out the online application below. You will be prompted to upload the following 3 documents:
- Recommendation from your faculty advisor or mentor on their stationary
- Written confirmation of acceptance to the meeting
- A copy of your CV
All applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- The impact of the research on improving quality, safety, experience and value in healthcare operations.
- If the research has been completed and/or submitted for publication
- The scientific rigor or quality of project
- Degree of innovation
- The strength of the mentor’s letter of recommendation.
If you have updated results not included in the abstract, send them for review by the Travel Grant Review Committee as soon as possible. The Travel Grant Review Committee will base their decisions on the quality of the science and the impact on healthcare operations. Each applicant will get notified of the final award decisions by email. Travel Grant winners must include the following statement on printed materials: This work is supported in part by a Travel Scholarship from the University of Chicago Medicine’s Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation.
Application Review
Travel Grant Review Committee
Applications are reviewed by the Travel Grant Review Committee, a multidisciplinary team made up of HDSI members who take into consideration the rigor and impact of the research, the prominence of the meeting it will be presented at and the recommendation from the mentor.
This grant is awarded 4 times per year. Application Deadlines:
Monday, February 19, 2024 For conferences March 2024 and beyond
Monday, August 19, 2024 For conferences September 2024 and beyond
Monday, November 18, 2024 For conferences December 2024 and beyond
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Past Travel Grant Winners
Low Dose IV Buprenorphine Inductions for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder and Concurrent Pain: A Retrospective Case Series
Geoffrey Pucci, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction
Washington, DC
11/2/2023-11/4/2023
Correlating biomechanical properties of medical devices with clinical outcomes in critically ill adults
Susan Solmos, PhDc, MSN, RN
Manager, Nursing Clinical Services
EPUAP Innovations in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment
Leeds, UK
9/13/2023-9/15/2023
Artificial Intelligence-Based Cancer Progression Prediction of Oral Premalignant Lesions via Self-Supervised Deep Learning on Histopathology
Siddhi Ramesh
Medical Student
ASCO Breakthrough
Yokohama, Japan
8/3/2023-8/5/2023
Vancomycin Area under the Curve and Trough Correlation in Pediatric Oncology Patients
Sara Frey, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident
Pediatric Pharmacy Association
Dallas, TX
5/3/2023-5/7/2023
Knowledge about, Use of, and Need for Community Food Supports among Parents of Hospitalized Children Experiencing Food Insecurity: Baseline Data from the CommunityRx-Hunger RCT
Spencer Asay
Medical Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Pediatric Academic Societies 2023
Washington, DC
4/27/2023-5/1/2023
Quantitative Analysis on Effects of Workplace Violence on ED Staff
Katelyn DeAlmeida, BSN RN
Clinical Research Coordinator, Nursing Research Department
American Organization for Nursing Leadership 2023
Anaheim, CA
5/1/2023-5/4/2023
The Association between Developmental Delay and Endophthalmitis after Pediatric Cataract Surgery Using Insurance Claims Database
Lindsay Chun, MD
Resident, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 2023 Annual Meeting
New York, NY
3/29/2023-4/2/2023
Evaluation of Sickle Cell Day Program at Urban Tertiary Care Center
Romy Portieles Peña
Medical Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
Aurora, CO
5/10/2023-5/13/2023
Evaluation of a Novel Primary Care-Collaborative Care Model for Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Daniel Johnson
Medical Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
Aurora, CO
5/10/2023-5/13/2023