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 10, 2025
For conferences March 2025 and beyond
Monday, May 19, 2025
For conferences June 2025 and beyond
Monday, August 18, 2025
For conferences September 2025 and beyond
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Past Travel Grant Winners
Mode of Administration (Electronic vs. Verbal) Correlated to Significant Differences in Patient Reported Outcome Scores in Patients from Areas of Greater Deprivation but Not Associated with Health Literacy
Rowan Hussein
Pritzker Medical Student
American Orthopedic Association
6/2/2025-6/7/2025
CoThera: Transforming Mental Health Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers through AI-Powered Care
Mahesh Kumar
Pritzker Medical Student
Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge
4/6/2025-4/8/2025
Analysis of Heparin Dosing in Neonates Undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia on Extracorporeal Life Support
Rohan Patel, PharmD
Pharmacist
PediatRxCon 34th Pediatric Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting
4/9/2025 - 4/12/2025
The Cost of Violence: How Intimate Partner Abuse Affects Recovery from Hand Injury
Miriyam Ghali, MD
Resident
2025 IFSSH and IFSHT Triennial Congress Hosted by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Society of Hand Therapists, and American Association for Hand Surgery
3/24/2025-3/28/2025
Perceived Barriers To Early Mobilization In The ICU: Impact Of Work Intensity And Burnout Across Multidisciplinary ICU Staff
Zoe Siegel
Clinical Research Coordinator
ATS (American Thoracic Society) 2025 International Conference
5/16/2025-5/21/2025
Evolution of Smartphone-based Screening Tool (Picterus Jaundice Pro) for Neonatal Jaundice
Elizabeth Onishchenko, MD
Fellow
Pediatric Academic Societies
04/24/2025-04/28/2025
Making Take Home Methadone a Reality
Angela Kerins, PharmD, BCPS
Pharmacist
American Society of Addiction Medicine 56th Annual Conference - Innovations in Addiction Medicine and Science
4/24/2025-4/27/2025
Staying MOTIVATED: Utilizing a Rapid Response Nurse-Driven Mnemonic to Organize and Expedite Post-Arrest Care
Julie Hartney, MSN, APRN-CNS
Nurse
American Association of Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition (NTI)
5/19/2025-3/21/2025
Admission for Trauma as an Opportunity to Acquire Health Coverage in a Population with High Rate of Uninsurance
Grace Keegan
Med Student
Pacific Coast Surgical Association Annual Meeting
2/21/2025-2/24/2025
Association between frailty and healthcare costs among adults undergoing lung resection
Mazuba Siamatu
Med Student
61st Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
1/24/2025-1/26/2025
Evaluation of a real-time automated early warning system for severe maternal morbidity using the RE-AIM framework
Rachel Rudderman, MD
Fellow
AcademyHealth’s 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
12/8/2024-12/11/2024
Comparing reflux-related knowledge and beliefs in a neonatal intensive care unit
Pyone David, MD
Fellow
Midwest Society for Pediatric Research Scientific Meeting
9/18/2024-9/20/2024
Improving Alcohol Use Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment in a Primary Care Setting using a Clinical Decision Support System
Kevin Pearlman, MD
Informatics Fellow
Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction
11/14/2024-11/26/2024
The Influence of Patient Factors on the Minimal Clinically Important Difference for the SNOT-22 in Medically Treated Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Felix Fernandez-Penny
Med Student
America Rhinologic Society 70th Annual Meeting
9/27/2024-9/28/2024
Is Medicaid expansion associated with trends in severe maternal morbidity?
Emily Guernsey
Med Student
North American Primary Care Research Group
11/20/2024-11/24/2024
Low health literacy but not low eHealth literacy associated with higher risk of multiple readmissions
Dylan Angle
Med Student
Midwest SGIM
9/26/2024-9/27/2024
Developing a framework for the effective use of language and communication in operating room education
David Deshpande
Med Student
ACS Medical Student Program 2024 ePoster Session
10/19/2024-10/21/24
Evaluation of a statewide undesignated albuterol program in Illinois schools: RESCUE (Resources for Every School Confronting Unexpected Emergencies)
Alexandra Knitter
Clinical Research Data Manager
2024 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo
10/27/2024-10/30/2024
Effects of Discharge Delays Due to Skilled Nursing Facility Availability on Patients, Providers, and Payers
Joseph Krongold
Med Student
Academy Health’s 2024 Annual Research Meeting
6/29/2024-7/2/2024
Management of monochorionic gestations affected with type II selective fetal growth restriction: A cost-effectiveness analysis
Jasmine Rios
Med Student
2024 International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD) Conference
7/7/2024-7/10/2024
Institutional Factors in Access to Care for Transition: The Role of Hospital Religion
Claudia Covelli Velez
Med Student
National LGBTQ Health Conference
8/14/2024-8/17/2024
Collusion in the clinic: Constructing patients’ moral responsibility to treat cancer
Alexandra Tate
Staff Scientist
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
6/14/2024
Delivery Room Interventions Beyond Intubation for Extremely Early Newborns: Considerations for Counseling
Isaiah Brown
Med Student
Pediatric Academic Society
5/2/2024-5/6 2024
Incorporating Donor Variables Improves Accuracy of One-Year Post-Transplant Survival Prediction for Adult Heart Transplant Recipients
Kevin Lazenby
Med Student
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting
4/10/2024-4/13 2024
Post-Transplant Survival in Heart Transplantation Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) vs. Direct Procurement and Perfusion (DPP) in Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death
Gege Ran
Med Student
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Programs
4/10/2024-4/13 2024
Discovery And Implementation of Instrument Transport Method
Melissa Weber
Surgical Technologist
AORN Conference
3/9/2024-3/12/2024
Association Of Center Volume with Post-Transplant Survival After The 2018 Us Heart Allocation Policy Change
Sharon Zang
Med Student
International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting 2024
4/10/2024-4/13/2024
Expanding Use of the Modified Adult Difficult Intravenous Access Scale Prior to Initial Treatment of Breast Cancer Patients
Victoria Frazier-Warmack, DNP
Nurse
49th Annual ONS Congress: Ignite the Extraordinary
4/24/2024-4/28/2024
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
Time is of the Essence – Defining Time Toxicity in Patients on Treatment for Advanced/Recurrent Endometrial Cancer
Sarah Ackroyd, MD MPH
Fellow, OBGYN- Gynecologic Oncology
Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer
Tampa, FL
03/25/2023-03/28/2023
Patient Perception of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Kits
Country Bisson, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology/Maternal Fetal Medicine
International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy
Montpellier, France
8/28/2022-8/31/2022
AutoDX: Hospitalist Pilot to Further Reduce Coding Queries
Sean Bernstein, MD
Clinical Informatics Fellows
AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium
Washington DC
11/5/2022-11/9/2022
Evaluation of a transitional clinic to bridge emergency department and primary care
Amanda Zhang
Medical Student - Pritzker School of Medicine
Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting
Orlando, FL
4/6/2022-4/9/2022
Leveraging Payment Reforms to Improve Care for Rural Patients with Diabetes: Lessons from UPMC Western Maryland
Gary Wang
Medical Student - Pritzker School of Medicine
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Washington DC
6/4/2022-6/7/2022
Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Hemoglobin A1c Among Black Persons with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Fawsia Osman, MD
IM Resident
American Diabetes Association (ADA) 82nd Scientific Sessions
New Orleans, LA
6/3/2022-6/7/2022
Improving Chicago Older Adult Opioid and Pain Management through PCCDS and Project ECHO (i-COPE): Pragmatic Trial Development and Preliminary Results
Ainur Kagarmanova
Project Manager
Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting
Orlando, FL
4/6/2022-4/9/2022
Effect of Interventions on Blood Pressure or Black Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Cherry Jiang, MD
IM Resident
American Diabetes Association (ADA) 82nd Scientific Sessions
New Orleans, LA
6/3/2022-6/7/2022
Assessing Quality of Care for Patient Hospitalized for Acute Asthma in US Hospitals
Sukarn Chokkara
Medical Student - Pritzker School of Medicine
2022 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference
San Francisco, CA
5/13/2022-5/18/2022
Oncology and Ambulatory Clinical Nurse Specialists Unite: Improving the practice of Intravesicular Therapeutics
Melissa Arangoa, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, AOCNS
o Nurse in the Department of Nursing Research & Evidence Based Practice – Center for Clinical Professional Practice
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists – Rise – 2022 Annual Conference
Baltimore, MD
3/14/2022-3/17/2022
Promoting Safety Event Reporting in the PICU
Stephanie Lam, DO
PICU Fellow
Society of Critical Care Medicine: Critical Care Congress
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2/6/2022-2/9/2022
Preliminary Analysis of Factors Associated with PICU Readmission after Hospital Discharge
Allison Patten, DO
Pediatric Critical Care Fellow
Society of Critical Care Medicine: Critical Care Congress
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2/6/2022-2/9/2022
Predicting Intensive Care Readmission among Hospitalized Children
Ahmed Arshad, MD
Pediatric Fellow
Society of Critical Care Medicine: Critical Care Congress
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2/6/2022-2/9/2022
CAUTI Reduction: An Interprofessional Project
Rilwan Babajide
Medical Student - Pritzker School of Medicine
American Urological Association
Las Vegas, NV (Virtual)
9/10/2021-9/13/2021
CAUTI Reduction: An Interprofessional Project
Euphemia Connell, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC
Clinical Nurse Specialist
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) Annual Conference
Indianapolis, IN
March 10-13, 2020
Implementation of an Extubation Readiness Protocol in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Alison DeRemigis, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care
Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress
Orlando, FL
February 16-19, 2020
Improving Interprofessional Communication between Physicians and Nurses on an Academic General Surgery Service
Vanessa Buie, MD
Resident, General Surgery
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Forum
Orlando, FL
Dec. 9-11, 2019
Reduction in Age-Related Disparities in Depression Screening Before and After Implementation of a Medical Assistant Screening Protocol
Deirdre Gorman
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
AcademyHealth Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
Arlington, VA
December 4-6, 2019
Lower eHealth Literacy Associated with Less Ownership and Use of Technology Devices
Hanna Vollbrecht
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare
San Diego, CA
October 27-30, 2019
Causes of Clinical Deterioration Among High-Risk Ward Patients
Saieesh Rao
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
American Thoracic Society International Conference
Dallas, TX
May 17-22, 2019
Universal Screening for C. difficile at an Urban Academic Center: Impact on LabID Events and Lessons Learned
Maggie Collison, MD
Fellow, Infectious Disease
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
Boston, MA
April 24-26, 2019
Adult Inpatient Sepsis Screening
Mary Ann Francisco, MSN, APN, ACGNS-BC, CCCRN-K
Clinical Nurse Specialist
American Nurses Association Quality and Innovations Conference
Orlando, FL
April 23-26, 2019
Cost Reduction Opportunities in Interfacility Transfer Admissions to the PICU
Bernadette O’Neil, DO
Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care
Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress
Orlando, FL
February 16-19, 2020
Nurse-Driven Bedside Swallow Screen Facilitates Identification of Dysphagia in Stroke Patients and Reduces Aspiration Pneumonia
Stephanie Meletis, DNP, BSN, RN
Clinical Nurse Educator
American Heart Association International Stroke Conference and Nursing Symposium
Honolulu, HI
February 5-8, 2019
Development and Pilot of a Protocol to Reduce Unnecessary Monitoring and Improve Hospitalized Children’s Sleep
David Cook
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Forum
Orlando, FL
December 10-12, 2018
Evaluation of Resident-Led Initiative to Reduce Phlebotomy and Improve Sleep Friendly Labs: Order SMARTT Labs
Natalie Tapaskar, MD
Resident, Internal Medicine
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Scientific Symposium
Orlando, FL
December 9-12, 2018
Improving the Clinical Utility of Antinuclear Antibody Consults at the University of Chicago
Veena Patel, MD
Fellow, Medicine – Rheumatology
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Forum
Orlando, FL
December 9-12, 2018
Is There a Role for DVT Chemoprophylaxis after Elective SPing Surgery? An Analysis of Bleeding and Clotting Complications in 81,045 Patients
Sean Pirkle
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting
Scottsdale, AZ
December 5-8, 2018
Resident-Led Standardization of Lab Ordering Decreases Costs and Transfusions
Namrata Patel, MD, MPH
Resident, Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital Association 2018 Annual Leadership Conference
San Antonio, TX
November 5-7, 2018
Scaling Back on the Million Dollar Workup: Sometimes Less is More – How Framing the Problem Affects Vertigo
Carlen Yuen, MD
Resident, Neurology
High Value Practice Academic Alliance Future Leaders Program
Baltimore, MD
September 20-23, 2018
Bundled Care to Reduce Surgical Site Infections after Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC
Elizabeth Poli, MD, MS
Resident, Surgery
International Workshop on Peritoneal Surface Malignancy
Paris, France
September 9-11, 2018
A Mission to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance
Amber Turi, RN, MSN
Assistant Patient Care Manager
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Annual Patient Safety Congress
Boston, MA
May 23-25, 2018
Impact of Physician Workload on Risk of ICU Readmission and Accuracy of Predicting Bouncebacks
Teresa Jiang
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
American Thoracic Society
San Diego, CA
May 18-23, 2018
Characterizing Pediatric Inpatient Sleep Duration and Disruptions
Amarachi Erondu
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
Pediatric Academic Societies
Toronto, Canada
May 5-8, 2018
Implementation and Utilization of Preoperative, Non-Opioid, Multi-Modal Analgesics Via an EMR-Embedded Order-Set
Mayya Volodarskaya
Med Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
World Congress on Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
New York, NY
April 19-21, 2018
The GI mPCR Panel: Finding More Bugs Leading to Inappropriate Drugs?
Margaret Newman, MD
Fellow, Medicine – Infectious Disease
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Annual Meeting
Portland, OR
April 18-20, 2018
Morbidity and Risk Factors of Central Line-Associated Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Pediatric ICU
Jaime Braverman, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care
Society of Critical Care Medicine
San Antonio, TX
February 25-28, 2018
Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ruptured Intracranial Arterial Aneurysms Treatment
Cindy Yuan, MD, PhD
Resident, Radiology
International Stroke Conference
Los Angeles, CA
January 24-26, 2018
Stroke: Identifying the Educational Gap for Nurses in Argentina
Claudia Calvillo, BSN, RN
Registered Nurse – Neurological Intensive Care
International Stroke Conference
Los Angeles, CA
January 24-26, 2018
Granular ED Throughput Data: Encouraging Agency and Anti-Batching in Process Improvement
Maureen Canellas, MD
Resident, Emergency Medicine
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Scientific Symposium
Orlando, FL
December 11, 2017
Developing a Mobile Game to Promote HIV Testing among Young Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men: The Test
Jennifer Rowley
Research Coordinator, Obstetrics & Gynecology
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, GA
November 4-8, 2017
First Contact Provider (FCP): Improving Inpatient Critical Results Reporting
Anisha Chandiramani, MD
Resident, Internal Medicine
iHealth Clinical Informatics Conference
Philadelphia, PA
May 2-4, 2017
Validation of a Computerized Adaptive Test for Depression and Anxiety inn Primary Care
Alexa Minc
Research Assistant, General Internal Medicine
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
April 19-22, 2017
Does Race Impact Nurses’ Perception of Ethical Climate?
Donna Lemmenes, MSN, APN, CPNP, RCN-NIC
Neonatal Outreach Educator, Perinatal Center
National Nursing Ethics Conference
Los Angeles, CA
March 23-24, 2017
IGNITE (Improving GME Interprofessional Nursing Team Experiences) Change
Rachel Ridgway, MSN
PICU Staff Nurse
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Annual Educational Conference
Orlando, FL
March 9-12, 2017
Measuring Provider- and Staff-Perceived Level of Integration during Implementation of a Primary Care Behavioral Medicine Clinic
Erin Staab, MPH
Research Specialist II, Medicine
Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
Washington, DC
December 14-15, 2016
The New Asthma Care Guideline: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Inpatient Management
Ajanta Patel, MD, MPH
Fellow, Pediatrics
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Orlando, FL
December 4-7, 2016