Grants

Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar - Wally R. Smith, M.D.

The Foundation's Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program was designed to strengthen the presence of generalist physician faculty in the nation's medical schools through career development awards to outstanding junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.This grant enables Wally R. Smith, M.D., to describe the critical decisions for physicians in managing sickle cell patients in the hospital and emergency room. He essentially will create guidelines for the management of sickle cell problems based on sophisticated decision analysis. To do this, he must first describe through clinical epidemiological studies, judgement, and decision making, the processes now used to care for sickle cell patients. He will then use this information and decision analysis to identify effective means of treatments. He also will undertake a study of physician attitudes toward sickle cell, to refine his definition of a painful crisis in a sickle cell patient, and to develop a methodology to measure the severity of the pain.

Grant Details

Amount Awarded $240,000.00

Awarded on: 6/28/1993

Time frame: 7/1/1993 - 6/30/1997

Grant Number: 22326

Grantee

Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia

P.O. Box 980565
Richmond, VA, 23298-0565

Wally R. Smith
Project Director

804-371-5129
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