Funding

Previous Funding

1. Principal Investigator, Pat Capps College of Allied Health Collaborative Research Support Program, University of South Alabama, Efficacy of expiratory muscle strength training on oropharyngeal swallow physiology in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): a pilot intervention study, 2022 – 2023, $5,000.

2. Principal Investigator, USA Faculty Development Council Fellows Program, University of South Alabama, Developing a NIH R21 proposal to determine adherence and efficacy of a Respiratory-Swallow Training paradigm in ALS, 2021-2022, $5,000.

3. Co-Investigator, Veterans Affairs Merit Award (PI: Martin-Harris), Clinical impact of respiratory-swallow training on refractory dysphagia in OP HNC, 2018 – 2022.

4. Principal Investigator, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant Award, University of South Alabama, The relationship between formal instruction on effective learning techniques and student learning and retention in a graduate level SLP course, 2019 – 2020, $1,000.

5. Collaborator and Chairperson of ALSA Alabama Advisory Committee for Provider Education Development, Care Grant, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc., ALS Alabama Provider Outreach and Education Program, 2019 – 2020, $7,000.

6. Principal Investigator, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant Award, University of South Alabama, Effectiveness of team-based learning on student learning outcomes in a graduate level dysphagia course, 2018 – 2019.

7. Principal Investigator, TeamUSA Quality Enhancement Plan, Project to Enhance Scholarship of Team-Based Learning Pedagogy, Effectiveness of team-based learning on student learning outcomes in dysphagia, 2018 – 2019.

8. Principal Investigator, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, Advancing Academic-Research Career Award (Teaching Mentor: Dr. Julie Estis; Research Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Friberg), Effectiveness of team-based learning on student learning outcomes in dysphagia: a mixed methods approach, 2018 – 2019.

9. Principal Investigator, USA Faculty Development Council Grant Program, Pulmonary function and its influence on speech and swallowing function in patients with motor neuron disease, 2018 – 2019.

10. Principal Investigator, Veterans Affairs (VA CDA-1 RR&D, 1IK1RX001628-01A1), Age-related variations in swallowing and aspiration risk in veterans, 2015 – 2016.

11. Lead Clinician, Entera Health, Inc. (EH5220) (PI: Paoletti), A randomized, double blinded, placebo-controlled pilot study of Serum Bovine Immunoglobulin (SBI) for cachexia in patients with advanced COPD, 2014 – 2015.

12. New Century Doctoral Scholarship, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, 2013.

13. Principal Investigator, South Carolina Clinical and Translational Institute (NIH/NCATS TL1 TR000061),Quantifying normal swallow physiology across the adult lifespan, Post-doctoral Clinical & Translational Research Training Program (TL2), 2011 – 2012.

14. Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Research Grant (PI: (Focht) Garand), North Carolina State University, Onset latency, pausing and articulation rate in language formulation task, 2004.