National Institutes of Health Research Grants

A total of 40 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants were received by The Miriam Hospital in 2005. For more information about ongoing research studies, please call Suzanne Moriarty at 401-793-8095.

AIDS/HIV

Centers for Aids Research

• Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research
  Principal Investigator: Charles Carpenter, MD
  
  
• Antiviral Therapy and HIV in the Genital Tract of Women (3 Grants)
  Principal Investigator: Susan Cu-Uvin, MD
  
  
• Adult Therapeutic Clinical Trials Program for HIV/AIDS
  Principal Investigator: Timothy Flanigan, MD
  
  
• Directly Observed Therapy For TB and HIV in Kenya
  Principal Investigator: Timothy Flanigan, MD
  
  
• HIV and Other Infectious Consequences of Substance Abuse
  Principal Investigator: Timothy Flanigan, MD
  
  
• Genital Tract HIV Shedding in Cambodian Women
  Principal Investigator: Joseph Harwell, MD
  
  
• Improving Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV
  Principal Investigator: Robert Paul, PhD
  
  
• Cognitive Performance and Diffusivity in HIV Patients Principal Investigator: David Tate, PhD
  
  
• AIDS International Training and Research Program (3 Grants)
  Principal Investigator: Kenneth Mayer, MD
  
  
• Directly Observed Therapy and Prevention for HIV-positive Persons Leaving Prison
  Principal Investigator: Jennifer Mitty, MD
  
  
• A Contextual Model of Microbicide Acceptability
  Principal Investigator: Kathleen Morrow, PhD

Cardiovascular

• Tailored Exercise Support for Cardiac Patients
  Principal Investigator: Beth Bock, PhD
  
  
• Heart Failure Intervention and Cognition in the Elderly
  Principal Investigator: Karin Hoth, PhD
  
  
• Socio-Economic Status, Health Behaviors and Cardiovascular Disease Among Vietnam-Era Twins
  Principal Investigator: Jeane Mccaffrey, PhD
  
  
• Genetic Predictors of Comorbid Depressive Symptoms and Coronary Artery Disease
  Principal Investigator: Jeane Mccaffrey, PhD
  
  
• Maintaining Exercise After Cardiac Rehabilitation
  Principal Investigator: Bernadine Pinto, PhD
  
  
• The Long-Term Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Men
  Principal Investigator: John Todaro, MD
  
  

Depression

• Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Reactivity, Puberty and Sex Differences in Depression
  Principal Investigator: Laura Stroud, PhD

Drug Abuse

• Opiate Replacement Therapy at Release from Incarceration
  Principal Investigator: Josiah Rich, MD

Physical Activity and Health

The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine: Physical Activity Research Center

• Affective Variables as Determinants of Physical Activity
  Principle Investigator: David Williams, MD
  
  
• Promoting Physical Activity After Colorectal Cancer
  Principal Investigator: Bernadine Pinto, PhD
  

Smoking Cessation

The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine: Nicotine and Tobacco Research Center

• Sustaining Cessation in Smokers with Kids with Asthma
  Principal Investigator: Belinda Borrelli, PhD
  
  
• Neurobehavioral Regulation of Cigarette Cravings
  Principal Investigator: Brian Hitsman, PhD
  
  
• Exercise to Aid Smoking Cessation in Adolescent Girls
  Principal Investigator: Melissa Napolitano, PhD
  
  
• Prenatal Smoking, Fetal Behavior and Infant Withdrawal
  Principal Investigator: Laura Stroud, PhD
  
  
• Efficiency of Tailoring Treatment to Smoker Subgroup
  Principal Investigator: Charles Neighbors, PhD

Weight Control

The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine: Weight Control and Diabetes Center

• Modifying Obesogenic Homes: Impact on Weight Maintenance
  Principal Investigator: Amy Gorin, PhD
  
  
• Peer Enhanced Intervention to Support Teen Weight Loss
  Principle Investigator: Elissa Jelalian, PhD
  Jelalian at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
  
  
• A Prospective Study of Weight Change in College Freshman
  Principle Investigator: Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, PhD
  
  
• Internet Technologies to Increase Exercise Behaviors
  Principal Investigator: Bess Marcus, PhD
  
  
• Childhood Obesity Treatment Targeting Specific Behaviors
  Principal Investigator: Hollie Raynor, PhD
  
  
• Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance (3 grants)
  Principal Investigator: Rena Wing, PhD
  
  
• Study of Health Outcomes of Weight Loss Trial
  Principal Investigator: Rena Wing, PhD
  
  
• PRIDE: Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise
  Principal Investigator: Rena Wing, PhD
  
  

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