eHealth Express Grant Writing Workshop

							 eHealth Express Grant
   Writing Workshop
Open Chat Room & Open Phone
Session With Workshop Mentors

 Pose your grant writing questions to NCI program managers.

 Objectives:
 *   Grant writing questions addressed

 Agenda:
 *    Mentors will answer questions from participants online
  and via phone
eHealth Express Grant
  Writing Workshop
Workshop Agenda:
 -    Participants' questions and comments to grant writing
 mentors, Sabra Woolley, Connie Dresser and Chuck Rafferty

 -    *News from the Health Communication and Informatics
 Research Branch/ Behavioral Research Program at NCI

 -      Sabra Woolley will give eHealth express grant writing
 workshop participants a preview of a new research priority at
 NCI: Mixing ethnographic methodologies and metrics to achieve
 sustainable behavioral change. Sabra will describe an upcoming
 NCI sponsored conference on this topic and encourage you to
 submit suggestions and examples for potential publication.
  eHealth Express Grant
    Writing Workshop
             Today’s Workshop Mentors:

 Connie Dresser,
  SBIR Mentor


                                     Sabra Woolley,
                                 Grantmanship Mentor

 Chuck Rafferty,
  Scientific Review

                                        Brad Hesse
                                        Guest Mentor
 eHealth Express Grant
   Writing Workshop


   Connie Dresser, SBIR Mentor

 Connie Dresser is the Program Director for the National Cancer
  Institute's Multimedia Technology/Health Communication SBIR/STTR
  Grant Program and the Acting NCI SBIR Liaison to the Office of the
  Director at the National Institutes of Health. Her program, which
  funds eHealth applications in nine research categories, has produced
  three Science and Business SBIR Showcases; and an informative web
  site for new and experienced applicants that highlights grant
  synthesis and developed products. She has championed eHealth
  research activities at NCI and with the Department of Health and
  Human Services.
 eHealth Express Grant
   Writing Workshop

  Sabra Woolley, PhD - Grantmanship Mentor

 Sabra Woolley is a medical anthropologist and Program
  Director in the Health Communication and Informatics
  Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute of the
  National Institutes of Health. Her interests are focused on the
  cultural component of health seeking behaviors among diverse
  ethnic groups in the United States, as well as upon the study of
  biomedical practitioners as a cultural subgroup. Sabra manages
  a large portfolio of grants, many of them involving health
  disparities and communications issues.
 eHealth Express Grant
   Writing Workshop


   Chuck Rafferty - Scientific Review Mentor

 Chuck Rafferty a Scientific Review Administrator and Referral Officer
  at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institutes of Health
  (NIH). His main job is to manage peer-review of investigator-initiated
  grant applications related to health services research and
  environmental diseases and injuries. His main study section is the
  Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section. He
  also runs a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) study section. In
  addition to his main job as a scientific review administrator, Chuck is
  also a Referral Officer in the CSR Division of Receipt and Referral
  where he looks at newly-arrived NIH grant applications and then
  assigns them to specific CSR study sections for review and to NIH
  Institutes and Centers for funding consideration.
 eHealth Express Grant
   Writing Workshop
               Today’s Workshop Guest:

   Brad Hesse, Director of the User Centered Informatics Research
   Laboratory.

 Brad Hesse is the Research Director of the User Centered Informatics
  Research Laboratory at NCI, will describe the new Laboratory (formerly
  the Usability Lab), and his vision for its future. and encourage
  participants to suggest ways health communication and informatics
  researchers can participate.