Funding Opportunities
Proposals are now being accepted for 2025-2026 funding.
The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities will provide two types of funding opportunities in 2025-2026. Applications will be due May 5, 2025. Funding decisions will be communicated in August. The funding period will run September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026.
CBMH Pilot/Exploratory Grant
This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health, or healthcare policy. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.
2024-2025 Recipient
- Institutional Culture at the Limit of Viability: A Multi-Center Mixed Methods Study
Shannon Adams-Hartung
Mentors: Jessica Fry, Natalia Henner, and Dalia Feltman
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant
Provided jointly with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), this award funds research in bioethics and artificial intelligence. This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore bioethics problems associated with any type of AI in healthcare. Projects can address issues from conception, development, testing, and implementation of AI and can be normative or empirical work. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.
2024-2025 Recipients
- Exploring Shared Decision Making, Informed Consent, and the Use of AI in Infertility Care: Perspectives of Patients, Physicians, and Embryologists
Sarah Cromack
Mentor: Jessica Walter
- Co-designing Equitable Generative AI Tools for Inclusive Sexual Health Education with Queer Teens
William Liem
Mentors: Andrew Berry and Kathryn Macapgal
- Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Exploring the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Medical Student Assignments in the Psychiatry Clerkship
Kaitlyn Kunstman
Past Grant Recipients
Pilot/Exploratory Grant Recipients
- A Multi-Center Retrospective Review of the Characteristics of Pediatric Patients with Ethics Consults (2023)
Jordan Nicole Drawbridge, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
Mentors: Drs. Kelly Michelson, Erin Paquette, and Irini Kolaitis
- Associations Between Perceived Financial Distress and Non-Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses Among Caregivers of Critically-Ill Children (2023)
Vidya Mahavadi, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
Mentors: Drs. Denise Goodman, Erin Paquette, Carolyn Foster, Anna Chorniy
- Family-Initiated Interpretation: A Novel Approach to Communication in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (2023)
Mary Pilarz, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
Mentor: Dr. Stacy Cooper Bailey
- The Impact of Neighborhood-Level Social Needs and the Build-Environment on Patient Disease Severity on Presentation to the PICU (2021-2022)
Paula Magee, MD, MPH (Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care)
Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
- Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination Consent Study (2021-2022)
Ashwin Sunderraj (Medical Student)
Mentor: Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
- Ethics of Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies-Pilot Phase (2021-2022)
Mohammad Hosseini, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher, Preventive Medicine)
Mentor: Kristi Holmes, PhD
- Comparison of Ethical Decision-Making Climate Among Subspecialty ICUs at a Single Institution (2019-20)
Courtney Furlough, MD
- Prognostic Discussions with Parents of High Risk, Critically Ill Pediatric Patients (2019-20)
Lauren Rissman, MD
- Provider Perspectives on Communication and Consent in Evaluations for Brain Death (2018-19)
Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics
- Optimizing Palliative Care for Critically Ill Adults: A Mixed Methods Evaluation (2018-19)
Katharine Secunda, MD
- The Perceptions of Resident Physicians Regarding the Performance of Abortions Under Limited Anesthesia at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital (2017-18)
Ashish Premkumar, MD and Whitney You, MD, MPH
- How Should My Doctor Talk about End of Life Care with Me and My Family?: A Qualitative Study on Latino Patients’ Preferences (2017-18)
Margaret Russell, MD
- Humanism in Interventional Radiology: Helping a New Specialty Find Its Clinical Identity (2016-17)
Eric Keller, MA
- Pathways to Chronic Critical Illness: A Qualitative Evaluation (2016-17)
Jacqueline Kruser, MD
- ABCs in Pediatrics: Engaging Parents in the Development and Legally Valid Approaches to Biorepository Consent in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients (2016-17)
Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant Recipients
- Trends in US Newspaper Coverage of Healthcare AI Controversies (2023)
Joshua Faber (Medical student)
Mentor: Dr. Chad Teven
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Intersectional Socio-Demographic Risk for Child Maltreatment in Illinois (2023)
Zhidi Luo (PhD student, Health Sciences Integrated Program)
Mentor: Dr. Richard Epstein
- Physician Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence and Result Management (2021-2022)
Jonathan Huang (Medical Student)
Mentor: Mozziyar Etemadi, MD, PhD
- Management of Facial Images as a Biometric in a Healthcare Setting (2021-2022)
Sara H. Katsanis, MS (Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics)
COVID-19 Ethics and Humanities Grant Recipients
- COVID-19: Creative/Critical Studies in Music, Image, and Text (2020-21)
Jacob Leveton and Tamar Kharatishvili (Graduate Students, Department of Art History)
Mentor: Kathleen Bickford Berzock, PhD
- Unblinding in Randomized Control Trials: A Clinical Ethics Pandemic Evaluation (2020-21)
Ayesha Bhatia, MPH (Research Study Coordinator, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Mentor: Katherine L. Wisner, MD
- Ethical Principles of PPE Allocation During COVID-19 (2020-21)
Tazim Merchant, Tricia Pendergrast, and Roger Smith (Medical Students)
Mentor: Mark Sheldon, PhD
Program Development Grant Recipients
- The PICU Equity Project (2019-20)
Erin Paquette, MD, JD, MBe and Sabrina Derrington, MD, MA
- Ethics in Practice: An Online Interactive Ethics Education Platform (2018-19)
Shelly Benjaminy, PhD
- Addressing Barriers to Special Education for Children by Enabling Collaboration Between Schools and Health Care Providers (2018-19)
Jenifer Cartland, PhD
- Nurse Ethics Champion Program (2016-17)
Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA and M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC
If you have any questions about these awards, please contact Bryan Morrison.