For Faculty and Staff
Inquiry Portal
Turning curiosity about what matters to us into inquiry that makes a difference to us.
The Inquiry Portal is the place for DFM faculty and staff to submit requests for help with research, evaluation and/or scholarship.
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More information on types of assistance available through the Inquiry Portal:
Inquiry Team
Example Completed Inquiry Requests
Request |
Transform a hand drawn workflow diagram into a digital product for the reducing inbasket burden group. Requestors: Julianne Garrison & Aimee English | Inquiry Personnel: Carlee Kreisel Document created: Direct patient messaging workflow_2023 |
Create a poster for NAPCRG for the PATHWEIGH project. Requestor: Jodi Holtrop | Inquiry Personnel: Allison Lee Document created: PATHWEIGH Poster_NAPCRG 2022 |
Create a curriculum for medical students who want to do survey design as part of their mentored scholarly activity. Requestor: Jill VanWyk | Inquiry Personnel: Carlee Kreisel and Carlos Rodriguez Document created: MSA Survey Research Curriculum DFM v10.18.23 |
Assist with Better Together Clinician Coaching RCT including help with COMIRB, clinicaltrials.gov listing, REDCap survey & database, gift card program, data collection, fielding coaching participant requests, randomization, data analysis, manuscript writing. Requestor: Jennifer Caragol | Inquiry Personnel: Carlee Kreisel and Carlos Rodriguez |
Pilot and Exploratory Program (PEP)
Do you have a pilot or exploratory project needing funding or personnel help? PEP supports research in DFM that is focused on pilot or exploratory work. If you are interested in applying to PEP, please submit an initial request to discuss your idea using the DFM Inquiry Portal which will add you to the queue and initiate scheduling for an initial meeting with Carlee Kreisel, Research Services Specialist.
PEP requests are generally for longer term projects needing assistance with multiple tasks across multiple parts of a project (e.g., survey creation, recruitment, participant scheduling, setting up a gift card program, data collection, etc.). If you need assistance with a one-off task (e.g., only need help setting up a survey), we may be able to fulfill your request through the Inquiry Portal (see above).
For an overview of PEP and the required proposal content for submission, we encourage you to review (but not complete) the PEP Request Template prior to meeting with Carlee.
If your project idea is determined to be a good fit (please reference the PEP Request Template), you will be invited to submit a full PEP proposal.
Rolling deadlines for completed PEP proposal: January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1
Approved PEP Project Examples
Project | Project Aims | Inquiry Help Provided |
Understanding language used by PCPs in meeting (or not) the mental health and social needs of their patients with diabetes. Anne Nederveld, Caroline Tietbohl, Lauren Tolle | Aim 1: Identify key factors in clinician-patient communication specific to the issues intersecting mental health, social needs, and diabetes Aim 2: Evaluate the relationship between these factors and people with diabetes (PWD) psychosocial and biological outcomes |
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Feasibility and efficacy of a single session behavioral pain management class on pain catastrophizing, resilience, patient reported functional outcomes, and opioid use Jill VanWyk, Vanessa Rollins | Aim 1: Understand whether an evidence based single session pain class will improve post-surgical outcomes in patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery at-risk for persistent post-surgical pain Aim 2: Understand if Empowered Relief will demonstrate feasibility, efficacy, and scalability in this surgical population. |
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Selected Products from PEP Projects
Contact:
Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
[email protected]
Carlee Kreisel, MPH
Research Services Specialist
[email protected]
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