Grants - Honors - Awards

Grants

  • Grant Number R01HL148448 – Blood and Urine Biomarkers for Predicting Long-Term Adverse Kidney and Cardiovascular Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery.
    The goal of this research is to identify blood and urine biomarkers and clinical variables that predict with high sensitivity and specificity those patients who develop major adverse kidney and/or cardiovascular outcomes during the 5 years following cardiac surgery. 610 cardiac surgical patients were prospectively enrolled for this grant work, up to five year follow-up is ongoing. Project Period: May 2019 – April 2024.
  • O’Brien Kidney Center Pilot and Feasibility Grant Awarded from NIH UT Southwestern P30DK0793228
    Project Period: 2016-2018
     

Honors & Awards

Year

Name of Honor/Award

Awarding Organization

2015-Present A.H. "Buddy" Giesecke, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Professorship in Anesthesiology and Pain Management University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2019 Abstract selected for the Annual Meeting’s Best of 2019 Session Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting. One of the top 16 scientific abstracts. (last author)
2018 Research Faculty of the Year Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2018 Society of Cardiovsacular Anesthesiologists (SCA) Newsletter Member Spotlight Article Featured in “Member Spotlight- AWEsome Women (Anesthesiology Women of Excellence)” series. SCA Newsletter vol. 17(4), August 2018
2016 Chairman’s Recognition Award Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2016 Clinician of the Month – December Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2014 Best Research Abstract of Meeting Award International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting, May 19th, 2014 in Montreal, Canada. Selected as best abstract and research presentation out of >500 accepted abstracts. (first author)
2011 Abstract selected for the Annual Meeting’s Best of 2011 Session Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting. One of 10 abstracts selected. (first author)
2009 Research Program Award American Heart Association, Founders Affiliate Clinical Research Program Award (Principal investigator) declined grant in order to accept American Geriatrics Society Grant award, as the two grants had overlapping specific aims). Grant would have provided $50,000 per year for two years.
2008 Best Abstracts of the Meeting – Anesthesiology Editors’ Pick American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Annual Meeting. One of 10 abstracts accepted for oral presentation. (first author)
2005 Faculty Excellence Award Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
1994 Phi Beta Kappa Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Grant Review Activities

2020-2023, 2018-2019

Invited Grant Reviewer and FAER Grant Review Study Section member (Spring 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019; Spring 2021; Fall 2021; Spring 2022; Fall 2022; Spring 2023)

Organization:
Foundation for Anesthesia Education (FAER) and Research Grant Program
American Society of Anesthesiologists Research Committee

2019-2021

Invited Grant Reviewer Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Grant Review Committee member

Organization:
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) Research Committee

2021

Invited Grant Reviewer

Organization:
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists’ 2022 Research Grants

2016

Invited Grant Reviewer

Organization:
Texas Regional CTSA Consortium (TRCC) Clinical Trials Pilot Grant Program

Grant Support

Present

2019-2024

Grantor: NIH NHLBI R01HL148448

Title of Project: Blood and Urine Biomarkers for Predicting Long-Term Adverse Kidney and Cardiovascular Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Provides $3,679,471.00 in total direct and indirect costs to support biomarker assays, equipment, research personnel, statistical personnel, and institutional overhead.

 

Past

2016-2019

Grantor: O’Brien Kidney Center Pilot and Feasibility Grant, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Title of Project: Klotho: Biomarker of Early Onset of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator of Pilot and Feasibility Grant. Dr. Orson Moe is PI of UT Southwestern’s overall NIH P30DK079328 award.

Total amount of award: Provides $35,000 to support salary of principal investigator, Klotho assays, and research assistant time.
 

2015-2017

Grantor: NIH NIDDK Revision R01 DK092461

Title of Project: Klotho: Therapeutic Agent for Ischemia Reperfusion Induced Acute Kidney Injury

Role: Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator Dr. Ming-Chang Hu

Total amount of award: Provided $75,000 to support salaries of investigators and research staff to measure Klotho assays in biobanked human serum stored from cardiac surgical cohorts.
 

2012-2015

Grantor: Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists/ International Anesthesia Research Society Mid-Career Research Grant

Title of Project: Genome-Wide Assessment of Genetic Associations with Heart Failure after Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Provided $100,000 to support costs of the project and principal investigator’s salary. This study is investigating the association between allotypic variation within the whole genome and development of long-term heart failure after primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
 

2012-2013

Grantor: Harvard Medical Scholars Program Eleanor and Miles Shore Career Development Award

Title of Project: Genome-Wide Assessment of Genetic Associations with Heart Failure after Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: This award provides $30,000 to support research personnel needed to investigate the association between allotypic variation within the whole genome and development of long-term heart failure after primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
 

2009-2012

Grantor: American Geriatrics Society, Jahnigen Career Development Award

Title of Project: Influence of In-Hospital Ventricular Dysfunction and Related Genetic Variants on the Development of Long-Term Heart Failure and Quality of Life Outcomes in Older Patients after Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Provided $150,000 to support the costs of the project and principal investigator’s salary. This study investigated genetic, biomarker and clinical predicators of long-term physical function and heart failure in the elderly after primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
 

2007-2009

Grantor: Foundation Anesthesia Education Research, Research Starter Grant

Title of Project: Genotypic Influences on Postoperative B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Concentrations and Ventricular Dysfunction with Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Provided $35,000 for the first year and $50,000 for the second year to support project costs and principal investigator’s salary. This study investigated the association between allotypic variation within the whole genome and occurrence of in-hospital postoperative ventricular dysfunction following primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
 

2007-2008

Grantor: Harvard Medical Scholars Program Eleanor and Miles Shore Career Development Fellowship

Title of Project: Influence of Natriuretic Peptide Genes on Cardiovascular Outcomes after Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: This fellowship provided $20,000 to investigate the association between genetic variation within 7 candidate genes related to the natriuretic peptide system and both perioperative plasma B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations and postoperative ventricular dysfunction in >1100 patients undergoing primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.
 

2005-2007

Grantor: Simon Gelman Career Development Fellowship for Faculty Research Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Title of Project: Genotypic and Phenotypic Influences of Brain Natriuretic Peptide on Adverse Cardiac Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Departmental research support awarded biannually to a faculty member with promising research potential. This fellowship provided salary to support 40% nonclinical time to pursue the Society of Cardiovascular Research Starter Grant’s study of the relationship between elevated plasma B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations and outcomes after coronary artery bypass surgery.
 

2005-2007

Grantor: Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Research Starter Grant

Title of Project: Genotypic and Phenotypic Influences of Brain Natriuretic Peptide on Adverse Cardiac Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: This grant provided $20,000 per year for two years for laboratory, technician, and statistical support to investigate whether 1) variations within the natriuretic peptide precursor A and B genes (NPPA and NPPB) and 2) elevations in perioperative plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentrations associated with in-hospital postoperative ventricular dysfunction in >1100 patients undergoing primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery, 2005-2007.
 

2004-2005

Grantor: General Clinical Research Grant NCRR M01 02558

Title of Project: Genotypic and Phenotypic Influences of Brain Natriuretic Peptide on Adverse Perioperative Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Total amount of award: Provided $10,000 worth of serum B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations for a pilot study