Research - Externally Funded Grants 2007-2009

Educational Grants

• Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse (DMHMRSAS) – Barbara Cubic, Ph.D.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, through the DMHMRSAS, awarded our Department $138,452 from July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2008 to develop the workforce in child psychology and funded two child psychology interns. In 2008 the DMHMRSAS awarded $149,352 to continue this program and to develop a child psychology post-doctoral fellowship position. This new funding will support the clinical supervision and stipends of a clinical psychology intern and a post-doctoral fellow in child clinical psychology with the understanding that these trainees would provide clinical services to underserved citizens after their training. These trainees will provide these much needed services through work within Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, the Hampton/Newport News Community Services Board and the EVMS Department of Family Medicine (at the Ghent Family Medicine site).

• Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA) – Barbara Cubic, Ph.D.

The federal Department of Health and Human Services awarded our Department a three year grant (subject to the availability of funds and satisfactory progress on the grant). Funding is for $89,962 in Year 1, $115,953 in Year 2, and $140,822 in Year 3 for the purpose of training clinical psychologists in primary care environments. This grant was in place for August 1, 2007 to July 31, 2008 and is expected to be renewed for an ensuing 2009 year.

• Ongoing Educational Grants
  Educational Coordinator – Lisa Fore-Arcand, Ed.D.

Each year our department enjoys regularly scheduled educational activities supported by external funding from pharmaceutical corporations for our Psychiatry Residency program. Many of our Department Grand Rounds activities are sponsored in this fashion. Dr. Arcand coordinates our Department’s annual Leroy W. Davis Memorial Alcoholism Conference supported by a grant from the Leroy W. Davis Memorial Fund.

• Ongoing Continuing Medical Education Approval from the American Psychological Association (APA)
  CME Chair, Barbara Cubic, Ph.D.

Our department has procured approval from the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer APA CME to clinical psychologists for specific educational activities we sponsor. This capability derives from an internal educational grant. Accordingly, the Department is regularly engaged in CPE educational offerings such as bi-monthly presentations within meetings of the Tidewater Academy of Clinical Psychologists (TACP) and several major Department-sponsored workshops in the past few years, involving nationally recognized speakers.

• Psychosomatic Medicine Interest Group from the American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
  Serina Neumann, Ph.D.
  
  Dr. Neumann competed successfully for one of ten $1,000 grants in the 2008-09 academic year awarded for fostering interest in psychosomatic medicine among medical students, residents and other clinical trainees.

Research Grants

• Robert Archer, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Archer has received continuous external funding over several decades, particularly with respect to funded research projects involving versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; MMPI-2; MMPI-A). External funding for these activities has been provided in part by the Norfolk Foundation and the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Archer’s extensive research has made him a nationally recognized authority in personality assessment and has led to his having been honored with such specific research awards as Distinguished Researcher Award from the Association of Medical School Professors of Psychology, EVMS Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, and Distinguished Scientific Contributions in Clinical Psychology from the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Archer is the founding editor of the journal, Assessment. He receives ongoing research support as the Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in our Department.

• Richard Handel, Ph.D.
  
  Dr. Handel has received continuous external grant funding as a principal investigator from the University of Minnesota Press and the Norfolk Foundation since joining the EVMS faculty. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen empirical papers or book chapters on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A since 1999 and is the principal investigator on the EVMS component of a multi-site study on Computerized Adaptive MMPI-2 Assessment which expands upon his previously published articles in the area of Computerized Adaptive Assessment.
  
  In addition to several ongoing research collaborations with Dr. Robert Archer, Dr. Handel is now working on projects with faculty from the University of Southern Mississippi in the areas of Personality and Alcohol Interactions in Predicting Aggressive Behavior, and Taxometric Analysis of DSM-IV personality disorders. Dr. Handel received the 2006 Samuel and Anne Beck Award from the Society of Personality Assessment in recognition of early career research accomplishments in personality research.
   
• Serina Neumann, Ph.D.
  
  Dr. Neumann is an exceptionally accomplished clinical psychology researcher with a strong record of prior research in health psychology. She joined the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in January 2006 and brought with her a five-year NIH new-investigator award valued at over $600,000 to continue her investigations of the means by which genetics and psychosocial factors may contribute to depression and autonomic dysregulation, both of which are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. This work will continue her involvement on several prior well-funded, larger-scale behavioral genetics research studies at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to this large grant, Dr. Neumann is collaborating with Dr. Herre in cardiology on a smaller grant in a related field, and she procured funding for this work from the Norfolk Foundation for FY 08 and FY 09.
   
• Catesby Ware, Ph.D.
  
  Dr. Ware has a long record of exceptional research productivity that has won him international recognition for sleep behavior research. He continues to receive extensive external funding for this work from government agencies, pharmaceutical corporations, HRSA, NIH and others.
  
  Recent innovations in the Sleep Disorders Center have included the design, construction and investigative application of a Driving Simulator to help assess the daytime effects of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation. Recent investigations have examined the relationship between sleep and obesity. Dr. Ware has collaborated with several other Department faculty members and our Psychiatry Residents in investigations of pharmacological interventions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). From 2004 to the present, Dr. Ware has been involved in at least 15 different funded research projects totaling approximately $2.5 million. Dr. Ware is the recipient of the 2006 Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Award from EVMS.

• Norfolk Foundation Projects
  
  Our department has regularly enjoyed research funding from the Norfolk Foundation for a variety of projects directed by different faculty teams. In recent years, this funding has been awarded to Robert Archer, Ph.D., ABPP, Barbara Cubic, Ph.D., Richard Handel, Ph.D., David Spiegel, M.D., Maria Urbano, M.D., and Serina Neumann, Ph.D.
  
  Dr. Urbano investigated changes in sexual functioning among women taking antidepressant medications. Drs. Urbano and Spiegel are comparing Gabapentin and Tiaginipine in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. Drs. Handel and Archer studied correlates of the MMPI-2 within an inpatient population at Central State Hospital and were involved in new MMPI-2 computer adaptations with an outpatient population. Dr. Cubic is investigating the predictive validity of pre-surgery psychological evaluations for gastric bypass candidates. Dr. Neumann will further investigate cardiac risk factors with depression.

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