Macauley Mackintosh ’22, Chiropractic, opened up a clinic, Buffalo Spine & Sport Chiropractic, in the Denver Metro Area of Aurora. Andrew Sipowicz ’22, Physical Therapy, has joined Buffalo Rehab Group as a Physical Therapist at the Hamburg Village location. Kimberly Ellerington-Beebe, RN has been named director of employee health at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY Grants Dr. Renee Cadzow – PI, along with community partners, awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration grant titled “Community Health Worker Training Program,” September 2022 ($2,999,835). Rebecca Capinera – PI awarded a Women’s Sports Foundation grant titled “Coaching Fellowship for Women,” ($17,500) Dr. Chiahui (Kate) Chen – Site Director under PI Dr. Jennifer Seaman of University of Pittsburgh, submitted a NIH grant titled as “Randomized Trial of a Scalable Nurse-led Intervention to Ensure Proactive, Interprofessional Family Meetings in ICUs” (pending, $113,500), October 2022. Dr. Shannon McCrory-Churchill – PI, along with community partners, awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration grant titled “Nurse Education, Practice, Quality & Retention + Mobile/ Pop Up Clinics,” September 2022 ($3,966,653). Dr. Stacy Ruvio (PI) and Dr. Justin McGraw (Co-PI), awarded an NSF S-STEM grant titled “Strengthening the STEM High School-to- Workforce Pipeline for Urban, Low-Income Students (D’YOU STEM),” July 2022 ($748,250). Dr. Leona Soule – PI, awarded a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield- Blue Fund grant titled “Pathways Pharmacy Tech,” ($250,000) RaShon Thomas – PI, awarded a Sisters of St. Francis Holy Name Province, Inc. – Providence Fund grant titled “Cultural Enrichment Center,” ($5,000) Dr. Clara Voorhees – PI, submitted an NSF IUSE grant titled “Improving New Student Performance and Increasing Retention with Educationally Equitable Pedagogy” (INSPIRE EP: Intro BIO)(pending, $275,000), July 2022. Dr. Shoshanna Zucker – Co-PI, awarded a University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Technology (UB CAT) grant titled “Preclinical safety and efficacy studies of medical devices to support IND submission,” ($10,500) 32 | SPRING 2023
