2015 Grant Awards

In 2015 CIORA funded 3 one-year grants and 6 two-year grants for a total of just over $740,000.

Pillar Title Principal Investigator Award
Awareness/Advocacy/Education Improving the Care of Patients with Systemic Vasculitis through the Development of Management Recommendations and Educational Materials: A Canadian Vasculitis Pagnoux, C.  $89,170
Awareness/Advocacy/Education Supporting Patient care with Electronic Resource (SuPER): Efficacy of an online decision aid for patients considering biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis Li, L.
Lacaille, D
 $51,130
Awareness/Advocacy/Education The Economic Challenges of SLE: Measuring and Mitigating the Impact Clarke, A. $111,800
Awareness/Advocacy/Education Translating Research into Practice: Identifying Factors that Influence the Uptake of Canadian Research Findings into the Clinical Care of Children with Arthritis Stringer, E.  $74,990
Awareness/Advocacy/Education Understanding the Effects of Creating and Viewing Art and Digital Stories with Pediatric Rheumatology Patients, Healthcare Teams and in Educating the Community Miettunen, P  $52,841
Early Access for Rheumatic Disease Patients Do persons with rheumatic diseases have timely access to chronic pain services? Perreault, K.  $68,540
Early Access for Rheumatic Disease Patients Preventing rheumatoid arthritis (Pre-RA): perspectives of people at risk and of rheumatologists on selected interventions Harrison, M.
Hudson, M.
 $82,933
Early Access for Rheumatic Disease Patients Testing of System-Level Performance Measures for Inflammatory Arthritis Barber, C. $110,000
Multi-Disciplinary Care Teams Pharmacist-led CVD Intervention for Inflammatory Arthritis Patients Marra, C.  $99,627