Successful Grant Writing

Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN is distinguished professor and dean, College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. She is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Previously at Johns Hopkins, she was the Isabell Hampton Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging. Its mission was to develop, test and implement novel services, programs and models that advance and support the well-being of older adults, their families and communities as well as provide mentorship and research training in behavioral intervention research.Dr. Gitlin's programs of research are multifold and include developing, testing and implementing innovative psychosocial, behavioral, and environmental approaches to address a wide range of challenges in old age including physical disability, depressive symptoms, neuropsychiatric behaviors, dementia care, family caregiving, health disparities. A number of her proven interventions are used worldwide in a variety of health care settings. Dr. Gitlin is nationally and internationally recognized in these areas and is a well-funded researcher, having received continuous research and training grant funds from federal agencies and private foundations, including the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institutes of Health for over 38 years. For most of her career she was fully supported by external grant funds and has garnered over $100 million in grant funding. Dr. Gitlin has served as a grant reviewer for the previously named National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (now the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research), the Alzheimer's Association, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Nursing Research, the Agency for Health Research and Quality, the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and other foundations and international bodies. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with over 300 publications including book chapters. She has also coauthored 6 books including: Introduction to Research: Understanding and applying multiple strategies (Co-Author, Elizabeth DePoy); Occupational Therapy and Dementia Care: The Home Environmental Skill-Building Program for Individuals and Families (Co Author, Mary A. Corocoran); Physical Function in Older Adults: A comprehensive guide to its meaning and measurement; Tips for Aging at Home: Doing what Matters to you (Co Authors, Sarah L. Szanton, Jill Roth, Allyson Evelyn-Gustave); Behavioral Intervention Research (Co-Author, Sara J Czaja); Better Living with Dementia: Implications for individuals, families, communities, and societies (Co-Author, Nancy A. Hodgson). Ann Kolanowski, Ph.D., RN., FGSA, FAAN is Professor of Nursing at the College of Nursing and Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, Penn State University. She has over a decade of clinical experience in acute and long-term care settings and over 35 years of experience in higher education. Her program of research focuses on the development and testing of psychosocial interventions for dementia-related behaviors and cognitive symptoms exhibited by people living with dementia. Additionally she conducts pragmatic trials of implementation strategies designed to assist staff in long-term care settings to use evidence-based approaches for the behavioral and cognitive symptoms of residents. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research, the Alzheimer's Association, the Hartford Foundation, the Commonwealth Foundation and the Neuroscience Nursing Foundation. Dr. Kolanowski has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. She is a member of the grassroots Dementia Action Alliance, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America, and the founding Director of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State University. Dr. Kolanowski has served as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Association, and a number of international funding agencies, and is on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She is the recipient of the 2004 Penn State University Fran and Holly Soitsman Award for Excellence in Health Services Research and the 2012 Gerontological Society of America's Doris Schwartz Nursing Research Award. Kevin J. Lyons, PhD, Dr. Lyons has over 40 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator. He has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings and has been a frequent consultant to universities and government agencies on issues such as research development, team building, interprofessional education and program improvement. Dr. Lyons has written chapters for the books Medicine and Health Care into the 21st Century, Leadership in Rural health: Interprofessional Education and Practice and Allied Education, Practice Issues and Trends into the 21st Millennium, and served as co-editor for the latter. He has served on the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Health Services Research: Training and Workforce Issues and is recently participated in their Workshop on the Allied Health Workforce and Services. Dr. Lyons has also written a white paper for the National Commission on Allied Health on Current Organizational Research Agendas Related to Allied Health Practices. For ten years Dr. Lyons served as Editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award and been elected a Fellow in that organization. He also co-edited a special issue of the Journal that was published in September, 2010 on interprofessional education which featured papers from national and international leaders in the field. Dr. Lyons is a funded investigator, having received grants and contracts from the Bureau of Health Professions to advance the research mission of the allied health professions. He also has served as project evaluator and member of the steering committee for two grants from NIH and HRSA. Dr. Lyons has served on peer review panels for FIPSE, OSERS, NCCAM and NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals. Dr Lyons is one of the founding members of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. He also has served on the Board of Trustees for Rocky Mountain University of the Health Professions.

Preface xiii
Foreword
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
Part I Getting Started
Chapter 1 Why Write a Grant?
Chapter 2 Becoming Familiar With Funding Sources
Chapter 3 Developing Your Ideas for Funding
Chapter 4 Infrastructure to Support Grant Writing
Chapter 5 Everyone Needs a Mentor
Part II Writing a Competitive Application
Chapter 6 Strategies for Effective Writing
Chapter 7 Overview of Common Sections of Proposals
Chapter 8 Heart of the Matter: The AIMS
Chapter 9 Background and Significance
Chapter 10 The Approach
Chapter 11 Concept Papers, Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Chapter 12 Common Pitfalls in Proposals
Part III Preparing a Budget
Chapter 13 Budget Basics
Chapter 14 Creating a Budget for your Project
Chapter 15 Technical Considerations
Part IV Models for Proposal Development
Chapter 16 Four Project Structures
Chapter 17 Understanding the Process of Collaboration
Chapter 18 Collaborating for Team Science
Part V Submitting the Proposal
Chapter 19 Learning about your Institution
Chapter 20 Electronic Considerations
Part VI Life After a Grant Submission
Chapter 21 Understanding the Review Process
Chapter 22 Responding to Reviewers' Comments
Part VII Strategies for Managing a Grant Award
Chapter 23 Welcome to the World of Post-Award
Chapter 24 Building a Program of Research
Chapter 25 A Case Study: Putting it All Together
Appendix A Common Questions and Their Answers
Appendix B Selected Key Acronyms
Appendix C Guidelines for Evaluating Collaborative Teams
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