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2019
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15:58 PM
Europe/Amsterdam

Dr. Tamorah Lewis Awarded a RWJF Grant to Support her Neonatal Precision Therapeutics Research

Congratulations to Tamorah Lewis MD, PhD, for recently being awarded the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) was created to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing and who will encourage and foster the development of succeeding classes of such physicians, dentists, and nurse-scientists. The program opened its doors in 1983 to its first cohort of eight physicians. Thirty-three years and 280 alumni later, program graduates are full professors, chairs of departments, leaders of Institutes within the National Institutes of Health, and individuals nationally and internationally known for their valuable contributions to biomedical research, health services research, and clinical investigation.

With the four-year grant awarded to Dr. Lewis, she will be afforded the protected time and resources needed to establish herself as a clinician researcher at Children’s Mercy Hospital. The grant will support her research program investigating the effects of age and genetics on exposure and clinical response to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in premature infants. With mentorship in both the Divisions of Neonatology and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation at CMH, and the Annual Harold Amos Scholars retreat, Dr Lewis will progress in her career development as a clinical and translational researcher in neonatal and perinatal pharmacology.

Support for this research was provided <in part> by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

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Children’s Mercy Kansas City is an independent, non-profit, 390-bed pediatric health system, providing over half a million patient encounters each year for children from across the country. Children’s Mercy is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in all ten specialties. We have received Magnet® recognition five times for excellence in nursing services. In affiliation with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, our faculty of nearly 800 pediatric specialists and researchers is actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research and educating the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. The Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) integrates research and clinical care with nationally recognized expertise in genomic medicine, precision therapeutics, population health, health care innovation and emerging infections. In 2021 the CMRI moved into a nine-story, 375,000-square-foot space emphasizing a translational approach to research in which clinicians and researchers work together to accelerate the pace of discovery that enhances care.