The following grant projects at Wayne State University have received funding from the MCC:

• Promoting Informed Decision-Making Among African-American Men About Early Prostate Cancer Testing
  Purpose: Part 1: Continuing Presentation of the Prostate Health Education Programs to the Community. Part 2: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Program.
  Principle Investigator: Susan Weinberg, MS, and Archilind Franklin, RN (e-mail: franklin@karmanos.org)

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• Hazards of Tobacco Program (H.O.T.®)
  Purpose: The HOT Program is a school-based education/prevention program designed using a research and development model for the purpose of informing students about the risks associated with tobacco use. The main objective is to work with Michigan Department of Community Health staff on the identification of methods to integrate HOT into the Michigan Model.
  Principle Investigators: Marcia Baum, BA, and Gloria Heppner, PhD (e-mail: heppnerg@wayne.edu)

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• Hazards of Tobacco Program (H.O.T.®)
  Purpose: A school-based education/prevention program, designed using a research and development model for the purpose of informing students K-12 about the risks associated with tobacco.
  Principle Investigators: Richard Gallagher, PhD (e-mail: rgallagh@med.wayne.edu); Marcia Baum, BA; Lisa Berry-Bobovski, BA (e-mail: berryl@karmanos.org); and Patrick Bridge, PhD (e-mail: pbridge@med.wayne.edu)
  Note: This project is no longer active.

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• Health Assessments to Promote Appropriate Cancer Risk Reduction in Clinical and Community Settings
  Purpose: To support the promotion and dissemination of health appraisal tools, which allow individuals to both identify their own personal and modifiable risks for cancer and benefits of preventive actions, but also be directed to resources to help implement change.
  Principle Investigator: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu)

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• The Primary Care Initiative: Promoting Cancer Control in Practice
  Purpose: The primary care setting provides an important opportunity to promote cancer control. The previous project phase worked to develop partnerships with local primary care organizations and together identified needs and strategies. Smoking cessation and mammography are the focus of the project. For the tobacco component, the project linked a smoker identification system with resources to support cessation. The breast cancer component targeted promotion of mammography and identification of higher-risk women.
  Principle Investigators: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu); John Hopper; and Jen Coombs (e-mail: coombsj@karmanos.org)

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• Promoting Breast Cancer Risk Awareness, Risk Reduction, and Early Detection: An Integrated Approach to Cancer Control in the Community
  Purpose: To develop an integrated model of breast cancer early detection and risk reduction based upon a partnership between communities of women and the health care providers who serve them. The project will: promote breast health and awareness of risk; promote assessment of risk in various provider settings; provide risk-related information and practice support to health care providers; and provide access and use of risk level-appropriate services and programs.
  Principle Investigators: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu) and Gloria Heppner, PhD (e-mail: heppnerg@wayne.edu)

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• A Community Partnership to Promote Breast and Cervical Cancer Control
  Purpose: To advance breast and cervical cancer control among underserved women by promoting enrollment in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program and appropriate follow up among women with abnormal screening results. The strategy to be employed links community-based outreach with community-based health care organizations.
  Principle Investigators: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu) and Gloria Heppner, PhD (e-mail: heppnerg@wayne.edu)

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• Promoting Breast Cancer Risk Awareness and Risk-Appropriate Breast Health Practices
  Purpose: To promote informed decision-making and health practices by women at usual and increased risk for breast cancer through the development and evaluation of a generalizable model of integrated risk assessment, breast health education, and risk-related counseling and management.
  Principle Investigator: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu)

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• A Community Partnership to Promote Breast and Cervical Cancer Control
  Purpose: To advance breast and cervical cancer control among underserved women by promoting enrollment and follow-up in the Wayne County Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP), enhancing and extending the Voices of Detroit Initiative/Detroit Medical Center Health Centers-BCCCP partnership, and identifying and addressing barriers to diagnostic follow-up after the occurrence of an abnormal screening mammogram or Pap smear.
  Principle Investigator: Robert Burack, MD, MPH (e-mail: rburack@med.wayne.edu)

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• Enhancing Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Knowledge Among African American Men
  Purpose: To develop communication strategies for the purpose of facilitating the enrollment of African American men into prostate cancer prevention trials, such as SELECT.
  Principle Investigator: Bill Stengle, MS, MPH (e-mail: stengleb@karmanos.org)

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• Development and Evaluation of a Linked Cancer Economic and Clinical Database to Support Data-Driven Decisions for Cancer Control of Breast, Colorectal, and Lung Cancers Within the State of Michigan
  Purpose: The project will specifically address the MCC Cost/Data priority by creating and evaluating a linked economic and outcome database containing information over a five-year period for all cancer patients treated at Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC). The economic outcome database will be created on all cancer patients treated at DMC by linking five years of inpatient and outpatient financial accounting and resource utilization data at the procedure code level with demographic, staging and outcome data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) registry. A specific aim of the project is to create a database that can rapidly and routinely be updated to reflect current and evolving information.
  Principle Investigators: William P. Peters, MD, PhD, MBA; Scott Ransom, DO, MBA; Wei Du, PhD; and Ann Schwartz (e-mail: schwarta@med.wayne.edu)

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• Linked Economic and Medical Outcomes as Measures of, and Guidance for, the Improvement of Quality in Cancer Care
  Purpose: To use a linked economic and medical outcome database to evaluate five years of resource utilization data, in the form of hospital and outpatient charges, and derived from Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) registry data to determine whether there are identifiable relationships between pre-treatment demographic information, the use of specific screening interventions, and the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer.
  Principle Investigator: William P. Peters, MD, PhD, MBA

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last updated: 08/14/06

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