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  CPS faculty and staff would like to acknowledge the generous funding provided to support our research activities:

Current Funding
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Education for Physicians in End-of-Life Care
Develop and disseminate a curriculum with basic skills for physicians practicing in the US.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
National Residency Training in End-of-Life Care
A program to help internal medicine, family medicine, neurology and surgery faculty from US training programs incorporate end-of-life care instruction into their training programs to meet new ACGME requirements.

Dickinson Foundation
Fellowship in Palliative Medicine.
Support for subspecialty fellowships in palliative medicine.

Progenics Corporation
Methylnaltrexone for opioid-induced constipation
Phase II and III studies of a novel agent to reverse opioid-induced constipation.

Completed Research Support
Health Canada
National Consensus on Hospice Palliative Care
A process to develop national consensus on norms of practice in hospice palliative care.

NIH/NCI
Cancer Pain Education--An Analgesic Dosing Service.
A novel approach to teaching pain management skills to residents using a pharmacist-based analgesic dosing service.
NIH/NCI
Clinical Elective in Hospice/Palliative Medicine for Housestaff.
Clinical training and evaluation for internal medicine residents

Open Society Institute
Project on Death In America Soros Faculty Scholar
Faculty development support for Drs. Ferris and von Gunten.

NIH/NCI
Physician Hospice/Palliative Care Training: UNIPACS
A primer on palliative medicine for physicians entering the field.

NIH/NCI
Dying, Death and Grief: Internet Project
A continuing education effort for physicians and other health care providers with a six module interactive curriculum on end-of-life care.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"How-To" manual of Palliative Care
A practical data-driven manual on how to establish hospital-based palliative care programs.

UCSD Geriatrics
Standardized Patient for Assessing Communication Skills
Develop standardized patient for assessing ability to set goals with patients.

WM Keck Foundation
Center for Palliative Studies
Establish a center for education and research in palliative care at San Diego Hospice.

Pending Support
NIH/NCI
Communication and Quality of Care for Terminal Cancer
Develop an evidence base for understanding patient, family, caregiver communication in patients with advanced cancer.

NIH/NCI
Parenteral Lidocaine for Cancer Pain Management
Evaluate ability of infusional lidocaine to control severe pain refractory to opioid management.

NIH/NCI
Acupuncture for hospice patients
Evaluate ability of traditional Chinese Medicine to improve quality of life of hospice patients.

NIH/NCI
Evaluation of Required Palliative Medicine Curriculum for 3rd year medical students.
Evaluation of a 32-hour required curriculum for UCSD medical students.

NIH/NCI
Established Investigator Award
Faculty development and support for Dr. von Gunten.
NIH/NCI
Evaluation of palliative medicine curriculum for residents from 5 training programs
Evaluate changes in knowledge, attitudes and skills.

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