MOVE: MOtiVational Strategies To Empower African Americans To Improve Dialysis Adherence

Ebele Umeukeje博士是肾病专家，也是范德比尔特大学医学院的卫生服务研究员 中心。她的长期职业目标是成为一名成功的独立内科科学家，在 肾脏疾病差异研究侧重于改善脆弱肾脏疾病的临床结局 病人。除了展示作为一名内科科学家走向独立的成长，她的短期 在R03的支持下，职业目标包括：1)在开发和开发方面获得高级技能 实施新的对文化敏感的激励战略，以及2)获取关键的初步数据 在R01资助的II期疗效试验中，测试使用这些激励策略来改善透析 治疗依从性。她特别感兴趣的是减少晚期过度的再住院 肾脏疾病(ESKD)经干预后透析治疗不坚持。年再次入院人数过多 ESKD具有重要的

Dr. Ebele Umeukeje is a Nephrologist and a Health Services Researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her long-term career goal is to become a successful independent physician scientist with expertise in kidney disease disparities research focused on improving clinical outcomes in vulnerable kidney disease patients. In addition to demonstrating growth toward independence as a physician scientist, her short-term career goals with support from this R03 include : 1) To gain advanced skills in the development and implementation of novel culturally sensitive motivational strategies, and 2) To acquire critical preliminary data for an R01-funded phase II efficacy trial testing the use of these motivational strategies to improve dialysis treatment adherence. She is specifically interested in reducing the excessive re-hospitalizations in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) by intervening upon dialysis treatment non-adherence. Excessive re-hospitalizations in ESKD has significant