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

Ebele Umeukeje博士是范德比尔特大学医学院的肾病学家和卫生服务研究员 中心她的长期职业目标是成为一名成功的独立医生科学家， 肾脏疾病差异研究侧重于改善脆弱性肾脏疾病的临床结局 患者除了证明作为一名医生科学家的独立性，她的短期 在此R03的支持下，职业目标包括：1）获得发展和 实施新的文化敏感的动机策略，2）获得关键的初步数据 R01资助的II期疗效试验，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过度的再住院在终末期 肾脏疾病（ESKD），通过干预透析治疗不依从。过度再住院， ESKD具有显著的

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