Congressman Fattah Wins Health Advocacy Award, Announces Children's, Women's Health Grants for Penn, CHOP

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), honored this week for his "fierce advocacy for health issues," announced today that the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have received grants totaling more than $3.6 million for research and community programs for children's and women's health.

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Congressman Fattah, a senior appropriator and advocate for health and scientific research on the House Appropriations Committee, was honored this week with the Vanguard Award of the National Caucus on Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health Disparities at its "Movement is Life" reception on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Fattah, introduced by Dr. Said Ibrahim, Chief of Medicine at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, was honored by the Movement is Life Summit for his "fierce advocacy for health issues as well as his continued support for the goals and ideals" of Movement is Life.

"I'm honored to receive this award and I am pleased to advocate for the federally-funded, cutting edge research that is being done in Philadelphia and elsewhere on the arthritis, musculoskeletal health and many other critical health initiatives," Fattah said.

The six grants, announced by Fattah, totaling $3,660,250 for Philadelphia's University City institutions, have been awarded by health and research agencies of the National Institutes of Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They are:

• $1,471,443 to the Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Screening from the National Cancer Institute. This newly funded center seeks to improve breast cancer screening outcomes by using the characteristics of individual patients.
• $372,000 to Penn for Diabetic Fracture Healing research for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases from National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. The study will focus on the increased risk of diabetes patients for delayed healing of fractures.
• $348,000 to Penn for a high priority, short term project researching mechanisms of fibrosis in children's liver diseases from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
• $258,130 to Penn for a "Stop Smoking" study titled Constructing Recommender Systems for Effective Health Messages: Smoking Cessation, a grant from the National Cancer Institute.
• $719,268 to Children's Hospital for nursing research in Transitional Telehealth Home Care: REACH, from the National Institute of Nursing Research. The program will pioneer a new approach to home monitoring, partnering with parents to help them recognize early changes in infant health status before an infant is in crisis. The program is a collaboration with Penn: Dr. Barbara Medoff-Cooper of the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Nursing is heading a study.
• $491,419 to Children's Hospital for a new research grant for Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Records from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

SOURCE Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah

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