Investigators in the Primary Care Diabetes Lab (PCDL) are thrilled to announce two 3-year grant awards from the American Diabetes Association. Marisa Kostiuk, PhD was awarded a Junior Faculty Award to conduct her study, Diabetes distress assessment and intervention in primary care: an important step in whole-person diabetes care. The project is intended to implement assessment and treatment for diabetes distress in primary care settings. Dr. Tamara Oser (Lead PI) and Tristen Hall, PhD (Co-PI) were awarded an Innovative Clinical or Translational Science Award for their proposal, Improving type 2 diabetes management in primary care through periodic continuous glucose monitoring, which will examine the effectiveness of periodic use of over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring on glycemic outcomes among people with type 2 diabetes not treated with insulin receiving care in primary care settings. Together, these studies represent more than $1 million in funding over the next 3 years. These awards represent Dr. Kostiuk’s first external grant award as PI and Dr. Hall’s first PI role. This work builds upon Dr. Oser’s extensive research to improve care for people with diabetes in primary care and capacity-building for clinical trials in DFM since joining the department in 2019 and founding the PCDL in 2021. Drs. Oser, Kostiuk, and Hall are among the first round of awardees from ADA’s Primary Care RFA series, which “aims to attract outstanding researchers interested in improving diabetes care within the primary health care setting... [focusing] on practical solutions that address the barriers faced by PCPs.”
Other study team members include Jun Ying, PhD, Russell Glasgow, PhD, Kimberly Wiggins, MA, MEd, Bonnie Jortberg, PhD, and Lawrence Fisher, PhD, ABPP.
[From left: Marisa Kostiuk, PhD; Tamara Oser, MD; Tristen Hall, PhD]
