Each year, The Beckwith Institute seeks out new ideas and innovations to improve patient care. Members of the UPMC staff are encouraged to submit a proposal for review by The Beckwith Institute Board of Directors. If selected, they will receive a grant to support execution of their idea. These success stories show how past grant awardees are transforming their proposals into reality:
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Clinical Transformation Program
The Beckwith Institute’s Clinical Transformation Program focuses on promising immunotherapy and other leading edge science solutions with outcomes that will advance patient care.
The application window for the Clinical Transformation Program is closed until February 2024.
How to Apply
The application window for The Frontline Innovation Program is closed until August, 2023.
The application window for the Clinical Transformation Program is closed until February 2024.
Anatomic Phantom
Asthma Care Connection
Diabetes Telemedicine
Recording the Gait of Stroke Patients
- Frontline Innovations 2022-2023
- Comprehensive Adult Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Education Program
- Comprehensive Ostomy Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program
- Exploring SEM Technology to Detect Early Signs of Pressure Injury in Patients with Dark Skin
- High-Fidelity Epicardial Pacing Simulation
- Lactation Room Redesign
- Mitigating IVH with Neuroprotective Bundle and Developmental Care (MIND)
- Postpartum Hemorrhage Rapid Response Unit
- Protecting Preemie Brains
- The Purple Butterfly Initiative
- UPMC Giant Cell Arteritis Fast-Track Pathway
- Virtual Discharge Technology Expansion
- Frontline Innovations 2021-2022
- Accessing the Right Tools: Improving Medication Adherence in the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Population
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- Colors of the World
- Developing an Affirming Provider Clinic Designation for LGBTQ+ Primary Care at UPMC
- Development and Validation of a High-Fidelity, Cost-Effective, and Modular Lung Transplant Surgical Anastomosis Simulator
- Digital Health Navigator to Support Telehealth After-Hospital Video Visits and Home Monitoring
- Implementing High-Intensity Gait Training Across the Continuum of Care for Adults Receiving Physical Therapy Post Stroke
- Improving Communication Practice in the Pediatric ICU
- New Graduate Nurse Skills Lab
- Preventing Abuse, One Visit at a Time
- School-Based Telehealth Pilot Program to Promote Student Health Through Access to Timely and Convenient Pediatric Care
- The Type 1 Diabetes Wraparound Program (T1DWP)
- Vasculab for Wound Center
- VidaTalk App to Promote the Patient Experience and Improve Communication
- Frontline Innovations 2019-2020
- Academic Detailing to Support Deprescribing Within Nursing Homes
- The “Comfort Ability” for Children and Adolescents Who Suffer From Chronic Migraine or Headache
- Critical Update of Educational App for Heart Failure Patients
- Enhanced Care Coordination for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
- Enhancing Prenatal Care Through MyUPMC Video Visits
- Gone Fishing Phase 2: The Expansion
- Haptic Technology to Modify Biomechanical/Ergonomic Behavior
- Phone-Based Intervention for Suicidal Transitional-Age Adults (PISTA)
- Pioneering a Language Access Program in Outpatient Clinics for English Learners at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Power of the Pulpit
- Reducing Hospital Readmission and Mortality Rates Through Family Hospice and UPMC Emergency Departments
- Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Systemwide Protocol
- Upping the Game: Improving an Educational Tool for Children With Asthma
- WPH Southside Mindfulness Garden Expansion Project
- Frontline Innovations 2018-2019
- Clinical-based Surveillance for Multidrug Resistant Organisms
- Creating Inclusive Hospitals with the Healthcare Equality Index
- Distribution of Take-Home Naloxone Kits
- Faith-Based Organization’s Call to Action
- Fitness and Movement
- Gynecologic Cancer Caregiver Support Initiative
- Managing High-Risk Patients
- NICU Ultraviolet Cell Phone Sanitizer
- Nurse-Driven Delirium Protocol
- Pediatric Tracheostomy Care Simulation
- Photography and Simulation
- Post-Operative Monitoring of Microvascular Free Flap Patients
- Simulator-Based Curriculum for Teaching Interventional Radiology
- Social Needs Action Program (SNAP)
- Frontline Innovations 2017-2018
- Assessing and Improving Health Literacy in Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship
- Breastfeeding Support and Education for Families and Staff of the Heart and Vascular Institute of CHP
- Burn Surgery Simulation Training Program
- Decreasing Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Hospice Patients
- Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!
- Gone Fishing
- Hands-On Curriculum using Simulation for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Neonatal ICU
- Mobile Case Management and Outreach as Pregnancy Recovery Center Catalyst
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Model of Care
- Nurse-Driven Delirium Prevention and Intervention Project
- Perinatal Loss Funding
- Reducing Stigmas While Caring for the Addicted Patient
- Simulation Training for Open Clipping of Cerebral Aneurysms
- Sustaining and Spreading the Dementia Activities Room
- Three Degrees of Stewardship
- UPMC Shadyside Oncology Emergency Department: Educating the Emergency Department Nurse
- WPIC Southside Mindfulness Garden Project
- Frontline Innovations 2016-2017
- 3D Printing of Patient Specific Models
- Engaging with Families in Group Well Child Care
- Enhance Clinical Care and Outcomes
- Horizontal Surveillance MDRO vs. Current Vertical Surveillance
- ICRIT System
- Neurodevelopmental Care Initiative
- NICU Kangaroo-A-Thon
- Nurse Ambassador Bedside Patient Education
- Palliative Nurse Champion Program
- Perioperative Monitoring of Physical Activity
- Prenatal Education in Native Language
- Thoracic Organ Procurement in Transplantation
- Virtual Reality Immersion
- Frontline Innovations 2015-2016
- Early Mobility in the Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units
- Enhancing the Patient Experience with the MINDER Application
- ICU Diaries
- Impact of Access to Diabetes Technology on Glycemic Variations
- Implementation and Effectiveness Study of Toolbox Resources
- Implementing Infant-Driven Feeding Practice in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Improving Engagement and Shared Decision Making for Patients Receiving rTMS or ECT Treatment
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Nursing and Associated Health Allies Sickle Cell Disease Initiative
- Pediatric Gait Analysis Program (PGAP)
- Perinatal Mood Disorder Care with Telemedicine Component
- Training Residents and Nurses to Communicate Medical Information More Clearly
- Frontline Innovations 2014-2015
- Anatomic Phantom to Improve Radiology Resident Procedural Proficiency
- Customized Oncology Music Library Project
- Endoscopic Processing Safety and Cost Considerations
- Improvement in Trauma Notification and Care Transfer
- Nurse ‘Therapy’: Modular Standardized Education for Quadriplegics (MSEQ)
- Pediatric Baseline Concussion Testing with iPads
- Retail Pharmacy Transitions of Care Optimization
- TeamSTEPPS at UPMC Passavant
- The Pediatric Critical Care Ultrasound Initiative
- Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration
- Virtual School Consultation (VSC)
- Frontline Innovations 2013-2014
- Frontline Innovations 2012-2013
- Frontline Innovations 2011-2012
- Clinical Transformation Research Grants 2022-2023
- Developing a Functional Neural Prosthetic for the Blind by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, and Computer Vision
- NFT Biobank Platform for an Ethical, Efficient Breast Cancer Organoid Ecosystem
- Radiogenomics of Y90-Treated Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases
- Randomized Study to Evaluate Strategies to Address Cognitive Fog in Long-COVID Patients
- REMAP REST EEC (Rest Easy: Respiratory Support and Treatment for Efficient and Cost-Effective Care)
- Clinical Transformation Research Grants 2021-2022
- Building Health Equity & Pipeline of Underrepresented Minorities (URMs: An Interdepartmental Approach)
- Fetal Aqueductal Stenosis Ventricular Shunting
- Reverse Bioengineering of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte Metabolism for Adoptive Cell Transfer
- UPMC Randomized, Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Perioperative Medicine (UPMC REMAP Periop)
- Clinical Transformations 2021-2022
- Building Health Equity & Pipeline of Underrepresented Minorities (URMs: An Interdepartmental Approach)
- Fetal Aqueductal Stenosis Ventricular Shunting
- Reverse Bioengineering of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte Metabolism for Adoptive Cell Transfer
- UPMC Randomized, Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Perioperative Medicine (UPMC REMAP Periop)
- Clinical Transformations 2017-2018
- Building an Infrastructure to Support Shared Decision Making in the UPMC Health System
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Cancer Survivors with Cognitive Dysfunction
- Community Checkups: A Pilot Program Bringing Doctors to Patients
- Creation of a Geriatric Trauma Activities Center to Improve the Care Experience for Geriatric Trauma Patients
- Development and Dissemination of an Electronic Health Record Based Child Abuse Clinical Decision Support System Toolkit
- Development of a Comprehensive Care Plan for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
- Mining Electronic Health Record to Identify Patients at Imminent Risk for Suicide
- Predicting Responses to Pain Treatment and Susceptibility to Addiction
- Provision of Naloxone Rescue Kits and Education for All Inpatients Identified as At-Risk for Opioid Overdose
- The Critical Illness Recovery Center at UPMC Mercy
- VISION: Video Integration for Surgical Improvement of Outcomes after Neurosurgery
- Clinical Transformations 2016-2017
- Esophageal Cancer Surgery Education and Support Group
- Treatment of Intravenous Substance Use Disorders
- Medical Advocacy Program (MAP)
- Patient/Family Collaboration in Cystic Fibrosis
- Pediatric Asthma Prevention Strategies
- Prevent Delirium and Improve Care for Patients with Dementia
- Preventing Blindness
- RELATE Curriculum to Improve Physician Communication and Patient Satisfaction
- Promoting Self-Advocacy Among Women with Cancer
- Tobacco Treatment and Reduced Complications for Orthopaedic Patients
- UPMC McKeesport Chronic Pain Institute
- Clinical Transformations 2015-2016
- Adolescent Transition in Transplantation
- Bridging Gaps in Transitional Care
- CADET: CAncer DEcision Support Tool
- Clinicians and Families at Risk of Periviable Delivery
- Decision Aid for Women Considering Elective Hysterectomy
- Doula Supported Group Education for ESL Families
- Evaluation of Hysterectomy Pathways
- “Gender Connections”
- Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment and Patient Perception
- Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment and Patient Perception
- Improving Patient Outcomes
- Let Us Choose Wisely
- Payment Reform Learning Collaborative
- Preoperative Frailty Assessment
- Program to Screen for Retinopathy in Children with Type I Diabetes
- Standardizing the Care of Sibling Blood and Marrow Donors
- Clinical Transformations 2014-2015
- Asthma Care Connection
- Decision Aid for Transplant Candidates
- Reducing Unnecessary Admission in Trauma
- Brief Care Management Bridging Strategy
- Mood and Energy Monitoring of Youth
- PREP Care for Diabetes
- Preparing Family in ICUs to Be Surrogate Decision Maker
- Standardization of Sexual Assault Care at UPMC
- Transplant Passport Mobile Device App
- Using Technology for Elderly TAVR Patients
- Clinical Transformations 2013-2014