CA Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Cassandra Vieten, PhD 

Lauray MacElhern, MBA

Approximately 60 agencies and more than 20,000 law enforcement employees were engaged with a CA statewide wellness program, designed to deliver and evaluate customized wellness training and resources for agencies and individuals. 

National Board of Health & Wellness Coaching

Jessica Matthews, DBH

Health and wellness coaching has been shown to improve a variety of health conditions and health risk factors among a variety of patient populations. This multi-site project gathered electronic medical record data across 10 clinical sites to evaluate the utilization of health coaching in clinical settings, in an effort to advance the case for reimbursement.

Ardmore Institute of Health

Deepa Sannidhi, MD  

Jessica Matthews, DBH

Shared medical appointments (SMAs) and Intensive therapeutic lifestyle change (ITLC) interventions are two evidence-based clinical models to address lifestyle change. However, widespread implementation of such models remains challenging. One study evaluates an SMA called Supervised Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine program.  The second study evaluates a Lifestyle Food is Medicine health screening combined with health coaching intervention.

BraveNet

Jeffery Dusek, PhD 

Gene Kallenberg, MD

Daniel Vicario, MD

BraveNet is a practice-based research network composed of 32 integrative medicine sites around the United States and world that have joined together to help advance integrative medicine by providing clinical outcomes and cost-benefit data that have previously not been available to the medical and scientific communities.  BraveNet's Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry (PRIMIER) is the largest study conducted to assess the real-world effectiveness of integrative medicine.  

Rheumatology Research Foundation

Monica Guma, MD, PhD

Programs funded by the Foundation train the next generation of rheumatology professionals, help young investigators pursue promising research ideas, and support cutting-edge research projects that will lead to a cure. This collaborative study evaluates whether adherence to an anti-inflammatory diet for several months reduces inflammation by changing metabolites and bacteria found in the intestines in patients with chronic rheumatic diseases.

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation

Monica Guma, MD, PhD 

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation is a driving force in the development of next-generation treatments and personalized medicine for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — pioneering research, funding clinical trials, and advocating for better access to care. This study employs machine learning for precision diet and well-being in inflammatory bowel disease.

Curebound

Nicholas Webster, PhD 

Collaboration is at the center of Curebound’s unique grantmaking platform. All Curebound grants demand collaboration among specialized teams from our research partner institutions, enabling the brightest minds from different scientific disciplines to work together to produce better options and outcomes for patients. This study evaluates time-restricting eating coupled with healthy eating in patients receiving liver-directed therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation

Jack Gilbert, PhD

Foundation utilizes the concepts of interdependence and emergent growth to guide its support of a wide variety of organizations engaged in understanding the impact of human actions and inactions, while simultaneously addressing the consequences of those impacts on the quality of life. Our collaborative project focuses on soil combats and challenges, resilience, and regeneration.