Grant Proposal Success Program: Call for Applications!

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The Scientific and Data Coordinating Center at Penn receives data and provides ongoing support for a number of Ancillary Studies supported by the CRIC Cohort utilizing both CRIC study participants and biological samples obtained from CRIC study participants. Through the CRIC data sharing policy, investigators have an opportunity to tap into the rich CRIC data to pursue their own research goals.

In addition to the CRIC Clinical Centers listed on the Participating Institutions page, collaborative research partnerships are currently conducted at a number of institutions across the country including, but not limited to, University of Utah, University of Miami, University of North Carolina, George Washington University, University of Alabama, as well as at international sites in China, Japan, Peru, and Germany 

A selection of CRIC Ancillary Studies managed by the CRCU appears below:

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Vishnu Potluri, MD, MPH

Vishnu Potluri, MD, MPH

 

 

Vishnu Potluri, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Renal Division and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Potluri’s research focuses on improving health care outcomes for patients with end stage kidney disease by improving access to kidney transplantation, reducing health care disparities, and improving outcomes and utilization of donated organs. His research efforts are supported by a career development grant (K08) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Dr. Potluri’s methodological interests includes geospatial epidemiology, multivariable matching methods, and big data analytics.

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications:

Schaubel DE, Tran AH, Abt PL, Potluri VS, Goldberg DS, Reese PP.: Five-Year Allograft Survival for Recipients of Kidney Transplants From Hepatitis C Virus Infected vs Uninfected Deceased Donors in the Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy Era JAMA 328 : 1102-1104,2022.

Saine ME, Schnellinger EM, Liu M, Diamond JM, Crespo MM, Prenner S, Potluri V, Bermudez C, Mentch H, Moore M, Besharatian B, Goldberg DS, Barg FK, Reese PP.: Decision-making Among Hepatitis C Virus-negative Transplant Candidates Offered Organs from Donors with HCV Infection Transplant Direct 8 : e1341,2022.

V. Potluri, P. Reese, S. Prenner, H. Mentch, D. Goldberg, T. Claridge, J. Smith, C. Gentile, V. Van Deerlin, R. Reddy, T. Fallah, C. Bermudez, M. Crespo, J. Diamond: Oral Presentation: The SHELTER Trial Of Transplanting Donor Hepatitis C Virus RNA+ Lungs Into Uninfected Recipients American Transplant Congress : 2022.

Molnar MZ, Potluri VS, Schaubel DE, Sise ME, Concepcion BP, Forbes RC, Blumberg E, Bloom RD, Shaffer D, Chung RT, Strohbehn IA, Elias N, Azhar A, Shah M, Sawinski D, Binari LA, Talwar M, Balaraman V, Bhalla A, Eason JD, Besharatian B, Trofe-Clark J, Goldberg DS, Reese PP: Association of donor hepatitis C virus infection status and risk of BK polyomavirus viremia after kidney transplantation American Journal of Transplantation 22 (2): 599-609,2022.

Potluri VS, Bloom RD: Induction Therapy in Immunologically Well-Matched Recipients: Less May Be More Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 17 : 173-175,2022.

Potluri, VS, Bloom, RD: Effect of Policy on Geographic Inequities in Kidney Transplantation American Journal of Kidney Disease : 2021.

Reese PP, Mohan S, King KL, Williams WW, Potluri VS, Harhay MN, Eneanya ND.: Racial disparities in preemptive waitlisting and deceased donor kidney transplantation: Ethics and solutions Am J Transplant 21 (3): 958-967,2021.

Potluri V, Schaubel D, Sise M, Concepcion B, Forbes R, Blumberg E, Goldberg D, Reese P, Bloom R, Shaffer D, Chung R, Sawinski D, Strohben I, Elias N, Azhar A, Shah M, Eason J, Binari L, Talwar M, Balaraman V, Bhalla A, Besharatian B, Molnar M.: Oral Presentation: Association of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection Status and Risk of Bk Polyomavirus Viremia After Kidney Transplantation American Transplant Congress : 2021.

Reese PP, Aubert O, Naesens M, Huang E, Potluri V, Kuypers D, Bouquegneau A, Divard G, Raynaud M, Bouatou Y, Vo A, Glotz D, Legendre C, Lefaucheur C, Jordan S, Empana JP, Jouven X, Loupy A.: Assessment of the Utility of Kidney Histology as a Basis for Discarding Organs in the United States: A Comparison of International Transplant Practices and Outcomes J Am Soc Nephrol : 2021.

Potluri VS, Sawinski D, Tam V, Shults J, Cohen JB, Wiebe DJ, Shah SP, Berns JS, Reese PP.: Effect of Neighborhood Food Environment and Socioeconomic Status on Serum Phosphorus Level for Patients on Chronic Dialysis J Am Soc Nephrol 31 (11): 2622-2630,2020.

Ali G. Hamedani, MD, MHS

Ali G. Hamedani, MD, MHS

Ali Hamedani, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused around the role of visual dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disease outcomes (especially hallucinations and other neurocognitive sequelae) using national health surveys and administrative claims data. He has also examined the prevalence and health care utilization patterns associated with visual impairment in the older adult population. He obtained his MD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After completing his neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Hamedani obtained fellowship training in both neuro-ophthalmology and movement disorders.

 

 

Contact information:

423 Guardian Drive
Blockley Hall 829
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Education:

B.S. (Biology)
Yale University, 2008.
M.H.S. (Epidemiology)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2012.
M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2013.

Post-Graduate Training:

Internal Medicine Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2013-2014.
Neurology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2014-2017.
Samantha and Michael Jordan Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania / Scheie Eye Institute / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2017-2018.
Neuroepidemiology Post-Doctoral Training Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2020.
NeuroNEXT Clinical Research Fellows Training Program, University of Pennnsylvania, 2019-2020.

Certifications:

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2017.

Selected Publications:

Xu A, Hamedani AG: Cataract surgery utilization in Parkinson’s disease: the English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology April 2023.

Hamedani AG, Willis AW, Ying GS: Visual impairment, age-related eye disease, and neuropsychiatric outcomes in older adults. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology April 2023.

Li M, Hamedani AG: Association of visual impairment with neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology April 2023 Notes: Platform presentation, ARVO Travel Award for mentee.

Xue K, Feng Y, Tam V, Lin CC, De Lott LB, Hamedani AG: Sociodemographic and geographic variation in access to neuro-ophthalmologists in the United States. North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society March 2023.

Markowitz D, Aamodt W, Hamedani AG: Social Determinants of Health in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society March 2023.

Feng Y, Lin CC, Hamedani AG, De Lott LB: A Validated Method to Identify Neuro-Ophthalmologists in a Large Administrative Claims Database Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Jan 2023.

Lin SC, Giang A, Pistilli M, Liu GT, Avery RA, Shindler KS, Hamedani AG, Ross AG, Tamhankar MA: Frequency and etiologies of visual disturbance after cataract surgery identified in neuro-ophthalmology clinic. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology January 2023.

Xue K, Feng Y, Tam V, Lin CC, De Lott LB, Hamedani AG: Sociodemographic and geographic variation in access to neuro-ophthalmologists in the United States. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology in press 2023.

Hamedani AG, McPherson TO, Aban I, Lee I, Kupersmith MJ, Wolf GI, Kaminski HJ: Attitudes and beliefs towards thymectomy in the Myasthenia Gravis Patient Registry. Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease in press 2023.

Morrison AH, Liu GT, Hamedani AG: Ocular myasthenia gravis. Current Treatment Opinions in Neurology in press 2023.

 

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