Since its creation, the Pelzman Foundation for Healthcare Innovation has provided extensive financial support to pilot projects designed to improve healthcare and the practice of medicine, through grants to propel advancement in quality and patient safety, practice innovation, new healthcare technologies, and other novel approaches to helping fix what may be broken in our system.
The pilot grants have been awarded to medical students, interns and residents, post-doctoral fellows, academic faculty members and healthcare policy researchers, nurses, and other healthcare staff, across a wide range of disciplines, including Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Hospital Medicine.
The foundation has been a major donor to the Weill Cornell Medicine Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovations Program, which to date has provided over $650,000 in seed money to allow clinicians and academic scholars to pursue new avenues of research and care.
The supported work has had an incredible multiplier effect, helping to spawn multiple research careers and transform the practice of medicine in numerous ways. These pilot projects have led to major innovations in the way doctors care for patients, led to multiple papers in major academic medical journals, research presentations at regional and national meetings, and significant media attention.