Center for Reducing Risks in Vulnerable Populations (CRRVP)

Resources

Development and Disemination Core Resources

Development & Dissemination Core
Director: Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN
Co-Directors: Barbara Berger, PhD, RN Karen Kavanaugh, PhD, RN
Program Co-coordinator: Linda Graham, MS, RN
Media Specialist: Mark Mershon, BA
Publications Manager: Kevin Grandfield, BS, MFA,

The following CRRVP Development & Dissemination resources are available:

IRB consultation

Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN, juljohns@uic.edu , 312-996-8431 and Linda Graham, MS, RN, lgraham@uic.edu , 312-413-3695 are available for Institutional Review Board (IRB) questions. Dr. Zerwic is a member and Co-Director of UIC IRB #1 (Biomedical and Biological Science Research) and Ms. Graham is a member of IRB #2 (Behavioral and Social Science Research).

Editorial assistance

• Editorial assistance for grants (not for the development of a pilot study proposal)
• Editorial assistance for a manuscript
• Review of a manuscript
• Linking individuals with appropriate journals
• Editorial assistance with a PowerPoint presentation
• Editorial assistance with a poster

Please contact Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN at juljohns@uic.edu for guidance and/ or a referral to an appropriate faculty or staff member.

CRRVP Articles

Copies of the publications resulting directly from the CRRVP as well our previously funded P20 Center for Research on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health (CRCRH) are available from Linda Graham, lgraham@uic.edu , room 612). These publications are as a result of our funded pilot studies, our quarterly column in the American Journal of Nursing (CRCRH “Beats and Breaths”; CRRVP “Reducing Risk”), our quarterly health column in the Gazette, a Chicago community newspaper, and our monthly column in The Keenager, a community newsletter.