Message from the Principal Investigator
Thank you for your interest in our research to help people make decisions about their health and manage their chronic diseases. Our hope is that through our research we can empower patients, their families, and their doctors with knowledge and tools to make healthy decisions. We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about our research, to view our patient and provider resources, and to learn about training opportunities with our team. Together, we can make a difference.
Sincerely,
L. Ebony Boulware, MD
Principal Investigator
News & Events
PREPARED Video Wins Communicator Award
The PREPARED video has been recognized with another award, the “Award of Excellence” from the 2013 Communicator Awards.
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. Founded nearly two decades ago, the Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries per year. The Award of Excellence, their highest honor, is given to those entrants whose ability to communicate positions them as the best in the field.
The PREPARED video is designed to help people choose a kidney treatment that’s best for them. View the video, and its companion book, by clicking here. View the Spanish version of the video and book by clicking here.PREPARED Video Receives a Telly Award
The PREPARED video was entered in the prestigious Telly Awards and won the bronze award in the Health and Wellness category! The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring the finest film and video productions, groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs. The 33rd Annual Telly Awards received over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents!
The PREPARED video is designed to help people choose a kidney treatment that’s best for them. View the video, and its companion book, by clicking here. View the Spanish version of the video and book by clicking here.TALK Video Wins Prestigious Telly Award
The TALK (Talking About Living Kidney Donation) video won a bronze Telly Award in the Health and Wellness category! The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring the finest film and video productions, groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.
The TALK video is designed to help patients with kidney disease and their families make decisions about living donor kidney transplantation before patients develop end stage renal disease. View the video, and its companion booklet, by clicking here.PREPARED Video Premiere
Video participants, video producers, members of the PREPARED study research team, and study Principal Investigator, Dr. Ebony Boulware, gather for a photo at the premiere of the video. The PREPARED video shows what it’s like for real patients to live on the various types of kidney treatments. Click here to watch the video. The video, along with its companion book, are currently being tested in a randomized, controlled trial.About Us
We are a multidisciplinary research team, led by Dr. L. Ebony Boulware, serving patients with chronic diseases, their families and communities. We strive to eliminate health disparities by empowering patients, and their communities, to make decisions about their health and manage their chronic diseases. We achieve excellence through rigorous and innovate approaches to educational, behavioral, and epidemiological research.
We are located in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a research center affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Please explore our website to learn more about our research, to view our patient and provider resources in the Healthy Decisions Toolkit, and to learn about training opportunities with our team.