Mary K. Logan Research Grants

The submission period is open for 2025! The deadline to apply is February 28, 2025. For more information, please contact awards@aami.org.

The Mary K. Logan Research Awards is a grant program aimed at supporting research that enhances the safe adoption and safe use of health technology. The program awards up to $80,000 in grants annually.

Criteria

Topics can vary widely—focusing on, for example—on device technology, processes, sterilization, dialysis, healthcare technology management and other issues. Priority is given to topics that do not have other available sources for funding. Junior investigators with strong mentorship are encouraged to apply.

Research projects should seek to:

Yield results that can be applied or used by other healthcare organizations.
Improve methods of patient safety with a defined and direct path to implementation into patient care settings.
Study problems for which deeper understanding is needed before effective solutions can be applied.

Additional Information

The submission must be organized in the following manner and include the seven parts listed below. To apply, email the application elements listed below to awards@aami.org.

Cover Letter
Project Plan
Budget Form
Copy of IRB or ACUC Application
Qualifications of the Key Individuals Involved/CV Section
Bibliography
Letters of Support

Awards are restricted to 501(c)(3) organizations and the awards are made to sponsoring organizations, and not to individuals or departments. Any qualified member of a sponsoring organization (hospital, university, clinic, etc.) in the United States or Canada (tax-exempt charitable organizations under the Canadian tax code) may apply. Only one person may be listed as the principal investigator (PI) and all other co-investigators, collaborators and consultants must be listed. 

While there is no limit to the number of applications that may be submitted per individual or institution, the AAMI Foundation will award funding to no more than one proposal per PI in a given funding cycle. Submissions of previously unfunded applications are allowed but must address the reviewer’s comments and how the re-application differs. Up to 15% indirect costs are permitted in each proposed submitted budget. 

No award will be considered unless a copy of the application to the institutional review board (IRB) or animal studies committee (ACUC) is received along with the research proposal.  IRB or ACUC approvals (or granted exemptions) are required prior to disbursement of funds.

Award Winners

2018

Kumiko O. Schnock, RN, PhD

The utilization of smart pumps for neonatal care sometimes presents IV medication administration errors. The study aimed to refine an existing data collection tool that has been tested in adult settings to investigate the type and frequency of these errors.

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Foundation Awards

2018

Danny Wu PhD

The study aims to develop processes and tools to decrease weight entry errors–which can cause significant harm to patients–in electronic health records (EHRs). The goal of the project is to train and validate a Machine Learning (ML)-based algorithm with high sensitivity and precision to detect weight entry errors, and to further develop this algorithm as a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to be used in clinics.

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Foundation Awards

2017

Melanie Wright PhD

Within hospitals, clinicians are bombarded with various alarm sounds from disparate devices. However, there has been little research that focuses on improving the informativeness of alarms. The study aimed to elicit practitioner’s tacit interpretations of alarm sounds in order to inform the design of advanced alarm sounds or integrated alarm systems.

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Foundation Awards

2017

Amanda Schondelmeyer, MD, MSc

The study employed the RAND/University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Appropriateness Method and a national, multidisciplinary expert panel of 12 individuals who evaluated 56 recommendations for intermittent and continuous monitoring for children hospitalized outside the ICU. The panel looked at children with 7 common diagnoses (eg, asthma, croup) and/or who were receiving common therapies (eg, supplemental oxygen, intravenous opioids).

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Foundation Awards

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