{"id":120867,"date":"2024-04-17T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=120867"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:04:42","slug":"mara-murray-horwitz-md-mph-receives-150k-march-of-dimes-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2024\/04\/17\/mara-murray-horwitz-md-mph-receives-150k-march-of-dimes-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Murray Horwitz, MD, MPH Receives $150K March of Dimes Research Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2020\/12\/Mara-Horwitz.jpg\" alt=\"Black &amp; white headshot of Mara Murray-Horwitz, MD\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90490\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Mara.Horwitz\">Mara Murray Horwitz<\/a>, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and a primary care clinician at Boston Medical Center, is one of two recipients of a $150,000 Basil O&#8217;Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes. The Basil O\u2019Connor grant is the organization&#8217;s signature grant for up-and-coming scientists embarking on lifelong research paths.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Horwitz will conduct research to understand health system barriers to achieving heart health and the overall health of women who have had a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP), such as preeclampsia, which affects 1 in 25 pregnancies in the U.S.\u00a0 Her research will identify opportunities to improve outcomes for postpartum women, because HDPs signal that a person is at increased risk for future chronic hypertension and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll focus on an intervention called patient navigation, where women with prior HDPs receive help from a support person who checks in on them frequently, assesses and provides counseling on their health history and social needs, and helps identify and connect them with primary care providers.<\/p>\n<p>Her Basil O&#8217;Connor work will set the foundation for a planned randomized controlled trial (RCT) of postpartum patient navigation set to take place in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Basil O&#8217;Connor awards, named for the first March of Dimes chairman and president, are part of March of Dimes&#8217; research strategy to address the multi-faceted nature of the maternal and infant health crisis with funding that supports discovery, translational and social science research, and data collection and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basil O\u2019Connor Award will allow Murray Horwitz to study barriers to postpartum heart health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,143,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120878,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867\/revisions\/120878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}