Awards and Grants

Faculty and staff at the Grayken Center are often recognized for their innovative work. Find recent awards and grant funding here.

Awards

2018

• America’s Essential Hospitals, Gage Award: Elisha Wachman, MD

• Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, Innovator In Health: Colleen LaBelle, RN

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2018 Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care: The CATALYST Program at Boston Medical Center (Medical Director: Sarah Bagley, MD)

2017

• AMERSA Betty Ford Award: Colleen T. Labelle, MSN, RN-BC, CARN
• 2017 AMERSA Excellence In Mentorship Award: Alexander Y. Walley, MD MSc

• American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry: John Renner, MD

• American College of Physicians, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from The Rosenthal Family Foundation: Jeffrey Samet, MD, FACP
• American College of Physicians, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from The Rosenthal Family Foundation: Project ASSERT

• Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, 2017 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders: Sarah Bagley, MD

Grants

2019

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • Jeffrey Samet, MassHEAL - Reducing overdose deaths by 40% (2019-2023)
  • Ben Linas, A pragmatic trial of two strategies for implementing an effective eHealth HIV prevention program
  • Ben Linas, Researching Effective Strategies to Prevent Opioid Death (RESPOND) Administrative Supplement
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)
  • Edward Bernstein, Faster Paths to Treatment - Supplement
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 
  • Ben Linas, Improving Naloxone Access and Its Effects on Drug Abuse Overdoses
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Marc Larochelle, Impact of health insurance type and transitions on treatment for opioid use disorder 
• GE Foundation
  • Colleen LaBelle, OBAT Training and Technical Assistance (OBAT TTA)- SUSTAIN TTA PLUS

2018

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • Jeffrey Samet, Pilot Study of Opioid-receptor Antagonists to Reduce Pain and Inflammation among HIV-Infected Persons with Alcohol Problems
  • Jeffrey Samet, ST. PETER HIV-Alcohol, Protein Biomarkers and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
  • Eric Devine, Lacosamide effects on alcohol self administration and craving in heavy drinkers
  • Tim Naimi, Impact of Marijuana Policies on Alcohol Use and Alochol-Related Mortality 
  • Eric Devine, The Effects of Exenatide, a GLP-1 Agonist, on Alcohol Self-Administration in Heavy Drinkers
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Tae Woo (Ted) Park and Colleen Labelle, The Massachusetts Model of MAT for Patients with Co-Occurring Mental Disorders (4MD)
  • Colleen Labelle, State Technical Assistance Team Education and Support (STATES)
  • Martha Vibbert and Megan Sandel, State Opioid Grant
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Alexander Walley, Knock and Talk: The Public Health-Public Safety Partnerships for Post-Overdose Outreach and Prevention
  • Dan Alford, The Boston Sustainable Models for unhealth Alcohol use ReducTion (B SMART) Program
  • Marc LaRochelle, Heroin use and overdose following changes to individual-level opioid prescribing
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • Jeffrey Samet, Advancing Clinical Research Training within Addiction Residency Programs
  • Sabrina Assoumou, Engaging young people who inject drugs into HCV and HIV care
  • Benjamin Linas, Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (R01)
  • Karsten Lunze, Stigma, Risk Beahviors and Health Care Among HIV-infected Russian People Who Inject Drugs
  • Alexander Walley, Effectiveness of the Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals (CATCH) model for engaging patients in opioid use disorder treatment: Pragmatic trial in a large municipal hospital system
  • Alexander Walley, Repeated-dose behavioral intervention to reduce opioid overdose: a two-site randomized-controlled efficacy trial (REBOOT
• Academic Pediatric Association
  • Yuan He, National trends in substance use and corresponding trends in child maltreatmen
  • Scott Hadland, Developing a Collaborative Care Model of Office-Based Opioid Treatment for Adolescents
• The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • Elisha Wachman and Kelley Saia, Study on the safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacogenomics of extended-release naltrexone in pregnant women. 
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)
  • Colleen LaBelle, State Opioid Response OBAT Expansion
  • Sarah Bagley, Enhanced Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) to Serve Special Populations
• Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
  • Katherine Gergen Barnett, Addiction-focused FM Residency
• University of Baltimore, Center for Drug Control Policy and Enforcement
  • Alexander Walley, Benjamin Linas, and Marc Larochelle, Forecasting the Impact of Corrections-based Control Policy and Enforcement
• Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust
  • Timothy Naimi, The Impact of Alcohol Policies on Fatalities from Alcohol-Involved Crashes Below the Legal Limit
• Medtronic Foundation (Charities Aid Foundation America)
  • Robert Saper, Innovations in Non-Pharmacologic Approaches to Pain Management for the Underserved
• New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
  • Alexander Walley, Addiction Consult Service TTA
• AIDS Action Committee
  • Johnson, Peer Driven HIV Education and Prevention in MSM Injection Drug Users and Injection Drug Users Who Engage in Transactional Sex
• Jack Satter Foundation
  • Sarah Bagley, CATALYST Clinic
• Office of Minority Health (DHHS)
  • Ricardo Cruz, Project RECOVER (Referral, Engagement, Case management, and Overdose preVention Education in Recovery)