Recent Grants
Columbia University
The Foundation granted $60,000
to Columbia University, which is being used to establish
the Turn the Corner Foundation Education
Fund at Columbia. We are working with Psychiatrist
and Lyme disease expert Dr. Brian Fallon,
who is the Director of the Lyme Disease Research
Program at the NYS Psychiatrist Institute.
The goal of this project is to train medical students,
particularly 4th-year medical students, in the medical
care of patients with Lyme disease. The rationale
is that medical school is a key formative period
for students, and focusing on Lyme disease at this
point could be quite influential. The students receive
training by physicians at Columbia as well as various
Lyme-literate physicians in the community. As of
December 2004, Dr. Fallon has chosen three students
to participate in this program.
The fellowship has been able to continue since 2005 because of leftover funds. |
