# Extending Affordable, Accessible, Community-Delivered Hearing Care to Home Care

> **NIH NIH R33** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $87,749

## Abstract

Project Summary
This proposal requests funding for Corinne Pittman, a third-year medical student from Howard University
College of Medicine, to support advanced research training in community-delivered hearing care as a graduate
research assistant in the Baltimore HEARS study. With the support of this diversity supplement, Ms. Pittman
will join the HEARS research team for a 10-month intensive research training experience between her third
and fourth years of medical school, prior to applying to residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Ms.
Pittman will leverage her prior translational research experience at the NIH, along with her medical education,
clinical skills, and community-based volunteer work toward addressing hearing healthcare disparities by
extending the delivery of hearing care to other vulnerable populations through novel community-based
approaches. Under the close mentorship of the HEARS research team, she will lead two projects that will
explore the integration of the HEARS intervention into the innovative NIA-funded CAPABLE home care
program. Specifically, Ms. Pittman will: 1) complete secondary data analysis of nationally representative data
on the prevalence of hearing loss and hearing aid use among older adults receiving home care and 2) assess
the specific needs of older home care recipients with hearing loss and potential barriers of integrating HEARS
into a home care program by conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with CAPABLE participants and
key stakeholders. Through this structured research experience, Ms. Pittman will advance her quantitative and
qualitative research skills and further her career development as an aspiring surgeon-scientist dedicated to
addressing health disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10018204
- **Project number:** 3R33DC015062-05S1
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** FRANK R LIN
- **Activity code:** R33 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $87,749
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2015-12-10 → 2020-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10018204

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10018204, Extending Affordable, Accessible, Community-Delivered Hearing Care to Home Care (3R33DC015062-05S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10018204. Licensed CC0.

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