# MOVE:  MOtiVational Strategies To Empower African Americans To Improve Dialysis Adherence

> **NIH NIH R03** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2021 · $129,750

## Abstract

Dr. Ebele Umeukeje is a Nephrologist and a Health Services Researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center. Her long-term career goal is to become a successful independent physician scientist with expertise in
kidney disease disparities research focused on improving clinical outcomes in vulnerable kidney disease
patients. In addition to demonstrating growth toward independence as a physician scientist, her short-term
career goals with support from this R03 include : 1) To gain advanced skills in the development and
implementation of novel culturally sensitive motivational strategies, and 2) To acquire critical preliminary data
for an R01-funded phase II efficacy trial testing the use of these motivational strategies to improve dialysis
treatment adherence. She is specifically interested in reducing the excessive re-hospitalizations in end-stage
kidney disease (ESKD) by intervening upon dialysis treatment non-adherence. Excessive re-hospitalizations in
ESKD has significant

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10289587
- **Project number:** 1R03DK129626-01
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Ebele M Umeukeje
- **Activity code:** R03 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $129,750
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-15 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10289587

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10289587, MOVE:  MOtiVational Strategies To Empower African Americans To Improve Dialysis Adherence (1R03DK129626-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10289587. Licensed CC0.

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