# Mentoring and Patient-Oriented Research in Integrative Medicine

> **NIH NIH K24** · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $140,615

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
This Midcareer Investigator Award (K24) renewal will continue to support Dr. Gloria Yeh in patient-oriented
research and mentoring of trainees in the field of complementary and integrative health (CIH). Over the past
20+years, Dr. Yeh has developed a successful program of CIH research with a focus on mind-body (MB)
exercise interventions in patients with chronic illness. Her research program is based at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where she serves as Director of Mind-Body Research and
Director of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)-funded T32 post-
doctoral research fellowship. With the support of the first cycle of this K24, Dr. Yeh has continued to advance
CIH through several local and national leadership roles, such as her promotion to Director of Clinical Research
at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at HMS, serving on the NIH National Advisory Council on
Complementary and Integrative Health, and multiple years chairing of the Academic Consortium for Integrative
Medicine and Health’s International Congress (ICIMH). She has been highly successful in achieving research
and mentoring benchmarks, including completion of 3 NIH funded grants (including 2 NCCIH R01s), as well as
mentoring 17 new trainees (6 who are currently on K awards and another 6 have K grants submitted/pending).
She was also recognized with the HMS Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2018. Dr. Yeh’s
current research program includes 2 new or pending NCCIH R01s as principal investigator focused on
multimodal approaches combining wearable fitness trackers and remotely-delivered MB movement
interventions to promote physical activity in chronic cardiopulmonary populations. She also serves a key
collaborator role on several other NIH or VA-funded MB studies. This K24 renewal outlines career
development initiatives for continued enhancement of her successful research and mentoring program
including further leadership training and continuing education in evolving research areas (e.g., e-health and
wearables). The overall Program Aims highlight three central themes which represent current research and
areas of future expansion which align very closely with NCCIH priorities around whole person health. These
themes are:1) To conduct rigorous research evaluating the clinical efficacy and mechanisms of MB therapies
as whole person health in cardiovascular, pulmonary, and other chronic conditions; 2) To investigate
movement-based MB therapies for behavior change, particularly the promotion of physical activity. 3)To
apply innovative methodology to better understand the contributions of individual, active components of
multimodal MB approaches. In implementing each these areas, Dr. Yeh’s research is increasingly leveraging
e-technology for remote intervention delivery as well as wearable technology for data collection. With the
protected time in the renewal of this K24...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10807856
- **Project number:** 2K24AT009465-06
- **Recipient organization:** BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** GLORIA Y YEH
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $140,615
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2017-05-01 → 2029-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10807856

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10807856, Mentoring and Patient-Oriented Research in Integrative Medicine (2K24AT009465-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10807856. Licensed CC0.

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