Recent Research Grants

"EMPOWER 3: Improving Palliative Care Health Literacy and Utilization"

Hoerger (PI), 09/01/20-08/31/24
134579-RSG-20-058-01-PCSM, Research Scholar Grant, American Cancer Society (ACS)

"Building Capacity to Support the Pandemic’s Unsung Heroes: Frontline Essential Food Service Workers"

Hoerger, Baker (Dual PIs), 09/01/21-02/28/23
EASC-COVID-00265, Pandemic Engagement Award, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

"Michigan Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Training Network"

Gerhart (PI), Hoerger (Consultant), 01/07/21-01/06/23
Healthy Aging Grant, Michigan Health Endowment Fund

"EMPOWER 3C: An Educational Intervention to Improve Understanding of Palliative Care Among Family Caregivers of Adults with Serious Cancer Diagnoses"

Hoerger (PI), 06/01/21-05/31/22
COR Research Fellowship, Tulane University

"Understanding and Enhancing Concurrent Palliative Care during Lung Cancer Treatment"

McLouth (Project PI), Hoerger (Consultant), 01/01/20-11/30/21
IRG-16-182-28, Institutional Research Grant, American Cancer Society (ACS)

"Helping Patients and Families Cope with Serious Illness: The Psychologically-Informed Palliative Care (PSYCH PAL) Study"

Hoerger (PI), 07/01/20-06/30/21
Research Support Grant, Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program

"Fostering Shared Decision Making about Prostate Cancer Screening among Clinicians and African American Men"

Echeverri (Project PI), Hoerger (Project Co-PI, relinquished 07/17/20), 04/01/19-12/31/23
U54 MD007595, Pilot Project Grant, Xavier University Research Centers in Minority Institutions (XU RCMI), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

"EMPOWER 2.0: A Stakeholder-Informed Decision Intervention to Empower Patients with Metastatic Cancer"

Hoerger (PI), 06/01/16-06/30/20
Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS), Louisiana Board of Regents (LA BOR)

"Supporting Quality of Life for the Seriously Ill: Palliative Care in New Orleans"

Hoerger (PI), 07/01/19-06/30/20
Research Support Grant, Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program

"Health Literacy and Physical and Mental Health in Cancer Caregivers"

Hoerger (PI), 07/01/18-06/30/19
Research Support Grant, Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program

"The Ready to Quit (RQ) Study: Leveraging Statewide Tobacco Data and Stakeholder Engagement to Inform Cessation Education in Outpatient Mental Healthcare"

Hoerger (PI), 03/01/18-02/28/19
Tobacco-Free Living Pilot Grant, Louisiana Cancer Research Center

"Smoking Cessation using an 'Augmented' QUITLINE Program in Newly-Diagnosed Cancer Patients"

Robinson (PI), Hoerger (Co-PI), 03/01/18-02/28/19
Tobacco-Free Living Pilot Grant, Louisiana Cancer Research Center

"Examining Disparities and the Role of Comorbidities in the Quality of End-of-Life Care in Cancer"

Hoerger (PI), 05/17/17-06/30/18
Research Support Grant, Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program

"The Landscape of End-of-Life Cancer Care in the Deep South"

Hoerger (Project PI), 06/01/17-12/31/17
U54 GM104940, REACHnet Pilot Project Grant, Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

"Bridging the Social Sciences, Health, and Medicine: Development of a Transdisciplinary Course in Psycho-oncology"

Hoerger (PI), 01/01/17-12/31/17
Course Development Grant, Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program

"Impact of a Novel Cancer Communication Intervention on Caregiver Bereavement"

Duberstein, Prigerson (Dual PIs), Hoerger (Consultant), 01/23/13-12/31/17
R01 CA168387, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

"RCT of Patient, Caregiver and Physician Communication Coaching in Advanced Cancer"

Epstein, Kravitz (Dual PIs), Hoerger (Consultant), 06/01/11-05/31/17
R01 CA140419, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

"Career Development in Palliative Cancer Care Research"

Hoerger (Project PI), 03/09/16-12/31/16
U54 GM104940, Visiting Scholar Grant, Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

"Hope and Shared Decision Making in Advanced Cancer: A Health Disparities Perspective"

Hoerger (Project PI), 07/01/14-06/30/16
U54 GM104940, Roadmap Scholars Grant, Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

"Impact of Emotion on Mental Health and Quality of Life in Cancer"

Hoerger (PI), 01/01/15-12/31/15
Supervised Undergraduate Research Experience, Louisiana Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)

"Personality and Mental Health in Prostate Cancer"

Perry (PI), Hoerger (Mentor), 05/01/15-08/30/15
CELT Summer Research Fund, Tulane University, Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching

"Enhancing Cancer Care Through a Psychosocial Needs Assessment of Patient Stakeholders"

Hoerger (PI), 01/01/14-06/30/15
Community-Based Research Grant, Tulane University, Center for Public Service

"Supporting Psychosocial Cancer Care Through Student Engagement in Research"

Hoerger (PI), 01/01/14-07/31/14
Faculty Research Grant, Tulane University, Newcomb College Institute