Please join the Center for Drug Use and HIV | HCV Research (CDUHR) for a Pilot Projects & Mentoring Core Grant Development Workshop titled Specific Aims, Significance, Innovation featuring Drs. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and Ellen Benoit.
Drs. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and Ellen Benoit will focus on developing specific aims, significance and innovation for an NIH application. In addition, two early stage investigators will present on the specific aims from their NIH grant proposals for feedback and discussion.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is a professor and Associate Vice Provost of Mentoring and Outreach Programs at New York University (NYU). He is the director and founder of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos also serves as the Pilot and Mentoring Core Director at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at the NYU College of Global Public Health. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a clinical social worker and nurse practitioner, and is board certified in HIV/AIDS nursing (ACRN) and as a HIV specialist (AAHIVS). Clinically, he has expertise in the primary care of HIV positive adolescents, provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis for high-risk youths, and screening and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos studies the role of families in promoting adolescent health, with a special focus on preventing HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancies, and improving treatment outcomes for HIV positive and at-risk youth. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Latino Commission on AIDS, and is a board member of the Power to Decide. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos received his PhD from SUNY Albany, and his MSW and MPH degrees from NYU. In addition, he holds an MS from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU and an MSN from the Duke University School of Nursing.
Ellen Benoit
Ellen Benoit is a sociologist at North Jersey Community Research Initiative in Newark, NJ. She conducts NIH-funded qualitative and mixed-methods research on health inequality, particularly as it relates to HIV risk and substance use among marginalized groups. With Dr. Liliane Windsor at the University of Illinois, she is a Principal Investigator on a study in Newark using community based participatory research methods and multiphase optimization strategy to test an intervention designed to reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men. Dr. Benoit is currently a Principal Investigator with Dr. Eric Schrimshaw of the University of Central Florida on a study using sexual script theory to understand the process of sexual socialization and risk behavior in a diverse sample of young men who have sex with men. With Dr. Martin Downing of Lehman College, she is investigating the impact of childhood sexual abuse on adult substance use, health and mental health outcomes among Black and Latino gay and bisexual men. Dr. Benoit is an Associate Director in CDUHR’s Transdisciplinary Research Methods Core.