Elizabeth Petty, MD, and Aaron Carrel, MD, Awarded Wisconsin Partnership Program Funding

Congratulations to Elizabeth Petty, MD (Principal Investigator) and Aaron Carrel, MD (Co-Investigator) for funding of their grant entitled, “Engaging Clinicians in Online Social Learning to Close Knowledge Gaps in Community Health: Pilot Focus on Obesity and Mental Health Care.” This two-year award, in the amount of $150,000 is from the Wisconsin Partnership Program Education and Research Committee (PERC). The goal of the project is to create an innovative interactive eLearning program, named My Lifelong Learning Online Communities (MyLLOCs) that combines online social learning modalities with traditional eLearning formats in order to improve access to high-quality and innovative interprofessional continuing education activities for primary care and other community-based health care providers across Wisconsin.