Thursday, December 12, 2024
Highly respected for her work and dedication to research, Kimberly Fulda, DrPH, the executive director of NorTex at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth received the Mid-Career Researcher Award from the North American Primary Care Research Group at their 52nd annual meeting.
Fulda, an associate professor in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Department of Family and Osteopathic Medicine, is the ninth recipient of the award, which began in 2016. The Mid-Career Researcher Award is intended to recognize outstanding research accomplishments and significant recognition of an individual at the mid-career stage.
“I am honored to be recognized by such an amazing organization,” Fulda said. “It was a privilege to be at the conference with so many outstanding researchers, and it was very special to receive this award.”
The criteria for the award included evidence of major grant funding, meaningful mentorships with outcomes for mentees, working with diverse groups or individuals and significant collaboration within primary care research and meaningful outcomes for the field of primary care research.
Fulda has co-authored 63-peer peer-reviewed publications, served as principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple grants, and mentored numerous students across the University of North Texas Health Science Center, including TCOM’s Rebecca Modisette, who gave an oral presentation at the conference. Fulda is the United States co-chair of NAPCRG’s Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine Practice-based Research Network Work Group. .
“As a group, we have come so far in primary care research, but we have so much more we can do,” Fulda said. “We want to continue to expand primary care research and training, and the work being done by the NAPCRG is helping to make that a reality.”
As the executive director of NorTex, Fulda works with primary care clinicians to conduct research that is relevant to primary care practice to improve the health of communities. NorTex is composed of more than 100 primary care outpatient clinics, mostly located in north central Texas and some rural areas of Texas.
Her expertise in research spans more than 20 years of coordinating and leading funded clinical and population health projects. Fulda’s work has focused on identifying and reducing health disparities for vulnerable populations, including both adults and children.
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