Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin
Wake Forest University, NC·Medicine & Clinical Research
Diabetes research is shifting toward new data sources. These include wearable devices, continuous glucose monitors, remote monitoring, electronic health records and insurance claims.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Mathematics & Statistics
- Topics
diabetes
continuous glucose monitoring
wearable devices
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2028
What they work on
- Strengthen consultation on using continuous glucose monitors in diabetes research, including advanced study design, analytic methods and practical concerns.
- Strengthen consultation on real-world evidence generation from electronic health record and claims data, with attention to methods for reducing bias.
- Expand consultation to other wearable and remote monitoring devices and to machine learning, artificial intelligence and multisensory data processing for claims, health record and wearable data.
- Expand recruitment of participants, including underrepresented populations, into diabetes studies, and track core use and user satisfaction to adapt services.
More about the research
These tools can make measurement easier, reach people at higher risk of diabetes and reveal new ways to classify patients. Yet they bring unfamiliar design and analysis challenges, and many researchers lack the expertise to use them well.
Why it matters
By helping researchers use continuous glucose monitors, wearables, electronic health records and claims data more rigorously, the core could strengthen diabetes research and speed its translation into better treatment and prevention. It also aims to improve recruitment and the appropriate inclusion of underrepresented populations, so findings better reflect the people most affected by diabetes.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Emory University, GA·Medicine & Clinical Research
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The school
Wake Forest University: 27 labs on PI Pages, $345M a year on research, 54 research doctorates a year.
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