USC School of Medicine Greenville receives $3.4M research project grant

The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville received a $3.4 million research project grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The five-year grant will support research focused on the use of physical activity to treat disease and promote health. A program called Exercise is Medicine Greenville was launched in 2016 to identify and enroll eligible patients in community-based physical-activity programs designed to prevent, manage and treat their chronic diseases.

“This research is a big step toward helping health care systems promote physical activity in the communities where our patients work, live, pray and play,” said Jennifer Trilk, director of USC School of Medicine Greenville’s lifestyle medicine programs.

USC School of Medicine Greenville partners with Prisma Health and the YMCA of Greenville and Oconee Counties to operate the EIMG model. Meenu Jindal, medical director of Prisma Health’s internal medicine clinics, said the model provides an opportunity for health care providers to work with patients who can’t afford a physical-activity program otherwise or have unique lifestyle challenge to help them stay healthy.

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