2025-05-15T01:55:24-00:00 2024-09-30 821290665 Adele K Peterson CPA Ltd 777 Tiffany Farms Road Antioch IL 60002 990 2023-10-01 363334177 Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science CHIC 7083436300 PO Box 250 Hines IL 60141 Lauren M Rich Chief Executive Officer 7083436300 2025-05-15 true true Adele K Peterson P00743438 8473951128 2025-05-15 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z CARES Lauren M Rich PO Box 250 Hines IL 60141 6451072 false X www.CARES-RESEARCH.org X 1984 IL Enhancing the health care of Americas veterans by supporting research and education. 19 18 55 0 3956595 3811221 2340072 2301642 290238 338209 0 6586905 6451072 0 0 3968921 3940661 0 0 2312943 2147238 6281864 6087899 305041 363173 10675908 9671525 2553888 1186332 8122020 8485193 X To enhance the health care of Americas veterans by supporting the research and education of physicians, nurses, researchers, and others at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. false false 546009 190501 See Schedule O 1445691 See Schedule O 360160 119983 See Schedule O 2788329 2000275 5140189 true false false false false false false false false false true false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 19 0 true 55 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 19 18 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true true true true true true false IL WI X Lauren Rich 7083436300 5000 S 5th Avenue Bldg 1 Room C303 Hines IL 60141 Lauren Rich CEO/Secretary 040.00 X X X 178056 0 9444 Terry Lee Smith Staff 040.00 X 140532 0 6770 Nina Huang Staff 040.00 X 130905 0 7277 Bharat Thakkar Staff 040.00 X 114335 0 11308 Madalina Toma Staff 040.00 X 92045 0 24096 Michael Richardson MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Nasia Safdar MD PhD Treasurer 001.00 X X 0 0 0 Ryan Marsh MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 William Wolf PhD President 001.00 X X 0 0 0 Bharathi Swaminathan MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Buckley MD MPH FACEP Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Jeffrey Oken MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Shubhada Ahya MD MS Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 James Doelling Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Israel Rubinstein MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Sarah Unterman MD FACEP Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Staci Williams Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 William Cotter MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Holland MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Christina Girgis MD Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Jihan Walker Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Steve Maddox Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Christine Kleckner Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 Ronald Kaplan Board Member 001.00 X 0 0 0 655873 58895 5 false true false 3811221 3811221 Research Education 541700 2301642 2301642 2301642 338209 338209 6451072 2639851 0 0 0 0 187975 187975 0 3201819 2695098 506721 83510 65194 18316 209013 167051 41962 258344 207760 50584 0 10920 10920 28450 28450 0 0 104589 74976 29613 0 266345 228236 38109 28358 20000 8358 0 0 68988 67233 1755 0 30678 25812 4866 0 0 33935 33935 20081 20081 Interagency agreements Subcontracts 1554894 1554894 0 6087899 5140189 947710 0 131386 74726 8966072 8371473 1458110 1116564 17446 39802 1172462 1103502 102894 68960 10675908 9671525 1133481 963326 1420407 223006 2553888 1186332 X 6697585 7012640 1424435 1472553 8122020 8485193 10675908 9671525 363173 X false true X true true true X Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital Hines IL RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false 1172462 1103502 68960 68960 Financial derivatives and other financial products Closely-held equity interests Federal income taxes Unearned Research Grant 223006 223006 6469407 18335 18335 6451072 6451072 6106234 18335 18335 6087899 6087899 false false false false false false Lauren Rich CEO/Secretary 187500 4000 9444 200944 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 2,788,329, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 2,000,275 See Schedule O Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11B The Form 990 is presented to the Board Members at a regularly scheduled meeting or it is distributed electronically for review prior to submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12C Annually, all officers, directors, trustees, and key employees are provided a copy of the Conflict of Interest Policy and required to sign a statement either identifying potential conflicts or confirming that no such conflicts exist. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The President of CARES engages an outside entity every third year to conduct a market analysis and salary comparability study to determine if the salary for the CEO is in an acceptable range. The report from the outside entity is shared with the Board of Directors at a regularly scheduled meeting. The discussion is recorded in the minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 CARESs governing documents, Conflict of Interest Policy, and financial statements are made available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part III, Line Line 4a Caring Connections A program to alleviate social isolation and loneliness in individuals living with spinal cord injury conducted by Dr. Sherri Lavela at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital. The findings of this study have revealed how persons with SCI/D conceptualize loneliness and social isolation, and both constructs encompassed feeling alone along with other emotional states such as darkness and sadness lack of meaningful interactions and brought to light patient views on driving factors. Findings can be used to develop social health interventions and guide patient-provider discussions that address meaningful aspects of loneliness and social isolation as perceived by individuals and suggest that efforts are needed to better identify and respond to social isolation and lonliness in community and healthcare settings. These findings will help us build and refine the intervention design and content for the current grant. Form 990, Part III, Line Line 4b COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring surveillance Rapid Cycle Analysis Queries Risk Assessment/Evaluation funded by the CDC. Under this study, adverse events of special interest AESIswill be identified through ICD-10 diagnosis codes in CDW databases for Veterans who received COVID-19 vaccines. Prespecified potential AESIs will be identified from inpatient and emergency visits for most outcomes and a small number of pre-specified outcomes will also be identified from outpatient visits. The potential associations between vaccine administration and pre-specified adverse events will be evaluated in near real-time employing a technique called rapid cycle analysis RCA. Specifically, a Poisson-based maximized sequential probability tes MaxSPRT will be employed. Other approaches may also be adopted in order to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in near real-time e.g. Bayesian, vaccinated vs unvaccinated matched on date of vaccination, etc. SafeRx Post-Market Medical Product Surveillance funded by the FDA. The purpose of this study was to enhance drug safetly knowledge and expand and develop better tools and techniques for assessing drug safety through information sharing and the exploitantion of VA and FDA synergies in a variety of areas of scientific expertise. The goals of collaboration were to expore ways to - Further enhave informatoin sharing efforts through more efficient and robust inter-agency activities - Promote efficient utilization of tools and expertise for product risk identification, validation, and analysis - Build infrastructure and processes that meet the common needs for evaluating drug safety. These studies were conducted by Dr. Cunningham Francesca at Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital. Form 990, Part III, Line Line 4c Enhancing regeneration and improving function after SCI study conducted at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Dr. Kartjes laboratory. The goal of the project is to determine if anti-Nogo A antibodies produced by NovaGo result in regeneration and functional recovery post-spinal cord injury in adult rats Form 990, Part III, Line Line 4d The Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science CARES has been serving veterans since 1984. The primary tax-exempt purpose of CARES is biomedical, clinical and health services research as well as health related educational activities in collaboration with the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital and the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, William S. Middleton VA Hospital and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. This research benefits United States Veterans being treated at all four VA sites and the general public by advancing knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and disability. Education activities include the dissemination of research results through publication in quality medical journals and presentation at professional meetings all of which are intended to translate research results to clinical practice. Other education is geared to helping patients and their families understand and manage their medical conditions. During the past year, CARES supported more than 100 individual researchers who cumulatively are conducting research projects in the following diabetic foot ulcers, antibiotic-resistant infections, hypertensive renal injury, osteoporosis, retinopathy, bladder function, neurofibromatosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, rehabilitation research and development, pressure ulcers, hypertension, infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health, stroke, health services and outcomes research, kidney disease, veteran engagement, mechanical ventilation, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, musculoskeletal biomechanics, and more.