2026-04-28T05:12:42-00:00 2025-09-30 821290665 Adele K Peterson CPA 777 Tiffany Farms Road Antioch IL 60002 990 2024-10-01 363334177 Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science CHIC 7083436300 PO Box 250 Hines IL 60141 Lauren M Rich Chief Executive Officer 7083436300 2026-04-28 true true Adele K Peterson P00743438 8473951128 2026-04-28 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z CARES Lauren M Rich PO Box 250 Hines IL 60141 6852172 false X www.CARES-RESEARCH.org X 1984 IL Enhancing the health care of Americas veterans by supporting research and education. 19 18 50 0 3811221 4289355 2301642 2241656 338209 321161 0 6451072 6852172 0 0 3940661 3402706 0 0 2147238 3171513 6087899 6574219 363173 277953 9671525 10268964 1186332 1505818 8485193 8763146 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. 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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 15a 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. Examining energy in persons with chronic spinal cord injuries and disorders measurement of requirements, knowledge, and intake - conducted by Dr. Sherri Lavela and Lorena Reyes, dietitian at Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital. Stude focuses on measuring energy requirements, nutritional intake, and physical activity levels, particularly for those with tetraplegia and complete lesions, to improve metabolic health. 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 test 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 enhance information 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 Comparison of a Novel Modified All-Suture Construct Versus Suture-Button Fixation in a Syndesmotic Injury Model conducted by Muturi G Muriuki, PhD, subcontract PI at Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory, Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital, Hines, IL. The laboratory will conduct biomechanical experiments to characterize the ability of a modified all-suture construct to stabilize the syndesmosis. This construction will be compared to a commercially available suspensory button fixation system. The test speicmans will be obtained by the laboratory. Fluoroscopy will be used to screen specimens. The experiments will measure the change in the spatial relationship between the tibia and fibula under 750N of axial load and 7.5Nm of internal rotation moment. Custom test fixtures and apparatus will allow each tibia to be rifidly fixed to a custom test fixture with the specimen aligned anatomically and the foot fixed to a plate. The foot plate will allow some trannslation and rotation in the transverse plane in repsonse to forces applied during testing. This allowance will accomodate any mismatch in the rotational axis of the ankle and that of the test apparatus. 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.