Welcome to CAMS! CAMS was established in August, 2018 as one of three Exploratory Centers of Excellence funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Center is charged with building research infrastructure and centralized resources to catalyze new interdisciplinary, biobehavioral research teams to tackle the challenges of conducting research on human adults with multiple complex chronic conditions.

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NINR-Funded Exploratory Center of Excellence

The University of Iowa College of Nursing was one of five institutions to receive funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish an Exploratory Center of Excellence: the UI Center for Advancing Multimorbidity Science (CAMS).

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Interdisciplinary Approach

The Center is charged with building research infrastructure and centralized resources to catalyze new interdisciplinary, biobehavioral research teams to tackle the challenges of conducting research on human adults with multiple complex chronic conditions.

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Integrative Analytics

CAMS utilizes a multifactorial approach to research by creating an integrative analytics core that will link nurse scientists with experts using advanced, computationally intensive analytic methods that can detect patterns and identify patient profiles from the unique constellation of symptoms and conditions represented by each patient.