Date: | Monday, 9/20/2010 |
Location: | Volker Hall Lecture Room B, 1670 University Boulevard |
Organizers: | Drs Xiang-Yang Lou, Nengjun Yi and David B. Allison |
Overview: This workshop is designed to give trainees and investigators ranging from graduate students through faculty exposure to the prospective of those who sit within the granting organizations on what makes for more successful grant applications. Speakers will be highly experienced individuals who have seen and participated in the evaluation and decision-making process for many grant applications. The domains of industry, philanthropic, NIH, & NSF will all be represented.
Targeted Audience: SSG & NORC faculty and fellows and AOI members. Open to all other graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in the University pending available space.
Agenda [PDF file] - 4 Funding Perspectives:
8:00 - 8:30 AM | Check-in & Welcome |
Dr. David Allison | |
8:35-9:20 AM | Dr. Nengjun Yi intro |
Norman Braveman, PhD (NIH) | |
10 minutes | Q & A |
9:35-10:20 AM | Dr. Xiang-Yang Lou intro |
Keith Crank, PhD (NSF) | |
10 minutes | Q & A |
10:30-10:40 AM | Break |
10:45-11:30 AM | Dr. Xiang-Yang Lou intro |
Sethu K. Reddy, MD MBA (Merck) | |
10 minutes | Q & A |
11:45-12:30 PM | Dr. Nengjun Yi intro |
Victoria McGovern, PhD (Burroughs) | |
10 minutes | Q & A |
To register, please send email of interest to rsarver@uab.edu. Questions? 205.975.9169
Attendance is limited.
Speakers:
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Norman Braveman, PhD: President In his years with the extramural arm of the NIH Dr. Braveman served as the Director of the Immunology and Endocrinology Program with the National Institute on Aging, was responsible for the peer review of investigator-initiated clinical trials with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, served in the capacity as Director of Planning and Evaluation for NIH with the Office of the Director of NIH, and between 1992 and his retirement in 2008, he served in various capacities with NIDCR including as Assistant Director for Extramural Programs, Associate Director for Clinical, Behavioral and Health Promotion Research, and as Assistant to the Director of NIDCR. Among Dr. Braveman's contributions to the NIDCR, he had major responsibility for issues relating to the health effects of dental amalgams. These included leadership for two large clinical trials investigating possible behavioral, neuropsychological and physiological effects of dental amalgams in children. He represented the Institute on the Mercury Subcommittee of the Environmental Health Policy Committee of the Public Health Service and later chaired an inter-agency committee on dental amalgam. Also, he represented the NIDCR and the National Institutes of Health at a World Health Organization Consultation on Dental Amalgams and Its Alternatives as well as at an international forum on oral health research in Jerusalem. Dr. Braveman is now the President of Braveman BioMed Consultants, located in Rockville, MD where he provides consulting services for a variety of clients on topics related to the development of biomedical research programs. |
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Keith Crank, PhD |
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S. Sethu K. Reddy, MD MBA Dr. Reddy earned his MD in 1980 at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He completed his fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the U. of Toronto. His research fellowship in cellular and molecular physiology was conducted at Harvard Medical School/Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, he was Associate Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Dalhousie University, Canada. He completed his MBA at Cleveland State University in 2002. Dr. Reddy's research interests are primarily devoted to clinical endocrinology, including obesity and thyroid disorders, and the epidemiology of diabetes and its complications. He has authored and coauthored more than 140 articles, abstracts, and book chapters concerning these and related topics. He has presented numerous lectures about diabetes management, heart disease, obesity, thyroid disease, and other metabolic disorders at national and international events. He conceived and developed the nationally recognized Annual Endocrinology Board Review Course since 1997. Dr. Reddy has been actively involved in clinically relevant projects with AACE since 1996, including Coding & Reimbursement, Fellowship Training, Optimal Practice of Diabetes Task Force, Endocrine University Program, Socioeconomic Affair, Minority Health Affairs, Clinical Practice Guidelines, and Academic Affairs. He has been elected twice to the National Board of Directors of AACE. He has also been actively involved in corporate liaison activities with The Endocrine Society, American Diabetes Association and The Obesity Society. He was also honored with the Florence Nightingale Award by Cleveland Clinic for Physician Collaboration and as Trustee of the Year in 2005 by the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland. In 2009, he authored the Cleveland Clinic Guide to Diabetes (Kaplan Pub.) for the general public. In 2007, he received the distinction of Mastership in the American College of Endocrinology. |
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Victoria McGovern, PhD |
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