2010 Surgical Investigators Conference
Sponsored by the Surgical Research Committee of the American College of Surgeons
Introduction and Purpose of the Conference
The Surgical Research Committee of the American College of Surgeons presented the Tenth Biennial Surgical Investigators Conference to assist surgeon-scientists entering the process of obtaining extramural, peer-reviewed grant support for their work. The conference was held in North Bethesda, MD, in March 2010. The goal of these conferences, held with staff members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in attendance, is to introduce surgeons to the process, the content, the style, and the people involved in successful grant-writing and interactions with the NIH.
Surgical investigators gain essential insights about the NIH, seeing first hand that the agency is made up of many dedicated, knowledgeable and committed staff people who are there to help, and to make sure that good research is funded. As participants, beginning surgeon-scientists meet some of these individuals and have the opportunity to interact with them during both formal and informal activities. Participants also meet their peers, selected mostly from surgery departments in U.S. and Canadian academic medical centers. The conference provides opportunities to meet and talk with many of the leading surgeon-scientists who have been successful in obtaining NIH grant support for their work and who participate in the conference as leaders of various small group meetings and as plenary session speakers.
The program includes intensive exposure to:
- NIH programs and policies
- What programs are best and available for your research project and how to apply
- Workshops in hypothesis testing, methodology, background, and preliminary results
- Grant-writing strategies
- Mock study sections reviewing model grants
- Information from NIH Institutes and representatives
2010 Surgical Investigators Conference Chair
Colleen M. Brophy, MD, FACS
2010 Surgical Research Committee
Colleen M Brophy MD FACS, Nashville, TN (Chair)
John D. Birkmeyer MD FACS, Ann Arbor, MI (Vice Chair)
Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, Winston-Salem, NC
Nancy N. Baxter MD FACS, Toronto, ON
Gail E. Besner MD FACS, Columbus, OH
Richard J. Bold MD FACS, Sacramento, CA
Siobhan A. Corbett, MD, New Brunswick, NJ
David R. Flum MD MPH FACS, Seattle, WA
Kamal Itani, MD, FACS, West Roxbury, MA
Thomas M. Krummel, MD, FACS, Stanford, CA
Michael W. Mulholland MD FACS, Ann Arbor, MI
Leigh A. Neumayer MD FACS, Salt Lake City, UT
Karl C. Podratz MD PhD FACS, Rochester, MN
Carla M. Pugh, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL
Lawrence Rosenberg MD FACS FRCSC, Montreal, QC
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, FACS, New Haven, CA
Jiping Wang, MD, PhD, Boston, MA
Revised February 17, 2011