Pediatric Academic Societies'
Annual Meeting

 

2005 PAS Annual Meeting    s    May 14 –17   s   Washington, DC

Sponsored by the:

 

 

Contact Information

Mail Address:

3400 Research Forest Dr., Ste B-7
The Woodlands, TX  77381 USA

Email:  info@pas-meeting.org

Telephone:  281-419-0052

Facsimile:  281-419-0082
 

 


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Richard D. Rowe Award in Perinatal Cardiology
(Presented by the Society for Pediatric Research)

This award is supported by generous contributions from Colleagues, Trainees, and Friends of Dr. Richard D. Rowe

The Richard D. Rowe Award in Perinatal Cardiology was established in 1988 by colleagues, trainees and friends of Dr. Rowe to honor his many personal achievements, commitment to academic excellence, integrity and humility. The award carries a monetary prize of $1,000. 

Eligibility Criteria

Have M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree and be within 3 years of completion of post-doctoral education. Individuals in the process of obtaining such an education but having already completed original work are encouraged to apply.

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions:

  • A completed SPR Richard D. Rowe Award Application Form either in PDF Format or as a Word document.

  • First authorship on an abstract submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting in the field of perinatal cardiovascular development.  The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the PAS Annual Meeting to be considered.

  • The appropriate box on the PAS abstract form must be checked for the Richard D. Rowe Award.

  • A sponsoring letter from and SPR member. This letter should contain a short appraisal of the candidate's accomplishments and potential and clearly outline his/her participation in the work contained in the abstract.

  • A copy of the candidate's curriculum vitae must be provided.

  • The nominee must present the study at the PAS Annual Meeting in a related session.

  • Abstract must be received by the PAS abstract submission deadline—December 7, 2004—and supplemental materials  (letter, CV and application form) by December 9, 2004.

Eligibility and criteria will be posted in October 2004.

Past Recipients of the Richard D. Rowe Award in Perinatal Cardiology

1988

Einat Birk, University of California, San Francisco

1989

Philip Shaul, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

1990

Anne M. Murphy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

1991

Jeffrey A. Towbin, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

1992

Harry Dietz, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

1993

Award not presented

1994

Thomas D. Scholz, University of Iowa, Iowa City

1995

David Cornfield, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1996

Harold S. Bernstein, University of California, San Francisco

1997

Quin Wang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

1998

Deepak Srivastava, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas  and
 Robert W. Dettman, University of California, San Francisco

1999

Ronald Mark Grady, Washington, University, St. Louis, MO

2000

Mark W. Russell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2001

Hiroko Wakimoto, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

2002

Vernat Exil, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2003

Hiroyuki Yamagishi, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

2004

Patrick Y. Jay, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

2005

 Vidu Garg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

 

David G. Nathan Award in Hematology/Oncology
(Presented by the Society for Pediatric Research)

This award is supported by generous contributions from Friends and Colleagues of Dr. David Nathan.

The David G. Nathan Award in Basic Research by a Fellow was established in 2000 by the colleagues, trainees, and friends of Dr. Nathan to honor his achievements in every aspect of academic pediatrics. The winning candidate is selected by a committee from the Society for Pediatric Research on the quality of the work presented in the abstract. The award carries a monetary prize of $1000.

Eligibility Criteria

Work must be submitted prior to the completion of fellowship.

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions:

  • A completed SPR David G. Nathan Award Application Form either in PDF Format or as a Word document.

  • First authorship on an abstract submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting in the field of pediatric hematology/oncology.  The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the PAS Annual Meeting to be considered.

  • The appropriate box in the online PAS abstract submission program must be checked for the David G. Nathan Award.

  • A letter from the senior investigator or sponsor that includes a statement that the work was performed by the nominee and fully addresses the role the candidate had in the work.

  • The nominee must present the study at the PAS Annual Meeting in a related session.

  • Abstract must be received by the PAS abstract submission deadline—December 7, 2004—and supplemental materials  (letter and application form) by December 9, 2004.

Past Recipients of the David G. Nathan Award in Hematology/Oncology

2000

Lisa Wang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2001

Jenny M. Kim, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA

2002

Valerie I. Brown, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2003

Marco Tartaglia, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2004 Benjamin S. Braun, University of California, San Francisco, CA
2005 Mwe Mwe Chao, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Student Research Award   (Student must submit abstract prior to the student receiving his/her M.D. or Ph.D.)
(Presented by the Society for Pediatric Research)

The Society for Pediatric Research annually honors students, house officers and fellows engaged in pediatric research. These awards are designed to encourage pediatricians in training to pursue careers in academic pediatrics. Winning candidates are selected by a committee from the Society for Pediatric Research based on the quality of the work presented in the abstract. Each awardee will receive a $1,000 award.

Eligibility Criteria

Student must submit abstract prior to receiving B.S./B.A., M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or Ph.D.

Three to six awards will be given; one to two in each of the categories below:

  • M.D./Ph.D. and Ph.D. Students

  • Medical Students  

  • High School and College Students

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions:

  • A completed SPR Student Research Award Application Form either in PDF Format or as a Word document.

  • First authorship on an abstract submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting.  The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the PAS Annual Meeting to be considered.

  • The appropriate box in the online PAS abstract submission program must be checked.

  • A letter from the senior investigator or sponsor that includes a statement that the work was performed by the nominee and fully addresses the role the candidate had in the work and why the caliber of this study is worthy for a national award.

  • The nominee must present the study at the PAS Annual Meeting.

  • Abstract must be received by the PAS abstract submission deadline—December 7, 2004—and supplemental materials  (letter and application form) by December 9, 2004.

Past Recipients of the Student Research Award

1989

Scott Saunders, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA

1990

R. Jumar Kadiyala, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

Robert C. Scott, III, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

1991

Diane K. Vorbroker, Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Kyunglim L. Yoon, Tufts University, Boston, MA

1992

Richard C. Allen, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Dan Lee, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

Kenneth W. Liechty, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

1993

John P. Cannon, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Laura L. Ciottone, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester

Jennifer Norton, University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1994

Robert J. Bohinski, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Javier Chinen, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Kelly A. McGowan, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1995

Jacquelyn Huffman, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Weiwen Guo, University of California, Los Angeles

W. Xu, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

1996

Rosemarie Fernandez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kevin McCabe, University of California, Los Angeles

Xin Zeng, Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

1997

Blaise A. Nemeth, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Erica Weiss, University of California, San Francisco

Masato Yasui, St. Goran’s Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

1998

Biree Andemariam, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Laura Frain, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Maureen Su, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

1999

Tim C. Lee, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Gresham Richter, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver

Lucy Ruwitch, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

2000

Kyle Cowan, University of Toronto, Toronto

Aaron M. Milstone, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Christine Siambani, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2001

Johan Löfgren, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland

Roy O. Mathew, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY

Mai T. Phung, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2002

Seth Goldbarg, University of California, San Francisco

Jessica Marks, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

Jeremy Warner, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC  

2003

Lyric Jorgenson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis     

Liza Konnikova, Tufts University, Boston, MA

Sharareh Movafagh, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

2004

 Wayne A. Cabral, National Institutes of Health/NICHD, Bethesda, MD
Victoria Del Gaizo Moore, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Jiuann-Huey Lin, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2005

 Christina O. Chen, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Kusala M. Jayasuriya, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Virginia Bartleson, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
Christopher Lundh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Tianhong Xu, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

 

House Officer Research Award   (House Officer must submit abstract prior to the completion of residency)
(Presented by the Society for Pediatric Research)

The Society for Pediatric Research annually honors students, house officers and fellows engaged in pediatric research. These awards are designed to encourage pediatricians in training to pursue careers in academic pediatrics. Winning candidates are selected by a committee from the Society for Pediatric Research based on the quality of the work presented in the abstract. Each awardee will receive a $1,000 award.

Eligibility Criteria

Resident must submit abstract prior to the completion of residency.

One to three awards will be given.

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions:

  • A completed SPR House Officer Research Award Application either in PDF Format or as a Word document.

  • First authorship on an abstract submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting. The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the PAS Annual Meeting to be considered.

  • The appropriate box in the online PAS abstract submission program must be checked.

  • A letter from the senior investigator or sponsor that includes a statement that the work was performed by the nominee and fully addresses the role the candidate had in the work and why the caliber of this study is worthy for a national award.

  • The nominee must present the study at the PAS Annual Meeting.

  • Abstract must be received by the PAS abstract submission deadline—December 7, 2004—and supplemental materials  (letter and application form) by December 9, 2004.

Past Recipients of the House Officer Research Award

1989

Michael Acarregui, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

1990

David B. Haslam, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa

Nancy C. Andrews, Harvard Medical School, Boston

1991

Timothy P. Cripe, University of Iowa, Iowa Ci

1992

Clarisse Gervasio, Hutzel Hospital, Detroit

Amy J. North, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

1993

Scott Cameron, Children’s Hospital, Boston

H. L. Karamanouklan, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo

1994

Daniel J. Bonthius, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Kimberly P. Marshall, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis

Duncan T. Wilcox, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo

1995

Y. Anikster, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem

Jessica Klekamp, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville

1996

Jeff Lukish, Children’s Hospital, Washington DC

Virginia Powell, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Scott Rosenfeld, Ohio State University, Columbus

1997

Patricia Ramsey, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Martha Sola, University of Florida, Gainesville

Elizabeth Yerkes, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashv

1998

Despina E. Varlam, State University of New York, Stony Brook

1999

Ofer Levy, Children’s Hospital, Boston

Terrie Inder, Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston

Sandeep Batra, Children’s Medical Center, Stony Brook

2000

Douglas D. Fraser, Kingston General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Paul J. Galardy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Matthew A. Saxonhouse, University of Florida, Gainesville

2001

Cary R. Murphy, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Kimberly McCrudden, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York

Maria P. Nguyen, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

2002

Rossana Chang, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque

Benjamin Dekel, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Ru-Jeng Teng, University of Alabama, Birmingham

2003

Jerry C. Cheng, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles           

Hiroto Inaba, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Troy

Carey Lumeng, Children’s Hospital & Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

2004

 Carl E. Allen, Columbus Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
Jessica Henderson-Boyd, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
D. William Parsons, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, MD

2005

 Avraham Beigelman, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Timothy A. Biela, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX
Cordula M. Wolf, Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

 

Fellow's Basic Research Award   (Fellow must submit abstract prior to the completion of fellowship)
(Presented by the Society for Pediatric Research)

The Society for Pediatric Research annually honors students, house officers and fellows engaged in pediatric research. These awards are designed to encourage pediatricians in training to pursue careers in academic pediatrics. Winning candidates are selected by a committee from the Society for Pediatric Research based on the quality of the work presented in the abstract. Each award ($1,000) is given annually to one to three individuals in each category.

Eligibility Criteria

Work must be submitted prior to the completion of fellowship.

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions:

  • A completed SPR Fellow's Basic Research Award Application either in PDF Format or as a Word document.

  • First authorship on an abstract submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting. The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the PAS Annual Meeting to be considered.

  • The appropriate box in the online PAS abstract submission program must be checked.

  • A letter from the senior investigator or sponsor that includes a statement that the work was performed by the nominee and fully addresses the role the candidate had in the work and why the caliber of this study is worthy for a national award.

  • The nominee must present the study at the PAS Annual Meeting.

  • Abstract must be received by the PAS abstract submission deadline—December 7, 2004—and supplemental materials  (letter and application form) by December 9, 2004.

Past Recipients of the Fellow's Basic Research Award

1991

Catherine M. Bendel, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Charmian A. Quigley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lisa A. Schimmenti, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

1992

Prasad Devarajan, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Han-Wook Yoo, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

1993

Michael Cappello, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Steven A.Dekowski, University of Iowa, Iowa City

D. Dunbar Ivy, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver

1994

Micahel Apkon, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mukund G. Dole, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor

Christaine Theda, Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

1995

Lilly Cheng Immergluck, University of Chicago, Wyler Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL

Fumio Niimura, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Deepak Srivastava, Anderson Cancer Center, Dallas, TX

1996

Peter N. Bowers, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Cheryl Gale, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Tao Wang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

1997

John M. Dagle, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Edna E. Mancilla, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Hideki Nishimura, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

1998

Kathleen S. Crowley, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

John A. Martignetti, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

1999

Vernat J. Exil, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Laura Haneline, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis

Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2000

Christopher E. Belcher, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Elif Erkan, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Syed Zaidi, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Cananda

2001

Patrick D. Brophy, Mott Children’s Hospital/University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

So Young Lee, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA

Lawrence  S. Prince, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City

2002

Yair Anikster, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD

David G. Soergel, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Marco Tartaglia,, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

2003

Gina-Marie Barletta, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Christina M. Coughlin, University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia

David Motto, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2004

 Kurt J. Griffin, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Kimihiko Oishi, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Lawrence M. Rhein, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

2005

 Ophir Klein, University of California San Francisco, San Francsico, CA
Kartik Krishnan, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Mousumi Moulik, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

 

The Society for Pediatric Research annually honors students, house officers and fellows engaged in pediatric research. These awards are designed to encourage pediatricians in training to pursue careers in academic pediatrics. Winning candidates are selected by a committee from the Society for Pediatric Research based on the quality of the work presented in the abstract. Each award ($1,000) is given annually to one to three individuals in each category.

Eligibility Criteria

Work must be submitted prior to the completion of fellowship.

Candidates must fulfill the following conditions: