Annual SMRU Traveling Scholars Conference

描述（由申请人提供）；第九届（SMRU）旅行奖励计划将与第62届美国生殖医学学会（ASRM）年会上一起举行。2006年方案的主要目标是：1)教育生殖医学专业人员了解环境和职业暴露对男性和女性生殖健康的影响方面已知和未知的情况；教育还将包括传授对环境和职业研究中使用的流行病学方法和研究设计的理解；2)增加从事男性生殖临床和流行病学研究的泌尿科医生数量；这将通过教育住院医师和研究员来实现；3)通过影响SMRU旅行学者奖获得者和ASRM会议其他与会者的态度，鼓励新的临床泌尿科医生与生殖内分泌学家、流行病学家和其他参与辅助生殖技术（ART）的人合作。该计划提供正式的讲座和与该领域资深成员的同行互动，他们将根据医生和基础科学研究人员的培训水平量身定制他们的演讲。对该计划的科学需求源于年度会议上缺乏基本的入门级讲座。10名正在接受培训的医生和基础科学研究人员将参加会议，他们都将在讲台上或海报上发表摘要。五位获得高分摘要的获奖者将在一个专门讨论本项目的特别讲台上展示他们的作品。与会者将参加由SMRU组织的为期一天的研究生课程，圆桌午餐，SMRU互动会议和小型专题讨论会，讲台和海报会议。正式的早餐专家研讨会将突出新的和重要的临床和基础研究成果。这些专家讲座将讨论的广泛主题包括：1)邻苯二甲酸盐暴露与男性生殖系统，2)成人前列腺癌的胎儿基础，以及3)甲氧氯对女性生殖道Hoxa 10基因表达和发育的影响。获奖者将在会议前收到精选读物、讲座提纲和课后讨论的问题（由每位演讲者准备），以加强互动。每堂课结束后将会有充足的时间进行提问和回答，以促进演讲者和旅行获奖者之间的进一步互动。过去的经验表明，该计划鼓励了许多接受者从事临床/基础科学事业，其中许多人已经活跃在世界各地的学术职位上，从而满足了迫切的需求。如果没有这种经历，他们中的许多人可能会走上不同的职业道路。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant); The 9th (SMRU) Traveling Award Program will be held in conjunction with the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). The primary objectives of the 2006 program are: 1) to educate reproductive medicine professionals about what is known and what is not known concerning the effects of environmental and occupational exposures on male and female reproductive health; the education will also include imparting an understanding of epidemiologic methods and study designs used in environmental and occupational studies; 2) to increase the number of urologists devoting themselves in clinical and epidemiologic studies of male reproduction; this will be accomplished by educating residents and fellows; and, 3) to encourage collaborations of new clinical urologists with reproductive endocrinologists, epidemiologists and others in involved in assisted reproductive technology (ART) by impacting the attitudes of both the SMRU Traveling Scholars Awardees and other attendees of the ASRM meeting. This Program provides formal lectures and peer-interaction with senior members in the field who will tailor their presentations to the level of physicians and basic science researchers in-training. The scientific need for the Program stems from the lack of basic introductory level lectures at Annual Meetings. Ten physicians and basic science researchers in training, who will all present an abstract at a podium or poster session, will participate. The five awardees with top scoring abstracts will present their work in a special concurrent podium session devoted to this Program. Participants will attend the one-day postgraduate course organized by the SMRU, a roundtable luncheon, SMRU interactive sessions and mini-symposia, podium, and poster sessions. Formal breakfast expert seminars will highlight new and important clinical and basic research findings. The broad topics to be addressed in these expert lectures include: 1) phthalate exposures and the male reproductive system, 2) the fetal basis of adult prostate cancer, and 3) the effects of methoxychlor on Hoxa 10 gene expression and development of the female reproductive tract. The awardees will be sent selected readings, a lecture outline, and questions for post-lecture discussion (prepared by each presenter) in advance of the meeting to enhance the interactions. Ample time will be allotted at the end of each lecture for questions and answers to promote further interaction between the speakers and traveling award recipients. Past experience indicates that this Program has encouraged many recipients to pursue clinical/basic science careers, with many already active in academic positions around the world, thus serving a critical need. Without this exposure, many of them would have likely pursued different career paths.