American Psychosomatic Society's 70th Annual Scientific Meeting Conference Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：为有前途的博士前和博士后学生提供强有力的支持和指导对于所有科学领域的进步至关重要。此次R13 HL 074923竞争性更新的总体目标是为参加并积极参与在希腊雅典举行的第70届美国心身学会（APS）年度科学会议（2012年3月14日至17日）的学员提供差旅支持。APS的基本使命是促进和推进对人类健康和疾病中的生物、心理、社会和行为因素之间相互关系的科学理解，以及分别研究每一个因素的科学领域的整合，并促进这种理解在教育和改善保健方面的应用。这一使命体现在为2012年会议选定的主题“症状：风险、治疗和预防机制”中，该主题将突出经验研究和临床应用沿着转化连续体。超过60年来，年度APS会议为学员提供了一个出色的论坛，并建立了在广泛的学科和专业领域工作的研究人员和临床医生，以交流新的想法和研究策略，最终促进和提高研究的质量，并将其转化为临床实践和公共政策。每年的APS会议有来自世界各地的500多名研究人员和临床医生参加。在这次竞争性的更新中，我们建议为多达15个青年学者奖和5个少数民族倡议旅行奖提供支持。青年学者奖计划将提供旅行奖给竞争性选择的学员，他们提交第一作者摘要以展示论文或海报，并被认为在身心和行为医学领域表现出杰出的潜力。APS少数民族倡议旅行奖将为来自种族/民族或其他代表性不足的群体的有前途的学员提供支持，以参加年会。确定和选择APS少数民族倡议旅行奖获得者的过程将有所不同，因为该奖项旨在将受训者奖励机会扩展到尚未成为该过程中的“利益相关者”的个人。会议在雅典举行，将利用欧洲在循证初级预防和公共政策方面的专门知识。如果生物行为研究要影响教育、临床实践、公共政策，并最终影响公共卫生，这些问题就至关重要。 公共卫生相关性：为有前途的博士前和博士后学生提供强有力的支持和指导，对于所有科学领域的进步至关重要。R13 HL 074923的这一竞争性更新提议为最多20名受训人员提供差旅支持，以参加美国身心学会（APS）的年度科学会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Providing strong support and guidance to promising pre- and post-doctoral students is crucial for the advancement of all fields of science. The overall goal of this competing renewal of R13 HL074923 is to provide travel support for trainees to attend and actively take part in the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in Athens, Greece (March 14 - 17, 2012). The essential mission of the APS is to promote and advance the scientific understanding of the interrelationships among biological, psychological, social and behavioral factors in human health and disease, and the integration of the fields of science that separately examine each, and to foster the application of this understanding in education and improved health care. This mission is instantiated in the selection of the theme for the 2012 meeting, "Symptoms: Mechanisms of Risk, Treatment and Prevention," which will highlight empirical research and clinical applications along the translational continuum. For greater than 60 years, the annual APS meeting has provided an outstanding forum for trainees and established investigators and clinicians working within a wide range of disciplines and specialty areas to exchange new ideas and research strategies that ultimately facilitate and improve the quality of research and its translation into clinical practice and public policy. The annual APS meeting is attended by over 500 researchers and clinicians from around the world. In this competing renewal, we propose to provide support for up to 15 Young Scholar Awards and 5 Minority Initiative Travel Awards. The Young Scholars Award Program will provide travel awards to competitively- selected trainees who submit a first-author abstract to present a paper or poster and who are judged to show outstanding potential for a career in psychosomatic and behavioral medicine. The APS Minority Initiative Travel Award will provide support for promising trainees from racial/ethnic or other underrepresented groups to attend the annual meeting. The process of identifying and selecting APS Minority Initiative Travel Award recipients will differ, as this award seeks to extend trainee award opportunities to individuals who are not yet "stakeholders" in the process. The meeting's location in Athens will capitalize on European expertise in evidence-based primary prevention and public policy. These issues are critical if biobehavioral research is to influence education, clinical practice, public policy, and, ultimately, public health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Providing strong support and guidance to promising pre- and post-doctoral students is crucial for the advancement of all fields of science. This competing renewal of R13 HL074923 proposes to provide travel support for up to 20 trainees to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS).