Conference grant application to support the American Psychosomatic Society's 74th Annual Scientific Meeting

 描述(由申请人提供)： 为有前途的博士后和博士后学生提供强有力的支持和指导，对于推动所有科学领域的发展至关重要。此次R13 HL074923的竞争性更新的总体目标是为学员提供旅行支持，让他们参加并积极参加在科罗拉多州丹佛市举行的第74届美国心身学会(APS)年度科学会议(2016年3月9日至12日)。APS的基本使命是促进和推进对人类健康和疾病中生物、心理、社会和行为因素之间相互关系的科学理解，以及对分别研究两者的科学领域的整合，并促进这种理解在教育和改善卫生保健中的应用。这一使命在2016年会议主题“将研究转化为实践：从基准到政策”的选择中得到了体现，该主题将突出翻译连续统中的实证研究、应用方法论和临床应用。70多年来，APS年度会议为在广泛学科和专业领域工作的学员和知名研究人员和临床医生提供了一个杰出的论坛，以交流新的想法和研究战略，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。来自世界各地的500多名研究人员和临床医生参加了一年一度的APS会议。 在过去的11年里，NHLBI一直是这一奖项的赞助机构，因为美国心身学会的年度科学会议是唯一一次专注于心血管疾病的生物-心理-社会决定因素和后果的科学会议，被世界公认为心血管行为医学领域。2016年会议计划的NHLBI相关方案包括Dean Orish博士的主旨演讲，关于神经炎症的应邀研讨会，以及关于健康差异人群中的行为干预的应邀研讨会。与心血管行为医学有关的政策问题将在关于大麻使用对健康的积极和消极影响的经验证据的全体会议辩论中得到强调，大麻使用首先在科罗拉多州合法化。这些主题中的每一个都以NHLBI主题为基础，并利用翻译领域的区域专业知识。心血管行为医学的定期演讲者包括迈克尔·欧文博士、雷德福·威廉姆斯博士、玛格丽特·切斯尼博士、朱利安·塞耶博士、安德鲁·斯特普托博士、凯伦·马修斯博士、斯蒂芬·马努克博士和理查德·莱恩博士。这次会议也越来越多地强调了睡眠与健康之间的关系，从2003年到2013年，人们接受的关注睡眠的摘要增加了80%。鉴于本次会议所代表的学科和专业的多样性，还要求其他机构(如NCI、NCCAM)提供支持。 没有其他类似的科学会议与APS年度会议的内容，包括其培训机会重叠。在这一相互竞争的续期中，我们建议为最多10个青年学者奖和5个少数族裔倡议旅行奖提供支持。青年学者奖励计划将向竞争入选的受训人员提供旅行奖励，这些受训人员提交第一作者摘要以提交论文或海报，并被评为在心身和行为医学领域表现出突出潜力的人。APS少数民族倡议旅行奖将为来自种族/族裔或其他代表性不足群体的有前途的受训人员参加年度会议提供支持。确定和挑选APS少数群体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人员奖励机会扩大到尚未成为该过程中的“利益相关者”的个人。 叙述：为有前途的博士后和博士后学生提供强有力的支持和指导，对所有科学领域的进步至关重要。R13 HL074923的竞争续订计划建议为最多15名学员提供差旅支持，以参加美国心身学会(APS)第74届年度科学会议。

 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 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in Denver, Colorado (March 9 - 12, 2016). 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 2016 meeting, "Translating Research into Practice: From Bench to Policy," which will highlight empirical research, applied methodology, and clinical applications along the translational continuum. For greater than 7 decades, 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. For the past 11 years, NHLBI has been the sponsoring institute for this award given that the annual scientific meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society is the only scientific conference focused on the bio-psycho- social determinants and consequences of cardiovascular disease, recognized world-wide as the field of cardiovascular behavioral medicine. Planned NHLBI-related programming for the 2016 meeting includes a keynote address by Dr. Dean Ornish, an invited symposium on neuroinflammation, and an invited symposium on behavioral interventions in health disparities populations. Policy issues related to Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine will be highlighted in a plenary session debate on empirical evidence related to the positive and negative health effects of cannabis use, which was first legalized in Colorado. Each of these topics builds on NHLBI themes and capitalizes on regional expertise across the translational spectrum. Regular presenters in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine include luminaries such as Drs. Michael Irwin, Redford Williams, Margaret Chesney, Julian Thayer, Andrew Steptoe, Karen Matthews, Stephen Manuck, and Richard Lane. Increasingly, this conference has also highlighted relationships among sleep and health, with accepted abstracts focused on sleep increasing by 80% from 2003 to 2013. Support is also requested from other institutes (e.g., NCI, NCCAM) given the diversity of disciplines and specialties represented at this meeting. There is no other comparable scientific meeting that overlaps with the content of the annual APS meeting, including its training opportunities. In this competing renewal, we propose to provide support for up to 10 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. Narrative: Providing strong support and guidance to promising pre- and post-doctoral students is crucial for the advancement of all fields of science. The competing renewal of R13 HL074923 proposes to provide travel support for up to 15 trainees to attend the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS).