Conference grant application to support the American Psychosomatic Society's 69th

描述（由申请人提供）：为有前途的博士后研究生提供强有力的支持和指导，对各个科学领域的进步至关重要。R13 h074923的竞争更新的总体目标是为学员参加并积极参加2011年3月9日至12日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的第69届美国身心学会（APS）年度科学会议提供旅行支持。APS的基本任务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，以及对每个因素分别进行研究的科学领域的整合，并促进将这种理解应用于教育和改进的卫生保健。这一使命在2011年会议的主题选择“理解机制和改进干预措施”中得到了体现，该主题将强调在转化连续体中的实证研究和临床应用。60多年来，一年一度的APS会议为在广泛的学科和专业领域工作的受训人员、成熟的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策略，最终促进和提高研究质量，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。在这个竞争性的更新中，我们建议为多达15个青年学者奖和5个少数民族倡议旅游奖提供支持。青年学者奖励计划将为经过竞争选拔的学员提供旅行奖励，这些学员必须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职业潜力。APS少数族裔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学员提供支持，以参加年度会议。甄别和选择APS少数族裔计划旅行奖获得者的过程将有所不同，因为该奖项旨在将培训生奖励机会扩展到尚未成为“利益相关者”的个人。会议地点设在圣安东尼奥，将充分利用拉丁美洲人健康和健康差异方面的地区专业知识，这在以前的项目中没有得到充分体现。

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 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in San Antonio, Texas (March 9 - 12, 2011). 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 2011 meeting, "Understanding Mechanisms and Improving Interventions," 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 San Antonio will capitalize on regional expertise in Latino health and health disparities, which has not been strongly represented on previous programs. 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).