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学员提供差旅支持，以参加并积极参与在佛罗里达迈阿密举行的第71届美国心身学会（APS）年度科学会议（2013年3月13日至16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，以及对每一个单独研究的科学领域的整合，并促进 这种对教育的理解和改善的医疗保健。这一使命体现在2013年会议主题的选择上，“影响与创新”将突出经验研究、应用方法学和临床应用沿着转化连续体。60多年来，年度APS会议为学员提供了一个出色的论坛，并在广泛的学科和专业领域内建立了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质量，并将其转化为临床实践和医疗政策。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。在过去的7年里，NHLBI一直是该奖项的赞助机构，因为美国心身学会的年度科学会议是唯一一个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。这次会议也越来越强调睡眠与健康之间的关系。鉴于本次会议所代表的学科和专业的多样性，还要求其他研究所（NCI，NCCAM，NIAMS和NIDDK）提供支持。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，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。会议地点在迈阿密，NIH赞助的多地点西班牙裔社区健康研究的预期结果将利用拉丁美洲健康和健康差异方面的区域专业知识，这在以前的项目中没有得到很好的体现。

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 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in Miami, Florida (March 13 - 16, 2013). 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 2013 meeting, "Impact and Innovation" which will highlight empirical research, applied methodology, 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 publi policy. The annual APS meeting is attended by over 500 researchers and clinicians from around the world. For the past 7 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. Increasingly, this conference has also highlighted relationships among sleep and health. Support is also requested from other institutes (NCI, NCCAM, NIAMS, and NIDDK) given the diversity of disciplines and specialties represented at this meeting. 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, a this award seeks to extend trainee award opportunities to individuals who are not yet "stakeholders" in the process. The meeting's location in Miami and anticipated results from the NIH-sponsored multi-site Hispanic Community Health Study will capitalize on regional expertise in Latino health and health disparities, which has not been strongly represented on previous programs.