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

描述(由申请人提供)：为有前途的博士后和博士后学生提供强有力的支持和指导，这对所有科学领域的进步至关重要。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，以参加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14-17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2012年会议的主题“症状：风险、治疗和预防的机制”的选择中得到了体现，该主题将突出翻译连续体中的实证研究和临床应用。60多年来，APS年度会议为在广泛学科和专业领域工作的实习生和知名研究人员和临床医生提供了一个杰出的论坛，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。在这一相互竞争的续期中，我们建议为最多15个青年学者奖和5个少数群体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。会议地点设在雅典，将利用欧洲在循证初级预防和公共政策方面的专业知识。如果生物行为研究要影响教育、临床实践、公共政策，并最终影响公共健康，这些问题是至关重要的。 公共卫生相关性：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。R13 HL074923的这一竞争性续订计划建议为最多20名学员提供旅行支持，以参加美国心身学会(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).