In partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA), ASP offers the ADA-ASP Young Investigator Innovation Award in Geriatric Endocrinology. The two-year $150,000 award funds the early stages of career development for an endocrinologist with a focus on diabetes, interested in geriatric medicine. The award supports entry-level faculty to integrate geriatrics with novel basic, clinical, or health services diabetes research. In addition, ASP offers travel grants for recipients to attend two American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meetings and one ADA meeting. ASP also offers funds for the recipient to visit either a geriatrician or an endocrinologist with a professional research background similar to the recipient's research focus and present on his or her research at the host's institution.
At a minimum, award candidates must:
- Have a faculty appointment equal to an assistant professorship by July 1, 2010.
- Be a US citizen or have applied for permanent US resident status.
- Have completed a fellowship in endocrinology, leading to certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
- Be within the first three years of his or her first faculty appointment.
- Commit 75% of professional effort to research activities.
- Develop and implement a basic, clinical, translational, or health services research project focused on a geriatric aspect of diabetes and metabolism.
- Generate and implement a career development plan with mentors from endocrinology and geriatric medicine. The plan must include:
- A mentorship team comprised, at a minimum, of a geriatrician, an endocrinologist, and a research mentor.
- Specific measures for the continued involvement in structured geriatrics activities including, for example, developing appropriate educational resources, teaching the geriatric medicine aspects of diabetes or metabolism, or developing specialty clinical services focused on geriatric patients.
The award is part of ASP's T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program, a career development award for internal medicine specialists focusing on geriatric medicine. Award applications are due January 15, 2010. For more information about the award, please contact Associate Manager of Research Programs Magda Galindo at mgalindo@diabetes.org or visit the ADA website to view application instructions. For more information about the T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program, please contact ASP Policy Team at policy@im.org.