Informatics Grants

Student Poster Contest: Health Informatics: International Perspectives

February 24 – 27, 2011 Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria, BC, Canada

An international conference addressing Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH)

Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH) conferences have made it a tradition to provide students with the opportunity to present their work, to exchange ideas and research results with each other and with health care, informatics and computer professionals. Poster content can be based on course work, co-op experience, literature reviews or research.

Students registered full-time in related undergraduate or graduate programs are invited to take part in a student poster contest. An independent panel will judge the posters. First, second and third place winners will receive cash prizes ($500, $300 and $200) and a complimentary FULL registration to the conference. Only the lead author on a team poster will receive the cash prize and complimentary registration.

Deadline for the Student Poster Contest: November 1, 2010.

Student submissions should address the role of information technology and communications in one of the following areas:

Health Informatics in Developing Countries
Initiatives in International Health Informatics
National & International Strategies and Policies
Health Records
Nursing Informatics
Technologies as Agents of Change
Informatics in Primary Care
Public Health Informatics
Ethics and Privacy
Safety and Quality Management
Mobile Technologies and Telehealth
Clinical Informatics
Human-Computer Interaction
Standardization and Interoperability
E-Learning and Education
Consumer Informatics
Healthcare Modeling and Simulation

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS and DEADLINES
An abstract, no longer than 500 words, that describes each poster presentation must be submitted for review by November 1, 2010.

ITCH 2011, c/o School of Health Information Science
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050, STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3P5 Canada

Email: itch@uvic.ca

Phone: (250) 721-8581

Fax: (250) 472-4751

Women’s CIO Scholarship

Submission due by
November 1, 2010.

The Women’s CIO Scholarship was created to enable more women CIOs to excel and progress in the healthcare IT industry. The scholarship is aimed at supporting female CIOs in improving their skills as IT leaders at their organizations and increasing their proficiency in CHIME’s seven CIO Success Factors.

The Seven CIO Success Factors

Through extensive research, CHIME has identified seven critical and developable competencies that are inherent of successful healthcare CIOs. These success factors are described below:

* Sets Vision and Strategy
Collaborates well with officers and senior leaders to set organizational vision and strategy and to determine how technology can best serve the business.
* Integrates Information Technology for Business Success
Applies knowledge of the organization’s systems, structures and functions to determine how to best serve the business with technology.
* Makes Change Happen
Monitors and influences the dynamics of adaptive change in IT and the organization.
* Builds Technological Confidence
Builds the organizations’ awareness of and confidence in its technology by conveying IT’s contributions to the business.
* Partners With Customers
Interacts with internal and external customers to ensure continuous customer satisfaction.
* Ensures Information Technology Talent
Creates a work environment and community that draws, develops and retains top IT talent.
* Builds Networks and Community
Develops and maintains networks with internal and external sources and links networks for greater exposure. Builds community to sustain networks by sharing knowledge and power in the marketplace.

All scholarship applicants must be members of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and must be female.

Scholarship winners can use the funds for education related to improving in the Success Factor area(s) they identified on the scholarship application (including registration fees/tuition, and travel costs to attend). Educational programs are subject to approval. Programs offered by CHIME, CHIME partners, or accredited educational institutions will receive preference. Scholarship Amount: $2500.

Scholarship applications should be mailed to:

Attn: Scholarship Committee
CHIME Education Foundation
3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 225
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Applications can also be submitted online at www.cio-chime.org or www.chimeEducationFoundation.org.
For more information, contact the CHIME office at 734-665-0000 or staff@cio-chime.org.

Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Allied Scientist Training Grant

The SIR Foundation Allied Scientist Training Grant is designed to provide support to trainees enrolled in graduate level training programs which are outside the clinical realm of Interventional Radiology but are still considered crucial to the future of Interventional Radiology. The goal is to create collaborative research training environments that benefit from the unique perspectives of established scientists and Interventional Radiologists.

Application Deadline: December 14, 2010

Award: This grant provides $20,000 a year for two years. The second year of funding is contingent on satisfactory review of a first year progress report.

Eligibility: Grant funding will be made to trainees enrolled in graduate level, degree seeking programs (Masters, Doctor of Philosophy or equivalent) at educational institutions in the United States or Canada. Applications from students enrolled in a wide variety of disciplines such as engineering, informatics, cellular and molecular biology will be considered. Applicants are encouraged but not required to be members of the Society of Interventional Radiology. However, the trainee’s advisor or co-advisor must be an active member of the Society of Interventional Radiology (note the requirement of active membership status means that the advisor or co-advisor must be an Interventional Radiologist). Applicants enrolled in clinical residencies or fellowships are not eligible for this grant.

It is expected that the trainee will devote at least 75% of their time to the proposed
research project.

Application Procedures: Applicants should propose research that advances the science of interventional radiology. The application must contain a detailed research plan, including a two- year budget for the planned research with all funding sources indicated. All funds requested in the application must be fully justified. Insufficient justification or failure to describe completely the sources and use of other funds available to the investigator will result in deferral or disapproval of the application.

Two letters of recommendation are necessary. One should come from the department chair indicating commitment to provide the required level of protected research time and additional salary support for the applicant. A second letter should come from the applicant’s mentor delineating the mentor’s and applicant’s interests and experiences in the proposed research area.

The application must be submitted in pdf format at http://www.tfaforms.com/160187 by December 14. Applications must be submitted in PDF format. Incomplete applications and those submitted after the deadline of December 15 will not be reviewed.

Medical Informatics Section/Medical Library Association Career Development Grant

This award provides one individual $1500 to support a career development activity that will contribute to advancement in the field of medical informatics. The award was established in 1996 by the Medical Informatics Section.

Deadline for applications is December 1.

For more information about any of MLA's grants or scholarships, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094 x28.

Medical Library Association
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7246
Tel., 312.419.9094
Fax, 312.419.8950
info@mlahq.org

Medical Library Association Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for research, development, or demonstration projects that will help to promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences. Grants range from $100 to $1000. Grants will not be given to support an activity that is operational in nature or has only local usefulness. More than one award may be granted in a year.

Deadline for applications is December 1.

For more information about any of MLA's grants or scholarships, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094 x28.

Medical Library Association
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7246
Tel., 312.419.9094
Fax, 312.419.8950
info@mlahq.org

Medical Library Association Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship

The Lindberg Research Fellowship Endowment, established in 2003, will provide a $10,000 grant, awarded annually by MLA through a competitive grant process. The purpose of this fellowship is to fund research aimed at expanding the research knowledgebase, linking the information services provided by librarians to improved health care and advances in biomedical research.

Application deadline is November 15.

For more information about any of MLA's grants or scholarships, contact Lisa C. Fried, 312.419.9094 x28.

Medical Library Association
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7246
Tel., 312.419.9094
Fax, 312.419.8950
info@mlahq.org

Integrative Behavioral Neuroscience Award

The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) announces the creation of a prize in integrative behavioral neuroscience. This prize is being established to stimulate the genesis of solutions to a major practical and conceptual barrier to improved understanding of mental illnesses - the absence of models that successfully integrate wide-ranging molecular and neural substrates of these illnesses. Such models will require computational and bioinformatics strategies that integrate data across multiple data bases, determine the relative regulatory strengths of individual components of feed-forward and feedback signaling systems, and permit the prediction of specified behavioral outcomes. We welcome scientists from a wide range of disciplines to compete for this $35,000 prize, to be awarded at the ACNP Presidential Plenary session on December 6, 2010 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The prize will be awarded for a paper that is judged by a panel of experts to represent a major step forward in the successful development of innovative bioinformatics strategies for integrating neurobiological data in the service of modeling psychiatric illness. The ACNP reserves the right to decline to award the prize if no submitted paper meets the intended goal. Papers may be submitted for consideration by email to acnp@acnp.org no later than October 15, 2010. Please indicate in the email subject line that the attached paper is in response to this announcement.

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
545 Mainstream Drive Suite 110
Nashville TN 37228

Phone: (615) 324-2360
Fax: (615) 324-2361

E-Mail: acnp@acnp.org