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Association of Women Psychiatrists Fellowship

The Association of Women Psychiatrists announces its annual fellowship for outstanding female psychiatry residents who have demonstrated significant potential for leadership and contribution in women’s health. The fellowship will award a $1,500 stipend for travel and participation in the AWP/APA Annual Meetings. The fellowship is designed in keeping with AWP goals of developing female psychiatrist leaders and improving the present and future personal and professional roles of women. The awardee will be on the selection committee for the AWP fellowship for the following year and actively engaged in AWP activities.

The candidate will be selected based on leadership potential, interest in and commitment to women’s health, community mental health service, and academic excellence.

Requirements for the application include:

1. Current enrollment in a psychiatric residency program
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Letter of nomination from residency training director
4. Current AWP Membership (membership application may accompany the nomination application)
5. Letters of support/reference from two psychiatry faculty members
6. One half page personal statement of why the candidate believes she merits receipt of the fellowship and how this fellowship will assist her in meeting her career goals.

All documents must be submitted as a single PDF via email to be considered by the selection committee

Deadline: received by February 15, 2012

Association of Women Psychiatrists/Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation Fellowship

The Association of Women Psychiatrists and The Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation announces its annual fellowship for outstanding female psychiatry residents. This prestigious fellowship in keeping with AWP goals seeks to identify, mentor and develop new female leaders in psychiatry and improve the present and future personal and professional lives of women.

The goal of this award is to increase the exposure of female psychiatric residents to scientific endeavors that will enhance the residents’ understanding and commitment to the advancement of women’s mental health and the exploration of the impact of gender related issues on the lives of both men and women.

This fellowship was established by the Symonds Foundation, a charitable foundation to promote charitable, educational and scientific activities in general, and specifically, it is dedicated, but not limited to, advancing the study and understanding of gender in psychoanalysis and contemporary culture, including the application of this understanding to the lives of men and women.

The fellowship will award a $1,500 stipend for travel and participation in the AWP/APA Annual Meetings. The awardee with be part of the selection committee for the following year for the Symonds Foundation fellowship and an active part of the AWP organization.

The candidate will be selected based on a demonstrated leadership potential, accomplishment in and commitment to women’s health, and academic excellence with an emphasis on interest and experience in psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Requirements for the application include:

1. Current enrollment in a psychiatric residency program
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Letter of nomination from residency training director
4. Current AWP Membership (membership application may accompany the nomination application)
5. Letters of support/reference from two psychiatry faculty members
6. One half page personal statement of why the candidate believes she merits receipt of the fellowship and how the fellowship will enhance their future goals.

Deadline: Received by February 15, 2012

Association of Women Psychiatrists Marian I. Butterfield, M.D., M.P.H. Early Career Psychiatrist Award/Lecture

The Marian I. Butterfield, M.D. Early Career Psychiatrist Award was established in the year 2002 to recognize women psychiatrists who have established significant professional careers early in their professional development. The award was established to honor Doctor Marian Butterfield who, early in her career, had already served as President of the Association of Women Psychiatrists and had made significant contributions to research in the area of post traumatic stress disorder in women, particularly, women veterans. Furthermore, Doctor Butterfield had also conducted other research in the areas of womens' mental health, had held many leadership positions in the American Psychiatric Association and had chaired committees related to women's mental health in the American Medical Women's Association.

The fellowship will award a $1,500 stipend for travel and participation in the AWP/APA Annual Meetings. The fellowship is designed in keeping with AWP goals of developing female psychiatrist leaders and improving the present and future personal and professional roles of women. The awardee will be on the selection committee for the AWP fellowship for the following year and actively engaged in AWP activities.

The candidate will be selected based on leadership potential, interest in and commitment to women’s health, community mental health service, and academic excellence.

Requirements for the application include:

1. Current enrollment in a psychiatric residency program
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Letter of nomination from residency training director
4. Current AWP Membership (membership application may accompany the nomination application)
5. Letters of support/reference from two psychiatry faculty members
6. One half page personal statement of why the candidate believes she merits receipt of the fellowship and how this fellowship will assist her in meeting her career goals.

All documents must be submitted as a single PDF via email to be considered by the selection committee

Deadline: received by February 15

Targeted Research Initiative for Women with Epilepsy

Application Deadline: March 21, 2012

Award Amount: up to $50,000 maximum for one year

Apply via Proposal Central website

The Targeted Research Initiative for Women with Epilepsy grant program was developed to support research that generates initial data leading to more extensive projects that will have direct relevance to care of women with epilepsy. Research should focus on investigation of one of the many areas that preferentially affect women with epilepsy during the reproductive life cycle. The research may target any point along the reproductive spectrum, including puberty through menopause. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: neuroendocrine disorders, hormone influence on seizure susceptibility, infertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome, contraceptive strategies, complications during pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes.

The Foundation invites research grant applications from interested investigators to conduct innovative research in these areas, ultimately leading to advances in diagnosis and optimal therapeutic strategies for women with epilepsy. The broad focus of this RFP includes both fundamental and clinical research, and encourages translational research. The peer review for this program will assess proposals based not only on scientific merit, but also on relevance to the goals of the program.

Applicants may request up to $50,000 maximum for one year.

Epilepsy Foundation
8301 Professional Place
Landover, MD 20785-7223
Telephone: 1-800-332-1000
Fax: 1-301-577-2684
Email: ContactUs@efa.org

Call for Submissions: 2012 Sarah Weddington Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights

Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) and the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) Law School Initiative invite submissions for the seventh annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize.

The theme this year is “Legislating Stereotypes: Reproductive Rights Rollback in the States.”

LSRJ & CRR seek student scholarship that focuses on the ways that recent state legislation relies on negative stereotypes about gender, race, poverty, and sexuality to strip away reproductive rights. Examples of false stereotypes used to justify reproductive oppression include: women of color as irresponsible (“welfare queens”); undocumented immigrants as hyper-fertile (“anchor babies”); gays and lesbians as unfit role models for children; women as weak, vulnerable, incompetent decision makers, and in need of special protection; adolescent and teenage sexuality as reckless; and abortion providers as economically motivated to exploit women.

Examples of legislated (or legislation-supported) reproductive oppression include: the annual renewal of the Hyde Amendment; exclusion of new and undocumented immigrants from health insurance exchanges and Medicaid; attempts to defund Planned Parenthood; the proliferation of and state funding for Crisis Pregnancy Centers; mandatory waiting periods, physician statements, and ultrasounds for abortion; TRAP laws regulating clinics and limiting patients’ access; race- and sex-selection bans; curtailing health insurance coverage for reproductive health services; attempts to take away birthright citizenship; drug-testing of welfare recipients; prosecution of pregnant women and mothers battling substance abuse; resistance to making the HPV vaccine more accessible to minors; and laws allowing the denial of reproductive services on the basis of conscience.

We encourage writing that amplifies lesser heard voices, applies an intersectional approach to legal thinking, offers anti-essentialist analysis, and/or suggests innovative solutions that take into account the practical realities and the lived experiences of the people affected by various forms of subordination and reproductive oppression.

Papers should have a domestic focus, but may draw on international materials such as human rights treaties, international legal norms, and comparative law, in addition to U.S. statutory law and regulation and/or constitutional case law. Authors are asked to apply a reproductive justice lens and/or human rights framework to their analyses of the issues. To learn more:

-- What is Reproductive Justice?: http://lsrj.org/orientation/
--Reproductive Rights as Human Rights:
http://reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/RRareHR_final.pdf
-- Previous winning submissions: www.lsrj.org/awards/#writingprize

Papers must be at least 20 pages in length (not including footnotes), double-spaced in 12-point font with footnotes in 10-point font, conforming to Bluebook citation format. Only original scholarship by current law students or 2011 graduates will be accepted. Papers submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered, but will be ineligible for first place if published elsewhere. Papers already contracted for publication as of March 2012 will not be accepted. Winners will be selected by an outside panel of legal and academic judges. Send your submission (in Word format as an email attachment) to submissions@lsrj.org by 5:00pm PST on Monday, March 5, 2012.

The 1st place winning submission will be published in New York University School of Law’s Review of Law and Social Change. Winning authors will receive cash prizes: $750 (1st place), $500 (2nd place), or $250 (3rd place) and have the opportunity to be published in the Reproductive Justice Law & Policy SSRN e-journal.

Society of Family Planning Sixth Competitive Grant Funding Cycle

Applications must be submitted online.

RFPs for sixth competitive grant funding cycle now available. The SFP Research Fund is now pleased to announce the sixth competitive grant funding cycle. Online proposal submissions will be accepted from February 1, 2012 through April 12, 2012. In the meantime, check our RFPs for research grants and for career development grants, including junior investigator’s career development awards (K-type awards) specifically for abortion-related research, mid-career investigator/ mentor awards specifically for abortion and family planning, and trainee research grants.

The SFP Research Fund's primary goal is to support the best scientific research that contributes to the greater understanding and advancement of family planning; therefore, we will fund the top merit-based proposals that fall within the SFP Research Fund's mission. Priority will be given to high-quality research that is unlikely to be funded elsewhere.

All SFP members are eligible to apply. Colleagues that are not currently members of the SFP must apply for membership no later than January 31, 2012, in order to join and become eligible to participate in this funding cycle.

For additional information or questions, please contact Marlo Polonsky.

Marlo Polonsky, Grants Officer
MPolonsky@societyfp.org

Donald G. and Darel Stein Fellowship: Promoting the Study of Sex Differences in Neuroscience

The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is pleased to announce a new travel award opportunity for a student studying sex differences in neuroscience. This award is sponsored by Donald G. and Darel Stein in memory of Anne Hammer. The award is to be used for expenses associated with attendance at a scientific meeting where the student is presenting a poster. Proposed projects must advance the understanding of sex differences in neuroscience from the prospective of laboratory research, health promotion, health education, or health policy. Up to four awards will be funded each cycle.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2012

Award Recipients Will Receive:

$1,000 reimbursement (travel, hotel, food, registration) for expenses associated with attendance at a scientific meeting in 2012.
Recognition on SWHR’s website as an annual recipient of the Donald G. and Darel Stein Fellowship.
Fellowship certificate of completion.

Applicants Must:

Be enrolled as a full time student (9 credit hours or more) in an accredited Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral degree program in neuroscience, or be an MD in residency,
Describe their research and how it will advance the understanding of sex differences in neuroscience,
Submit a letter from their advisor validating their commitment to the project,
Agree to use the travel award to attend a meeting in 2012 where they will present a poster on their original research,
Submit their poster abstract (when accepted) and final poster (prior to meeting date) to SWHR,
Include the SWHR logo and acknowledge support from SWHR and the Donald G. and Darel Stein Fellowship on their poster.

Society for Women's Health Research
1025 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 701
Washington, DC 20036

General Inquiries: info@swhr.org
By Phone: 202-223-8224
By Fax: 202-833-3472

American Society for Reproductive Medicine 2012 In-Training Research Award: Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

This is a $10,000 in-training research grant awarded by ASRM and supported by Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The purpose of this award is to foster the development of an innovative, short-term research project focused on Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Funds are available for project expenses, technical assistance, patient expenses, supplies and durable laboratory equipment, indirect costs, or institutional overhead. Previously unsuccessful applicants are encouraged to reapply.

REQUIREMENTS
A research project in which the applicant is the primary investigator is the essential core of the grant. A progress report and a financial report on the work sponsored by the In-Training Research Grant are required at the completion of the short-term, clinical research project. The report should be signed by the recipient of the award and the Chair of the Department. At the conclusion of the project, an abstract should be submitted for consideration at the ASRM Annual Meeting in 2014. If selected, the abstract would be published in the abstract supplement to Fertility and Sterility. A final report with an accounting of funds spent also should be submitted to the ASRM office. Acceptance of the grant assumes that the recipient has no other major grant to fund the research project.

SELECTION
Selection of the award recipient is made by the Research Committee of the ASRM and is based primarily on the scientific merit of the proposed study and the applicant’s potential for continued scholarship and research. Consideration is given to the availability of resources to conduct the proposed study and the identification of a project director or mentor who can offer an appropriate environment for the pursuit of the proposed project. The recipient will be notified by June 1, 2012. The recipient is required to attend the ASRM Annual Meeting in 2012 to receive formal recognition.

ELIGIBILITY
Candidates eligible for the ASRM In-Training Research Award:

Earned an M.D. or D.O. degree
Be enrolled in a residency or fellowship program in obstetrics and gynecology at the commencement of the award
Must have identified a project director or mentor who has been an active member of ASRM for at least one year
Will conduct research project in the United States.
Have not ever received any other ASRM research award (not including Reproductive Scientist Development Program, Frontiers in Reproduction Program, and SREI/ASRM traineeship [T32] awardees)

APPLICATION
There is no application form. The application consists of the following items in this order (10 point font or greater):

Cover sheet - including title of research proposal, applicant’s name and degree(s), address, telephone, fax, and email.

Research Proposal – the description of the research project should be presented using six pages or less.

A one-page budget should be prepared and signed by the applicant and by the Department Chair.

Statement of Career Goals – briefly list and/or describe career goals.

Curriculum Vitae – this should include basic personal data, educational background, past and present positions, honors, achievements, and publications; limited to two pages, please.

Letter of Recommendation from Division Director or Department Chair – signed letter on company/organizational letterhead.

Letter of Intent from Chair of the Department – this letter should state that the award money will only be allocated to salary support for research time, project supplies, patient expenses, and/or support personnel for the project.

The letter should also state that the award money will not be used for laboratory equipment, indirect costs or institutional overhead, and should affirm that appropriate facilities will be available for the awardee to carry out the project.

The application is submitted electronically as a single PDF file to asrm@asrm.org.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS APRIL 15, 2012.

You will receive an email acknowledgement when your application is received. If you have not received an acknowledgement by May 1, 2012, please contact: Dr. Andrew R. La Barbera, ASRM, 205-978-5000 x144, Fax 205-978-5005, or email alabarbera@asrm.org.

Applications Due April 1, 2012

These three awards are given to student midwives who participate in the OnGoing Group student project to meet and interview an elder midwife and record her story. Some educational programs plan to include this project as a part of the professional issues curriculum. After the interview, the student will write up the interview to be kept for historical purposes and also will write an essay about what she has learned and how this may influence her career.

ACNM Foundation is offering three national awards to the students who submit an essay about what they learned from the midwife they interviewed and how their listening to the elder midwife may influences their midwifery career. and it is anticipated that the students will plan to stay in contact with their interviewee. The winning essays or videos will be selected by a panel of judges and the students will be recognized at the 2012 annual meeting.

National Awards:

First Prize: $1,000
Second Prize: $ 500
Third Prize: Selection of ACNM Foundation Artwork: value approx. $200

General Information

Fax (240)485-1818
Contact for general information (240)485-1800

Call for Applications: Clinical Research Fellowship Award for Endocrine Research Supported by Pfizer, Inc.

Award: Two recipients will be selected to receive $35,000.

Application Deadline: February 17, 2012

The Clinical Research Fellowship Award, supported by Pfizer, Inc., assists future endocrinologists in conducting endocrine research in the area of Women's Health (to include reproductive health, menopause and osteoporosis, and endometriosis).

Criteria:

An independent panel of The Endocrine Society selects the recipients. Eligible applicants must:

have an M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or D.O. degree (or equivalent clinical care certification)
be enrolled in the first through third year of training in a U.S. adult or pediatric clinical endocrinology program

The recipient will receive a stipend, one-year complimentary membership in The Endocrine Society and complimentary online access to four Society journals through 2013.

Questions regarding this award, or about becoming a reviewer may be directed to awards@endo-society.org.