Spine Clinical Trial Proposal and Fellowship Award

Spine Clinical Trial Proposal and Fellowship Award

Deadline for 2011 Clinical Trials: January 1, 2011

Spine Clinical Trial Proposal - $500
Spine Clinical Fellowship Award - $50,000

The AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves is pleased to announce the creation of a clinical trials fellowship award to promote clinical trials in spine. Neurosurgical residents/ fellows/ junior faculty are eligible to submit proposals ($500). Only junior faculty are eligible for the Fellowship Award ($50,000). The objective of this Fellowship is to foster the spirit of team-building necessary for executing multi-center studies, which are critically needed in neurosurgery in general, and spinal surgery in particular.

The objective of this award is to create an infrastructure necessary for executing well-designed multi-center studies, to promote the advancement of evidence-based neurosurgical practices, with an emphasis on spine.

Please send all proposals and questions to Zoher Ghogawala, MD by email at zoher.ghogawala@yale.edu.