2008 Distinguished Fellow Awards Program
The American College of Rheumatology is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of merit awards for rheumatology fellows. The intent of the Distinguished Fellow Awards Program, formerly Rheumatology Fellow Award, is to recognize clinical and research fellows who are in a rheumatology fellowship training program and who have performed meritoriously. The recipients of these awards will be honored in San Francisco, CA at the time of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, during the week of October 24-29, 2008.
FUNDING: The Distinguished Fellow Awards Program is sponsored by the ACR and supported through the ACR Fellows Education Fund. The ACR thanks Abbott Laboratories, Amgen/Wyeth and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their generous support of the 2008 ACR Fellows Education Fund. Approximately ten awards in the amount of $1,500 each will be presented by the ACR.
APPLICATION: Award applications must be submitted online. The following items must be included with each nomination in order to be considered for an award:
- Curriculum Vitae (NIH format) limited to the equivalent of four text pages.
- Copy of abstract(s) submitted for the ACR’s 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting.
- Rating Sheet, completed by the fellow’s program director.
- Letter of Recommendation from the nominee’s supervisor or an ACR member (must be someone OTHER THAN the fellow’s program director), should not exceed 1.5 single spaced pages and should include a description of the nominee’s outstanding or meritorious performance in education, research, patient care, and community service. Please discuss his/her exact role in the publications listed in his/her curriculum vitae and abstract(s) submitted to the 2008 ACR Annual Scientific Meeting.
- Letter from training director certifying that nominee is a fellow at the time of nomination.
DEADLINE: Applications must be submitted no later than May 23, 2008.
NOTIFICATION: Final decisions will be made by the ACR Committee on Rheumatology Training and Workforce Issues by early August 2008. The awardees and their supervisors will be notified by the end of August 2008.
ELIGIBILITY:
- Nominee must be completing their second or third year of their first rheumatology fellowship in an ACGME-accredited rheumatology training program at the time of nomination and be eligible to take the rheumatology certification exam (i.e. board-eligible).
- Individuals in their fourth year of fellowship or participating in a post-doctoral fellowship will not be considered.
- Nominee must possess an MD, DO or equivalent degree.
- Nominee must maintain an outstanding record of accomplishment. Equal weight will be given to excellence in the following areas:
- Clinical care
- Teaching
- Research and scholarly activity
- Community service
- Nominee must submit an abstract for the 2008 ACR Annual Scientific Meeting.
- Previous recipients of this award or the Rheumatology Fellow Award are not eligible for this award.
- Applicants must be nominated by a supervisor, training program director, or an ACR member in good standing.
2007 Recipients
Julia Charles, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Edward Behrens, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sharon Chung, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Victoria Shanmugam, MBBS
Georgetown University
Matthew Mundwiler. MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Gim Gee Teng, MBBS
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Happy Chan, DO
Washington University School of Medicine
Steve, Spalding, MD
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Aimee Hersh, MD
University of California, San Francisco Pediatric
Mazen Elyan, MD
Case Western Metro Health Center
