2008 ALF/AASLD Resident Scholar Travel Awards

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2008 ALF/AASLD Resident Scholar Travel Awards.

The deadline for applications has passed. Notifications will be sent to award winners in September 2008.

For additional information, contact Joan Gallagher:
jgallagher@liverfoundation.org
973.256.2550 ext. 224.

American Liver Foundation
Research Department/Resident Scholar Travel Award
1425 Pompton Avenue, Suite 3
Cedar Grove, NJ 07009

About the Resident Scholar Travel Awards

The American Liver Foundation (ALF) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Boards of Directors have identified as a high priority the need to sustain the “pipeline” of physician scientists and academic clinicians into the field of hepatology and liver transplantation, and believe that identifying promising young residents would be a potential mechanism to achieve this goal. By exposing the residents to the excitement of the AASLD Annual Meeting and the opportunity to meet leaders in hepatology, we hope to stimulate these residents to pursue hepatology as a career.

2008 Resident Scholar Travel Award Overview 74.5KB General information on the 2008 Resident Scholar Travel Awards.

Objective

This program is designed to promote the study of hepatology among internal medicine, pediatric or surgical residents. We will review nominations of candidates who have potential for a career in academic medicine who might be interested in choosing adult or pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology or surgery as their career focus.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for this award, the applicant must conform to the following guidelines:

• Residents who have completed their first or second year of residency training by July 1, 2008 in internal medicine or pediatrics.
• Residents who have completed their first through fourth year of residency training by July 1, 2008 in surgery
• Residents with potential to pursue a career in academic medicine.
• Residents who are not yet committed to a particular field of specialization.

Funding

Twenty residents will be selected to receive $1,500 each for travel costs, hotel accommodations and meals to attend the AASLD Annual Meeting to be held October 31 – November 4, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Included in this award will be complimentary registration for the AASLD Annual Meeting and Postgraduate Course.

Page updated: August 6th, 2008