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***Internal Funding opportunity for mid-career faculty with MCL appointments***

Deadline:   February 2010 TBA  (see application guidelines below)

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Amount of funding: $100,000/yr x 3 years.

Eligibility:
Faculty Scholars must hold an M.D. or it's equivalent degree
Stanford mid-career faculty with MCL faculty appointments
Have their primary site of clinical/academic activity at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH)
must carry out work in support of the strategic priorities of the LPCH and the Stanford School of Medicine (SSoM) as they relate to innovation in child health and training of child health researchers

Program Description
These Harman Faculty Scholar awards are to support meritorious mid-career MCL faculty and provide an opportunity to free up their time from usual commitments so that they can focus on their research and scholarly activities etc.

Terms
All Harman Faculty Scholar awards limited to a single 3 year term. The Harman Faculty Scholar will use the resources for their remuneration, related expenses, or costs of research such that there shall be
demonstrable, significant and meritorious scholarship/research activities related to innovation in child health.

Application Guidelines

By February 2010 TBA, please submit the following as a PDF file (in the order listed below) via email attachment to Bonnie Whalen at the Childrens Health Initiative bwhalen@lpch.org.

1)   Nomination letter addressed to Bonnie Whalen, Children's Health Initiative (CHI) Program, from your department chair. Harman Faculty scholars will be nominated by the Department Chair wherein they hold their primary SSoM academic appointment. The Chair's nominating letter will outline the nominee's clinical, education, research and administrative roles and time commitments should he/she be successful in their application to become a Harman Faculty Scholar and how this differs from their current time commitments
2)  Updated CV
3)  NIH Biosketch and "Other support page"
4)  Personal statement (maximum 1 page using Arial 10 font or larger) wherein it describes how the award will both enhance their career development and the Strategic Plan and Strategic Goals of the LPCH and SSoM as it relates to innovation in child health
5)  Research proposal
Format: maximum of 4 pages of text, not including references, and no more than 5 additional pages of attachments or appendices. Use Arial 10 point font or larger and place the applicant's name on every page along with the page number.
The proposal should contain: a concise description of the project aims, hypothesis, background, preliminary studies (if available), overall design, methods and potential pitfalls, and a 3-year budget. For human-based studies there should also be a brief description of sample size and
plan for statistical analyses of the results.

Contact person/questions:
Bonnie Whalen
Director
Children's Health Initiative
Phone: (650) 498-2629
bwhalen@lpch.org

 

 

 

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