2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday Fri
Research Lunch & Learn: 6 Techniques for Writing Concise Abstracts
Via Zoom
Each interactive workshop will cover three techniques. Techniques apply to conference abstracts as well as manuscripts and grants. Invest in yourself, your research team and your trainees. These two 50-minute workshops are designed for Clinician Educator faculty of all levels looking to enhance writing skills. Also open to UTL, UML, NTLR and NTLT faculty. Workshops last 50 minutes and include time for Q&A. Intended audience is Stanford Medicine faculty, but all Stanford Medicine community members are welcome to attend.
If you need a disability related accommodation to participate in this event, such as sign language interpreting, materials in Braille, etc., please contact the Diversity and Access Office at disability.access@stanford.edu or 650-725-0326. Requests should be received at least one week prior to the event. If you have any questions, please feel free to email facultydevelopment_som@stanford.edu.
Speaker
Michaela Kiernan, PhD
Michaela Kiernan, PhD currently directs the Stanford University School of Medicine (SOM) Office of Faculty Development and Diversity R01 Countdown Program, an intensive grant writing boot camp for early-career faculty, which has generated $173M in first-time NIH R01 funding and other grants across 14+ NIH Institutes for these faculty to date. Dr. Kiernan, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, received her PhD from Yale University, and has expertise in clinical and community research methods. She has been the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH R01 grants examining lifestyle intervention trials, and her current research focuses on retention strategies for randomized trials. Dr. Kiernan has served as an ad hoc member, standing member and co-chair of numerous NIH study sections and been awarded multiple SOM divisional teaching awards.