February 17, 2023

Award Announcements!

In Case You Missed It

• COVID-19: Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding
• Mentorship Database: The Division of Research is implementing initiatives to organize the process of matching research residents and medical students with faculty members for research opportunities. If you are a faculty member interested in mentoring a medical student and/or a resident, please fill out this Qualtrics survey: Survey
• CTSI is hosting a new Multidisciplinary Team Science Workshop Series that will address foundational knowledge of research team development towards the conduct of a clinical and translational research project. | Register
• CTSI is offering a virtual intensive course in manuscript writing. The course is designed for those at any stage of their career who would like the structure, pacing, accountability, guidance, and support to complete one competitive manuscript in 10 weeks. Participants may choose to work on a manuscript that is at any stage of preparation: outline, partial or first draft, or rejected submission. | More Information
• NIH Scientific Data Sharing Website: Whether you are involved in an NIH-funded project and want to understand which sharing policies apply to your research and how to comply, or you are a researcher looking to access scientific data from NIH-affiliated repositories, this site is for you. | More information
• Grant Writing Club: Designed for anyone in the grant writing process, provides peer feedback on grants prior to or after to submission. Meets Tuesdays evenings at 5:30 PM, quarterly in the HUB6520/virtually. Participants should send a draft of their grant 1-2 weeks prior to the meeting for dissemination to peer reviewers. The club is highly interactive and participants are required to review and/or submit. Please email Rachel Morris, MD if you are interested in participating.
• Department of Surgery Intranet Site: Cultural Complications/Grand Rounds/Quality Minute presentations, Surgery Sparks of Gratitude, Global Surgical Programs, Finance/Reimbursement links, DOS Phone list, and resources for logos/fonts/templates. | More Information
• Abstract Deadlines and Meeting List: List will be updated each month | More Information

GRANT$ Alert

Office of Research Competitive Resubmissions (Promising Extramural Scores)
Up to $50,000 over 12 months
Application due: February 27, 2023

Aims to provide funds to allow faculty members with grant proposals that are scored but not funded to obtain critical preliminary data to support successful resubmission. This opportunity is open to full-time and full professional effort MCW School of Medicine faculty.

Office of Research Limited Needs Funding
Up to $30,000 over 18 months
Application due: February 27, 2023

Aims to provide limited needs funding to enable or augment research studies requiring additional resources to support the work. This opportunity is open to full-time and full professional effort MCW School of Medicine faculty.

MCW ACS-IRG Research Grant Award
$40,000/1 year
LOI due: March 1, 2023
Application due: April 2, 2023

Supports the development of exceptional cancer-related research projects for junior faculty.

Cardiovascular Center (CVC) FY 24 Internal Awards
$50,000/1 year
GCO deadline: N/A
Application due: March 20, 2023

Women's Cardiovascular Health and Michael Keelan, Jr., MD, Research Award are both available for any faculty member.

We Care Fund for Medical Innovation and Research 2023 Faculty Seed Grants
$50,000 Matthew J. Riese, MD, PhD Promising Pilot Grant, distributed over 1 year
$100,000 Multi-PI Grant, distributed over 2 years
Application due: March 31, 2023

Any level of science is eligible for funding; preference will be given to those proposals that effectively articulate a translational theme even if the bedside application may be in the future.  Proposals may include innovative basic science or clinical research projects.  Potential for extramural funding will be a consideration for these applications as the goal of We Care is to stimulate preliminary data for a larger NIH (or equivalent) proposal.

Mellowes Center Mini-Grants - Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and Analysis
18 hours of Mellowes Center bioinformatics analytics services
Up to 10 eligible projects will be funded annually

Small-scale research projects will receive 18 hours of Mellowes Center bioinformatics analytics services.

AHW MCW-Led Learning Event Support Funding
$5,000 per learning event
Application accepted until December 31, 2023 as long as funding remains available

Rolling first-come, first serve basis.

Herma Heart Institute Seed Money
$10,000 one-time request
Proposal due in eBridge: N/A
Application due: Reviewed quarterly

Must have an HHI faculty member as the PI or co-PI.

Abstracts Alert

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023
October 22-26, 2023 | Boston, MA
Abstract deadline: March 1, 2023

Abstracts or videos may be submitted for the following Clinical Congress programs:

• Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum
• Video-Based Education Sessions
• History of Surgery Poster Session

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium
November 11-15, 2023 | New Orleans, LA
Abstract deadline: March 8, 2023

The AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium will consider submissions of the following types: Paper, Student Paper; Podium Abstract; Poster, Panel; Informatics Debate; Systems Demonstration; Workshop

Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM) 2023 Scientific Vascular Sessions
September 7-10, 2023 | Washington, DC
Abstract deadline: March 9, 2023

Abstract submission guidelines can be found here: https://www.vascularmed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3594

New England Surgical Society (NESS) Annual Meeting
September 29-October 1, 2023 | Newport, RI
Abstract deadline: March 27, 2023

Abstract Submission Categories: Basic Science; ;Clinical Burns/Trauma/Acute Care; Clinical GI; Clinical Cancer; Clinical Pediatric Surgery; Clinical Transplantation; Clinical Endocrine Surgery; Clinical Plastic Surgery; Clinical Cardiothoracic/Vascular; Clinical Surgical Specialties (i.e. Urology, Neurosurgery, Other); Quality of Life and/or Patient-Reported Outcomes; Outcomes Studies of Patient Management; Education and Residency Training Issues; Social and Ethical Issues in Surgery; Other

American Thyroid Association (ATA) 2023 Annual Meeting
September 27-October 1, 2023 | Washington, DC
Abstract deadline: April 2, 2023

Abstract Categories: Autoimmunity; Disorders of Thyroid Function; Health Disparities/Health Equity; Iodine Uptake and Metabolism; Pediatrics; Surgery; Pregnancy and Development; Thyroid Cancer; Thyroid Hormone Action, Metabolism and Regulation; Thyroid Imaging; Thyroid Nodules and Goiter; Thyroid History

Department of Surgery Recent Publications

Across the Twitter-verse: Is Twitter an equitable tool in academic medicine? A scoping review. Advances in Health Sciences Education. (Istl AC, Verma S, Jawa NA, Mackin R, Seemann NM, Kirpalani A)

Patient and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Delayed Diagnosis of Appendicitis. JAMA Surgery. (Reyes AM, Royan R, Feinglass J, Thomas AC, Stey AM)

Patient similarity and other artificial intelligence machine learning algorithms in clinical decision aid for shared decision-making in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Toxicity (PACT): a feasibility trial design. Cardio-Oncology. (Brown SA, Chung BY, Doshi K, Hamid A, Pederson E, Maddula R, Hanna A, Choudhuri I, Sparapani R, Bagheri Mohamadi Pour M, Zhang J, Kothari AN, Collier P, Caraballo P, Noseworthy P, Arruda-Olson A, Cardio-Oncology Artificial Intelligence Informatics and Precision Equity (CAIPE) Research Team Investigators)

Longitudinal rates, risk factors, and costs of superficial and deep incisional surgical-site infection (SSI) after primary and revision total knee arthroplasty: A US retrospective claims database analysis. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. (Edmiston CE Jr, Spencer M, Gunja NJ, Holy CE, Ruppenkamp JW, Leaper DJ)

Dollars and Sense: The Business of Pediatric Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research. (Skarda DE, Danko ME, Glick RD, Guner YS, Le HD, Rich BS, Robertson DJ, Short SS, Weiss RG, Van Arendonk KJ, Raval MV, Delivery of Surgical Care Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Surgery)

A Case of Unicentric Castleman Disease with Concomitant Myasthenia Gravis and Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava. The American Journal of Case Reports. (Cardwell M, Lu MS, Melamed J, Astle J, Gasparri M, Johnstone DW)

Impact of COVID-19 on abdominal organ transplantation: A bibliometric analysis. Transplant Infectious Disease. (Rawashdeh B, AlRyalat SA, Abuassi M, Syaj S, Jeyyab MA, Pearson T, Kim J)

Evaluating emergency department tube thoracostomy: A single-center use of trauma video review to assess efficiency and technique. Surgery. (Marinica AL, Nagaraj MB, Elson M, Vella MA, Holena DN, Dumas RP)

Clinical Impact and Accuracy of Shave Biopsy for Initial Diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanoma. Journal of Surgical Research. (Jones S, Henry V, Strong E, Sheriff SA, Wanat K, Kasprzak J, Clark M, Shukla M, Zenga J, Stadler M, Dzwierzynski W, Harker-Murray A, Young K, Kothari AN, Clarke CN)

Effects of Subnormothermic Regulated Hepatic Reperfusion on Mitochondrial and Transcriptomic Profiles in a Porcine Model. Annals of Surgery. (Kim J, Zimmerman MA, Shin WY, Boettcher BT, Lee JS, Park JI, Ali M, Yang M, Mishra J, Hagen CE, McGraw JE, Mathison A, Woehlck HJ, Lomberk G, Camara AKS, Urrutia RA, Stowe DF, Hong JC)

Physiology of chemokines in the cancer microenvironment. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. (Drouillard D, Craig BT, Dwinell MB)

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