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Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists (MAPS) Award Program
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The MAPS Award Program is an initiative of the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The awards will be given to clinicians at early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research interests. They are intended to help awardees overcome barriers and hindrances to their research efforts. Up to ten awards will be given over the next year, in amounts up to $10,000. MAPS awards are funded by an unrestricted grant to the AGS by Allergan Inc.
Goals
1. To facilitate glaucoma research initiatives by investigators at early stages of their academic careers.
2. To promote the development of clinician-scientists in glaucoma
3. To promote ongoing discoveries in glaucoma to improve patient care and reduce vision loss from disease
Candidate Eligibility
Clinicians in academic departments of Ophthalmology who are no more than 5 years out of glaucoma fellowship training.
Funding Eligibility
The research proposal should clearly indicate how the funds are to be used, as in critical support in the form of equipment, personnel, supplies, materials, travel expenses, course tuition and/or other services deemed necessary for the work.
(See application form)
AGS Congratulates and honors the following recipients of the Mentoring for
Advancement of Physician Scientist AGS – Allergan awards program 2008
Mahmoud A. Khaimi, M.D.
Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma
To attend: Principles and Concepts in Clinical Trials for Eye Researchers
To visit: Keratoprosthesis team and Mass Eye and Ear
Rachel W. Kuchtey, M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Eye Institute
To map a disease locus in a Beagle model for human primary open angle glaucoma
Farnaz Memarzadeh MD
Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California
Avastin as an anti-scarring agent post trabeculectomy in rabbits.
Kelly W. Muir, MD
Duke University
To develop and evaluate educational materials for glaucoma patients with low health literacy skills.
Constance O. Okeke MD, MSCE
Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania
To improve glaucoma suspect follow-up after glaucoma screening.
Pradeep Y. Ramulu, M.D., Ph.D.
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins
To attend a Low Vision Conference in Montreal in July, and visit my collaborator, Dr. Gary Rubin, in London
Zaher H. Sbeity MD, FEBO
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Determination of lysyl oxidase-like 1 polymorphisms in children of patients with exfoliation syndrome.
Misha F. Syed, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Attend Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offered at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tharasat S. Vajaranant, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Establish an electrophysiology lab in glaucoma
Husam Ansari, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Tuition for the Patient-Oriented Research Training Certificate
Vandana K. Badlani, M.D.
Edward Hines VA Hospital, Chicago Ill.
Exploration of VA glaucoma database
Annette L. Gianciacomo, M.D.
University of North Carolina
Attend Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Ann Arbor, MI.
Lesya M. Shuba, M.D., Ph.D.
Dalhousie University
Clinical trial of bevacizumab in trabeculectomy surgery
Arthur J. Sit, M.D.
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Technology modernization for the two-dimensional scanning ocular fluorophotometer,
Joshua D. Stein, M.D., M.S.
University of Michigan
Purchase health care claims databases
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