Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Management - BWH
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October 9, 2019 | 5.0
Dear Colleagues,

First a huge THANK YOU and Congratulations to the entire Department for a 100% completion rate to sign up for Labarchives, the electronic lab notebook. This was a tour-de-force and kudos to Sarah Corey for facilitating this endeavor.

This month we have several announcements about symposia and funding opportunities as well as a feature on Dr. Angela Bader, Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and the Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine in our Department.

Best,

Danny
FAER MSARF Seeking Mentors
Dear researchers,
 
We invite you to consider participating in the 2020 FAER MSARF summer program. Please see a description of the 8 week program at the following link:

https://www.asahq.org/faer/programs/medicalstudentfellowships/summerfellowships

Please see the mentor expectations below. I will take responsibility for the grant application and clinical experience. If interested, please forward me your NIH Biosketch and a 300 word description of your project no later than October 23rd.
 
Specific expectations of the mentor include :

  • Develop and submit a project role appropriate for a medical student to accomplish within the eight week timeframe.

  • Have regular contact with the MSARF fellow. Meet at least once a week to establish a mentoring relationship and check on the fellow’s progress.

  • Ensure 15% (six hours per week) of the fellow’s experience is clinical exposure.

  • Assign one project per student, one student per project. Only those projects submitted and accepted through the FAER MSARF Host Application process may be assigned to an MSARF student.

  • Assist in the development and creation of the student’s abstract and poster.

  • Provide guidance for the student as they decide on sessions to attend at the ASA annual meeting.

  • Complete the FAER survey at the end of the student’s fellowship.
 
I would be happy to discuss our experience with this program with you in more detail or answer any questions that you have.

Best,
Jen ( jmcsweeney1@bwh.harvard.edu )
"Our Scientists are Working on It"
I deas Requested!
As you may have seen on the rotating flat screens throughout the hospital, Brigham Health has been executing a new research campaign since January of 2019. They are looking for new and exciting material to use for their “ Our Scientists are Working on It ” series.  

They need short, punchy, eye-catching one-liners about BWH research, highlighting the translational impact of their work .

Ex. " Can viruses be used to treat brain cancer? Our scientists are working on it "

Every suggestion posted will highlight the specific investigators working on the issue, so this is nice opportunity to promote our research faculty and the transformative work they are doing .

Please reach out to Claire O'Brien with any questions you may have!
Featured Investigator
Angela Bader
Dr. Angela Bader, MD, MPH is a professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and vice chair for Perioperative Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Empowerment is a theme that runs through Dr. Bader’s life, and one of her major areas of research is understanding and ensuring high quality decision making based on appropriate risk stratification and optimization as well as alignment with patient goals and values.

Dr. Bader grew up as first generation on 28th Street in NYC, and although her parents did not have a high school education, they strongly encouraged her to take advantage of opportunities for education. One interesting story is that her family grew up across the street from a similar immigrant family who also encouraged education, and their daughter was Dr. Bernadine Healy, who became the first female director of the NIH. Dr. Bader attended Vassar and Harvard Medical School. In addition, she obtained an MPH in health policy and management at Harvard. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital where she became very interested in the care of the most ill children and initially planned to be double boarded in anesthesia and work in a PICU.

During her anesthesia residency at BWH, she was very drawn to obstetric anesthesia and completed a fellowship in this area, when she began her research career.  One area of interest was in the anesthetic effects on neonates of various anesthesia techniques. After being promoted to Associate Professor, she was asked by Dr. Simon Gelman to help address the multiple issues in the preoperative clinic.  She was the founding director of the now multidisciplinary, patient focused Weiner Center for Preoperative Evaluation and published a number of articles that helped develop the relatively new field of perioperative medicine. She then spent four years working with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Alex Arriaga through an AHRQ grant which resulted in the development of the crisis checklists for the operating room. During this time she became increasingly interested in research that would define and increase appropriateness of surgical care; whereby patient values and goals are more closely aligned with surgical goals.

She and Dr. Zara Cooper now co-lead the SHARPP Research Core (Surgical Health Scientists Addressing Patient Priorities) at the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health. Currently she is excited about the movement toward value based healthcare for geriatric surgery, and the initiative started by the American College of Surgeons in 2019 which has resulted in a new initiative for geriatric surgery at BWH. She is a member of the leadership group of this center and helping to develop, implement, and validate these new pathways. A major goal of this initiative will be ensuring appropriateness and increasing the value of the surgical care provided to geriatric patients.

The hope is the BWH will become an exemplar institution and be able to help other institutions develop similar multidisciplinary centers focused on value. Dr. Bader very much enjoys teaching and mentoring residents and junior faculty, and is fortunate that many residents ask to do research projects and elective months with her. She is also a member of the Holmes society at HMS where she is actively involved meeting with students and writing Dean’s letters for their residency applications. She is a frequent visitor to NYC for family visits and cultural events and is very proud of her two children- Andrew who is in the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT and Natalie who completed business school and is now an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.
HMS/HSDM Leadership Development Course
for
Physicians and Scientists
A friendly reminder that the application cycle for the 2020 HMS/HSDM Leadership Development Course for Physicians and Scientists will close on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, followed by a deadline for endorsements on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.  For detailed information, including Request for Application (RFA), Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) or to apply, please visit https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/leadership-program .
 
If you have any questions, please contact Carol K. Bates, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, M.D. and Brian R. Crete, Faculty development Coordinator, at hmsofa_programs@hms.harvard.edu .
March 25-27, 2020
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Each spring, the Office for Faculty Affairs offers a three-day course designed for HMS and HSDM instructors, assistant professors, and associate professors who have responsibility for a research grant, laboratory, educational course, or clinical program. The goal of the course is to build on participants’ knowledge base and skills to enhance their professional development as administrative leaders in academic medicine. The curriculum focuses on human resource management, negotiation, finance, self assessment, communications, and personal career development. Women and faculty, who are underrepresented in medicine are particularly encouraged to apply.

Learn more
Department-Wide Research Education Initiative Grand Rounds
Please click here to view a full-sized version of the calendar of upcoming speakers.
Finding Funding
Are you considering submitting a grant?
Please reach out to Rachel Abrams for a list of required documents and to get the process started.
Featured Opportunities
BWH Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Clinical/Translation Starter Grant 
Goal: Support investigator and project development that will lead to competitive application for extramural funding Budget: Up to $50,000 • 

Application process: – Letter of intent due: 10/15/19 
Up to 1 page, including a brief description of proposed research aims, strategy, and mentor(s). 
Please submit to Danny Muehlschlegel – 
Invited applications due: 12/01/19 – 
Grant announcement: 1/1/19
Prerequisites: – Grantee should have a mentor with a track record of extramural funding – 
A mentoring and career development plan is required • 
Further details: https://files.constantcontact.com/e5f1690a701/b1ac1daa-b50b-4303-a101-dea2123e359f.pdf

Harvard Medical School Fall Foundation Award Nomination Opportunities
Application Deadline: October 28, 2019

The HMS Foundation Funds is a faculty development and awards program through which HMS faculty are able to seek the Harvard nomination for Limited Submission Opportunities where there is a limit to the number of applicants that an institution can nominate. Each year, several foundations invite HMS junior faculty members to apply for their fellowships and grants, which serve as critical funding at the early stages of a research career. Interested investigators must first apply internally through the HMS Foundation Funds, and a committee will select the final candidates who will then submit applications to the foundations.

The following award nominations are available for application:
Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Program
Macy Faculty Scholars Program
Mallinckrodt Scholars Program
Mary Kay Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Award
Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Smith Family Foundation: Odyssey Award
Further Details: https://hms.harvard.edu/departments/office-academic-clinical-affairshms-foundation-funds/current-nomination-opportunities
Anesthesiology Department Seed funding
Deadline : Rolling
Funding : up to $10,000 
Eligibility : Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant, or Associate Professor at the time of award funding
•   Goal: Support clinical, translational, or basic science research and project development
•   Prerequisites: 
–   Grantee should have a mentoring plan (senior mentor or mentoring team in area of proposed investigation)
–   Grantee should have a career development plan
Up to 5 seed grants will be awarded in 2019. Grant recipients are required to present their work to the Research Leadership Committee before the start of the project and to the Department at the conclusion of their grant.

Family Care Travel Award
Deadline : Rolling
Funding : up to $750 (lifetime limit of 2 awards will apply to each applicant)
The Center for Diversity & Inclusion, with the support of the Brigham and Women’s Physician’s Organization and the Biomedical Research Institute, is pleased to announce the Family Care Travel Award to assist faculty who are caring for a dependent family member at home. The Award will provide financial support to defray some of the costs of traveling with dependents, or extra care at home, while traveling for professional meetings critical to promoting the advancement of early career scholars with familial obligations. 
https://cdi.brighamandwomens.org/awards/fcta/
Helpful Resources
For guidance and advice on the research process and resources, contact Sarah Corey.

For a Department of Anesthesiology Biostatistical consult, please follow this link or send an email to Kara Fields.
Partners Pulse Login Page for access to training/learning modules
Perioperative Data Group
(requires Partners login to access)
Research Navigator Login Page
Committee on Human Research (IRB) resources
(requires Navigator login to access)
If you have important information, an update, or announcement that you would like to include in next month's research newsletter, please email your content along with any images, to Sarah Corey .