Call for Candidates for Presidential Scholar Award

The goal of the Presidential Scholar Award is to highlight research by faculty members in anesthesiology departments. The deadline for submissions for the 2007 award is March 31, 2007.

Anesthesiologists who are within seven years of their first appointment to a department of anesthesiology, who are board-certified ASA members and who spend at least two days a week in clinical practice are eligible for this award. Further, nominees must be academically accomplished with peer-reviewed publications and funded research. Candidates should be nominated by their department chair or by the Committee on Research after review of the current year’s grant applicants of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. Only one nominee per department will be accepted.

The completed application must include documentation of the qualifications listed above; current curriculum vitae; letters of support from the chair, two other senior faculty and two current residents, postdoctorial students or fellows; copies of the three most important peer-reviewed publications; and a current five-year academic plan with anticipated major contributions to the field of anesthesiology (two-page limit).

The Committee on Excellence in Research will judge the applications and select a winner. The recipient of the Presidential Scholar Award will be asked to present a brief summary of his or her work at the “Celebration of Research” at the 2007 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The winner will receive a plaque, $1,000 award, travel reimbursement plus one day’s lodging and per diem.

Applications should be sent to the attention of Judy Jacobson, ASA, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573; <j.jacobson@ASAhq.org>.