GREAT Group 2007 Annual Meeting
"Meeting the Challenge"

October 19-22, 2007 - Providence, R.I.

Agenda (PDF, 16 pages)
Breakout Topics (PDF, 4 pages)

Saturday, October 20

Topic 1: Remaining Competitive: The Next Generation of Innovators

America's Perfect Storm Report (PDF, 41 pages) - Irwin S. Kirsch, Ph.D.

Innovative Programs

• GREAT Group: Meeting the Challenge (PDF, 10 pages) - Victoria H. Freedman , Ph.D.
• Graduate Students Postdoctoral Fellows (PDF, 21 pages) - Roger Chalkley, D.Phil.
  
• Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Biomedical Sciences (PDF, 13 pages) - Wayne T. McCormack, Ph.D
  
• Innovative Programs: Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (PDF, 2 pages) - C. Gita Bosch, Ph.D., M.B.A.
  
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs NYU/Sackler Institute Model (PDF, 15 pages) - Joel D. Oppenheim, Ph.D.

Young Scientist Panel

• Graduate Students and Recent Graduates Survey - (PDF, 16 pages) C. Gita Bosch, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• How the University of Chicago helped me with my landmine problem (PDF, 19 pages) Alex Dehgan, J.D., Ph.D.
• Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research - Lisan Parker, Ph.D.
• Merck Research Laboratories - Carol L. Manahan, Ph.D.

NIH Report

• Research Training and Career Development Programs (PDF, 50 pages) Henry Kachaturian, Ph.D.
• Changes in Training at NIGMS (PDF, 15 pages) Clifton A. Poodry, Ph.D.

Sunday, October 21

Topic 1 - Breakout Reports: Training Goals for the Future

• Team Science:- The Silos Are Falling (PDF, 9 pages) William D.Wessinger, Ph.D.
• Clinically Relevant Research: Don't Get Lost in Translation (PDF, 11 pages) Yvonne Patterson
• Quantitative Skills - Count on Them
• Writing and Communications Skills: Say What? (PDF, 10 pages) Rick Rest, Ph.D.

Topic 2 - Funding Biomedical Graduate Programs

Balancing Priorities: Funding Biomedical Graduate Programs

• Funding Biomedical Graduate Programs (PDF, 20 pages) Allan J. Yates, M.D., Ph.D.
• Ph.D. Education in the Biomedical Sciences at Yale (PDF, 13 pages) Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.D.
• Balancing Priorities: Funding Biomedical Graduate Programs (PDF, 19 pages) John M. Deeley
• Individual Major Gift Fund-raising AAMC GREAT Group (PDF, 41 pages) Douglas S. Twells

5 Minute Talks

• Examples of PDA achievements (PDF, 5 pages) - Anthony J. Baucum
• Scientific Management Course for Postdoctoral Fellows (PDF, 2 pages) - Lisa Kozlowski, Ph.D.
• Canadian Student Health Research Forum (CSHRF) (PDF, 5 pages) - Edwin A. Kroeger, Ph.D.
• Use of Team-Based Learning in Graduate Education for Ph.D. Students in the Biomedical Sciences
  (PDF, 3 pages) - Wayne T. McCormack
• "Entering Mentoring": Training for trainees on how to become effective mentors (PDF, 3 pages) - Nancy L. Thompson, Ph.D.
• How do we craft a Core Curriculum that all programs could support? (PDF, 3 pages) - Michael F. Verderame, Ph.D.
• Drexel Med "PET" Program Peer Education and Training - I (PDF, 3 pages) - Barry D. Waterhouse, Ph.D. and Richard R. Rest, Ph.D.
• Career Development Training for Graduate Students in the Biomedical Sciences (PDF, 3 pages) - Jon R. Wiener, Ph.D.
• Emory Graduate School: Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (PDF, 3 pages) - Keith D. Wilkinson, Ph.D.
• The Leadership Alliance Summer Research: Early Identification Program (PDF, 3 pages) - Valerie Wilson, Ph.D.

Dinner with Speaker

Biomedical Careers in Industry, (PDF, 10 pages) Robert A. Copeland, Ph.D.

Monday, October 22

Tony Perkins Policy Session: Globalization

• Joel D. Oppenheim, Ph.D. (PDF, 4 pages)
• Trends in International Ph.D. Students and Postdocs in U.S. Biomedical Science (PDF, 25 pages) Susan A. Gerbi, Ph.D., Thomas O. Fox, Ph.D.
• China-U.S. Biochemistry Admissions (CUSBA) Program (PDF, 32 pages) Robert K. Yu, Ph.D., Med.Sc.D
  

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