FW: CONFERENCE : NIMH-funded Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry

The NIMH-funded Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry (SRI) is intended for promising post-residency and post-doctoral fellows as well as junior faculty persons from across the country interested in research careers in geriatric mental health. The SRI focuses on the tools needed to begin, maintain and succeed on that career path, and is followed by continued communication between trainees and faculty. The SRI faculty consists of staff from NIMH and nationally renowned researchers in geriatric mental health. The SRI is highly successful, judging from the participants evaluations, as well as the trainees accomplishments in terms of publications and research funding (nearly 100% have published peer-reviewed papers, and more than 300 peer-reviewed grants have been awarded). The SRI provides a useful model for an approach to the transition period from fellowship/early academic appointment to first research funding, and of assuring a continued flow of new investigators in geriatric psychiatry. The 2008 SRI will be hosted by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. It will begin on Saturday, July 19, 2008 and run through Friday, July 25, 2008. The application deadline is March 14, 2008. Additional information is available at:

http://sri.ucsd.edu/index.html

Maureen Curran Halpain UCSD Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Stein Institute for Research on Aging (858)642-3602 mhalpain@ucsd.edu