professional skills program k-grants for lunch! adonis hijaz, md associate professor director,...
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Professional Skills Program K-Grants For Lunch!
Adonis Hijaz, MDAssociate Professor
Director, Center Female Pelvic Medicine & SurgeryUrology Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Case Western Reserve University
Tissue recovery in the pathophysiology of stress urinary incontinence
• Improve tissue recovery with the use of MSC
• Determine the potential mechanism through which MSCs potentiate recovery
MSC following VD
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Mentors
Primary Mentors
Arnold Caplan, PhD
Firouz Daneshgari, MD
Secondary MentorsAlan Levine PhDJames Liu, MD
Why K08?
• Passion for research• Great research idea• Excellent preliminary results
Clinical Productivity
Passion for research
Although essential, they are not enough in this
Highly competitive world
What does the K08 provide?
• Protected time• Mentorship• Discipline• Target
These are the additional criteria that are ESSENTIAL For successful career as a
Clinician Scientist
Lessons learned
• Be smart about picking your mentor– Authority in field with vast mentorship experience– Should share your passion and believe in your
capabilities– Willing to take on the task during the application
and thereafter– Yet would be your toughest Critique
Lessons learned
• Personal level– Learn the art/science of grant writing- read successful
applications – Perform an internal review: your areas of weakness might
be opportunities for career development – Develop thick skin
• Research Plan– Put your ideas out for critique: I submitted an (R03, R21
with revision) on the concept before embarking on the K08.
– Use the critiques to improve on your research plans and idea
Acknowledgment
• Mentors– Arnold Caplan PhD– Firouz Daneshgari MD– James Liu MD– Alan Levine PhD
• UI Grants team– Kerry Grimberg PhD– Michael Kavran– Laurel Jeffers– Claudia Lillibridge
• Laboratory colleagues– Michael Kavran– Mingfang Tao MD– Guiming Liu MD,PhD– Zubeyir Altuntas PhD– Nicholas Boncher MD– Zhina Sadeghi MD
• Grants & Contracts office – Robin Bissell – Colleen Goss – Katalin Blankenship