Meet the Rainmakers: Understanding the Role of Program Officers (Research Committee and Program Committee Sponsored)
The federal grant application process has become increasingly competitive over the past several years and Emergency Medicine is an underrepresented specialty in federal research funding. Early preparation (often many months if not a year before deadline) and an understanding of the administrative and procedural steps of applying for federal funding is critical to the success of early investigators. Program officers serve as key players in the funding ecosystem, serving a role as facilitator as well as administrative mentor (e.g. helping to demystify much of the grant process and suggesting practical things such as which institute would be appropriate for a grant). This didactic will provide valuable exposure to a series of Program Officers from diverse federal funding sources. This didactic consists of a panel discussion with Program Officers from various institutes (National Institutes of Health [NIH], Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute [PCORI], and National Science Foundation [NSF]) with a moderated question and answer session followed by open discussion.
Presenters:
- Jody Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW
- Bernard P. Chang, MD, PhD
- Youyou Duanmu, MD, MPH
- Wayne Wang, PhD
- Zhuqing “Charlie” Li, PhD
- Kristen Huntley, PhD
- Stephen Korn, PhD
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Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW
Secretary-Treasurer
Stanford University
Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW, is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Vogel received a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed emergency medicine residency training as well as a clinical research fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center, and obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health.
Dr. Vogel has been a very active member of SAEM, with ten years of dedicated service on the SAEM Program Committee including serving as Program Committee Chair for the 2019 and 2020 Annual Meetings. She has also served as a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, Nominating Committee, Research Committee, inaugural chair of the Resident and Student Advisory Committee. Dr. Vogel is a current Member-at-Large and past Resident Member of the SAEM Board of Directors. Dr. Vogel currently serves on the ACEP-SAEM Federal Research Funding Work Group and served as Co-Chair for the SAEM23 Consensus Conference on Precision Emergency Medicine. She has served on task forces to improve the consensus conference, Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Leadership Forum and has been a regular participant in the Annual SAEM Strategic Planning Sessions. Dr. Vogel has led initiatives aimed at increasing federally funded emergency care research including co-leading nominations of emergency medicine physicians to the National Institutes of Health Study Sections and developing and leading novel Program Officer Sessions at the SAEM Annual Meeting.
Dr. Vogel has devoted herself to research to improve emergency care and has a dedicated interest in underserved, at-risk populations. She is an active health services researcher with numerous publications and grant support from the National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Vogel has received many academic awards for her leadership and contributions to emergency care research.
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Bernard P. Chang, MD, PhD
Associate Dean, Faculty Health and Research Career Development
Columbia University
Dr. Bernard P. Chang is the Associate Dean of Faculty Health and Research Career Development at Columbia University. He also serves as Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine and is the Tushar Shah and Sarah Zion Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine. Trained as a psychologist and emergency physician, his research focuses on neuropsychiatric emergencies and clinician health. He received his PhD from Harvard in psychology, his MD from Stanford, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Youyou Duanmu, MD, MPH
Research Officer
Stanford University
Youyou Duanmu, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Ultrasound Fellowship in the Stanford Emergency Department. Dr. Duanmu completed a two year ultrasound fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and earned a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in quantitative research methods. Her research focus is in advanced point-of-care cardiac ultrasound, clinical decision rules and medical education and competency assessment. Dr. Duanmu serves as a research mentor to medical students, residents and fellows and is an educator for the Stanford emergency medicine residency research curriculum.
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Wayne Wang, PhD
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Wayne Wang, PhD
Director, Office of Research Training and Career Development
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI -
Zhuqing “Charlie” Li, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Zhuqing "Charlie" Li (Ph.D, MBBS, MSc) is the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Reseach Trainging and Special Programs (ORTSP), Division of Extramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH. ORTSP primarily manages and coordinates NIAID Research Training and Career Development portfolios (Fs/Ks/Ts), SBIR/STTR programs, and special programs including international program outreach and funding compliance, research administrative supplements progrms including diversity supplements, PCTAS, continuity supplements, as well as G11, R25, R38/K38, LRPs, and NIAID “at-risk” investigator R01 initiatives. Dr. Li was trained as a physician scientist focusing on infectious diseases and immunity, clincial immunology, autoimmunity, T cell immune response, genomic profiling, and clinical trial reserach studies.
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Kristen Huntley, PhD
NIH/NIDA/CCTN
Kristen Huntley, Ph.D., is the Associate Director and Addiction Medicine Team Leader in the Center for the Clinical Trials Network (CCTN), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Huntley also serves as a Scientific Officer for multi-site clinical research projects studying the effectiveness and implementation of interventions for the treatment of substance use disorders. She provides leadership for selected projects conducted through the NIDA CTN Dissemination Initiative, and is the NIDA CCTN contact for research conducted in emergency medicine settings. During her tenure at NIH Dr. Huntley has served as a Scientific Review Officer at NIDA and as a Program Director at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) where she managed a portfolio of pain management research grants and led efforts to build collaborations with other federal agencies to encourage research on the use of integrative approaches and models of care for pain management in military and veteran populations. Prior to working at NIH, Dr. Huntley was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a project director at a market research firm, and worked as a clinical psychologist in a variety of community and medical settings. Dr. Huntley has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and over 30 years of experience in government, academic, research, and clinical settings.
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Stephen Korn, MD
Full Professor
University of Connecticut-Storrs
Dr. Korn came to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) as Director of the Office of Training, Career Development, and Workforce Diversity (now the Office of Training and Workforce Development) in January 2006. He received his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and received postdoctoral training at NIH (as a PRAT Fellow of NIGMS) and at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (with financial support from NRSA postdoctoral fellowships). He then spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he was a Full Professor. His area of scientific specialty is the molecular basis of ion channel gating and permeation, but he has also conducted electrophysiological and imaging research on calcium and pH transport/buffering, and synaptic transmission in the hippocampal slice. At NINDS, Dr. Korn oversees all training and research education programs that do not specifically target the goal of diversifying the workforce, including all mechanisms that support both individuals and institutional programs, as well as the LRP program and Landis Award program. Recently, Dr. Korn and his office have launched a major effort through the training programs intended to improve the rigor of scientific research done by both trainees and established investigators.