AACAP Pilot Research Award for Attention Disorders

Eligibility

AACAP Pilot Research Award for Attention Disorders, with an application deadline in April, offers 2 awards of $15000 each.

Description

The AACAP Pilot Research Award for Attention Disorders, supported by the Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund, will be awarded to child and adolescent psychiatry fellows and early career faculty who have an interest in beginning a career in child and adolescent psychiatry research. Candidates must be board eligible/certified in child and adolescent psychiatry or enrolled in a general or child psychiatry residency or fellowship program and the project must involve research related to attentional dysfunction. Candidates must have a faculty appointment in an accredited medical school or be in a fully accredited general psychiatry residency program or child and adolescent psychiatry clinical research or training program. At the time of application, candidates may not have more than two years of research experience following graduation from residency/fellowship training. Candidates must not have any previous significant, individual research funding in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Candidates who have received or are currently receiving "T32" funding support are eligible to apply. Previous AACAP Pilot Research Award recipients are eligible to apply. Candidates must either be AACAP members or have a membership application pending. A proposal, including the research strategy, a detailed project timeline, the budget and justification, and addressing the inclusion or exclusion of women and minorities must be submitted. A letter of support from the section chief or department chair and a letter of support from the proposed mentor are also required. The candidate's current curriculum vitae and their mentor's curriculum vitae must also be submitted. Please visit the award's website or contact the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) for more information.