Scientific advisory Board (SAB)
by Christina Pabelick, MD
2024 | Summer Issue Newsletter
The AUA Scientific Advisory Board is delighted to report on its events at the 2024 Annual Meeting hosted by Washington University at St. Louis. The return to the university based, smaller meeting format gave excellent scope for attendees to interact related to their scientific interests both during organized and informal sessions. The SAB kicked off with the second iteration of the annual Mock Study section as a pre-meeting event on Friday. A group of six junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows reviewed two R01 grants, one in basic science and the other a clinical project. The study sections were conducted in NIH format and overseen by Drs. Vesna Todorovic and David Mintz and were attended by other experienced grant reviewers. Based on good feedback from attendees, the SAB plans to make this an ongoing feature of the annual meeting offerings. The next event was a Panel Discussion on the future of research in our subspecialty, entitled “Building and Sustaining Anesthesiology Research”. The panelists included Drs. Jiapeng Huang, Danny Muehlschlegel, and Dolores Njoku, who collectively discussed successful elements of strategy across large and small research programs with an emphasis on how to grow and support individuals and programs. As in past years, the SAB hosted a poster session in which participants who ranged from residents aspiring to research careers to senior faculty with long experience presented their work to one another and had the opportunity to network and establish new connections. The SAB presented a suite of awards for excellence in specific areas of research based on its annual abstract competition. Awards included: Junior Faculty Pediatric Anesthesia Research Award (Dr. Benjamin Sanofsky), Junior Faculty Perioperative Medicine Research Award (Dr. Hannah Lonsdale), Junior Faculty Research Award for Clinical Science (Dr. Yiying Zhang), Junior Faculty Research Award for Laboratory Science (Dr. Jacob Basak), Lisa Wise-Faberowski Resident Prize for Research Excellence Award (Dr. Megan Rolfzen), Margaret Wood Resident Research Award (Dr. Brittany Ervin-Sikhondze), and Resident Travel Award (Dr. Danika Doralien). Finally, at the conclusion of the meeting Dr. Christina Pabelick, who has served previously as a member, was announced as the next Chair of the SAB. Dr. Pabelick and the SAB are poised to review the feedback from this year’s successful and productive meeting and are already looking forward to planning next year’s event.
Authors
 Christina Pabelick, MDChair of Scientific Advisory Board
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
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