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Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists (MAPS) Award Program
The MAPS Award Program is an initiative of the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The awards will be given to clinicians at early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research interests. They are intended to help awardees overcome barriers and hindrances to their research efforts. Up to ten awards will be given over the next year, in amounts up to $10,000.
Goals
1. To facilitate glaucoma research initiatives by investigators at early stages of their academic careers.
2. To promote the development of clinician-scientists in glaucoma
3. To promote ongoing discoveries in glaucoma to improve patient care and reduce vision loss from disease
Candidate Eligibility
Clinicians in academic departments of Ophthalmology who are no more than 5 years out of glaucoma fellowship training.
Funding Eligibility
The research proposal should clearly indicate how the funds are to be used, as in critical support in the form of equipment, personnel, supplies, materials, travel expenses, course tuition and/or other services deemed necessary for the work.
AGS Congratulates and honors the following recipients of the Mentoring for
Advancement of Physician Scientist AGS 2009
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Kelly W. Muir, MD
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Duke University Eye Center
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Scott J. Fudemberg, MD
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Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD
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Cornell University
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Lucy Q. Shen, MD
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Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
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Misha F. Syed, MD
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The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
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Molly M. Walsh, MD
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Duke University Eye Center
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Michael V. Boland, MD. PhD
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Johns Hopkins University
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Nils A. Loewen, MD
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Yale University
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