Grants & Fellowships
*Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Centers (with NIH)
*UCLA’s Arny and Anne Porath Clinical Ethics Fellowship
*The Edmund Pellegrino Fellowship
Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Centers (with NIH)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-12-001.html
Open Date: 04/05/2012 - Close Date: 07/17/2012
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by NIEHS and EPA encourages grant applications to support a transdisciplinary program of basic and applied research to examine the effects of environmental factors on children’s health and well-being. Research conducted through the Centers should include substantive areas of science in children’s health while incorporating innovative technologies and approaches and links to the environment. The revised program encourages strong links between disciplines in the basic, applied, clinical and public health sciences to prevent disease and promote health in all children.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Arny and Anne Porath Clinical Ethics Fellowship
The University of California, Los Angeles Health System Ethics Center is seeking applicants for a two year Fellowship in Clinical Ethics. The Ethics Center was founded in 2002 with the goal of strengthening the UCLA Health System's ethical environment and commitment and improving the humanistic aspects of health care provided for patients and their families. The Center enjoys broad institutional support and is a leader in developing innovative clinical ethics programs. The Center serves the needs of the UCLA Health System three hospitals, which rank among the best in the nation, and the full UCLA patient population. The volume and complexity of UCLA ethics consultation, which includes transplant, trauma, oncology, psychiatry, neurology, neonatology and pediatrics, affords the successful candidate an unrivaled experience in this field. The Fellowship program began in September 2011 and our first fellow has participated in very substantial number consults within the first six months of the fellowship across a wide breadth of clinical services. The goal of this two year fellowship is to provide extensive clinical consultation experience, with opportunities in the second year for research, teaching, and mentoring of the junior fellow. The Fellowship is for individuals who hold an advanced degree in health care ethics.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
* Provide clinical ethics consultation to Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center, Neuropsychiatric Hospital and Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital. After an appropriate period of observation, the fellow will provide supervised on-call coverage for the ethics consultation service.
* Participate on the three UCLA Health System Ethics Committees
* Collaborate in developing ethics education programs for staff
* Participate in ethics rounds
* Collaborate in policy development activities
* Participate in educational activities
* Mentoring of Junior Ethics Fellow
* Complete a research project
* Complete one manuscript suitable for publication
The Fellow will receive intensive mentorship in clinical ethics from members of the Center's faculty. They will be subject to on-going formal and informal assessment. Qualifications include a PhD or Masters in health care ethics or bioethics. The ability to integrate cross-cultural care, end of life/palliative care, psychosocial and spiritual care into clinical care is critical to this role. We are searching for compassionate and empathic professional with excellent interpersonal skills who is able to utilize critical and creative thinking in navigating complex ethical issues. A strong interest in collaborative and interdisciplinary work is required. Stipend is $55,000 plus excellent benefits. Fellowship entails a full-time commitment from September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014. Apply online at: https://jobs2.mednet.ucla.edu/css_external/CSSPage_BrowseJobs.ASP Job # H60984 Candidates who have any questions may email us at: ethicscenter@mednet.ucla.edu or look online at the posting: http://www.uclahealth.org/site.cfm?id=1853.
The Edmund Pellegrino Fellowship
Application Deadline June 1st Annually
We are pleased to announce a unique opportunity to study bioethics with Dr. Edmund Pellegrino at the Georgetown University Center for Clinical Bioethics. A Pellegrino Fellow will be named annually for a one-month residential fellowship.
The Fellowship will include: A mentored experience with Dr. Pellegrino and a stipend ($5000 US) for travel, living, and scholarly expenses.
Eligible Applicants:
Health Care Professionals
Students in doctoral or post-doctoral health care programs
Selection Criteria:
* Significance of research/scholarly project
* Compatibility of project with Dr. Pellegrino's scholarly interests
* Potential of the mentored fellowship to promote career development
* Preference given to studies addressing fundamental ethical issues
Application Documents:
Full curriculum vitae
Budget for the $5,000 award
Summary of research/scholarly project
Letter of support from applicant's institution
Letter of recommendation from faculty member
Send applications to:
Mary Lee Seaman CPS
Office Manager
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University
Box 571409
Washington, DC 20057-1409
202-687-8955 (fax)
seamanm@georgetown.edu
Please visit the Center's website at http://clinicalbioethics.georgetown.edu
