LMSA & NIH 2024 LIDEReS in Research Travel Award

Location: MD-VA-DC Area, APRIL 10-13, 2025

The overall goals of the seminar are to:

Describe LHS+ (Latina/o/e/x, Hispanic or of Spanish Origin+) related research priorities, urgent health challenges and disparities;
Provide information about how to navigate a career in academic medicine and research, including how to find support and funding for your career through NIH;
Describe the career journeys of physician-scientists and academicians, including those who have obtained NIH research funding;
Facilitate interactions, networking, and connectedness with researchers, faculty, and representatives from NIH, LMSA and other entities.

Background:

In the Spring of 2023, the NIDDK Office of Minority Health Research Coordination (OMHRC) met with the leadership of the LMSA FPAC to discuss ways to address the relative lack of Hispanic/Latinos in the academic medical field.

The LMSA Inc. (Latino Medical Student Association) was formed to increase the presentation and success of Hispanic/Latino medical students within medical schools. The 50+ history of LMSA and its antecedent organizations has been detailed in a new book titled Latino, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+: Identified Student Leaders in Medicine, Recognizing More Than 50 years of Presence, Activism, and Leadership by Springer Publishing:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-35020-7

The meeting with the LMSA FPAC (Faculty Physician Advisory Council) resulted in the decision for NIDDK to provide travel awards and support to aspiring LHS+ (Latina/o/x/e, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+) residents, fellows, and early career individuals interested in careers in academic medicine to attend LMSA’s LHS+ Identity, Development, Empowerment, and Resources Seminar (LIDERes)-Research Seminar. Key topic areas include the importance of diversity in academic medicine, understanding the NIH grant process, learning how to obtain funding and grant support, potential career paths, recognizing the pitfalls to avoid in the selection of academic appointments and early years of academic tenure, career appointment and advancement, identification, and successful utilization of mentors, among others.

For further information contact Deion Ellis, MD, LMSA Contact, deion.ellis@cuanschutz.edu or Katrina Serrano, PhD, Program Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination NIDDK, katrina.serrano@nih.gov

Name*

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List all degrees you have including your highest degree (mark all that apply)?*

What is your current status (mark all that apply)?*

How many years have you been in this current status?*

Name of current institution or employer?*

State or commonwealth in which your institution / employer is located?*

Please indicate your area(s) of specialty or scientific expertise?*

Which of these best describes your ethnicity (choose one)?*

Latina, Latino, Latinx, Latine, Hispanic or of Spanish Origin+ (LHS+)Not Latina, Latino, Latinx, Latine, Hispanic or of Spanish Origin+ (LHS+)

Which of these best describes your race (mark all that apply)?*

If LHS+ what additional terms do you use to self-identify (e.g., Cuban, Afro-Latina, Nuyorican, Chicano, etc.)

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What sex were you assigned at birth? (2023, AAMC Matriculating Student Questionnaire)*

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Thursday night April 10; 6 - 7:30 PM EST (optional)
Friday April 11; 8 AM - 5 PM EST
Saturday April 12: 9 AM - 5 PM EST
Sunday April 13; 9 AM - 11:30 AM EST

LATINO MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION (LMSA) & NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH