Abstracts tagged "research funding and young investigators"

Abstract Number: 1151 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Barriers and Facilitators of a Career in Research Among Rheumatologists in the United States
Alexis Ogdie¹, Sheila Angeles-Han², Una Makris³, Amanda Nelson⁴, Ami Shah⁵, Yihui Jiang⁶, J. Michelle Kahlenberg⁷, Eyal Muscal⁸, Flavia V. Castelino⁹, Amit Golding¹⁰ and Alfred Kim¹¹, ¹Rheumatology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ³Rheumatology, Dallas VA Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX, ⁴5) Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology and Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸Rheumatology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ⁹Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Medicine/Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Baltimore VA and University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹¹Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Development of young rheumatology investigators is critical to the future of rheumatology. Beyond funding, the specific barriers to maintaining a career in rheumatology research…