Physician Nutrition Specialist Award
The Physician Nutrition Specialist Award provides a $30,000 salary stipend to support the educational role of an academic physician who is focusing his/her career in nutrition. The award can be renewed competitively for a second year, contingent on demonstrated progress during the first year and on availability of funds. Only one candidate per institution will be considered.The recipient of this award must:
- Have a leadership role in developing, sustaining, and strengthening nutrition education programs for medical students, residents, and practicing physicians in her or his institution.
- Be committing at least 50% of her or his time and effort to academic nutrition programs including clinical and educational activities.
- Have a full-time faculty appointment in a primary care clinical department with the rank of assistant professor or above at an accredited school of medicine in the United States, its territories, or its possessions.
- Receive at least $10,000 matching salary funds from the dean of his or her school of medicine per year of the award or/and a commitment to maintain the program at the same or greater level of support for a minimum period that matches the duration of the award.
- Be a member of ASN (or be eligible for membership and have submitted an application) and commit to being an active participant in ASN's annual nutrition education forum.
- Be board eligible in nutrition (American Board of Nutrition).
- Not be the recipient of a Nutrition Academic Award from the National Institutes of Health, NHLBI Division.
- Subject to the availability of funds and the track record of the recipient, this award is renewable on a non-competitive basis for a second year.
The application form is a PDF file and is best viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Deadline for applications is February 1, 2009.
Award notification and commencement date is July 1.
For further information, please contact:
American Society for Nutrition
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814-3998
Phone: (301) 634-7111; Fax: (301) 634-7351
lroutzahn@nutrition.org