Welcome

NIDA Career Workshop – Virtual Meeting

Monday, November 9, 2020 ● 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET

Recordings

NIDA Careers Plenary Session Recording.
Breakout Room 1: Predoctoral — NIDA Funding Opportunities for Pre-Doctoral Students and How to Prepare for your Next Career Steps.
Breakout Room 2: Postdoctoral — Postdoctoral Funding Mechanisms and other Opportunities Supported by NIDA as Well as Transition Preparation and Timing.
Breakout Room 3: Early Stage Investigator — Funding Mechanisms and Programs that Can Help you Establish your Independent Research Program.

Presentations

NIDA Priorities and Keynote

NIDA Diversity Initiatives

Presentation - Albert Avila, PhD, Deputy Director, ORTDD; Director, Office of Diversity and Health Disparities (ODHD), NIDA and
Katrina Foster, PhD, Health Science Administrator, Clinical Research Grants Branch (CRGB), DTMC, NIDA

Women and Sex/Gender

Presentation - Holly Moore, PhD, Program Officer, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Branch (BCN), Division of Neuroscience and Behavior (DNB), NIDA and
Keisher Highsmith, DrPH, Health Scientist Administrator, Services Research Branch (SRB), Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research (DESPR), NIDA

Grant Application and Review

Breakout Room 1: Predoctoral

Breakout Room 2: Postdoctoral

Presentation - Aria Crump, ScD, Deputy Chief, Prevention Research Branch (PRB), DESPR, NIDA and
Sarah Duffy, PhD, Associate Director for Economics Research, Deputy Chief, SRB, Division of Epidemiology, DESPR, NIDA

Breakout Room 3: Early Stage Investigator

Presentation - Yu (Woody) Lin, MD, PhD, Program Official, INB, DNB, NIDA and
Roger Sorensen, PhD, MPA, Chief, Integrative Neuroscience Branch (INB), DNB, NIDA

Workshop Synopsis

This virtual workshop is designed to inform scientists in the earlier stages of their career and those who mentor them or oversee National Institutes of Health (NIH) training, career or educational grants about mechanisms that are designed for particular career stages. Participants will be able to identify new opportunities and converse directly with National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) program and review staff during the break-out sessions.

NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow, will give the workshop welcome and Dr. Yasmin Hurd, Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will give the keynote address. The workshop will highlight diversity, women sex/gender, grant application and review, and will give special attention to research training, career development and research opportunities by career stage. An overall theme will be preparation at each level for the next stage. Plenary and career level presentations will be followed by break-out room discussions.

Agenda

Monday, November 9, 2020 1:00-4:00 pm ET

Welcome – Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director, NIDA, NIH
Keynote address – Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Director, Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine
Plenaries
- NIDA Diversity Initiatives
- Focus on Women, Sex/Gender
- Grant Application and Review
Career Stage Planning Sessions
- Predoctoral
- Postdoctoral
- Early Stage Investigator

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Planning Committee

NIDA Career Workshop Team

Wilson Compton, MD, MPE – Deputy Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Director (Acting), Office of Research Training, Diversity and Disparities (ORTDD)
Albert Avila, PhD – Deputy Director, ORTDD; Director, Office of Diversity and Health Disparities (ODHD), NIDA
Roger Little, PhD – Deputy Director, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavior (DNB), NIDA
Roger Sorensen, PhD, MPA – Chief, Integrative Neuroscience Branch (INB), DNB, NIDA
Usha Charya, BA – Program Analyst, Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC), NIDA
Lindsey Friend, PhD – Program Officer, Research Training and Career Development (RTCD), ORTDD, NIDA
Beth Babecki, MA – Coordinator, Training Hub, DNB, NIDA