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SUMMARY
ASSOCIATION OF NEUROSCIENCE
DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS
FALL MEETING SUMMARY
Marriott Hotel
New Orleans, LA
OCTOBER 25, 1997
More than 100
representatives of neuroscience departments and training programs and
special guests attended the 15th Annual Fall Meeting of the Association
of Neuroscience Departments and Programs on Oct. 25, 1997. The meeting
was held at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, La., in conjunction with
the Society for Neuroscience's 27th Annual Meeting.
Wexler Receives
Education Award
The highlight of ANDP's
fall meeting is the presentation of the annual Neuroscience Education
Award. This year's recipient was Dr. Nancy Wexler, who is the Higgins
Professor of Neuropsychology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
at Columbia University, and president of the Hereditary Disease
Foundation. Wexler was introduced by Dr. Ed Kravitz of Harvard
University, who summarized Wexler's career. Nancy received an A.B.
degree cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1967 and a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974. She has served as a
health science administrator with the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke and as executive director of the Congressional
Commission for the Control of Huntington's Disease and Its Consequences.
She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards. At
the fall meeting, Wexler discussed her life's work, focusing on the
devastation of Huntington's disease, particularly in Venezuela, and
progress made in understanding its genetic basis.
The award was presented
by incoming ANDP President Dr. R. Ranney Mize, who recognized her for
lifelong contributions to public education about the disease. Wexler
joins a distinguished group of previous awardees, including Drs. Maxwell
Cowan, Floyd Bloom, Walle Nauta, Ellen Grass, Oliver Sacks and Gene
Streicher.
New Officers
Introduced at Meeting
ANDP Past President Dr.
Robert Fellows chaired the fall meeting. The agenda included reports
from Dr. Barbara Talamo, secretary, and Dr. George Rebec, treasurer.
Fellows also gave a report of the Association's past years' activities
and lauded the accomplishments of Dr. Thomas Fox, ANDP's president in
1997, who was unable to attend. The new officers introduced at the
meeting included Drs. R. Ranney Mize, incoming president; Rob Milner,
president-elect; Dennison Smith, councilor; and George Rebec, who was
reelected treasurer. Dr. Robert Fellows completed his tenure as past
president, and Dr. Karen Gale completed her two-year term as councilor.
Dr. Barbara Talamo continues her term as secretary and Dr. Joe Martinez
continues as councilor.
ANDP Web Site
The design and
posting of the ANDP home page on the World Wide Web (http://www.andp.org/)
has now been completed, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Robert Fellows at
the University of Iowa, who maintains the site. The Web site includes an
online version of the association's handbook of Neuroscience Training
Programs in North America, located at the following address (http://www.andp.org/training/).
Members of ANDP can now update their entries in the electronic version
more frequently. The site also will shortly contain an interactive
electronic version of the 1997 ANDP Neuroscience Training Survey. The
electronic form greatly simplifies data entry by members of ANDP as well
as the tabulation of these data. The completed survey will be available
by the ANDP 1998 Fall Meeting.
Student
Hospitality Room
For the seventh year,
ANDP organized and operated the student hospitality room at the Society
for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting. SFN co-sponsored the room and
supported costs of refreshments. More than 6,300 students registered for
the meeting, and about 1,000 students per day visited the room. The room
was hosted by students from Louisiana State University Medical Center
and Tulane University, who monitored the room and did an excellent job
in making it a welcome place to relax and meet fellow students. A
special event at this year's room was a presentation by Dr. Zach Hall,
then director of NINDS. Hall spoke on "The Future of Neuroscience:
Perspectives from the Bench and from NIH." Hall talked about how
NIH operates, how to apply for grants, how he wrote and edited the
textbook An Introduction to Molecular Neurobiology, and other topics of
interest to students. Approximately 85 students attended the talk.
Job Seeking
Workshop
ANDP also
co-sponsored, with the Louisiana State University Neuroscience Center of
Excellence, a workshop on job seeking, presented by Dr. Michael Zigmond
and Beth Fischer. The workshop dealt with skills in preparing a résume,
interviewing for a position, negotiating and coping with the stress of a
job search. A special feature of the workshop was a focus on alternative
career options. Breakout sessions featured neuroscientists in various
careers, including Drs. Julio Ramirez (four-year colleges), Ron
Schoenfeld (government), Ron Lindsay (biotechnology) and Debra Parrish
(intellectual property law). The workshop was completely sold-out, with
205 student registrants. ANDP especially thanks the student organizing
committee from LSUMC-Neva West, Meg DeAngelis, Mike Salvatore, Chris
Scheiner and Mike Boudreaux.
Minority
Fellowship Program
ANDP also helped promote
the Ninth Annual Poster Session and Reception of the Minority Fellowship
Program in Neuroscience. The session was held on Saturday, Oct. 25, at
the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and featured
presentations by seven MFP fellows.
Annual Spring
Meeting
May 2-4, 1998
The ANDP Annual Spring
Meeting is scheduled to be held beginning Saturday afternoon, May 2,
1998, at the Marriott Metro Center in downtown Washington, D.C. The
program plans to focus on two key topics: (1) advances in electronic
curriculum and publishing, and resources on the Internet; and (2) the
impact of health care reform and the balanced budget initiative on
graduate education and research infrastructure. One emphasis will be
examination of alternate approaches to research and training, including
NIH intramural programs, foundation and institute research, and
pharmaceuticals. Please note these dates and mark your calendars. More
information will be mailed to members in early 1998.
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