Cardiovascular-
Epidemiology Grants Program
During the period 2002 through 2009 The Sandra A. Daugherty Foundation
offered a grants program designed to help junior faculty develop their clinical
research careers in the fields of cardiovascular epidemiology and/or
prevention. Grants were awarded over a two-year period for a total of $50,000.
Sandra A.
Daugherty Award for Excellence in
Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Epidemiology
The Sandra A. Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease and
Hypertension Epidemiology is designed to recognize the role of junior faculty
and to stimulate excellence in research by investigators in training. The
$2,500 award is presented at the annual spring meeting of the American Heart
Association’s Council on Epidemiology.
Sandra A.
Daugherty, MD, PhD Medical Student Research
Award at the University Of Nevada School of Medicine
This annual award recognizes the graduating medical student at the University
of Nevada School Medicine who has, in the judgment of a faculty committee,
completed the best student research project in that academic year.
Sandra A. Daugherty
Fund Outstanding
Science Teacher Award
The Sandra A. Daugherty Fund is committed to help students develop careers in
science and medicine by supporting their teachers and mentors. The
Outstanding Science Teacher Award is designed to identify and reward Washoe County science teachers at the middle school and high schools levels.
Local Grants
The Sandra A. Daugherty Fund supports the needs of the local communities in which the Fund directors live and work. Grants are made on an invited basis only.
Dr. Robert and Mrs. Josephine Daugherty Award for Outstanding
Graduate of Meade High School, Meade, Kansas
The family of Dr. and Mrs. Daugherty would like to offer a $1,000 scholarship to reward a Meade High School graduate who has demonstrated quality scholarship, leadership, service and character traits during his/her high school years. This award is not need-based and may be used in conjunction with other awards.
During the period 2002 through 2009 The Sandra A. Daugherty Foundation offered a grants program designed to help junior faculty develop their clinical research careers in the fields of cardiovascular epidemiology and/or prevention. Grants were awarded over a two-year period for a total of $50,000. This grants program has been suspended indefinitely but we would like to congradulate the past recipients.
2002
Rebecca E. Lee, PhD
University of Kansas, KU Medical Center Research Institute
“Environmental Barriers to Maintaining Healthy Body Mass Indexes
in Low-Income Housing Developments”
Mentor
Jasjit S. Ahluwahlia, MD, MPH, MS
Chair and Director of Research
Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
2003
Nona Sotoodehnia, MD, MPH
University of Washington Medical Center
“Genetic Risk Factors for Sudden Cardiac Death”
Mentor
David Siscovick, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
Sarah de Ferranti, MD, MPH
Children’s Hospital, Boston
‘Inflammatory Profiles for Children At-Risk for Atherosclerosis’
Mentor
Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Cardiologist-in-Chief
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
2004
Lisa de las Fuentes, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
“A Candidate-Gene Association Study to Evaluate Non-Traditional
Risk Factors in the Epidemiology of Hypertension”
Mentor
Victor G. D´avila-Rom´an, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Radiology
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging and Clinical Research Core Laboratory
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Kieren Mather, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
“Relationships of Adinopectin to Vascular and Metabolic Outcomes”
Mentor
Ronald B. Goldberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
2005
Samia Mora, MD, MHS
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
“Lipoprotein Particle Subclasses and Incident Diabetes in Women”
Mentor
Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Matthew Allison, MD, MPH
University of California, San Diego
“Integrated Assessment of Subclinical Systemic Atherosclerosis”
Mentor
Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Preventive Cardiology Academic Award
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
2006
Wen-Chih Hank Wu, MD
Brown Medical School and Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Providence, Rhode Island
“Multi-Targeted Cardiac Risk Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes”
Mentors
Eli Y.
Adashi, MD, MS, FACOG
Dean of
Medicine and Biological Sciences, Division of Medicine and Biology
Frank L. Day
Professor of Biology
Brown
Medical School
and
Peter Friedmann, MD, MPH
Director,
Target Research Enhancement Program, Providence VA Medical Center
Associate
Professor of Medicine, Brown Medical School
2008
Joachim H. Ix, MD, MAS
University of California, San Diego
“Determination and Consequences of High Ankle Brachial Index in Older
Men”
Mentor
Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Preventive Cardiology Academic Award
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Gale
A. Laughlin, PhD
University of California, San Diego
“Biological Predictors of Longevity and CHD Free Survival”
Mentor
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD
Distinguished Professor and Chief
Division of Epidemiology
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
School of Medicine
2009
James Wetmore, MD
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute
“Stroke and Bleed Outcomes with Warfarin in Dialysis Patients with Atrial Fibrillation”
Mentor
Edward F. Ellerbeck, MD, MPH
Sosland Family Endowed Professor and Chair
University of Kansas, Kidney Institute
The Sandra Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease or Hypertension Epidemiology is named for Dr. Sandra Daugherty in appreciation of her outstanding career as a clinical researcher and epidemiologist working in the areas of hypertension, chronic fatigue syndrome and women’s health issues. The award is designed to recognize the potential of junior faculty and to stimulate excellence in research by investigators in training.
Up to five finalists are selected by the Council on Epidemiology’s Program Committee. The finalists are asked to submit a five-page manuscript or extended abstract. The winner is chosen on the basis of his or her contribution to the work, as well as the scientific merit, quality and originality of the manuscript submitted.
The winner is announced and presented with a $2,500 award from the Sandra A. Daugherty Fund and a plaque from the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention at the Council’s annual spring meeting. Other finalists are awarded a certificate of accomplishment. All finalists’ names appear in the meeting program.
For eligibility requirements and application guidelines, please see the AHA website at this link:
AHA Award Recipients
2002
Jie Cao, MD, MPH
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
C-Reactive Protein, Internal Carotid Intima Media Thickness, and Incident
Ischemic Stroke in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study
2003
Austin G. Stack, MD, MS
University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX
Mortality Differences by Treatment Modality Among New End-Stage Renal
Disease Patients With and Without Congestive Heart Failure
2004
Tien Wong, PhD, FRCSEd, MMed, MPH,
MBBS
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Retinal Arteriolar Narrowing and Risk of Hypertension
2005
Susan G. Lakoski, MD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Winston-Salem, NC
Gender and C-Reactive Protein: Data From the Multi Ethnic Study of
Atherosclerosis
2006
Jiaqiong (Susan) Xu, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Low-Grade Albuminuria and Rrisk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death in
American
Indians: The Strong Heart Study
2007
Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Increases in systolic blood
pressure atherogenic at any level and any age in CARDI
2008
Robert C. Block MD, MPH, FACP
University
of Rochester Preventive Cardiology Unit
University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Research Institute: Focusing on the
relationship of potent lipid metabolites of fatty acids to cardiovascular disease.
2009
Jun Dai, MD, MSc, PhD
Indiana University
Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Improved Cardiac Autonomic Function
among Middle-Aged Men: a Twin Study
2010
Joachim H. Ix, MD, MAS
University of California San Diego
Urinary Creatinine Excretion Rate and Mortality in Persons with Coronary Artery
Disease: The Heart and Soul Study
2011
Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota
Chronic kidney disease is associated with the incidence of atrial fibrillation: the ARIC Study
Sara Adar, Sc.D., M.H.S.
University of Michigan
Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Associations between Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Intima-Medial
Thickness of the Common Carotid Artery: The
Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution
This annual award recognizes the graduating medical student at the University of Nevada School of Medicine who has, in the judgment of a faculty committee, exhibited the best overall effort in research during their medical student career.
Nominations for the award are made by the faculty; if students who are nominated wish to be considered, they submit the following documentation to the Office of Medical Research:
This information is shared with an evaluation committee composed of faculty who select the awardee.
The Daugherty award is bestowed at the School of Medicine’s All-School Annual Awards Ceremony held each May during graduation week.
Award recipients:
2004
Jason Hedges, MD
2005
Kimberly Carpin, MD
2006
Paul Jin-Young Park, MD, PhD
2007
Carla Ellis, MD
2008
David H. Ludlow, MD
2009
Chaithra Prasad, MD
2010
Jason Michaels, MD
2011
Sadeea
Qureshi, MD
Purpose
The Sandra A. Daugherty Fund is committed to help students develop careers in science and medicine by supporting their teachers and mentors. The Outstanding Science Teacher Award is designed to identify and reward Washoe County science teachers at the middle school and high schools levels:
· whose teaching and mentoring inspire excitement and understanding about science among their students, and
· who introduce their students to the potential of a career in science or the health professions.
Criteria
Teachers must exhibit the following traits/talents:
· Creativity in the classroom
· Inspire and educate students and peers by example
· Current in class content
· Innovative in content delivery
· Interest in student welfare, inside and outside of the classroom
· Mentor peers, as well as students
Eligibility
The award is open to teachers:
· who teach any of the physical or life sciences; and
· who are assigned to teach more than 50 percent time in the sciences; and
· who teach in a Washoe County School District middle school, high school or charter school in Washoe County; and
· who are licensed to teach by the State of Nevada.
A teacher may be nominated multiple times until he or she receives the award, but an individual teacher will be honored by the Fund a maximum of once every three years.
Nomination Process
Only one nomination from each school will be considered per year.
Nominations must be received by the Fund from the Principal of any eligible school, as defined above. Submitted materials must include:
· Evidence of the Science Department faculty’s involvement in identifying an appropriate nominee
· Letter from the Chair of the Science Department describing why the nominee is considered an excellent science teacher
· Up to five letters of support from the nominee’s peers, students and students’ parents
· Nominee essay of not more than 1,000 words addressing “How can we better motivate American students to train for careers in science?”
· Letter from the principal endorsing the school’s nominee
Additional support materials not exceeding 10 pages may be submitted at the Principal’s discretion.
Selection Process
The Washoe County School District will review the applications and will annually choose one middle school teacher and one high school teacher to be recognized as the Fund’s “Outstanding Science Teachers.”
Award
The award consists of:
· $1,500 awarded to the teacher
· $1,500 awarded to the school to support the teacher’s science department
Deadlines
Nominations must be received by the Washoe County School District by the close of business on April 9, 2012. Only hard copies will be accepted; no e-mail nominations will be considered.
Announcement of the winners will take place in early May 2012.
The appropriate venue and timing for presentation of the award will be determined in consultation with the Principal and the Washoe County School District.
Please send nominations packets to:
Kindra Fox
Director, Curriculum and Instruction
Washoe County School District
380 Edison Way
Reno, NV 89502
775-861-4472
775-861-4485 (fax)
Outstanding Science Teacher Award Recipients
2008
Middle School
Susan Kaiser
Edward L. Pine Middle School
High School
Sylvia Scoggins
McQueen High School
2009
No Middle School recipient
High School
Sheryl Fontaine
Reed High School
2010
Middle School
Nick Nemsgern
Mendive Middle School
High School
Petrina McCarty–Puhl
McQueen High School
2011
Middle School
April Keller
Swope Middle School
High School
Genevieve Morehouse
Reed High School
More information about this year's recipients is available in Pinnacle http://washoecountyschools.net/pinnacle/?p=1191.
Local Grants
The Sandra A. Daugherty Fund supports the needs of the local communities in which the Fund directors live and work. Grants are made on an invited basis only.
Local Grants
2008
Nevada Women’s Fund
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Reno High School
Choral Program
2009
Nevada Women’s Fund
2010
Access to Healthcare Network
Patient Care Fund
Hug High School Baseball Team
Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Women’s Fund
Northern Nevada Food Bank
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
2011
Access to Healthcare Network
Patient Care Fund
Boulder City Hospital Foundation
Boys and Girls Club
Brown Middle School/PTO
Nevada Women’s Fund
Dr. Robert and Mrs. Josephine Daugherty Award
for
Outstanding Graduate of Meade High School, Meade, Kansas
The family of Dr. and Mrs. Daugherty offer a $1,000 scholarship to reward a
Meade High School graduate who has demonstrated quality scholarship,
leadership, service and character traits during his/her high school years.
This award is not need-based and may be used in conjunction with other awards.
To be eligible for consideration for this scholarship, students must:
ü Be in their senior year at Meade High School;
ü Have a cumulative seventh semester GPA of at least a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale
ü Have been accepted to a four-year public, private, community college or technical/vocational school
To be considered for this scholarship, the student must have:
I. A complete application form including verification/signature from a guidance counselor
II. A 500 word essay describing: How I have been a quality leader and how I will continue to be a quality leader in the future. Your essay should include:
· A statement on the character traits of a good leader and how you embody these traits
· A description of how you have exhibited loyalty to the school
· At least one example of how you have motivated others to take responsibility for positive changes in the school
· An explanation of how you have helped others learn by working cooperatively with ideas, suggestions and effort.
III. A letter of reference from a teacher identifying and describing your excellence in the classroom.
IV. A letter of reference from a teacher who can address how you have:
· Exhibited consistent positive behavior through the last semester enrolled in high school
· Demonstrated honesty and complied with school code of conduct through the last semester enrolled in high school
· Worked in a positive manner to resolve problems
· Worked well with peers, faculty and staff
V. A detailed résumé of service activities with a letter from an individual responsible for supervising, directing or coaching a project, performance opportunity or activity and who can evaluate your:
· Effective participation in a school group service project
· Participation in at least one “performance” opportunity (athletic/activity team, band or choir), throughout the last semester enrolled in high school
Participation
in at least one activity outside the school throughout the last semester
enrolled in high school
Meade
High School Award Recipients
2009
Gabrielle Reimer
2010
Jordan S. Moshier
2011
Adam
Gleason