(Site last updated: June 28, 2004)
Conference Brief: PDF Form and MS Word Form
Conference Registration Forms: PDF Form and MS Word Form
Photographs from 2003 Conference (and 1 photo from 2002) You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page to access the photographs.
19th Annual National MD/PhD Student Conference Site
On behalf of the MD/PhD Directors Association and the other members of the 2004 MD/PhD Conference Committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to the 2004 MD/PhD Directors' and Administrators' Conference. This year's conference will be held at the Keystone Lodge in Keystone, Colorado, and has a theme that is near and dear to all of us: Training physician-scientists in the 21st century. Are we doing all we should? Do the new challenges of medicine call for re-thinking the way our students are trained? Are we adequately addressing the needs of investigators doing translational research? Should we? Many training programs have grown over the past several years. Should we be actively trying to expand the applicant pool? Will there be jobs waiting for them?
As always, the conference is open to MD/PhD directors, administrators, and invited guests. For those of you who have attended in past years, this year's conference has some notable differences. An obvious one is that it is not being held in or near Aspen. The students have moved to Keystone to seek more space, and we have moved along to stay with them. There will be at least one joint session with them. Another difference is that the director's conference and the administrator's conference have been planned together, and most of the sessions will be held jointly.
For those of you who have not been able to attend previously, come this time. This is an opportunity to discuss important issues and share ideas with your fellow program directors and administrators. This can be especially valuable if you have only recently become a program director, but we hope that those of you who have held that position for awhile, but never attended the annual conference will join us this time.
This year we will begin Friday evening and finish Sunday afternoon. All of our meals during that time will be provided - and are included in the registration fee. Plan on staying over Sunday evening to relax in the mountain air.
- Friday's opening dinner will feature a keynote by Nobel Laureate, Michael S. Brown, MD.
- Saturday morning, we will address the ways that we define success for MD-PhD programs and our graduates - and will include a talk by National Academy member Michael J. Welsh, MD, who is President of the Association of American Physicians (the AAP) and an HHMI investigator at the University of Iowa.
- Saturday afternoon is devoted to the spectrum of career choices for physician-scientists. Highlights will include a talk by John I. Gallin, MD, the director of the NIH Clinical Center, and a panel discussion featuring Steve Cannon, MD, PhD, Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD, Alan Schwartz, MD, PhD - department chairs who are physician-scientists and responsible for the hiring of physician-scientists. The students will join us for that session. Saturday evening will feature a dinner for all of the directors and administrators and include a special presentation.
- Sunday morning has been set aside for a discussion on our proposed relationship with the AAMC lead by Directors Association President, Olaf Andersen, MD, and will also include comments by Bert Shapiro, PhD, lead MSTP organizer for NIGMS. The closing session on Sunday afternoon will consider ways to expand the pool of future physician-scientists.
The cost of the conference this year is $350 (if paid by June 15th; after June 15th, the registration fee is $400), which includes registration, a newly-designed T-shirt, and (for the first time) meals from Friday dinner to Sunday lunch. Programs that have paid their Association dues, are entitled to one discounted registration fee of $350.
Please complete the registration form (Conference Registration Forms: PDF Form and MS Word Form) and send with a check payable to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to:
Skip Brass, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Room 915 BRB-II
421 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
We have secured a conference rate at the Keystone Village with a block of rooms that ranges from studios to three bedroom units. The larger units are the best deal per person, so bring along someone else from your program or arrange to share with friends from other programs. All of the reserved rooms are within walking distance of the meeting space, which is within the lodge itself. You can arrange lodging by calling Keystone Resorts at 888-222-9298. Our conference code is CQ0CPEN. Please identify yourself as the "MD/PhD National Conference Director's Block" to receive the negotiated rate.
Rooming reservations need to be made by May 25, 2004. The agents at Keystone can also help with flight arrangements into Denver.
As in the past, the Director's meeting will be held in conjunction with the National MD/PhD Student Conference, but registration to the Student meeting is handled separately. Individuals wishing to attend the Student meeting should visit the University of Colorado's MSTP site.
Questions about the Directors' meeting may be directed to Skip Brass (215-573-4669). Administrator's should contact Jana Toutolmin.
We look forward to seeing you in Colorado!
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Photographs from 2003 Conference
- Photo 1: Administrators gather outside Silvertree Hotel for group photo.
- Photo 2: Ms. Arlene Kohler (New York University School of Medicine) receives recognition award of 26 years of service to MSTP from Dr. Bert Shapiro, NIGMS MSTP Program Director.
- Photo 3: Administrators' dinner at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, CO: Lyska Morrison-Jones (University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston), Becky Click (Medical College of Georgia), Linda Burnley (Harvard Medical School), Jana Toutolmin (University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine), Arlene Kohler (New York University School of Medicine), and Jaclynn Toutolmin.
- Photo 4: Administrators' dinner at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, CO: Nancy Malson (University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine), Trudy Ross (University of Louisville School of Medicine), Candy Norman (University of Kentucky School of Medicine), Sonja Cox (University of Nebraska College of Medicine), and Doris Thornton (University of Texas, Houston Medical School).
- Photo 5: Administrators' dinner at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, CO: Paul Vezina, Jeannie Corey (University of Chicago-Department of Pediatrics [GDTP]), Kathy Crawford (Baylor College of Medicine), Valerie Webster (University of Alabama School of Medicine), and Andrew Richards (Washington University School of Medicine).
- Photo 6: Administrators' meeting.
- Photo 7: Administrators' breakfast.
- Photo 8: Panel discussion leaders: Arlene Kohler (New York University School of Medicine), Ruthie Gotian (Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program), Mary Horton (Emory University School of Medicine), and Maggie Krall (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine).
- Photo 9: 2002: Administrators gather outside Silvertree Hotel for group photo.
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Conference Registration Forms: PDF Form and MS Word Form
2004 MD/PhD Conference Committee:
- Chair - Skip Brass, MD, PhD- MD-PhD Program Director, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Jim Albertson - MD/PhD Program Coordinator, University of Oklahoma
- Olaf Sparre Andersen, MD - Director, Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
- Linda Burnley - Director of Administration & Finance, MD/PhD Program, Harvard Medical School
- Maggie Krall - Director of Administration, Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Programs,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Brian Sullivan - Administrative Director, MSTP, Washington University
- Jana Marie Toutolmin - Administrative Director, MSTP, University of California San Francisco
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