The Mount Sinai Summer Institute for NeuroAIDS Disparities (MSINAD).
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Summer InstituteOverviewMSINAD occurs over a six week period in the summer, and has didactic, career support, and research tutorial components. Scholars are given a series of didactic sessions tailored to their academic level, and also participate in a research tutorial with a local mentor selected to provide research competency germaine to the scholar's research area. Check-in sessions with program directors serve to assure that programmatic goals are realized. An example of the 2009 lecture schedule is below.
The MSINAD curriculum aims to provide bridges between behavioral scientists studying phenotype and neuromedical or laboratory/translational scientists studying pathogenesis. It is constructed to provide individuals with fluency in both domains, and increase proficiency in the aspects of disease they wish to specialize in - be it neuropsychology, psychiatry, neuropathology, neurology, or translational laboratory neuroscience. While it is unreasonable to attempt training of individuals to master all domains of HIV neurobiology, we will attempt to train scientists to work within teams that offer this spectrum of specialization, and to understand how their unique proficiencies contribute to the larger opus in elucidating HIV neurobiology. MSINAD draws upon a rich diversity of faculty in the New York metropolitan region, and allows research tutorials to be taken in any institution within commuting distance of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Primary materials for the summer research tutorial may, if appropriate, be derived from the Manhattan HIV Brain Bank. Finally, all costs of attending the institute, including travel, lodging and living stipend, will be paid by MSINAD for recipients of the MSINAD Scholar Grant. In addition, upon graduating the program, scholars will be awarded grants of up to $25,000 to continue pursuit of their research topic in their originating institution. They will be expected to return to a seminar in the next summer's institute to give a presentation on the progress of their research. |
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