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History of the Program and Accomplishments
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The Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition continues a 25 year tradition of preparing pediatric physician-scientists and clinician-educators for academic careers in independent research on topics relevant to digestive diseases in infancy, childhood, and adult life.
The Program was first established in 1982 by Dr. W. Allan Walker with clinical and research bases at Children's and Massachusetts General Hospitals. In July of 2000, the resources and core faculty of the pediatric GI training program based at New England Medical Center's Floating Hospital for Children, directed by Dr. Richard J. Grand, was integrated into the Harvard fellowship. Both training programs were superb and highly productive. Between them, they trained a large portion of the academic pediatric gastroenterologists in the United States today and over 25 division chiefs of pediatric gastroenterology or department chairs of pediatrics here and abroad. In 2004, Massachusetts General Hospital formed its own pediatric GI fellowship.
The Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition is now under the direction of Dr. Wayne I. Lencer and is based in the GI Cell and Developmental Biology Laboratories at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Drs. Grand and Walker remain actively associated with the program.
Clinical training for physician-scientists and clinician-educators in pediatric gastroenterology is based in the GI/Nutrition Division at Children's Hospital Boston. Closely collaborating research institutions include Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Center for Blood Research, and Harvard School of Public Health.
The program offers two curricula for academic career development. One curricula aims to train physician-scientists in the development and execution of basic and patient-oriented (clinical) original research. The other curricula aims to train clinician-educators in medical education, health policy, health-care systems analysis and management, outcomes measures, and quality improvement.
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Four academically-oriented pediatric physicians will be admitted each year to the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Three positions are available for physicians who wish to train along the physician-scientist curriculum. One position is available for training along the clinician-educator curriculum. Applications for both training curricula are accepted through the National Residency Matching Program. Candidates uncertain of their career goals are welcome to apply to both training programs.
The first year of fellowship training for all fellows is fully dedicated to training in clinical medicine. The second and third years of fellowship training are devoted to either training in original hypothesis-driven research or the development of innovative programs in medical education or patient care/advocacy. Research training years are supported either by the NIH T32 grant, awarded to Dr. Lencer (DK07477), or directly by division resources.
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Accomplishments:
Over the last 10 years (last updated July 2003), greater than 90% of our trainees have pursued academic careers: 38% are currently active in basic and 62% in clinical research.
NIH Career Development Grants:
Just within this 10-year period, one RO1-series, five K23-series, one R21-series NIH-grant, and one FDA Orphan Drug Grant have been awarded to trainees on our Clinical Research Track. Eight KO8-series and two RO1-series NIH-grants have been awarded to trainees on our Basic Research Track.
Our trainees have received the following research awards:
AGA and ADHF Foundation research training grants
ADHF Young Investigator Award
Glaxo Research Training grants
NASPGHAN Research Fellow Award
NASPGHAN Young Investigator Award
Fellowship and Senior Scientist grants from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
Individual NRSA from the NIH
Senior Research grants from the Hood Foundation
Pfizer Research Training Grant in Clinical Effectiveness
Nestle Research Fellow Award
Charles A. Janeway Research Scientist Training Award
AASLD Fellowship
Thrasher Foundation Fellowship
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Fellowship, Career Development and Senior Research Awards
Robert Wood Foundation Fellowship
Our faculty have received the following awards for academic accomplishments:
Miles and Shirley Fitterman/ADHF Basic Research Scientist Award
Miles and Shirley Fitterman/ADHF Clinical Research Award
NASPGHAN Schwachman Award
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
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