2nd Annual All Scholar Day Retreat Sponsored by Yale Center for Clinical Investigation

YCCI will host the Second Annual All Scholar Day Retreat on Friday March 1st. The program will begin at 12:00 PM with poster presentations from scholars in the lobby of the Anlyan Center. This will be followed by talks from Ray Dolan, MD, FRS, Harlan Krumholz, MD, and John Williams, PhD. Open to all students, trainees, scholars and faculty at Yale who are participating or interested in clinical or translational research, this half-day event will also feature poster presentations from Scholars, as well as short oral presentations from a number of Scholars and trainees. All attendees will have the opportunity to submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation. A committee will select the top abstract from a student, a postdoctoral fellow and a junior faculty member, each of whom will receive an award of $500 that can be used for travel to a professional conference. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words and sent to Nicholas Licht via email by February 4th. Please contact Nicholas Licht via email nicholas.licht@yale.edu or phone 203.785.7467 with any questions.

Ray Dolan is the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London (UCL) and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. Professor Dolan is the author of 400 original papers and is ranked as one of the most cited scientists in the world in the field of Neuroscience and Behaviour. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including an Alexander Von Humboldt Research International Research Award for Outstanding Scholars (2004), the Kenneth Craik Research Award (2006), the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award (2006) and the prestigious International Max Planck Research Award (2007). In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). His research is concerned with a neurobiological characterisation of human emotion and how it interacts with other components of cognition, particularly attention, memory and decision making.  

Harlan M. Krumholz is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Krumholz is an international leader in the field of outcomes research, contributing importantly to its recent development and growing influence in practice and policy. His research has focused specifically on generating knowledge that will improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Krumholz has published more than 500 articles and is the author of the book, The Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease.

John Williams, PhD is Head of Clinical Activities and Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health for the Wellcome Trust. He initially trained as a neuroscientist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University and Duke University. In 1998, he changed direction and embarked on a career in science administration when he joined the Wellcome Trust.