SBSM will present the following Scholarships and Honor Awards at the 2023 Annual Meeting to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 8-11 – Apply Now
Travel Scholarship Awards
SBSM MD Travel Award
Applicant must be medical student or higher, through junior faculty, and the program will take place in San Juan, in conjunction with the 2023 SBSM Annual Meeting. Recipients will receive career mentoring and advice and will receive complimentary meeting registration and a travel stipend. [Note: MD senior students through junior faculty who desire a research-focused experience should apply for the Young Investigator Colloquium. Applying to both programs is allowed.]
SBSM Young Investigator Colloquium
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (APS) is pleased to accept applications for the 2023 class of the Young Investigator Colloquium. The purpose of this half-day Colloquium is to bring together the expertise of senior mentors paired with postgraduate “rising star” trainees (i.e., physician fellows, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty who recently completed training). The selected trainees will be paired with a mentor that share similar interests.
The LGBT Health Scholar award was created to enable trainees dedicated to research and practice on LGBT health and wellness to attend the Annual Meeting. The LGBT Health Scholar winners will receive travel reimbursement in the amount of $500 to attend the meeting.
The Dr. Martica Hall Travel Award Scholarships recognize outstanding sleep medicine research abstracts presented at the SBSM Annual Meeting. Two travel scholarships in the amount of $500 will be given to the top scoring abstracts on sleep medicine.
Honor Awards
APS Distinguished Scientist Award
The SBSM Distinguished Scientist Award was created to recognize important and protracted contributions made by senior scientists and physicians in any research field consistent with the interests of APS. In addition, nominees should be members of the Society and would be expected to have contributed substantially over the years to its aims and goals. The recipient must attend the Annual Meeting.Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology
The Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology was established in 1999. The purpose is to memorialize Patricia Barchas by furthering the field of sociophysiology, the study of the reciprocal relationships that could lead to long-term change both in social behavior and in physiology.
The Oken Fellow typically is someone who has never attended an SBSM Annual Meeting – a goal of this award is to introduce the Society to someone unfamiliar with SBSM and our community, and to nurture a relationship that benefits both the Fellow and the Society’s membership through the sharing of experiences and involvement with research – both clinical and basic.
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (APS) Cousins Center Global Outreach Awards are intended to assist with travel, hotel accommodations and meeting registration fees to the SBSM Annual Meeting. The award will be given to one applicant residing in developing nations with the highest abstract scores.
The Herbert Weiner Early Career Award is intended to identify individuals who, early in their career, have contributed significantly to the field of psychosomatic medicine and show substantial promise of continued meritorious academic accomplishments in the field.
The Paul D. MacLean Award
The Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. Paul MacLean was a physician whose visionary neuroscientific research career at Yale Medical School and NIMH was inspired by his recognition of the importance of emotion in clinical medicine and everyday life. In 1949 he hypothesized that psychosomatic disorders arose from impairment in communication between the limbic system and neocortex. This award is intended to honor Dr. MacLean and promote the line of research that he created on emotion, the brain and physical disease.
Fellow Status in the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (FAPS) is designed to recognize sustained excellence in scholarship and/or professional contributions to the field of psychosomatic science and commitment to the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine among members who are mid-career and beyond. Through FAPS, we seek to recognize, honor, and sustain the engagement of members in advancing psychosomatic science and serving the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.
The Dr. Martica Hall Award recognizes an exceptional individual in the sleep medicine field. The awardee will be expected to give a talk at the SBSM Annual Meeting; and also meet with Dr. Martica Hall travel award scholarship recipients.