Announcements, events, funding opportunities and more news for the Mass General Research Institute community. | |
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In this edition:
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Funding Opportunities
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NEW Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
- The Tommy Fuss Scholars Program in Precision Psychiatry
- The MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- HMS Foundation Funds
- MGH Research Scholars 2024
- Limited Submission Funding
- Foundation Funding Opportunities
Announcements:
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NEW Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, Named Chief Academic Officer of MGB
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NEW 2023 MGRI Image Awards
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NEW Caring for Dependent(s) Travel Awards
- LabArchives Assessment
- The Global Non-Communicable Disease Research Training
- Mass General Brigham MESH Core 2024, Submit an Abstract
- Alert for Mac SPSS Users
- CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards
- Discounted Stata Licenses
Events:
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NEW 2023 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 12
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NEW Fun Fridays
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NEW November Research Council
- Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards Panel Discussion
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NEW Speed Mentoring Hour
- DF/HCC Lung Cancer Program 2023 Symposium
- CBRC Seminar Series Virtual Presentation
- MGB Gene & Cell Therapy Institute Research Symposium
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NEW Munn Nursing Research Grand Rounds
- Two Meditation Sessions available every week
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NEW Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Novel Therapeutics and Women’s Health Collaboration Programs
The Novel Therapeutics Delivery program aims to foster the development of novel technologies and techniques for the delivery of existing or innovative therapies by working at the intersection of engineering, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Specifically, it strives to capitalize and incentivize translational projects to address complex challenges in “therapeutic” delivery – from biomanufacturing, to targeted delivery, to biomaterials and more.
Up to $5 million capital dollars are available for the current program round, with each award anticipated to be up to $750,000 to support work and equipment at not-for-profit partners.
The deadline for the full application to the sponsor is November 17, 2023. Please note that the deadline to submit your materials to Research Management is eight business days prior to the sponsor deadline. If you plan on applying for this opportunity, please contact ECOR at ecor@mgh.harvard.edu by Monday, October 30, 2023.
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The Tommy Fuss Scholars Program in Precision Psychiatry
The Center for Precision Psychiatry (CPP) is committed to fostering the careers of early career investigators in the emerging area of precision psychiatry. Integrating research, clinical implementation, education and training, the Center is committed to driving innovation to implementation and making discoveries that can be translated to clinical care.
The Tommy Fuss Scholars Program in Precision Psychiatry will support innovative research efforts by early career investigators. Scholars will work with CPP faculty on projects aligned with the CPP mission and goals including therapeutics, big data analytics, precision treatment matching, mobile health technologies, genomics, neuroscience, and clinical trials.
Please direct any questions to mghctrprecisionpsych@mgh.harvard.edu
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The MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards
for Junior Faculty Women Investigators
What are the Claflin Awards?
Although women scientists are recruited to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) programs, their advancement to senior faculty positions is still far less frequent than that of their male counterparts. In 1993, The Women in Academic Medicine Committee, originally chaired by Mrs. Jane D. Claflin, Honorary Trustee, was established to facilitate the academic careers of women in science at MGH.
How much is each award?
These are two year awards for $60,000 per year in direct costs, plus 20% for indirect costs.
When is the deadline?
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 5:00 PM
We encourage you to attend the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards Informational Panel Discussion on Tuesday, November 7 from 10:00 – 11:00am. More information can be found in the call for applications.
We also encourage all to apply for the Claflin Consultation Initiative by Friday, December 1, 2023.
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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
What are they?
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity.
MGH is eligible to nominate a maximum of five (5) candidates.
How much is each award?
$600,000 for a period of three years. Funding in the amount of $200,000 will be allocated to the awardee’s institution each year for the support of the Clinical Investigator.
MGH letter of intent deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 5:00pm
Sponsor deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2024 at 4:00pm
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HMS Foundation Funds
Each year several foundations invite HMS faculty and postdocs to apply for their fellowships and grants, which serve as critical funding at the early stages of a research career. Interested investigators must first apply for the HMS nomination through the HMS Foundation Funds office, and a committee will select the final candidates to submit applications to the sponsors.
Awards include:
- Mary Kay Foundation Scientific/Innovative Cancer Research Grant
- Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering
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MGH Research Scholars 2024
What is this?
The MGH Research Scholars program is a philanthropy-fueled initiative established to support MGH research faculty and accelerate important work that will improve and transform the future of health care.
How much is each award?
Each award is $500,000 over 5 years; funded at $100,000 per year, including 20% indirect costs.
When is the deadline?
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 – 5:00 PM
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Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
We ask that all MGH Investigators interested in applying for any limited submission award submit a Letter of Intent (see detailed instructions below) to the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) by the deadline indicated for each award to be considered to receive an institutional nomination.
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:
See full details for all awards on our website.
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St. Baldrick’s Research Grants
MGH LOI Deadline: 11/08/23
Learn more
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Biomedical Research Facilities (C06 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
MGH LOI Deadline: 11/14/23
Learn more
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Advancing Research Careers (ARC) Institutionally-Focused Research Education Award to Promote Diversity (UE5 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
MGH LOI Deadline: 11/29/23
Learn more
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Foundation Funding Opportunities
Please contact Corporate & Foundation Relations in the Office of Development at devcfr@mgh.harvard.edu if you wish to submit a proposal in response to any of these opportunities. Note that proposals are still routed through the standard InfoEd/Research Management process.
For all open foundation funding announcements, see the MGB Innovation External Funding Database
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:
See full details for all awards on our website.
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Crazy 8 Initiative, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF). $5 million. LOI Deadline: January 4
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Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration (RARE) Grant, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF). $250,000. Application Deadline: December 4
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Part the Cloud Translational (PTC) Research for AD Program, Alzheimer's Association (ALZ). $1 million. LOI Deadline: November 15
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Diversity in Parkinson’s Disease Research Grant, American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA). $75,000. LOI Deadline: December 16
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ASH Minority Hematology Fellow Award, American Society of Hematology (ASH). $100,000. Application Deadline: January 16
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Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, ALS Association. $150,000. LOI Deadline: November 21
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New Investigator Pilot Grants (multiple opps), Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD), Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD). $110,000. Application Deadline: December 8
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Lloyd J. Old STAR (Program—Scientists TAking Risks) Program in Cancer Immunology, Cancer Research Institute (CRI). $1.25 million. Application Deadline: January 15
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Research Awards (multiple opps), Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA). $500,000. LOI Deadline: November 1
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Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund for Improving the Lives of Children with Disabilities, Health Resources in Action (HRiA)/The Medical Foundation. $160,000. LOI Deadline: December 5
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Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) Programme for Early-Stage Investigators, International AIDS Society (IAS). $150,000. LOI Deadline: October 31
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Research Grants, International Retinal Research Foundation. $200,000. Application Deadline: May 15
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Effectiveness and Implementation Trials to Address Mental Health in Type 1 Diabetes, JDRF. $1.5 million. LOI Deadline: December 18
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Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund. $300,000. Application Deadline: February 15
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Transformation of Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF). $200,000. Application Deadline: January 15
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Researcher Grants (multiple opps), Osteology Foundation. 100,000 CHF (≈$112,000). Application Deadline: December 1
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Research Grants, Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation (OHF). $200,000. Application Deadline: December 15
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Basic Research Award in Chronic Pain for Early Career Scholars, Rita Allen Foundation. $150,000. Application Deadline: December 14
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Mary O'Flaherty Horn Scholars in General Internal Medicine for Junior Clinician-Educators, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). $60,000. Nomination Deadline: January 12
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Research Grants for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) and Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) Studies, Spastic Paraplegia Foundation. $150,000. Application Deadline: December 18
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Do you want to learn more about identifying external funding opportunities? Please click here to request a research consultation with Amy Robb or see ECOR’s website for information on the Pivot database. | |
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NEW Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, Named Chief Academic Officer of MGB
Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, has been named Chief Academic Officer for Mass General Brigham. Anderson, who has been serving in this role on an interim basis since January 1, oversees Mass General Brigham’s world-class research and teaching enterprise, which includes two academic medical centers — Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — and three specialty hospitals.
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NEW Caring for Dependent(s) Travel Awards
Is caring for a child/dependent making it harder to travel and advance in your career?
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) is pleased to announce the call for Caring For Dependent(s) (CFD) Travel Awards. This $1,000 award* will help make travel to an academic/society meeting directly related to his/her academic advancement possible. The award is open to faculty and postdocs who have plans to attend a professional meeting between December 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024. Funding is intended to help defray additional care expenses that go above and beyond care needs, (e.g., extended day care, extended elder care, caregiver travel) while the faculty member or postdoc is traveling.
The application deadline is 11:59 p.m., Tuesday, October 31, 2023. For further information regarding the application process, please e-mail cfd@partners.org.
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LabArchives Assessment
Do you use LabArchives? Are there limitations to LabArchives that prevent you from using it? Are there other electronic lab notebooks or storage platforms your lab prefers? Let us know! All members of the research community are invited to provide feedback on your experience. We’re looking to learn about your experience and how we can connect you to better resources.
The survey will be available until October 31st.
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The Global Non-Communicable Disease Research Training
This post-doctoral fellowship, led by Dr. Jessica Haberer, is now accepting applications! We encourage you to apply for this fellowship if you are interested in research training related to a wide range of global NCDs, primarily involving cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, lung, and blood (non-cancer) diseases, as well as interactions between infectious diseases and such conditions. Types of research include clinical epidemiology, clinical trials, environmental exposures, diagnostics, genomics, health services research, and implementation science.
The application deadline is December 15, 2023.
For any questions, reach out to Lindsey Garrison (legarrison@mgh.harvard.edu).
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Mass General Brigham MESH Core 2024, Submit an Abstract
MESH Core, presented by MGB Innovation, is a two-day intensive, in-person, hands-on healthcare innovation course designed for beginners and seasoned innovators alike. Open to both internal and external attendees, the course is suitable for physicians, researchers, allied health professionals, students, executives, investors, and the public. A combination of lectures, hands-on cases, networking, roundtables, and scientific sessions.
The abstract submission deadline is December 15th, 2023, and top-voted abstracts have a chance to win a cash award. Accepted abstracts will be notified in early 2024. Register (for internal MGB registrants) and attend to present your work and engage with a diverse audience. For submission guidelines and more details, click here.
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Alert for Mac SPSS Users
SPSS is not yet supported in Mac OS 14 aka ‘Sonoma’. If SPSS is important to your work, do not upgrade your Mac to Sonoma for the time being. IBM (owner of SPSS) is currently testing to make SPSS compatible. At this time, SPSS will not run in Sonoma.
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CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards
Nominations due: Friday, November 10
In acknowledgment of the excellent mentoring culture at MGH, the Center for Faculty Development is sending out a call for nominations for the CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards.
The CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards recognize faculty and postdoctoral fellows whose mentoring has contributed to the success of other faculty and/or trainees during their careers. If you have or know an outstanding mentor who meets the criteria for one of the six awards listed below, we encourage you to nominate that person now! Nominations are due Friday, November 10, and the winners will be announced at the MGH Celebration of Mentoring in January 2024.
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Discounted Stata Licenses
The Research Computing Core offers Stata licenses to the Research Community at a discounted rate via rcservices.partners.org. Stata is a statistical software package that provides tools for analysis, data management and graphics. Interested in learning new tips or looking to learn about new functionality with Stata 18? Check out the Stata Webinars, which are offered free of charge via the vendor's website.
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NEW 2023 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 12
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Zoom
Are you interested in checking your ear skills in rhythm and pitch? Can you pick the notation of the melody you hear? Joo will give a fun activity filled with many rhythmic and melodic exercises. After Joo’s short demo, the participants will listen to the exercises and choose the correct notation from multiple choices. A great chance to develop your ear skills!
Facilitator: Joo Park, PhD, is a composer and pianist. She seeks to write music that explores the dual nature of existence: simple and complex, obsessive and impulsive, serious and humorous, and tonal and atonal. She wants to create music that combines fascinating musical traditions, such as tonality and counterpoint, with her approach to timbre, chords, fast-changing meters, and texture. She intends to create music that is positive and easy to listen to, and yet intellectual.
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NEW Fun Fridays
An Ear-training Session with Professor Joo Park
Friday, November 3, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Zoom
Are you interested in checking your ear skills in rhythm and pitch? Can you pick the notation of the melody you hear? Joo will give a fun activity filled with many rhythmic and melodic exercises.
Facilitator: Joo Park, PhD, is a composer and pianist. She seeks to write music that explores the dual nature of existence: simple and complex, obsessive and impulsive, serious and humorous, and tonal and atonal. She wants to create music that combines fascinating musical traditions, such as tonality and counterpoint, with her approach to timbre, chords, fast-changing meters, and texture. She intends to create music that is positive and easy to listen to, and yet intellectual.
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NEW November Research Council
Monday, November 6, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Simches Research Center
Annual ECOR Elections
Each candidate for ECOR representative will give a brief statement on their background and aspirations for the MGH research community. Come and hear from the candidates as you look to vote!
Network Access Control
The Mass General Brigham Network Access Control (NAC) project is a systemwide effort to gain insight into computing devices connected to the system network to make sure the devices comply with information security policies. In this presentation, we will review MGB device security requirements, the MGH NAC implementation schedule, and actions required to ensure continued device access to the MGB network.
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NEW November Research Council
Monday, November 6, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Simches Research Center
Annual ECOR Elections
Each candidate for ECOR representative will give a brief statement on their background and aspirations for the MGH research community. Come and hear from the candidates as you look to vote!
Network Access Control
The Mass General Brigham Network Access Control (NAC) project is a systemwide effort to gain insight into computing devices connected to the system network to make sure the devices comply with information security policies. In this presentation, we will review MGB device security requirements, the MGH NAC implementation schedule, and actions required to ensure continued device access to the MGB network.
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Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 10:00 – 11:00am
Would you like to know more about the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards?
These awards are designed to provide bridge funding for women with an HMS faculty appointment of instructor or assistant professor, to sustain research productivity during the child-rearing years, with the intention of advancing women in academic medicine. The discussion will cover:
- Eligibility requirements
- Resources to improve your application
- Advice from recent Claflin Scholars
- How the award can advance your career
Join Zoom Meeting
https://partners.zoom.us/j/84006219607
Meeting ID: 840 0621 9607
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NEW Speed Mentoring Hour
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 10:00 – 11:00am
Every month, two mentor leaders from different departments will answer your questions about any aspect of being a mentee or mentor. You do not need to be in the same department as the leaders—this event is open to faculty across MGH, but registration is required. Come ready with your questions and be ready to learn not only from the senior mentoring leaders but also from fellow attendees.
This session is scheduled for November 7, 1–2 pm, with Nara Gavini, PhD, MPhil, Associate Provost for Research, MGH Institute of Health Professions; and Julie K. Silver, MD, Associate Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Mentor leaders will meet with up to 8 faculty members, each given 7-8 minutes to ask questions on any aspect of mentoring or being mentored and receive input from the mentor leaders.
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DF/HCC Lung Cancer Program 2023 Symposium
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:30am-4pm
We invite you to join us for a free in-person DF/HCC Lung Cancer Program Symposium at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center on Thursday, November 9, 2023, from 8:30am-4pm. The theme this year is Small Cell Lung Cancer, and we invite all lung cancer researchers to register to attend the Symposium.
We also want to remind and encourage Fellows, Post-docs, and Junior Faculty to submit abstracts which are due October 24, 2023.
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MGB Gene & Cell Therapy Institute Research Symposium
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Please join the Mass General Brigham Gene and Cell Therapy Institute for a day-long discussion on the innovative work being performed using gene and cell therapies at Mass General Brigham.
The first annual Gene and Cell Therapy Research Symposium will showcase many of these advancements and will bring together the wide-ranging research within the MGB ecosystem that is developing and deploying novel gene therapies, cell therapies and gene editing approaches to human disease.
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NEW Munn Nursing Research Grand Rounds
December 7, 2023, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Nutrition and Diet Quality among Vulnerable Populations during Pregnancy
Nursing Research Grand Rounds highlights nursing science on a quarterly basis. Presentations aim to provide nurses at all practice levels with current examples of clinically-relevant, nurse-lead research to support best practices and improve patient outcomes. This program will discuss how adverse pregnancy outcomes, specifically cardiometabolic conditions, are disproportionally experienced among people of color.
Contact Hours: 1.0 ANCC contact hour
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Two Meditation Sessions available every week
SESSION 1: Meditation Mondays with Dr. Darshan Mehta
Every Monday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom, next session, Monday, October 30!
Co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being and the MGPO Frigoletto Committee
Join Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Director, Office for Well-Being, for a guided meditation session on Monday morning.
Register and add to calendar
SESSION 2: Midweek Meditation with Guest Leader
Every Wednesday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom, next session, Wednesday, November 1!
Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being
Join guest leader, Zeba Ahmad, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, for next Wednesday’s guided meditation session on November 1st!
Register and add to calendar
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