CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD PROGRAM
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The ANPA Career Development Award Program is intended to recognize advanced trainees in neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, or neuropsychology whose accomplishments during training offer promise of a successful career in neuropsychiatry and the clinical neurosciences.  Through this program, one awardee will be selected each year. The award will support costs associated with participation in two consecutive annual meetings, establish an informal mentoring relationship between the awardee and one ANPA Fellow, and facilitate the awardee’s involvement in ANPA.  The Awardee will be recognized at the Annual Meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and in the Association’s newsletter.

PURPOSE
1) To recognize outstanding accomplishment in neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, or neuropsychology among trainees in the later stages of training and the early stages of entering their professional career.
2) To encourage awardees to pursue careers in clinical neuroscience research, education, and/or practice.
3) To facilitate awardee’s attendance at the annual meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
4) To encourage the involvement of awardees in one or more of the committees and task forces of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
5) To provide awardees with a one-year period of support and informal mentorship from a Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

ELIGIBILITY
Trainees in psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, neurology, behavioral neurology, clinical psychology and neuropsychology may apply for this award.  Award preference will be given to applicants seeking this award while in the later stages of training and in the early stages of their career development. The applicant must provide evidence of outstanding accomplishment in neuropsychiatric or clinical neuroscience research, education, or service during his or her training.  Such evidence may include research or review publications, exceptional involvement in the neuropsychiatric education of junior residents or medical students, or superlative clinical service or community outreach to patients with neuropsychiatric conditions.  

APPLICATION
Application for the ANPA Career Development Award must include:
1) The applicant’s Curriculum Vitae documenting outstanding accomplishment in neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, or neuropsychology.
2) A nominating letter from the applicant’s training director and/or department chair.
3) Additional letters of support from one or more ANPA members will be accepted as part of the application (optional).  
4) A Personal Statement by the applicant describing his or her background and  qualifications for this award, and a plan describing how the applicant intends to  use the award to further his or her career in neuropsychiatry, behavioral  neurology, or neuropsychology.
5) The application must be submitted by January 15th of the year of the Annual Meeting.
6) All materials should be e-mailed to: anpa@osu.edu

 
SELECTION OF AWARDEES
The award may not be given every year.  If the award is given, one Awardee will be selected by the ANPA Awards Committee based solely on the applicant’s merits as presented in the application materials.  Three additional applicants may be recognized with Honorable Mentions at the discretion of the award selection committee members.  Selection of Awardees will be made by the middle of February of the year of the Annual Meeting.

BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS
The award will provide:
1) Travel costs and registration at the ANPA annual meeting following selection of the awardee for two consecutive years.  The award includes: least expensive, advance purchase, coach airfare, transportation to and from the airport to the conference hotel, per diem of $35 for the days that meals are not included as part of the meeting registration not to exceed 3 days and a standard room at the student rate at the conference hotel for the days you are in attendance at the meeting, not to exceed 5 nights.
2)  Dues for ANPA membership for one year beginning at the time of presentation of  the award, including a one-year subscription to The Journal of Neuropsychiatry  and Clinical Neurosciences, the official journal of ANPA.
3)  The American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Textbook of Neuropsychiatry, latest Edition.
4)  Establishment of an informal mentoring relationship with an ANPA Fellow focused on the awardee’s career development, a research project, or some similar issue in trainee development for the year following the award.  

AS A CONDITION OF THE AWARD, THE AWARDEE AGREES:
1) To attend the entire ANPA annual meetings at the start and conclusion of the term of his or her award. (Two years)
2) To participate in one ANPA committee, subcommittee, or task force during the years of his or her award.
3) To meet with the Council at the start and conclusion of the award to discuss his or her experience with the program, to offer suggestions for continued improvement in the program, and to welcome the incoming Awardee.
4) To participate in the new members/trainee activities at the annual meeting.