Volume 2, Issue 2May 2009
El Faro Staff
Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., M.S.W., Editor
Sheila Kaupert,
Newsletter Coordinator
National Office
Jane Brooks, M.Sc., C.M.P.
Website Coordinator
National Steering Committee
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., NHSN Chair
Patricia E. Molina, M.D., Ph.D., NHSN Vice Chair
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.
Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D.
Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.
Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.
Diana Martínez, M.D.
Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Ph.D.
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D.
Yonette F. Thomas, Ph.D.
Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.
William Vega, Ph.D.
Volume 2, Issue 2
2009 Annual Scientific Conferece
CALL FOR BREAKOUT SESSIONS
The 2009 Conference Planning Committee invites all NHSN members to send in submissions for breakout sessions within all content areas of Hispanic drug abuse research. Focused discussions pertaining to nicotine addiction in the Hispanic population is encouraged.
Past topics include, but are not limited to: Promoting leadership in women research scientists; Developing doctoral training programs and promoting scientific mentoring in Latin America; Mentoring basic scientists; Going on the market: how to break into the faculty ranks; Publish or perish? Publish and flourish; Acculturation roundtable; Basic science datablitz; International roundtable: immigration and border issues; Advanced methodology for non-biostatisticians; Alcohol related breakout; Rethinking immigration and drug use; Research in a global context; Translational research and how to accelerate it by engaging communities.
Please send your submissions no later than Monday, June 15th to Jane Brooks and Betsy Giaimo
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The 2009 Poster Session & New Investigator Panel Committee invites all NHSN members to submit abstracts for the International Poster Session, and consideration for the New Investigator Panel.
The NHSN Poster Session is designed to showcase ongoing research projects of NHSN members with the hope that this activity will generate discussion and create linkages for collaboration. The Poster Session is a forum for researchers to present empirical findings, new theoretical advances, innovative preventive interventions and treatment approaches, and conceptual or methodological issues relating to Hispanic drug abuse research.
The Abstract Review Committee will select six abstracts from those submitted for special recognition as oral presentations. Oral presentations will be selected based on quality, innovation and interest to a broad audience. Priority for presentations will be given to submissions by early career scientists, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, and researchers who have recently begun to work independently.
To submit an abstract for the conference, please complete the online Abstract Submission Form.
Deadline: July 1st, 2009