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Status and Initiatives of the APS

Explore the latest developments, programs, and achievements by APS to enhance education, research, and advocacy in the field of physiology. Learn about key collaborations, publications, educational highlights, and science policy efforts.

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Status and Initiatives of the APS

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  1. Status and Initiatives of the APS Martin Frank, Ph.D. APS Executive Director ACDP Retreat, Gamboa, Panama December 6, 2014

  2. APS/ACDP Cooperative Efforts • ACDP Salary Survey – 1980s • APS/ACDP Survey of Recent Doctoral Recipients - 1998 • Medical Physiology Core Curriculum Objective Project – 2002 • Professional Skills for Physiologists and Trainees – 2003 • Animal Usage in Physiology Education • Medical Physiology Course Directors web site • Helping APS expand its Chapter Program • Graduate Program Directors Meeting

  3. Education, Diversity, and Career Development Programs • Multi-level Programs (Provide resources & training on demand) • Life Science Teaching Resource Community (LifeSciTRC) - APS' Digital library that includes content from physiology, developmental biology, anatomy, and other similar fields • APS Career Web, with Mentoring and Career Development Forum • Professional Skills Training courses (in person and online)

  4. K-16 Education Highlights (improve science education & physiology awareness) • Summer research programs & online professional development for K-12 teachers • Physiology Understanding Week (PhUn Week) • Summer research fellowships for 80+ students annually, including targeted programs for underrepresented students • Video contest: sharing physiology with public (open to undergrad and grad students) • David Bruce poster competition for undergraduate poster presenters

  5. Graduate/Professional Education Highlights (promote professional development & APS involvement) • EB career development symposia and refresher course • Awards for mentoring and early career professional service • List of Professional Skills and Med. Phys. Learning Objectives • Graduate & Travel fellowships for URM students • Support for directors of graduate programs and medical physiology courses • Institute for Teaching and Learning – held in June 2014 in Maine. Coming again in 2016 • APPEL - Association of Physiology Professional Education Leadership

  6. Publications • Original research Journals American Journal of Physiology (composed of seven specialty journals) ; Journal of Applied Physiology; Physiological Genomics; Journal of Neurophysiology; Advances in Physiology Education; Physiological Reports (launched 2013 jointly with The Physiological Society, UK) • Review Journals Physiological Reviews; Physiology; Comprehensive Physiology (e-update of the Handbook of Physiology) • Newsletter The Physiologist • Book Monograph Series published on behalf of the APS by Springer

  7. Publications • Cooperative venture with The Physiological Society (UK) • An Open Access Journal Launched March 2013 • Through Aug 31 2014, 372 articles have been published • 1st Decision - 10 days, Accept to Publication - 35 days

  8. Publications • APSselect(http://apsselect.physiology.org/) • A virtual journal that highlights and promotes the best of the best research papers; the top papers accepted each month in the 10 APS research journals. • Each highlighted paper will retain the original citation from the journal in which it was published • These papers will be accompanied by an Editorial and attractive artwork • The APS main page will be the central destination so all will be able to see the latest/greatest APS has to offer

  9. Publications – New Initiatives • SocialCite - SocialCite is a new workflow tool that improves the citation network by allowing you to quickly provide feedback about the validity and quality of citations.  • eLife Lens - provides a novel way of looking at content on the web. It is designed to make life easier for researchers, reviewers, authors and readers. J Neurophysiology & AJP – Heart • Altmetrics - incorporating alternative metrics to define the utility of an article.

  10. Science Policy • Federal funding for biological research • Humane use of animals in research • Strengthen relationship with funding agencies such as NIH and NSF • Sex as a biological variable • Publications access • Peer review • In collaboration with FASEB, AAMC, R!A AMP, NABR

  11. Science Policy • Early Career Advocacy Fellowship: Engage early career investigators in advocacy activities, provide skills to become long-term advocates for scientific research • SP-News, a monthly email bulletin of advocacy-oriented information • Peer Review 101 • Advocacy Toolkit • Chapter Advocacy Program

  12. Nobel Laureate Robert J. Lefkowitz • “Seven Transmembrane Receptor” • WEDNESDAY, April 1, 4:45 PM • Followed by a trainee reception and the APS Closing Party starring “GI Distress” and the “Fabulous FASEBettes.” • Also the Cannon Lecture being presented by Masashi Yanigisawa and the Bowditch Lecture presented by Babette LaMarca • Also 12 sectional distinguished lectures and nearly 12 oral sessions focusing on all aspects of the physiological sciences

  13. Future Challenge for EB • EB is an outgrowth of the FASEB Meeting • Initially the participants were APS, ASPET, ASIP, ASN, AAI, AAA • ASBMB joined and AAI has departed • ASN is departing 2018-2020, unlikely to return • Challenge is to redefine the meeting and address the broad needs of our constituency

  14. APS Conferences - 2015 • September 2-5 - 14th International Conference on Endothelin: Pathophysiology and Therapeutics, Savannah, GA • September 9-12 - Physiological Bioenergetics: From Bench to Bedside, Tampa, FL • November 17-20 - Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: Physiology and Gender, Annapolis, MD

  15. International Meetings/Opportunities • 1st Pan-American Congress of Physiological Sciences – August 2014 in Iguassu Falls, Brazil • 2015 APS trip to Havana, Cuba (?) – being coordinated with Dr. Alberto Dorta, President CPS • Joint meeting with The Physiological Society in Dublin in 2016 • IUPS Congress – August 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • 2nd Pan-American Congress of Physiological Sciences – 2019 in Havana, Cuba • International Opportunity Program – 6 awards @ $7,500 each • 2014 awards in Vietnam, Brazil, Morocco, Nigeria

  16. APS Chapter Program Oklahoma (1982); Ohio (1986) Iowa (1995); Nebraska (1997); Gulf Coast (1999) Arizona (2008); Puerto Rico (2009); Indiana (2009); Tennessee (2009); Michigan (2012); Pennsylvania (2012); District of Columbia (2012) Missouri (2013)

  17. Local Physiology Networks (Virtual Physiology Departments) An opportunity to recapture physiology in institutions lacking physiology departments A pilot program (a compliment to the chapter program): University of Alabama at Birmingham – no physiology department since Benos died, but over 75 APS members University of Wisconsin, Madison – recent loss of department with 70+ APS members on campus Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – 80+ members in Milwaukee, also physiology department

  18. Future Initiatives • APS Fellows Program • Higher Logic – creating communities and enhancing listserv function • Member needs survey – by the end of 2015 • Strategic Planning exercise – 2016 • Re-Branding Initiative – for the Society and for the discipline – 2016 (in parallel with strategic planning effort?)

  19. Thank you! • Martin Frank • (mfrank@the-aps.org) • Twitter: ExecDirectorAPS

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