Building a research program

Succeeding as a clinician-scientist

• Models for clinical/research balance
• Salary implications
• Resources/support

The surgeon manager

• Research study budgets
• Program budgets
• Hiring/managing a team
• Logistics

Study design options

New methodologic and analytic approaches

Telling your story, example-based

• Understanding your audience
• Developing a fundable proposal
• Pathway of studies to build for study rationale

Understanding the grant agency, example-based

Working with a consortium

Summarize/wrap up