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Renamed Travel Fellowship Honors Martin Frank’s Commitment to Diversity in Physiology

APS has renamed its Travel fellowships are an effective model that allows longstanding Minority Travel professional societies to make a real difference. They catalyze Fellowship program after one of the development of important professional networks for the program’s greatest boosters: graduate and postdoctoral students in physiology that former APS Executive Director can increase retention in the field. The specific intent of the Martin Frank. Since its inception MFDT Awards is to increase active participation in and in 1987, the program—now networking at APS meetings among trainees and early known as the Martin Frank career faculty in groups traditionally underrepresented in Diversity Travel (MFDT) STEM. Awards program—has made Martin Frank more than 800 travel awards to The MFDT Awards provide funds to attend EB and APS 542 undergraduate, graduate, and conferences. The next round of awards will be selected for postdoctoral students and to faculty members. the APS annual meeting at EB 2019 (application deadline November 21). Eligible researchers include graduate During his tenure as executive director, Frank was a tireless students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty advocate for advancing diversity and inclusion within members (within 5 years of obtaining a PhD). Abstract APS. In addition to many efforts to increase opportunities submission is not required to apply. for underrepresented researchers in physiology, Frank has also pledged funds to support future MFDT Awards and Learn more information, including how to apply, on the offered to match contributions up to $40,000. MFDT Awards webpage (the-aps.org/mfdt). ●

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A Note from Justin Chen, 2018 APS-Sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellow

Justin Chen was chosen as the 2018 people or helping to inform the public on pressing issues APS-sponsored AAAS Mass Media involving biotech and health care. Fellow. He recently completed his PhD in the department of biology Despite my interest in the program, it took 3 years (which at Massachusetts Institute of were spent completing my PhD and navigating a difficult Technology (MIT), where he used lab experience) for me to apply. During this time, the idea frog embryos to model human of science writing and becoming an AAAS Mass Media craniofacial development. fellow buoyed me. I had made a few writing connections, but, in general, many of my advisors were either unable As part of the Fellowship, Chen or unwilling to help me transition to a career outside of Justin Chen spent his summer in the newsroom academia. I knew that the Fellowship was competitive and of science media outlet STAT News that the chances of my acceptance were slim, but it gave (www.statnews.com). At the end of his assignment, he wrote to let me something to work toward and the belief that I could us know how it went and what he learned. His full letter follows. pursue writing as a career.

Dear American Physiological Society, Writing for STAT News has been worth the wait and surpassed my expectations. I have published a variety Thank you for sponsoring me as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow of articles on a broad range of topics. I covered studies at STAT News. Writing for STAT, as well as discussing on developing new treatments, including an oral form of journalism with editors and reporters, has opened a new insulin, smart pills that can help people take their medication world to me. As a graduate student interested in science on time, and cochlear implants that use light to activate writing, it is unlikely that I could have found a similar auditory neurons. For longer pieces, I profiled companies experience on my own or through any other program. and universities changing society and described the way science is performed. The subjects of these articles were Over the past 10 weeks, I not only improved technically as a a start-up company monitoring opioid use by measuring writer but also learned to be more inquisitive and assertive. drug levels in city sewers, a biotech company screening I believe that my work helped contribute to STAT’s mission mail-order DNA to increase safety, and Emory University’s of informing the public of advances and controversies in initiative to teach science to monks and nuns. There was life science and health news. Working at STAT and being also time for fun, as evidenced by an oral history of gene an AAAS Mass Media Fellow has been a transformative names that explained the story behind Sonic Hedgehog, experience, and I hope that you continue to sponsor fellows Ken and Barbie, and Pray for Elves. in the future. Through writing these articles, I learned to sift through I first heard of the AAAS Mass Media Science and information and prod interviewees to identify and concisely Engineering Fellows Program during my third year at MIT convey the heart of a story. I became more confident in my as a PhD candidate in the biology department. The program writing while also practicing how to improve through seemed perfect for me. As an undergraduate, I had studied constructive criticism. My editor at STAT, Jason Ukman, biology and creative writing and was conflicted on what empowered me to chase stories that I found interesting and kind of career to pursue; combining my two interests never was an amazing editor. Sometimes Jason would crystalize occurred to me. I eventually decided to pursue research as a my thoughts, which I had struggled to convey over a few graduate student but soon realized that I preferred writing paragraphs, in just a few sentences. This was an eerie about science to performing experiments. I also felt that, experience-it felt like he knew what I was trying to say although my research had the potential to help patients in better than I did-but it inspired me to constantly interrogate the distant future, I was far removed from directly impacting my writing.

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My immediate plans after this summer are to start full- Mass Media Fellows. Although [my current Fellowship time employment as an external affairs associate at colleagues and I] have only spent a few days together, we OpenBiome—a nonprofit stool bank. OpenBiome’s dual have been communicating ideas, hopes, failures, successes, mission is to enable fecal microbiota transplantation, and support via [the Slack app]. Together, we’ve written or an unusual but life-saving procedure for patients with produced more than 350 articles and videos. To us, science antibiotic-resistant C. difficile, and support research on the is not only a tool for solving global issues like climate microbiome. change and new epidemics but also a source of wonder and inspiration that can encourage readers to be more curious In my new position, I will help communicate OpenBiome’s and adventurous in their own lives. mission to a variety of audiences, including the public, patients, doctors, government officials, and scientists. I will Thank you again for sponsoring me and making this help write social media posts, newsletters, white papers, summer possible. Please let me know if you’d like to me and academic articles. During these activities, I will rely on write more about my experience for your newsletter or the confidence and skills I’ve learned during the Fellowship. website. I’d be happy to help out in any way that I can.

I have also spoken with editors at STAT who are interested in Sincerely, maintaining a relationship through freelance opportunities. Justin Chen

Finally, through the Fellowship program, I have gained a support network comprised of other past and present

Read a selection of articles that Chen wrote for STAT News below. For a full list of all 13 of the articles he penned this summer, visit www.statnews.com and search “Justin Chen.”

1. With new advances, scientists and drug makers reach for ‘holy grail’ of diabetes treatment. https://www. statnews.com/2018/06/25/insulin-diabetes-oral-delivery

2. Adherence to PrEP, the HIV prevention drug, is low. A new study suggests a pill with a tiny sensor might help. https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/24/digital-pill-prep-truvada

3. For life’s big questions, Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns try a scientific approach. https://www.statnews. com/2018/07/26/tibetan-buddhist-monks-and-nuns-try-a-scientific-approach

4. Sonic hedgehog and Beethoven: an oral history of how some genes got their names. https://www.statnews. com/2018/07/16/gene-names-oral-history

5. Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below? https://www. statnews.com/2018/06/26/wastewater-epidemiology-biobot-opioids

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Arthur C. Guyton Educator of the Year Award 2018

Jonathan D. Kibble

Teaching Philosophy the truth in Penny’s statement. Well, if telling is not The nearest I came to interacting teaching, then what is? Tackling this in a literal way has with Dr. Guyton was through his led me to experiment with several different active-learning medical physiology textbook. pedagogies and up a steep learning curve to reach three Winter evenings in 1989 were philosophical positions: spent with his weighty seventh edition, trying to wrap my mind 1) The purpose of teaching is to optimize conditions around all those pressures, for learning. volumes, and feedback loops. 2) If I am the hardest working person in the room, Like millions of other students, something has gone wrong (see student-centered Jonathan D. Kibble my first tentative steps in learning below). physiology included Dr. Guyton 3) If learning has occurred, then I should be able to as a guide. I still enjoy my Guyton & Hall textbook, which detect a lasting change in student knowledge, skills, is now in a lean 13th edition with all manner of engaging or behavior. supplements. Thank you to the book’s publisher, Elsevier, and to the APS for maintaining a Guyton Award that These days, I try to start by reading about best practices recognizes the work of physiology educators, and thank in the area of interest, and I rely less on the feelings from you to the selection committee for this honor. my small intestine to inform my level of success. I have included a Reading List of few favorite papers at the end of I have been teaching physiology for 22 years, which is not this article that I have found to be helpful. long enough to have a conclusive teaching philosophy. Nevertheless, if you join me for this half-time talk, I will Onward to the second Hansenism: It is not about me. On happily share a few thoughts. I quickly learned that a lot of the face of it, this seems simple: the good teacher cares clever people had been thinking about teaching and learning first about student success; the good teacher is focused before I came along. As a result, the core of my philosophy on student learning outcomes, not personal performance; is Stand on the Shoulders of Giants. In my first year as a full- and the good teacher wants to facilitate personal growth time physiology educator, I became a colleague of Penny in learners, perhaps even for the betterment society. Hansen, one such friendly giant, and a former Guyton When it is not about me, the learning becomes student- awardee, who shared three golden nuggets: 1) telling is centered. In this philosophy, our goal is to develop learner not teaching, 2) it is not about me, and 3) my classroom independence and problem solving. Learners need some is my laboratory. Fifteen years later, my philosophies are autonomy to determine their own path of learning, instead continuously being shaped by the process of unpacking of us dictating what, where, when and how something must these gems. Let’s see what progress I am making. be learned. However, we must be careful not to confuse a student-centered approach with a student-as-customer Telling is not teaching seemed to suggest that lecturing approach. Entitlement and a lack of student experience of was not the way to go. That burned. I was getting pretty active learning are among the challenges we often face when good at lecturing. I knew this must be so because student attempting to foster student-centered learning. Students evaluations confirmed I was providing exactly what they pay high tuition fees, and the implicit deal is that the teacher needed to know. How disappointing to find out a year later is responsible for their success and that learning should not that students had forgotten most of what I had covered. I be too onerous, right? The discoveries that learning is likely had taught but they had not learned. Ergo, had I taught? to be a struggle and that the teacher is not always going to I discovered the work of Joel Michael and Harold Modell, tell you what you need to know can jeopardize ratings. If I and countless other investigators, who were confirming take over the responsibility for student learning or, worse,

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if I lower standards to bolster my ratings, it becomes about the traditional multiple-choice final exam. On reflection, I me again, and student learning suffers. There are darker concluded that my three benchmarks were met: conditions sides still when education becomes all about the teacher. for meaningful learning had been created, students were What if I disrupt the appropriate learning sequence by the ones working hard in the classroom, and evidence of changing class activities to fit my research commitments? learning gains was gathered. The sum of my reflection was What if I undermine the defensibility of a test result by that the learning outcomes justify staying with the active- keeping questions that should be thrown out because, darn learning approach for future classes, despite some decline it, I taught that material even if those defective students in student ratings. did not learn it? Given the obvious power imbalance in the classroom, what lasting impact does it have if I close a To both of my remaining readers, thank you for indulging class discussion down by interjecting a definitive opinion me, but it is really time you got back to work, so let’s finish up or, worse, expose biases I might harbor about race, gender, with the third law of Hansen: My classroom is my laboratory. or politics? Truly, it must not be about me or learning will As trained scientists, we should bring our innate sense of suffer. Okay, Penny was right in so many ways here, but I curiosity to the classroom. We should apply the same level am preaching. I will let you into a secret. I do sometimes of scholarly preparation to our teaching as we do to our enjoy being the “Sage on the Stage.” I find it flattering when bench research. We might even consider our educational students laugh at my jokes and I do like it when they say nice interventions as experiments, designed to seek answers things about me on evaluations. In fact, you are positively about what really works. However, I have discovered making my head swell by naming me Guyton Educator of this is harder than it sounds. As scientists, we were the Year! But here lies the danger, because whenever my trained in the ways of positivism, meaning the only valid ego takes over, my decisions become tainted by the fear of knowledge derives from empirical data and measurable personal failure and I lose my focus on student learning. observation. This leads us to develop null hypotheses, compare quantitative differences between treatment and Reflective practice is a good way to avoid some of the control groups, declare logical conclusions, and demand aforementioned pitfalls. Let me give an example. During the reproducibility and generalizability of findings. All fine this past year, I replaced a block of lectures in my first- things in science, but students are people, and people are year medical school class with some online self-learning complicated. We usually do not have the luxury of control resources. I planned and team-taught a session with a groups during a real class, and many of the variables are hard physician at the end of the block in which teams of students to quantify (e.g., affect, motivation, and professionalism). were made accountable for their independent learning by Accessible measures of learning outcomes such as test working with a real patient. Using skills learned in their scores are the result of the interaction of numerous sources clinical skills course, students first completed a medical of variance, making it hard to interpret the effect size of our interview and proposed differential diagnoses. After experimental intervention. As physiologists, we are faced some debriefing from the physician, students had two with a need to add more strings to our bows, or even the further tasks: first, to explain to the patient the nature of need to learn to play a whole new instrument! We need to their disease and why they were experiencing symptoms embrace the learning theories behind what we are doing, and, second, to provide a telephone summary of the and learn different non-experimental research designs and case to another physician. Looking at the success of this how to write surveys or apply qualitative research methods. change in pedagogy through the student lens, evaluation Joel Michael did a qualitative study more than 10 years ago scores were 10–15% lower than prior years. Some specific asking about barriers to active learning (Michael J. College improvements were suggested, but some students were just Teaching 55: 42–47, 2007). He identified general pedagogical annoyed at the lack of lectures. Looking through the faculty barriers such as the nature of classrooms as well as student lens, it took a similar amount of work to create and plan and teacher characteristics. Among his conclusions was the session and self-learning resources as a lecture sequence a call to increase the scholarship of teaching: “Teaching would take. Team-teaching was also a lot of fun and gave needs to be treated like any other scholarly activity, carried me the precious opportunity to debrief with a colleague. We out in a public arena in which ideas and innovations are directly observed students transfer knowledge into action open to scrutiny and debate. This way, each of us as as well as their application of clinical skills. Of note, a few teachers can draw on the collective wisdom and insights weeks later the students performed as well as before on of our colleagues to make our classrooms more effective

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in helping students learn.” Evidently, the philosophies of 5. Zimmerman BJ. Self-regulated learning and academic giants align on the importance of scholarship in teaching. achievement: an overview. Educ Psychol 25: 1, 3–17, 1990. As usual, this is not my idea, but placing scholarship at the [This is the first paper I read about self-regulated learning center of teaching practice has become a guiding principle. when I was thinking about data showing that students who Building on those who have gone before, I see community did poorly in my class tended not to use self-assessment standards and best practices now emerging for pedagogy, quizzes. It introduced me to the idea of metacognition, i.e., instructional design, and assessment. the knowledge a learner has about their cognitive activities during the learning process as well as the level of skill I will end with a thank you to one last giant, my PhD they have in regulating cognitive activity. Ideal learners supervisor Roger Green, without doubt a giant of intellect, have high levels of intrinsic motivation, set goals, monitor integrity, humor, and professionalism. The learning progress through self-assessments, and embrace feedback environment he provided not only allowed me to learn a to guide regulation of their effort and study strategies. As lot about kidneys but forever changed me as a person. Now Harold Modell rightly reminds us, Helping the Learner to that’s a teacher! Learn is where the action is!].

That is the end of the philosophy part but, as promised, 6. Ericsson KA, Krampe RT, Tesch-Römer C. The role of below are a few favorites from my reading list. deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychol Rev 100: 363–406, 1993. [I was drawn to this Reading List paper seeking a fast track to improving my expertise as 1. Sweller J, Van Merrienboer JJ, Paas FGWC. Cognitive a novice faculty member, but it proves to be valuable in architecture and instructional design. Educ Psychol Rev many learning contexts. Observed performance is not a 10: 251–296, 1998. [Sweller describes Cognitive Load function of longevity of professional experience but can be Theory, which relates to leveraging the processes of how linked to a commitment to engage in deliberate practice— memories are formed by minimizing “extraneous load” the intentional focus on improving task performance, and maximizing “germane load.”] receptivity to feedback, time to problem solve, and opportunities to repeatedly practice. If at first you do not 2. Mayer RE. Applying the science of learning to medical succeed...] education. Med Educ 44: 543–549, 2010. [Mayer applies cognitive learning theory to multimedia learning and 7. Brookfield SD. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (2nd introduces the idea that there are verbal and pictorial ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2017. [Recently pathways for information processing that we can leverage updated second edition, suggests we view our teaching in designing effective learning materials]. practice through four lenses: student feedback (ideally during a course not after it), faculty feedback, personal 3. Brown PC, Roediger (III) HL, McDaniel MA. Make It experience, and learning theories. I especially like the part Stick: the Science of Successful Learning. Cambridge, MA: noting that this balanced reflection has a protective effect The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. [Great against “self-laceration,” i.e., not feeling guilty for our self- overview of learning techniques that enhance memory, perceived “pedagogic incompetence.”] including retrieval practice, spacing effect, and mixed practice effect. Good chapters on reasons why effortful 8. Kay D, Kibble JD. Learning theories 101: application to learning is so important and includes some nice practical everyday teaching and scholarship. Adv Physiol Educ advice for learners.] 40: 17–25, 2016. [Shameless self-promotion! Actually, I just sprinkled in some physiology context to a nice 4. Bjork, RA, Dunlosky J, Kornell N. Self-regulated learning: introduction to learning theories that Denise Kay beliefs, techniques, and illusions. Ann Rev Psychol 64: 417– mapped out. I include this paper because I personally 444, 2013. [Covers some similar ground to Make it Stick but found “Educationese” a hard language to follow when elaborates on ways in which learners’ judgements of their first trying to read about learning theory, and I think learning are often wrong and why this can lead to poor Denise has produced an accessible starting point in this decisions about how to study. Concepts of self-monitoring short review.] and self-regulated learning are introduced.]

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get probably after being on the job for a month—you will Mine have since made new friends and best friends. have to think strategically, plan accordingly and accept Whether your partner is in academia or not, moving all the help you can get from your family and friends (3). I is logistically difficult for families that depend on two was fortunate to have my husband’s support throughout incomes. Finding a job for your spouse can be difficult to the moving process, financially and physically. We cut impossible, thereby putting a strain on your relationship down on moving costs by packing our house ourselves and finances. I had a different situation because my with the help of great friends. Most importantly, my husband was still receiving a salary while on leave, but husband took a sabbatical for a year and worked from I am aware that this is more of an exception than the home to take care of the kids; this gave them a better rule. Although a post-doc position does not come with transition into their new lives, allowed us to save money help for spousal accommodation, your new principal on childcare, and gave me more time to spend at work. investigator (PI) might be able to connect you with people Fellow post-docs, your situation might be different from who can help. Just remember to express your needs and mine, but I can tell you that it gets better, and, in the end, ask for help as soon as you start considering the offer. it’s all worth it. Your partner might also join you on your campus visit to explore the area for opportunities. Don’t forget to check How May Your Move Affect You? the weather! If you are a family that enjoys outdoor When you move, you leave your social support network— activities and the weather in your new town is drastically friends and family—behind. When I started my PhD different from that of the previous location, as inmy program with two children under the age of 4, I needed case, you will have to learn as a family to adapt to the a lot of extra help and support in addition to what my change and find new hobbies. Just remember that every husband provided, and fortunately for me, my friends change is an opportunity for discovery, and this one is and church community stepped in. Without them, I don’t not different. My family and I have been enjoying all the think I could have completed my dissertation. Moving great attractions our new community has to offer. We away for my post-doc severed those connections that I feel lucky to have moved to a place with great diversity, had relied on for years, which opened the door to anxiety. vibrant cultural life, great food, and great scenery. The Moving and changing jobs are major life stressors (1, 2), challenges and frustration your nuclear family will face, and without a network of support, they can result in if they are not addressed, could be an added stress that depression or health issues. My advice is that, despite will affect your productivity at work. the demands of a new job and a new environment, you should stay connected to your family and friends via How May Your Move Affect Your Position/Job? mail, phone, and new technologies. In the meantime, it It is not a secret that your state of mind dictates the state is important to make connections with other post-docs in of your work. I spent a lot of time at work wondering your department or university—old and new—and learn whether I had made the right decision for my family. I how they cope with the stress of the job. Talk to parents had found a great school district for my children, but you meet at the park and if your children are in school, would that be enough? How would they adjust to their make time to attend parents’ meetings, and connect new school and their new environment? Would they with other working parents. You might be surprised to make friends? Would their teachers be a good match? find out that you are not the only post-doc or parent Thinking about those challenges, at times, took my who recently moved far from everybody they knew and focus away from my new job. Furthermore, the anxiety depended on. Be patient and get to know the people you caused by uncertainty and lack of social support network meet. Be open to making new friends and embrace your threatened to cost me the job I had left everything for. I new environment. One year later, I have been able to later found out that, while I was worrying, my family was build some good friendships, and you will too! having fun exploring the parks and trails, swimming, biking, and going on walks. As I said in the beginning, How May Your Move Affect Your Family? remember to take a deep breath and tell yourself As hard as the move could be for you, it cannot compare that everything will be fine. You have been through to the feeling of “rupture” your family will feel. You challenging moments before (birth of your children, moved for the job while they moved for you. My children early parenthood, graduate school, dissertation, etc.), felt ripped from their friends and the only community and you made it. This family relocation for your post-doc they knew, and they reminded me of this for months will soon be another challenge you conquered in your following our move. But you shouldn’t worry too much quest for the advancement of your career. Express your about this. Children tend to adapt faster and better. needs and obstacles early on to your partner, your PI, or the mentors you have. They all want you to succeed!

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What Did I Learn? Finally, choose a flexible PI. Regardless of her/his family Start with the end in mind before accepting the position. situation, your post-doc mentor should be one who Once you do, dive in and do not worry too much. understands the complexities of who you are—parent first and scientist second. An amazing assistant professor Do not get too excited, and do not make any promises. We I met recently told me something that described so well all know the “what am I going to do when I graduate?” the physiologist I want to be. She said that she doesn’t feeling, and because of that, we get very excited if want to be just a woman with children, but she wants to we are lucky to meet a PI interested in us before our be a mother! There is a saying that “if you want to know graduation. Be excited, but hold off on making promises somebody, ask the people they hang out with.” If you you might not be able to keep if you don’t want to burn want to know a prospective boss, ask the people they some bridges. Remember that even though the post-doc work(ed) with (research coordinators, graduate students, position is about you, your family’s needs and priorities and previous post-docs) and listen. The impression and are an important part of the decision-making process. If feedback I got about my now post-doc mentor when I you are lucky enough to have more than one offer, pick did the job interview and site visit remain the same 1 the right one for your family, because if they are happy, year later. We have a great working relationship and chances are you will be happy too, and your productivity friendship. My PI understands that sometimes I can be at work will really show it. late or absent for personal or family reasons. However, there is always an understanding that work needs to be Talk to your family and make sure your partner and done, papers have to be written, and grants submitted. children are on-board. No matter how prestigious a After all, your own career depends on it. PI, lab, or university is, your success there will depend in part on the support of your family. You will have to In conclusion, I wish you, my fellow post-docs, the best learn how to work in a new environment, with new of luck on your new and exciting academic journey. May people, and on new projects. It might come with a lot of you think about your family well-being, plan well, listen frustration and uncertainty. Thus home needs to be a safe well, and carefully choose your new location, program, and happy place, because when you move, your nuclear lab, and future mentor! family initially will be the only social network you will References have for a while. Be supportive of each other! Relocating is difficult in many ways, especially for someone leaving 1. Morris T, Manley D, Northstone K, Sabel CE. How everything for a partner’s new job. do moving and other major life events impact mental health? A longitudinal analysis of UK children. Health & Consult your advisor and mentors and listen carefully. Place 46: 257–266, 2017. It is true that not all graduate students have a great relationship with their advisors. If this is the case for you, 2. Salleh MR. Life event, stress and illness. Malaysian J Med my hope is that, during your PhD training, you met a Sci 15: 9–18, 2008. great mentor who can guide you through this process. I was very fortunate to have an advisor who has been 3. Smith J. 8 tips for a successful job relocation (Online). a role model for me as a scientist. His advice and gift to https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/11/20/8- me was “work hard and dream big.” The training and tips-for-a-successful-job-relocation/#449fcf782930. work ethic he instilled in me have made this journey less difficult and a very rewarding one so far. Knowing that 4. Williams G. The hidden costs of moving (Online). he is always one text or phone call away relieved some of https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/ my earliest anxiety. Through the American Physiological articles/2014/04/30/the-hidden-costs-of-moving. ● Society (APS) and Michigan Physiological Society, I also bonded with amazing female scientists who have become mentors and role models to me. One of them helped me figure out the type of questions I could ask before accepting an offer. She will remain a lifelong mentor.

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Awards Committee

Young Investigator Career Enhancement Awards Awards The RCEA ($20,000) and TCEA ($10,000) are offered once APS Young Investigator Awards a year (deadline for this year was May 31, 2018) and are (YIA) comprise the Arthur reviewed by the Awards Committee. In 2018, we have Guyton Award for Excellence received 14 applications for RCEA and 9 applications for in Integrative Physiology, the TCEA (to be reviewed). Lazaro J. Mandel Award, the Shih Chun Wang Award, and 2017 RCEAs (total number of applications = 16). The the Dean Franklin Award. Only winners of the 2017 RCEA were: one award in each category is • Eunhee Chung (University of Texas at San Antonio) Alexander Staruschenko, Chair given annually to an early • Paige Geiger (University of Kansas Medical Center) career professional. In 2017, • Jaume Padilla (University of Missouri) the Committee received 22 applications for all four awards. • William Schrage (University of Wisconsin-Madison) The awards were presented at the 2018 Experimental • Alexander Staruschenko (Medical College of Wisconsin) Biology meeting. Many of the applicants for the YIAs were very impressive. The winners of the 2018 YIAs were: 2017 TCEAs (total number of applications = 4). The winner • Arthur C. Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative of the 2017 TCEA were: Physiology: Lauro Vianna (University of Brasília) • Josef Brandauer (Gettysburg College) • Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award: Tengis Pavlov (Henry Ford Health System) Award Committee Discussion (during in person committee • Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award: Aaron meeting at EB in San Diego). Main points of the discussion Polichnowski (East Tennessee State University) covered: • Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award: Colin 1) Promotion of the YIAs and RCEA/TCEA (APS listserv, Young, PhD (The George Washington University) Social media, personal communications). 2) Outcome and impact of the awards program. The number of applications has remained relatively stable 3) Review of YIAs (ranking over scoring; discontinue over the past 3 years, but some decline was observed. detailed letters to applicants).

2015 2016 2017 Council accepted the report of the Awards Committee. ● Arthur Guyton Award 7 9 7 Lazaro J. Mandel Award 7 2 4 Shih Chun Wang Award 8 5 7 Dean Franklin Award 13 8 7 Total 35 25 22

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Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee

The Career Opportunities Unfortunately, continued funding of the career cards was in Physiology Committee cut in 2018 as part of the change in priorities outlined in the (COPC) serves as a resource for recent APS Strategic Plan. current information regarding career options in physiology, Career Outreach Resources professional development at The APS Careers Website was developed by the COPC and diverse levels, and fostering launched in March 2003. It provides extensive resources career interest in physiology. for two major purposes: 1) to assist students and new and experienced physiologists in the development of their APS Careers Poster careers; and 2) to help the general public gain a better Thomas A. Pressley, Chair Since 2012, COPC has been understanding of the work that physiologists do. The site providing a poster promoting includes resources for elementary, middle/high school, careers in physiology to encourage students to visit the APS undergraduate, graduate/professional, postdoctoral website and attract students to physiology graduate work. fellows, new investigators, established investigators, A digital copy of the poster is available on the APS website. and the general public. Within each section, the user finds resource categories customized to their needs. The specific APS Career Cards resources (such as biographies, hands-on experiments, Based on feedback from teachers, the Committee replaced career resources, etc.) are written at the appropriate a career brochure previously distributed by the APS with educational level. It also serves as a dissemination site for trading cards describing the work of diverse physiologists the recordings of EB career-related sessions developed by (career stage, research area, gender, and racial/ethnic the COPC, Women in Physiology, and Trainee Advisory group). During each calendar year, a different group of Committees. It also includes hyperlinks for career scientists are featured in a new set of cards. These career development resources associated with each skill listed in cards provide an opportunity for greater interaction with the APS-ACDP List of Professional Skills. All resources on students. If students go to the website on the card, they the site are cataloged in the Life Sciences Teaching Resource can answer a question about the physiologist on the card, Community digital library and pushed to the website unlocking an additional biography card that they can print as a folder of resources, allowing new materials to easily out. Teachers also use 8”x11” versions when constructing be added to individual pages. Along similar lines, the STEM career bulletin boards. Overall, the cards offer a way Committee has developed APS Career Presentations that to be more interactive with the students who receive them. consist of downloadable PowerPoint files for use at the middle and high school levels, as well as lower and upper The APS has now published over two dozen career cards undergraduate levels. featuring members. Feedback has been very positive from both physiologists and teachers about the trading cards. Career Development at Experimental Biology They are distributed on demand when APS is contacted by In 2018, the APS adopted a new “Trainee Hour” format that members, teachers, and students. COPC coordinates with the consisted of three concurrent sessions for each of Sunday, Education Committee so that career cards can be distributed Monday, and Tuesday mornings. Committee members as part of PhUn Week activities. They are also given out Josef Brandauer and Bryan Becker chaired the COPC at various education conferences and workshops. These sessions collectively titled “Hallmarks of and Ground Rules distributions are usually followed by a spike in web traffic for Productive Collaborations in Science.” The sessions on the APS careers website, suggesting that links on the cards targeted scientists interested in initiating or optimizing were used. In the past year, committee members John Henry active collaborations, and they were focused on addressing Dasinger and Kelly Hyndman developed a Physio-Facts common challenges and conflicts inherent in collaborative card featuring renal physiology. It joins the completed card work. Over the 3 days, a diverse panel of six experts with on gastrointestinal physiology published last year. varied academic and industry experience spoke for about

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20 minutes each (two panelists per session) and then Undergraduate Summer Research participated in an ~20-min panel discussion/Q&A session. Fellowship Program Given the early start time (7 AM), the sessions drew a good- The APS Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship sized group of about 120 attendees in total. (UGSRF) Program was established in 2000 with the goal “to excite and encourage undergraduate students worldwide For 2019, Committee members Bryan Becker and to pursue a career as a basic research scientist.” It has Christopher Trimby will co-chair the COPC Symposium developed into a flagship APS program with measureable “The Hidden Job—Parts of a Physiology Career That You objectives and influences hundreds of undergraduates. Might Not Know About.” In its current form, the UGSRF Program supports up to 24 full-time undergraduate students annually to work Undergraduate Orientation Session at EB in the laboratories of established investigators. Faculty Since 2008, all undergraduates who submit a first-author sponsors/advisors must be active members of the APS in abstract to APS are invited to a special Saturday session. It good standing. These fellowships provide a $4,000 summer is a joint project of COPC, Education, and Trainee Advisory stipend to the student (10 weeks of support), a $300 grant Committees. The session includes “how-to” presentations to the faculty sponsor/advisor, and a $1,300 travel award/ on making the most of the EB meeting, giving a poster reimbursement for the students to attend and present presentation, and introducing oneself. It has served as the their data (if appropriate) at EB. Financial support for the formal recognition session for the fellowship programs, program is provided by the APS and the host laboratories. including UGSRF, UGREF, STRIDE, and IOSP Fellows. In addition to their laboratory work, the UGSRFs complete It also serves as informal recognition for the Barbara A. interactive online assignments that explore how to structure Horwitz/John M. Horowitz Abstract Awardees, as well as a research project/series of experiments and that explore/ for the Video Contest award winners. discuss physiology-related careers. These online activities and conversations are run on an online course management The EB 2018 orientation session was organized by platform and have proven exceptional, with students committee members Kelly Hyndman and Josef Brandauer discussing not only their research but also their hopes and and attracted well over 100 undergraduate students. concerns about their future careers and families. Members of the APS Executive Cabinet welcomed the undergraduate students and presented certificates to the In the application cycle for 2018, 75 eligible applicants UGSRF, UGREF, STRIDE, and IOSP Fellows. All three were reviewed by the Committee, and the names of committees were well-represented, with multiple members 24 suggested awardees were forwarded to Council attending to talk with the students during and after the for approval, along with a ranked list of alternates. session and to assist in distributing materials. Over the nearly 20-year history of the program, the program has received well over 1,000 applications Career Presentations at APS Conferences with an average funding rate of 33%. In addition, two Since 2006, the Committee has worked with the organizers fellows were funded in 2018 with support of the Hearst of APS conferences and chapters to include career Foundations. The Hearst program is intended to support development sessions and/or activities at those meetings. U.S. undergraduate students from disadvantaged These have included both informal sessions at the APS backgrounds, from underrepresented racial and ethnic table/booth and formal sessions with a room assignment. groups, and students with disabilities. Evidence that The committee receives support from the APS for a the program is indeed encouraging interest in research workshop at one APS conference per year. COPC member is provided by the continued involvement of UGSRF Bryan Becker hosted a career/education workshop at the students in APS activities. Most of the 2017 cohort “Physiological and Pathophysiological Consequences of of UGSRF students attended EB in 2018. Seven were Sickle Cell Disease” conference held in Washington, DC, awarded 2018 Barbara A. Horwitz/John M. Horowitz November 6–8, 2017. Several members of the Committee Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards, and attended the “APS Institute on Teaching and Learning” held four went on to win 2018 David S. Bruce Excellence in June 18–22, 2018 in Madison, WI. Much of this conference Undergraduate Research Awards. was devoted to career development and professional skills.

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Unfortunately, funding for this program has been Physiology Video Contest for reduced by half as part of the revised priorities outlined Undergraduate and Graduate Students in the recent Strategic Plan. In 2011, COPC launched the APS video contest, “APS Presents...Phantastic Physiology Voyage: Function Follows Undergraduate Research Excellence Form,” which was designed to engage undergraduate Fellowship Program and graduate students by creating engaging, accurate, The APS Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellowship informative, and entertaining physiology videos for the (UGREF) Program was launched in 2013 with the goal general public. “to encourage undergraduate students worldwide who are already involved in research to continue on that track A selection committee consisting of members of COPC and toward a career as a basic research scientist.” The UGREF invited past APS Summer Research Teachers evaluated nine Program supported up to six full-time second- to fourth-year submissions in the 2018 cycle. The applicants included both undergraduate students who have more than 9 months of undergraduate and graduate students. The Committee research experience to continue working in the laboratories selected and forwarded to Council for approval “Superbug of established investigators. Both students and faculty Blues” by Noah Resnick of Kean University. The video is an sponsors/advisors must have been active members of the animation produced by Noah under the pen name Arbor APS in good standing. UGREF offered financial support to Vitae, and describes the risks of improper antibiotic use. the fellows and faculty sponsor/advisor comparable to that “Physiology of Memory and Learning” by May Elsayed of of the UGSRF program. This funding was provided by the the Misr University of Science and Technology received the APS and the host laboratories, and awardees were selected Viewer’s Choice award, which was selected by the general by the Committee with subsequent approval by Council. viewing public.

The UGREFs completed interactive online assignments One of the advantages of the video contest is that the videos exploring how to structure a research project/series continue to promote physiology long after the contest of experiments and exploring/discussing physiology- has ended. Each video remains on YouTube (unless the related careers. The UGREF activities were built on UGSRF video creator deletes it), and it can be accessed with links activities, developing UGREF’s writing and presentation from other sites. For example, each video is cataloged in skills. UGREFs were also required to submit an abstract the Life Science Teaching Resource Community with an to EB. embedded YouTube link. An awardee from 2013, “Hillbilly Hypoglycemia,” by Michael Ridlehoover, Alexis Wren, and In the application cycle for 2018, 21 applicants were Zachary Minter of Augusta University, has accumulated reviewed by the Committee, and the names of 6 suggested nearly 5,000 views and inspired the development of a lesson awardees were forwarded to Council for approval, along plan by faculty members at Georgia Regents University, with a ranked list of alternates. Over the 6-year history who use the video as its basis. of the program, the program has received well over 100 applications with an average funding rate of 21%. Evidence These encouraging results notwithstanding, the consistently that the program is indeed sustaining interest in research small number of applicants has prompted the discontinuation is provided by the involvement of UGREF students in APS of the video contest. activities. Two members of the current cohort, Winston Guo and Shao Yang Zhang, received Horwitz/Horowitz Excellence in Professional Student (MD or Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards at this year’s DO) Research Travel Award EB meeting. Similarly, two of last year’s cohort, Maleeha The APS Excellence in Professional Student (MD or Ahmad and Alexandra Carl, received both Outstanding DO) Research Travel Award Program was launched in Undergraduate Abstract and Research Awards at EB 2018. 2013 with the goal “to encourage MD or DO students to attend, present their research, and participate fully in the Unfortunately, this program has been discontinued as part Experimental Biology (EB) meeting.” The award supported of the revised priorities outlined in the recent Strategic Plan. up to 10 MD or DO students who were first authors on

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abstracts to attend EB, present their research, and attend the best physiology project. The teachers of the winning an orientation session. Applicants were reviewed by the students receive the APS book Women Life Scientists: Past, Committee, and suggested awardees were submitted to Present, and Future and an APS resource packet. Up to 100 Council for approval. awards are available each year on a first-come, first-served basis. Advertisements are posted in The Physiologist and In the 5 years of the program, COPC received 75 the All-APS News e-mail updates for members and sent applications, and over 40 medical students received travel to all past participants. The judge (or judges) must be an awards and attended the orientation at EB. However, the APS member in good standing who is willing to present relatively small number of applicants and the higher-than- the award on behalf of the APS to the student with the best expected success rates for the award were of concern to both physiology project (one winning student per science fair). COPC and Council. The program has been discontinued. Standard conflict of interest policies apply. After the science fair, the judge reports the winner’s name and school via an APS Local and Regional Science Fair Awards online report form. Winners’ names and pictures are posted This program encourages APS members to make an APS on the APS Local and Regional Science Fair website. physiology award at their local or regional science fair at the elementary, middle, or high school level. The program During the 2017–2018 academic year, 12 requests for provides opportunities for students from elementary a Science Fair Award Packet were received from APS through high school to learn what physiology is and to members. COPC is currently working with chapters in become “associated with the field” through recognition of Michigan, Puerto Rico, Indiana, Nebraska, and Ohio to their work. The program also builds connections between increase the number of science fair packets requested in the APS members and their local schools. Finally, it encourages coming year. local fairs to promote physiology-based projects to their students, since there are potential awards to be won. Council accepted the report of the Career Opportunities in ● Student winners receive an APS T-shirt and a certificate for Physiology Committee.

Chapter Advisory Committee

During the fiscal year July, • Chapters share APS's goals of fostering education, 2017 through June, 2018, scientific research, and dissemination of information the Chapter Advisory in physiological sciences, and are able to reach Council met three times. faculty and students who do not currently engage Discussions included a vast at the national level (participation in chapter annual array of topics including meetings exceeds 1,000 participants with fewer methods of best practice, than 50% being current APS members). mission impact, assisting • APS assistance with chapter meeting registration newly forming chapters, and will provide contact lists for potential membership improving connections with and easy access to data important to furthering the Mari K. Hopper, Chair the APS. When asked by the mission of APS. APS what chapters bring to the APS, the following • Chapters provide local contacts for "grassroots" list was assembled. organization promoting advocacy efforts.

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• Chapters advertise and promote the benefits of APS CAC Goals for Coming Year membership at annual meetings and on websites. 1) Build collaborative and integrative relationship with • Chapters provide opportunities for trainees of the APS all levels (high school through postdoctoral) to develop scientific presentation skills, network with 2) Establish a strategic plan that informs all APS members colleagues, practice leadership skills, and establish of chapter work and value mentorships and support as they prepare for futures Dust vs. Gold Report in academia and healthcare. • Chapters Usage: 24%; same percentage of states • Chapters draw from small and regional colleges that currently have chapters. and universities, as well as high schools. Therefore, Chapters provide a mechanism to reach students 3) Establish chapters serving members in all 50 states: low cost-high impact early and to encourage careers in physiology (science in general). Broaden impact of important outcomes accomplished by chapters. • Chapters are willing to work closely with APS education staff to expand training of educators and students. For example, chapters could be mobilized to As chapter program grows, the following challenges increase participation in training teachers, developing will be addressed in cooperation with the APS new and expanded community outreach (Phun week, National office: opportunities will be addressed. science fairs) and support for all APS initiatives. • Challenge: Establishment of new chapters and existing chapters as non-profit organizations; business entity within the state; tax filing annually. • Challenge: Establish institutional memory for chapters and provide training for new leaders.

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• Challenge: Assist chapters in avoiding critical errors: contracts, bank account, affiliations, travel, etc. • Challenge: Address cost of registration management (use of third-party vendors to manage meeting registration). • Challenge: Cost and expertise needed for chapters to establish up-to-date web presence.

4) Finalize Recommendations for Chapter Governance APS has charged a subcommittee to follow up on governance task force report and report back to APS council before the fall Council meeting. Chapter activity summary Council accepted the report of the Chapter Advisory Committee. ●

Committee on Committees

The Committee on Committees as including geography (same state or institution), (CoC) is comprised of one ethnicity, gender, or APS section. Dr. Leon emphasized, representative appointed by where possible, it is especially important to only have each of the 12 APS Section one representative from each state on the lobbying Steering Committees plus committees (e.g., ACE). two Councilors who serve as the chairperson and The CoC meeting was attended by a representative from incoming chairperson. The each of the APS sections. Kudos to Lisa Leon, out-going responsibility of the CoC is chair of CoC, who implemented last year’s Committee to nominate individuals to suggestion regarding the need for subcommittees to Charles Lang, Chair serve on APS committees as decrease the overall workload of each CoC member well as outside bodies where to review all applications. This past year, each CoC APS is represented. The CoC members are responsible representative was responsible for reviewing an average for identifying motivated and qualified members of of 39 applications representing 3–4 different committees. their section who can served on APS committees. The No one was specifically assigned to review applications responsibility of the CoC as a group is to weigh the for Publications or Distinguished Physiologist since the expertise and diversity of the applicant pool to identify former had only a single qualified candidate and the the strongest representative for each committee and to latter received only one application. The following was is minimize the number of section representatives on each a list of the Section Representative and their Committee committee, when possible. assignments: • Teaching: Education, International, Porter Summary of Experimental Biology Deliberations • Renal: Porter, COPC, ACE, Finance – 2018 • E&M: COPC, Communications, Conference, Awards The CoC meeting deliberations started with a summary CNS: International, ACE, Communications, Finance of the types of diversity considerations that each APS CV: Women, SPC, Conference, Awards section representative should consider as they review • Cell: COPC, ACE, Awards the applications. Lisa Leon summarized diversity • WEH: Education, ACE, SPC, Conference

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• NCAR: Women, Communications, SPC Table 1. List of vacant positions at EB 2018 and current section affiliations • Respiration: Education, COPS, Current Section Conference, Finance GI: International, Committee No. of Vacant Positions Affiliations Women, Communications, SPC Teaching: on Committee WEH, NCAR, CV, EEP, Education, International, Porter Animal Care and Chair, 3 members, 1 trainee Respir, Endo/Metab, • EEP: Porter, Women, Awards, Finance Experimentation CEPS Renal (2), NCAR, CV Additionally, CoC requested additional (2), EEP, Endo/Metab, Awards 2 members information be provided prior to Teaching (2), CNS, Cell application review. It was requested Molec by section representatives that the Career Opportunities Renal, NCAR, CNS, EEP, Chair, 4 members CoC chairperson provide a separate in Physiology WEH (2), Teaching list to the section representatives Endo/Metab (3), Respir, with the following: 1) applicants who Communications Chair, 1 member CEPS, Teaching, CV (2), WEH applied to multiple committees; 2) Renal, CaMPS, EEP, trainee applicants only; 3) chairperson Conference 2 members CNS, WEH, Respir applicants only. This recommendation Daggs 0 NCAR, EEP, GI WEH (2) was implemented by Leon at the Distinguished CaMPS, Respir (2), WEH, last meeting where an Excel file Chair, 2 members Physiologists EEP (2), Renal was generated and distributed that summarized key demographics and Renal, CV, CNS, GI (2), Education Chair, 4 members NCAR (2), Respir (2), qualifications for each applicant for Teaching, Cell Molec each committee. For example, for Finance Chair, 1 member CNS, EEP, Respir, GI, CV each applicant, the file included type NCAR, Resp, Teaching, of appointment (trainee or regular), International 2 members, 1 traineeq CNS, WEH CV, CEPS, position, <45 years of age, home Cell and Molec, EEP affiliation, primary and secondary Membership CoC does not select membership for this committee section affiliation, citizenship, gender, Perkins 0 WEH, Renal, CNS, CV year of degree, ethnicity/race, whether CV (2), Renal (2); Endo/ they had previously applied, previous Physiologist in Industry 1 member Metab, GI, Teaching, committee involvement, and EB Cell Molec, NCAR attendance. The CoC expressed their GI (2), Endo/Metab (2), Porter Physiology 1 member, 1 Porter Fellow NCAR, CNS (2), WEH, thanks to Leon for implementing these Development suggested changes, and it is strongly Respir, Teaching recommended that these processes be Publications 2 members WEH, CV, Resp (2), Renal carried over for future CoC meetings. Cell Molec, Teaching, CV Science Policy 2 member (2), WEH, CEPS, Endo Metab, Respir, Renal (2) A final recommendation from last CV, CEPS, EEP (3), year was to have a list of how many Women in Physiology 3 members Respir, CNS, Cell Molec, people are needed for each committee, Renal WEH in addition to information of the end date for all committee members. Kudos vacancies, but the large workload and short time spans to Scarletta Whitsett (APS executive assistant), who compromises their ability to review the applications as amended the summary sheets provided to the CoC to thoroughly as may be needed. include this requested information. Table 1 provides a list of the positions that were filled by Overall, the CoC representatives are enthusiastic about the CoC during their deliberations at the Experimental serving on the committee and are able to identify highly Biology meeting. This type of list was also provided qualified and motivated section members to fill the

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by APS staff to the Chairperson in an effort to help Table 2. Number of applicants for each committee streamline the process. Applications per Committee # Applications Open Position Table 2 provides a summary of the number of applications Animal Care & 10 3.3 for each committee position. A total of 117 completed Experimentation applications were submitted and reviewed; this number Awards 14 7 is increased from the 108 reviewed the previous year. Career Actions Approved by Council Opportunities 15 3.75 in Physiology At the last Council meeting two recommendations were Communications 6 6 made and approved: Conference 4 2 • The Council endorsed the Committee’s recommendation Distinguished that senior postdocs (4 or more years post-PhD) be 1 0.5 Physiologists considered for appointment as regular (non-trainee) members. Education 17 4.25 • An applicant is eligible for committee membership as Finance 5 5 long as there is a 1-year gap (i.e., appointment ends International 12 6 December 2017 and reappointment occurs January Porter Physiology 6 3 2019) between original committee appointment and Development appointment to a new committee. Publications 3 1.5 Science Policy 5 2.5 Council also encouraged APS to enable the members of Women in 13 4.3 the CoC to have access to the scores and rankings for Physiology candidates prior to the CoC meeting at EB. Trainee International 3 3 Committee The Council reviewed the recommendations for Trainee Animal Care each committee and approved the majority of the 2 3 & Exp Comm Committee’s recommendations, making a few Chair of adjustments. The Council approved the suggestion that 1 1 Communications Caroline Appleyard be appointed as chair of the Career Opportunities Committee and that Anne Crecelius be TOTAL 117 appointed as chair of the Communications Committee. It approved the recommendation to extend the terms of Areas for Improvement Kim Barrett and Thomas Pannebecker on the Conference The only substantial recommendation by the membership Committee by 1 year and to add Jennifer Sullivan to of the Committee was to develop a standard operating the Committee as a replacement for David Mattson, procedure (SOP) for the CoC covering the roles and who was elected to Council. The Council approved the responsibilities for both the Committee’s members and appointment of Ulla Kopp as chair of the Distinguished chair. This document has been generated by the current Physiologist Committee and the reappointment Jeffrey chair, and amended based on comments and suggestions Osborn as chair of the Education Committee. The made by the Committee’s members. Council reaffirmed the appointment of Paul Welling as chair of the Finance Committee to replace Meredith Council accepted the report of the Committee on Committees. ● Hay, who is now president-elect. The Council accepted the recommendations for the Porter Physiology and Minority Affairs Committee, including the appointment of Maria Alarcon Fortepiani as the replacement for Larissa Shimoda, who was elected to Council.

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Communication Committee

Membership great participation, with many attendees sharing their In 2018, the Committee successes and failures with their colleagues. welcomed five new members I Spy Physiology Blog (Doug Curran-Everett, Jeffery While the APS Communications Office handles day-to- Tessem, Amanda Leblanc, Sandy day planning and management of the I Spy Physiology Martin, and Yasina Somani) blog, current and past Communications Committee in addition to continuing members continue to play a major role in the blog as members (Barb Goodman, Ben ongoing contributors. Since launching in 2015, the Miller, Grant Kolar, Megan Communications Committee and other APS members Rhoads, Nicholas Stylopoulos, have become much more involved in contributing. In Barbara Goodman, Chair and Audrey Vasauskas). Merry 2017, APS members contributed 80% of posts (up from Lindsey joined the committee 45% in 2015). We’ve also made strides in diversifying as our new Council representative. the author base for the blog and now have more contributors who are male or people of color. Audrey The Committee is supported by APS marketing and Vasauskas serves as the volunteer blog editor. In this communications staff (Stacy Brooks, Coleen Kitaguchi, role, she helps find new contributors and regularly Erica Roth, and Veronica Purvis). contributes posts herself. She also served as the APS Ongoing Activities EB 2018 photo blogger. The Communications Committee continues to serve in The blog was a finalist for an EXCEL Award in the an advisory role to the Communications Office staff. Digital Media-Blog (Overall) category and received In addition, the ongoing tasks for the Communications the bronze medal. The EXCEL Awards recognize the Committee members include: best and brightest in association content and are given • Communications symposia at EB out by the Association Media & Publishing (AM&P) • I Spy Physiology blog group. • PhysiologyInfo (PIO) website • AAAS Mass Media Fellowship As of June 2018, we have published 29 posts and have • Special projects and science communication had nearly 26,000 views from more than 20,000 visitors. educational activities Since launching in February 2015, we have published EB 2018 Communications Symposium Wrap-Up 180 posts garnering more than 78,000 views from more than 58,000 unique visitors! This year’s Communications Committee symposium, “Social Media for the Professional Scientist,” was AAAS Mass Media Fellowship presented by Barb Goodman and Stacy Brooks. Megan Earlier this year, the Committee reviewed 2018 Rhoads was the session co-chair. The session was well fellowship applications in physiology or related fields attended, with approximately 50–60 attendees. The sent by AAAS. Justin Chen was selected to receive shortened 90-minute session was planned as a “Social this year’s fellowship. He recently received his PhD in Media 201”-style session that used social media how- developmental biology from Massachusetts Institute to and trivia to inform scientists about the platforms of Technology (MIT) and will spend his summer at that scientists frequent (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, STAT News. LinkedIn, and Research Gate) and strategies to reach them there. We received lots of questions and got Council accepted the report of the Communication Committee. ●

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Conference Committee

The APS Conference Committee our next steps. Although many of the recommendations will continued its effort toward take some time to implement and will require time at our reviewing and overseeing the annual fall meeting, we did develop the recommendations conference program outside below for Council to consider at their July 2018 meeting. of Experimental Biology and Furthermore, we have made inroads toward partnerships joint meetings with other with other organizations where APS members are very societies. We held a face-to-face active. Thus far, the American Society of Nephrology has meeting at APS headquarters agreed to help finance the 2019 Renal Conference. in September 2017, where we reviewed reports from recent ACTION ITEM #1: The committee asks Council to provide a set budget for the Scientific David Pollock, Chair conferences as well as updates from pending conferences. As of Conference Program (non-EB) this report, we have approved the following conferences: • We recommend $150,000 per year to support • Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: Sex-Specific approximately five conferences per year for the next 5 Implications for Physiology, Crowne Plaza Hotel in years. (This is based on the typical $30K per conference Knoxville, TN, September 30 to October 3, 2018 we have been using). • Intersociety Meeting, Comparative Physiology: Complexity • Unused budgets can be carried over from year to year and Integration, Astor Crowne Plaza French Quarter, during this initial period. New Orleans, LA, October 25–28, 2018 • The conference budget can be reviewed and revised, • Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease, Boars if necessary, by Council every year during the normal Head Resort, Charlottesville, VA, June 23–29, 2019 budget process. • The Interface of Mathematical Models and Experimental • Future budgets will be contingent on Council’s review of Physiology: Organ Function from the Microvascular the overall success of the program and the conferences Perspective, Scottsdale, AZ, September 2019 that the committee has chosen to support. • 9th Annual International Conference of Aldosterone and ENaC in Health and Disease: The Kidney and Beyond, Estes ACTION ITEM #2: The committee asks Park, CO, October 2–5, 2019 Council to facilitate more efficient and timely development of new conferences by removing • 11th International Conference on Heme Oxygenase & Related the requirement to have each individual Enzymes: From Physiology to Therapeutics, time and conference approved by Council location to be determined, 2020 • The process of having Council approve each individual In that meeting, we also asked our Council liaison, David conference one at a time typically results in a delay in Gutterman, to spend some time updating the committee the approval of many months as the committee waits for on the status of the new Strategic Plan and how it would the next council meeting followed by time waiting for an be implemented. Although there were many new ideas approval letter. and options discussed for how to improve the conference • Over the many years, Council has approved all program, no firm decisions were made as we awaited the conferences coming from the committee, so this step APS Conference Task Force recommendations. only serves to delay the process. • Given that the committee’s activities and budgets are The committee also met briefly at the EB meeting in reviewed every year, Council still maintains oversight San Diego shortly after we received the Task Force and fiduciary responsibility while allowing the Recommendations (below). Merry Lindsey, the Task Force committee more flexibility in how they develop the chair, came and explained the highlights of this report. We conference program in the future. scheduled a conference call in May to follow up since we ● did not have time or enough members present to discuss Council accepted the report of the Conference Committee.

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Distinguished Physiologists Committee

The Distinguished Physiologists from Distinguished Physiologists” in each issue of The Committee consists of 10 Physiologist. By the end of 2017, the Senior Physiologist members. One of the primary Committee members sent birthday wishes to 127 members duties of each Committee reaching age 70, 80 members reaching age 80, 53 members member is to “develop and reaching age 90, and 7 members reaching the age of 100! maintain liaison with emeritus Seven response letters were received and published in members and members about The Physiologist. to retire.” This liaison is accomplished by submitting, Another responsibility of the Distinguished Physiologists on behalf of the Society, a Committee is to review applications and recommend to Peter Lauf, Chair personal 70th, 80th, 90th, or Council the annual awardees of the $500 G. Edgar Folk, 100th birthday greeting. Each Jr., Senior Physiologists Award. This award is designed greeting includes an invitation for the senior recipient to support the scientific activities of a senior member. In to inform APS about his or her current activities, 2017, we did not receive any applications for this award. interests, and whereabouts, and requests “words of wisdom” for younger colleagues. The historical and Council accepted the report of the Distinguished Physiologists philosophical commentaries evoked by this invitation Committee. ● provide the material subsequently published in “News

Finance Committee

APS Budget The Finance Committee met in March to review 2017 financial activity and to review the Society’s 2018 budget. 2017 revenue was $18.8 million, which included $1.9 million from reserves, and expenses over the same period were $18.9 million resulting in a deficit Paul Welling, Chair for the year of $159,645. Note

that the 2017 budget called Figure 1. 2018 revenue for a projected surplus of $91,500. Thus the Society was approximately $250,000 over budget at year-end due The 2018 operating budget has revenue of $19.5 million primarily to lower revenue in several categories, including and expenses of $19.5 million for a break-even budget. page charges, grant income, color fees, meetings income Figures 1 and 2 below represent the sources of revenue (conferences), and permissions and royalties. and the allocation of expenses, respectively, in the 2018 operating budget. The 2017 report and 2018 budget were approved by Council at its spring meeting.

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Elimination of Color Fees Rita Scheman presented a proposal from the Publications Committee to eliminate charges to authors for color figures in journal articles. She explained that the Committee was concerned about the continuing decline in article submissions to the APS journals, and they believe that a reduction in author fees would help to increase submissions. In addition, the Publications Committee recommended that the Society add a page charge discount of $10 per page for APS members. The member fee would be $75 per page, and the non-member fee would remain $85 per page. Scheman presented a financial analysis that estimated that the loss Figure 2. 2018 expenses in annual revenue from the elimination of color fees and page charge member discount would be from $350,000 to just over $600,000. The proposal to eliminate color fees was approved by the Finance Committee and later by Council at its April meeting.

Increase 2019 Subscription Prices Rita Scheman presented the proposed subscription price increases for 2019, which are being recommended by the Publications Committee. The recommendation is for increases in online subscriptions of 5.0% for Tier 1 (smallest organizations), Tier 2, and Tier 3 (larger organizations, representing over 70% of the Society’s subscribers). For Print + Online and Print Only subscriptions, the proposed Figure 3. Invested funds increases were 9%. The proposed increase for individuals and members was 2%, and the proposed increase for Investments Legacy content was 10%. The proposal to increase The Society’s long-term invested funds at December 31, 2017 2019 subscription prices was approved by the Finance totaled approximately $68 million. Of those invested funds, Committee and later by Council at its April meeting. $44.3 million is set aside as reserves, a portion of which is used to support the annual operating budget. The remaining Development Office $23.6 million is used to support the Society’s numerous John Van Ness (APS Director of Development) will report award programs and the sections. From that $23.6 million, on the activities of the Development Task Force at the there was $1.02 million expended on awards in 2017. Figure Council meeting. 3 below reflects both the distribution between reserves and the award and section funds, along with the overall growth Council accepted the report of the Finance Committee. ● of the Society’s investments from $56 million at the end of 2013 to $68 million as of December 31, 2017.

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International Physiology Committee

APS members represent 88 Last Name First Name Country countries from 6 continents with Russell-Hallinan Adam Ireland over a quarter of the Society’s Sabino-Carvalho Jeann Brazil membership being international. International members represent Weinrauch Alyssa Canada a large and important constituency Paula-Ribeiro Marcelle Brazil within the Society and one that Iwamoto Erika Japan is growing—over 30% of new Mahapatra Chitaranjan India members are internationals. At the Teixeira André Brazil recent EB meetings, international Luo Beibei China Eric D. Lazartigues, Chair registrants comprised over 20% of the total registration (some Wilson Calum United Kingdom two-thirds of which are APS members). These figures clearly Rousseau Jean-Philippe Canada indicate the international nature of APS. Moller Sophie Denmark Garcia-Pelagio Karla Mexico The role of the International Physiology Committee (IPC) is to assist APS by identifying and implementing ways in Patrone Luis Gustavo Brazil which APS can best serve its international members, achieve • Mark Bayley, Aarhus University, Denmark. Project: globally its goals of fostering education, scientific research, Acid-Base and Ion regulation in a Hypercapnic World, and dissemination of information in the physiological Vietnam, December 2018 sciences, and raise its global stature. • Angela Danborno, Bingham University, Nigeria. Project: Workshop on Measurement of Vascular and Smooth The IPC assists APS in the review of international awards Muscle Functions in Isolated Tissue Studies using programs. The International Early Career Physiologist PowerLab hardware and LabChart Software, Nigeria, (IECP) travel awards program provides support for May 30 to June 1, 2018 students, trainees, and junior faculty working outside the • Rajan Pandit, Nepal Medical College, Nepal. Project: U.S. to attend EB. The IPC reviewed 33 applications and PSN Conference 2018: Exploring research fields in Nepal, recommended support of $1,000 be given to the top 13 February 11–12, 2018 ranking applications. The recommended applications are • Ricardo Pena Silva, Universidad de los Andes, listed below. APS gave 13 awards of $1,000 each for EB2018 Colombia. Project: International symposia on education (awardees are named on the APS website and listed below). and research in physiology and medicine, Colombia, Successful applicants represented diverse regions. South, September 27–28, 2018 Central, and North America contributed for more than half • Hector Rasgado-Flores, Rosalind Franklin University, of the funded applications, which actually appears to be a Illinois. Project: Course of Music and Science: An smaller proportion compared with last year. Interdisciplinary Approach, Mexico, August 10–12, 2018 The International Opportunity Program (IOP; formerly the Sincere thanks are extended to Esther Samuel for her Latin-America Initiative) aims to strengthen ties between excellent administrative support. Thanks are also given to APS and international societies on a global level, with the (participating) members of the International Committee a particular emphasis on underrepresented regions. We for review and ranking of the various submissions and for had only one round for 2017–2018, following a deadline attending the annual meeting. extension due to lack of applications. The committee recommended the five following application with each Council accepted the report of the International Physiology receiving $7,500: Committee. ●

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John F. Perkins, Jr. Memorial Award for International Physiologists Committee

The John F. Perkins, Jr. Memorial overseas. Application for the Perkins Award must be made Award for International Physiologists jointly by the host, who must be an APS member, and the promotes cultural exchange and visiting scientist. The recipient receives funds generally scientific collaborations by providing not exceeding $5,000. supplementary aid to families of foreign scientists working for Applications for the award are accepted in the spring and a minimum of 3 months in the fall, with application deadlines of April 15 and October U.S. In this way, young scientists 15. For the October 2017 deadline, the Committee are able to bring spouse and received one application, and it was not funded. For children and thus make full the April 2018 deadline, the Committee received two

Catherine Uyehara, Chair use of the cultural exchange as applications and funded one applicant. well as the scientific benefits associated with an international collaboration. This award Council accepted the report of the The John F. Perkins, Jr. is intended to support the spouse’s and children’s visit to Memorial Award for International Physiologists Committee. ● the U.S. for postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from

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Physiologists in Industry Committee

EB2018 PIC Symposium The winner of the 2018 postdoctoral award is Dr. Paramita The 2018 symposium, entitled Pati (University of Alabama at Birmingham) for the project “Biosensors Advancing Health entitled “Evidence for Circadian Control of Endothelial and Disease Research,” was Function in Mice on a High Fat Diet.” The winner of the organized and chaired by predoctoral award is Jianxiang Xue (University of South Brandon Bucher (ADInstruments) Florida) for the project entitled “Inducible Intestinal and co-chaired by T. Dylan Olver, Epithelial Cell-Specific NHE3 Knockout Causes Diarrhea (postdoctoral recipient of 2017 and More Alkaline Luminal Content.” PIC Novel Disease Award). Topics Physiologists in Industry Committee Mixer for the symposium included Matthew R. Zahner Ph.D., Chair “Emerging Technologies, The The 17th annual PIC mixer was held on Sunday, April Use of Telemetry to Study Glucose Metabolism” by 22nd at 6:45 PM in the Marriott Oceanside Room at the Patrick Tso (University of Cincinnati Medical Center); EB conference. The mixer attracted individuals across all “Wearable Technology for Injury Prevention and Optimal levels of training. This year, we included a cash bar and Performance” by Mark Buller (U.S. Army Research free hors d’oeuvres. The mixer was very well attended, and Institute of Environmental Medicine); and “Closed-Loop the room was filled from 6:45 until the event closed. The Neuromodulation in Physiological and Translational mixer provided a great chance for meaningful discussions Research” by Stavros Zanos (Fienstein Institute for on industry career opportunity, and trainees received good Medical Research). feedback from attendees. EB2018 Translational Research Awards EB2018 PIC Symposium The Physiologists in Industry Committee Translational To foster greater interaction among sections, academia, Research Award is given to one postdoctoral fellow and one and industry, the 2018 PIC symposium will focus on basic doctoral student each year. This award recognizes a trainee sciences topics with preclinical stages of development and who performed research that is translatable to industry translation that has broad appeal to cross-sectional APS applications and has been designated by the Physiologists members. The title of 2019 PIC symposium is “SGLT2 in Industry Committee as an outstanding example of Inhibitors: From Basic Physiology to Clinical Success.” The experimental research. This award was previously named session will be coordinated and chaired by Romer Gonzalez the Novel Disease Award but was changed to Translational and co-chaired by Pati Paramita. Gonzalez is a member of Research Award for 2018. The PIC felt that the term “novel the PIC (Renal rep), and Paramita is our 2018 Translational disease” limited the number of applicants who apply for the Research Award recipient at the postdoctoral level. award and has limited interest in providing funding for the award. In an effort to increase the number of applications Council accepted the report of the Physiologists in Industry ● and reach a wider group of potential applicants as well as Committee. to broaden the potential funder base, APS council approved changing the name of the PIC Award from Novel Disease Model to Translational Research Award.

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Porter Physiology Development And Minority Affairs Committee

Clifford Barger from the APS. The Committee sincerely appreciates Underrepresented the continued support of the William Townsend Porter Minority Mentorship Foundation, APS member contributions, and the APS Award Council that makes these fellowships possible. The Porter Physiology Development and Minority Minority Travel Fellows Program Affairs Committee (PPD- The PPD-MAC reviewed and recommended 41 award MAC) was pleased to present recipients for Minority Travel Fellowships to attend EB the second Annual A. Clifford 2018. This year, 6 of those 41 travel fellows were supported Barger Underrepresented with funding from Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Layla Al-Nakkash, Chair Minority Mentorship Award Johnson & Johnson. This additional funding was largely (www.the-aps.org/barger) at the outcome of efforts made by past Porter fellow, Raul the APS Business meeting during EB 2018. The award Camacho, a scientist at Janssen. Since its inception in promotes and embodies the APS goal of broad diversity 1987, the APS Minority Travel Fellowship Program has among physiologists by recognizing mentoring as a awarded 995 travel fellowships to 612 undergraduate highly valued professional activity that makes significant students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and impacts on diversity in physiology. In its second year, the faculty members at minority institutions. award received numerous outstanding applications. The committee selected Patricia Molina from Louisiana State In addition to travel support, the Travel Fellows Program University Health Sciences Center as the 2018 recipient. provides meeting mentors, an EB meeting orientation session, the Porter Reception (networking), a networking The Porter Physiology Development lunch, and a luncheon with a guest speaker that honors Fellowship Program the Travel Fellows. This year, PPD-MAC had a successful This program encourages diversity among students Networking Lunch during EB. APS Past Presidents Jane pursuing full-time studies toward the PhD in the physiological sciences as well as encouraging their participation in the APS by providing 1- to 2-year full- time graduate fellowships and professional development activities. The program is open to underrepresented ethnic minority applicants who are citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or its territories. Fellows are expected to be/become APS members, participate in EB, complete professional development activities, and participate in K-12 outreach. Since 1967, the program has provided more Barger Award presentation (left to right): Jeff Sands, Layla Al-Nakkash, Patricia Molina, and Dennis Brown at the APS Business Meeting during than 274 fellowships to 153 trainees. For 2017–2018, the EB 2018 PPDMAC selected eight fellowships to be awarded. The Committee noted the high quality of applications received. The stipend paid to the Porter Fellows for 2018–2019 will again be $28,300, consistent with the NIH scale. Of the eight Porter fellowships awarded this year, Naiomy Rios- Arce was designated as the Eleanor Ison Franklin Fellow for having the highest-ranked renewal application. In the spring of 2018, the Porter Physiological Development Fund received the following contributions: $113,000 from the William Townsend Porter Foundation and $80,000 Layla Al-Nakkash with the past and current Porter Fellows at EB 2018

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Reckelhoff and Patricia Molina, and researchers in all disciplines of science, mathematics, President-Elect Jeff Sands, and engineering. APS exhibited at SACNAS during President Dennis Brown, October 19–21 in Salt Lake City, UT. Over 3,845 attendees and APS Executive Director participated in the conference. Most attendees were Martin Frank welcomed the undergraduates. Chris Mendias (PPD-MAC member) Fellows to EB during the Porter and Brooke Bruthers (Senior Programs Manager, Networking reception. APS Diversity Programs) staffed the APS booth (situated President Dennis Brown along on the same row as other FASEB societies) to promote with current and past presidents APS diversity programs, K-12 resources and materials, and Council members actively and Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships, as participated in the Networking Martin Frank at the Travel well as other APS awards, grants, fellowships, trainee Breakfast. The Travel Fellows Fellow Luncheon at EB 2018 and career information, and APS membership. APS was Luncheon was held on Wednesday of the EB meeting. The pleased to provide funding for awards for the first time Fellows heard from keynote speaker Martin Frank, past this year. Judges awarded the best undergraduate poster Executive Director of APS. Frank’s talk, “Reflections— presentations in physiology to Rufus Sweeney, a Native The Role of APS in Promoting Diversity,” highlighted the American undergraduate student at the University of history of diversity and inclusion initiatives within the Utah, and Kenny Veliz, a Hispanic/Latino undergraduate APS. His presentation can be viewed at https://youtu.be/ student at the University of California, Merced. MUUWsBJpt_M. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for With the help of the APS Development Office, the PPD- Minority Students MAC initiated a fundraising effort (to honor Marty Frank Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority for his dedication to diversity and inclusion within the APS Students (ABRCMS) continues to be the largest Society; the-aps.networkforgood.com). Thus far, this effort professional conference for minority students to pursue has resulted in donations totaling $3,400, and we plan to advanced training in science, technology, engineering, continue to sequester donations. The PPD-MAC is pleased and mathematics (STEM). More than 4,000 individuals to note that Council will rename the Minority Travel Fellows attended the 2017 ABRCMS in Phoenix, AZ, November as the Martin Frank Diversity Travel Awards. 1–4. The APS exhibited at the 2017 meeting to promote undergraduate programs, graduate study in physiology, Society for the Advancement of and the APS programs for minority students. The APS Chicanos & Native Americans in was pleased to again provide $2,500 for cash awards for Science National Conference the most outstanding undergraduate presentations in Society for the Advancement of Chicanos & Native physiology research. APS was represented by Lindsey Americans in Science (SACNAS) provides conference Stavola (Yale University; Minority Outreach Fellow) activities for students, postdocs, educators, administrators, and Adrienne Bratcher (PPD-MAC member). Sixteen

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undergraduate students received APS-sponsored awards home campuses and aims to ensure awareness of, and for the best oral (3) and poster (13) presentations in the advocacy for, the discipline of physiology. To date, 12 physiological sciences. Awardees were added to the APS LURAP awards were awarded in 2018. Minority Physiologists and APS Trainee communities in APS CONNECT. APS Minority Physiologists Facebook Fan Page The APS Minority Physiologists page, managed by the Minority Outreach Fellows Program PPD-MAC, has over 535 people who have viewed, liked, The APS Minority Outreach Fellowship fosters and received the page’s weekly updates (a 15% growth in communication between minority graduate and the last year). PPD-MAC members submit monthly page postdoctoral students and middle/high school minority postings covering topics including information about life sciences students. Outreach Fellows must be past summer research programs, APS-sponsored workshops, Porter Fellows or Minority Travel Fellows. The 2018–2019 mentoring, the National Research Mentoring Network Minority Outreach Fellows are Anberitha Matthews (webinars), APS Living History project videos, and URM (University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and publishing, among many other postings. The direct link to Crystal Taylor (University of Alabama-Birmingham). The the page is www.facebook/APSMinorityPhysiologists. Outreach Fellowships will no longer be offered. The PPD-MAC encourages all those interested in Local Undergraduate Research Awards participating in these programs to contact the committee in Physiology or the APS Education Office. The Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology (LURAP; www.the-aps.org/LURAP) offers members Council accepted the report of the Porter Physiology Development additional opportunities to promote physiology on their And Minority Affairs Committee. ●

Publications Committee

Editor-in-Chief at the Experimental Biology meeting. At the fall 2018 Appointments and meeting, the Publications Committee will interview Reappointments for the editorship of Comprehensive Physiology. Calls for At the March 27–29, 2018 nominations for the editorship of AJP-Renal Physiology Publications Committee meeting, and AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology the first terms of Editors-in- have been deferred for 1 year, with the agreement of Chief (EIC) Nigel Bunnett (AJP- the Publications Committee and Council, to allow for a Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology) strategic review of the journal program in the fall of 2018, and Bina Joe (Physiological with consideration of partial consolidation of journal titles. Genomics) were evaluated for Drs. Bell and Samson, current EICs of AJP-Renal and AJP- Curt D. Sigmund, Chair reappointment to a second and Regu, respectively, have agreed to an extension of their final 3-year term, effective July EIC roles for an additional year, i.e., through July 2020. 1, 2018. The Publications Committee unanimously reappointed each editor-in-chief. Gary Sieck (EIC of Promoting Transparent Reporting to Physiology) was also evaluated for reappointment for Enhance Data Reproducibility: Next Steps a third and final 3-year term from July 1, 2018. The In August 2016, two new sections were added to the Publications Committee unanimously reappointed Information for Authors (Promoting Transparent Reporting Dr. Sieck, which was subsequently confirmed by the in APS Publications to Enhance Data Reproducibility and Physiology Journal Managing Board on April 23, 2018 Experimental Details to Report in Your Manuscript) based on

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the guidance of the EICs and the Publications Committee. 3) Methods are required to describe: These additions were intended to encourage authors to • How antibodies were validated. Experiments using new include more experimental details and provide supporting antibodies that have not been previously validated must information so that reviewers, and readers, would be submit verification of a validation experiment. more informed about the rigor of the study. The intention • Whether control and treatment groups for microscopy of these guidelines was to require these guidelines, once it experiments were collected at the same time under the became accepted practice. same conditions.

To assess how well authors are complying with the 4) Strongly encourage dot-whisker plots instead of bar graphs. guidelines, we evaluated the author and reviewer responses in the manuscript submission system for 5–10 5) Data supplements articles per journal that were submitted and published • Extend the data supplement policy to allow for tables/ in 2017. Based on the findings, which showed weak figures (up to 10 multi-paneled figures/tables and compliance, the following queries were posted to the EICs explanatory text not to exceed 5 MB). As current policy and Publications Committee: states, “...such material must be submitted for peer • Should any of the transparent reporting guidelines shift review along with each version of the manuscript from being encouraged to required? and must meet the approval of the journal Editor. For • Should the transparent reporting guidelines be updated all supplemental materials, authors should include a to include additional/other reporting concerns? caption for each file, explaining the purpose and content • Should APS journals 1) require deposit of source data, of the file.” Audio/video files and long data sets remain 2) partner with a public data storage repository (e.g., covered under the existing policy. Figshare or Dryad) to make it easier for authors to store, and readers to access, the source data used to develop These changes will be included in Information for Authors the manuscript, and 3) define which source data should and in the information to reviewers before and after review be required for their specific journal? of each paper, and will be described in an editorial to be • Should the transparent reporting statements on the published in one journal and highlighted in the others. reviewer evaluation form be required? 2017 Publications Department Annual Another question posed to the Committee and EICs Report with YTD May 2018 Updates addressed expanding the long-standing APS publications Scientific Impact/Attractiveness to Authors data supplement policy to be competitive with other Impact Factor. The 2017 Journal Impact Factors (IFs) journals and consistent with funding policies encouraging published in Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics transparency: Should the data supplement policy be in 2018 has APS Journals generally holding their rankings. extended to allow for additional tables/figures and Four journals had modest increases in IF, whereas the necessary explanatory text (e.g.,<5 MB)? others saw a small decline. Physiological Reviews once again ranked no. 1 in the field of physiology, with an IF of 24.014 Decision (although down from 27.312 in the prior year; see http:// 1) Figure legends will be required to include: www.the-aps.org/mm/Publications/Journals/Impact-Factors. • statistical test used html). Physiological Reports remains without an Impact • n value for each condition in every panel Factor for 2017; it may be reviewed in July for an IF for 2018 • sex, if not stated as only one sex in Methods (which would be released June 2019). • non-uniform image modifications declared in legends. Manuscripts received. Manuscript submissions in 2017 2) Strongly encourage data availability decreased overall by 6% vs. 2016 across all original • Primary data may be requested upon review and should research journals and all manuscript types. As of YTD be provided. May 2018, original submissions increased overall by 8% • Recommend that primary data be stored in a public vs. May 2017. repository linked to the paper

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Data supplements. A total of 291 data supplements NIH funding.” In consideration of this announcement, the were published in 2017, 93 of which were video files, a Publications Committee, following consultation with the 44% decrease in total data supplements from 2016 and a EICs, revised the prior publication policy to allow APS 55% decrease in video files specifically. Figure and table authors to post original research to preprint servers. The supplements decreased by 17%. It has been APS policy new policy applies to all APS original research journals to accept as supplemental data only material that cannot and requests that the authors declare on submission feasibly be published in print (i.e., primarily audio/video whether or not the manuscript or a version had been files, very long tables, and/or computer code). The existing posted to a preprint server to identify the server and the APS policy on data supplements is available at http://www. DOI (see the policy at http://www.physiology.org/author-info. physiology.org/author-info.data-supplements. A total of 194 data policy-on-posting-to-preprint-servers-prior-to-submission-to- supplements have been published so far in 2018 (January aps-journals). to May), an increase of 38% over the same time last year. It was agreed at the spring 2018 Publications Committee New EICs 2017 meeting to extend the data supplement policy to include AJP-Lung, Cellular and Molecular Physiology: Rory Morty, tables and figures (see Next Steps: Promoting Transparent Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Reporting to Enhance Data Reproducibility). succeeded Sadis Matalon as of January 2018.

Podcasts. In 2017, AJP-Heart released 29 podcasts, JAPPL Physiological Reviews: Sadis Matalon, University of released 12, JN released 16, and AJP-Cell released one Alabama, Birmingham, succeeded Dennis Brown as of podcast highlighting published articles. (AJP-Renal released January 2018. no new episodes in 2017.) YTD May 2018, 26 podcasts have been published (JN 12, AJP-Heart 10, JAPPL 4). Journal of Applied Physiology: Sue C. Bodine, University of Iowa, succeeded Peter Wagner as of July 1, 2017. Time to first decision. Time to first decision averaged 25 days in 2017 across all of the original research journals vs. Physiological Reports: As of January 2018, Thomas R. 22 days on average in 2016. AJP-Cell time to first decision Kleyman, University of Pittsburgh, succeeded Sue Wray as was fastest at 15 days, followed by AJP-GI and Lung at 17 EIC, and Morten B. Thomsen, University of Copenhagen, days, and AJP-Heart at 18 days. The average time to first succeeded Thomas R. Kleyman as Deputy EIC. decision YTD May 2018 is 20 days. Physiology in Medicine Peer review system. Enhancements to the peer review Three articles have been commissioned in 2017 in the system are made as requested by the EICs, and as needed Physiology in Medicine Series by staff. In 2017, there were approximately 23. In 2018, there have been approximately 10 updates thus far. Instructions to Authors for submission of such articles are located at https://www.physiology.org/author-info.instructions- Preprint Servers for-pim. In May 2016, the Journal of Neurophysiology pre-print server exception to the APS prior publication policy was restored Annual Reviews Award for Scientific Reviewing (after having been briefly removed). Subsequently, a direct The Annual Reviews Award for Scientific Reviewing was transfer mechanism to JN from the bioRxiv preprint server introduced in 2012. The Award is given for excellence in (https://www.biorxiv.org/) was added to the eJournal Press providing systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly submission system. advances and provoking discussion that will lead to new research activity. The Award recognizes an APS In March 2017, the NIH issued an announcement stating, member who has written scientific reviews and has “The NIH encourages investigators to use interim research helped provide an enhanced understanding of the area products, such as preprints, to speed the dissemination of physiology reviewed. The successful candidate, chosen and enhance the rigor of their work. This notice clarifies by the Publications Committee, is awarded $2,000 and reporting instructions to allow investigators to cite their up to $2,000 reimbursement toward travel to attend the interim research products and claim them as products of annual EB meeting to receive the monetary award and a

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recognition plaque. The 2017 Award was given to David the first pilot test of the draft materials was run witha G. Harrison, Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, group of graduate students and postdocs in Bethesda, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University. MD, with three instructors from the advisory board. Based on feedback from the participants and instructors, the Annual Reviews has informed the APS that they will not materials have been revised during fall and winter 2017– renew the award after 2017, having determined that “there 2018 project development timeline are more cost-effective ways...to recognize and promote • Early 2018: Final revised materials with advisory board excellence in scientific reviewing.” feedback • Spring 2018: Field test final revised materials at other Publications Integrity and Policy institutions and online NSF Grant • Spring-Summer 2018: Prepare materials for distribution In 2012, the Publications and the Education Departments Ethics Cases jointly submitted a successful application to the NSF for the development of modular course materials on publication After a spike in 2011 (251 cases), the total number of ethics. The materials are to be used in Responsible ethics cases arising during peer review and production Conduct of Research courses in STEM graduate programs. continues to decline, from 158 cases in 2012 to 86 cases in Additional collaborators on the project are the Biomedical 2017. Consistent with ethics case activity in 2017, the tot al Engineering Society (BMES) and the Society of Biological number of ethics cases for 2018 is projected to be 92. As of Engineers (SBE). The amount of the grant was $400,000 May, the majority of cases YTD were related to presentation awarded over a 3-year period. After undergoing two errors that were fixed prior to early publication (31 cases). 1-year, no cost extensions, the materials are now complete This was followed by cases categorized as duplicate and the final report submitted in December 2017. submission (4 cases), duplication of data (2 cases), and miscellaneous/multi-issue (2 cases). The seven professional development modules on publication ethics topics, entitled “Professional Integrity: Best Practices for Publishing Your Research,” are now available in the APS digital library, the Life Science Teaching Resources Community (https://www.lifescitrc.org/ collection.cfm?collectionID=4400). Each module includes materials for use in classrooms and online courses including instructor guide, PowerPoint slide set, video presentation, and test/quiz.

NIH Grant In 2015, the Publications and the Education Departments received an NIH grant (RFA-GM-15-006; $150,000) to develop a training module to enhance data reproducibility. The training module, entitled “Controls in Animal Studies Professional Skills Course,” utilizes APS expertise in developing professional skills training courses and the Publication Ethics and Information for Authors expertise of its Advisory Board in designing animal Policies Updates studies. The module focuses on the general factors that In 2017 to May 2018, APS policies were amended as follows: a researcher should consider when designing, analyzing, and reporting results from animal studies. Topics include Ethics Policy sex, longitudinal studies, drug treatments, large animal • June 2017. Posting manuscripts to preprint servers prior to models, and surgery. submission is no longer considered to be prior publication (http://www.physiology.org/author-info.ethical-policies) In 2016, the first version of the module was developed with guidance from the advisory board. In June 2017,

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Information for Authors 2017, a list of participating statisticians was added to the • February 2017. Added computer simulation guidelines to reviewer selection page in eJournalPress to make it easier the Promoting Transparent Reporting section (http://www. for editors to facilitate a consultation. Nineteen invitations physiology.org/author-info.promoting-transparent-reporting) were issued to seven statisticians from four journals • June 2017. Added policy on posting manuscripts to (AJP-Heart, AJP-Cell, AJP-Renal, and JAPPL), and 11 were preprint servers (http://www.physiology.org/author-info. accepted. From January to May 2018, 14 invitations were policy-on-posting-to-preprint-servers-prior-to-submission- issued to seven statisticians from four journals (AJP-Heart, to-aps-journals) AJP-Renal, JN, and JAPPL), and 11 were accepted. All • September to December. The text in several sections to statisticians received high ratings from the reviewers. streamline content (manuscript composition, cost of publication, AuthorChoice; http://www.physiology.org/ Finance author-info) Subscription pricing and sales 2017. In 2012, a tiered • December 2017. Moved Instructions to Authors to pricing model was implemented for journals and the Atypon website Legacy Content. Tiers were assigned based on the value • January 2018. Added new sections Peer Review Process of the journal to the institution. The goal was to have a (https://www.physiology.org/author-info.peer-review- pricing variance of 10% between tiers 1, 2, and 3 by 2014, process) and Publication Process (https://www.physiology. which was achieved. org/author-info.publication-process) • Added Press and Social Media Policy to describe the Online-only 2017 price for tier 1 was set at 1% increase; the APS embargo policy and how to promote publications tier 2 price was set at 1.5% increase; and tier 3 was set at a on social media (https://www.physiology.org/media) 2.5% increase. Print and Online journal prices for 2017 were set at a 5% increase for tier 1, a 5% increase for tier 2, and Data Reproducibility in APS Journals a 5% increase for tier 3. The print-only price increased by Since 2014, NIH and other funders have raised concerns 5%. Subscription count decreased in 2017 by 1% compared about the lack of experimental reproducibility in basic with 2016.The number of institutions subscribed, based on and preclinical research. In 2015, FASEB hosted three consortia equivalents to individual institutional counts, roundtable discussions on experimental reproducibility, are comparable to prior years. The APS continues to of which APS was an active participant. To support our respond to requests from consortia of libraries or multi-site authors in publishing studies that are transparent and institutions, offering custom pricing for tiers 4 and 5 online reproducible, guidelines were developed, with input subscriptions, if we are not losing subscription dollars by from the EICs and Publications Committee, and posted doing so. APS has arranged for sales agency representation online in August 2016. The guidelines encourage better in regions globally that were identified as having growth reporting of animal experiments, antibody validation, and potential, based on institutional market analysis. Sales experimental details in figures and legends. Guidelines for representation covers Europe, the Mideast, Brazil and Latin articles based on original computer simulation software America, India, and China. APS offers a pay-per-view were posted online in January 2017. feature for single digitalized articles delivered through the journals’ online platform. Two webpages were created to highlight the guidelines (see below), and others were updated. Color figures. Authors continue to take advantage of the • Promoting Transparent Reporting (http://www.physiology. benefit of scientifically warranted color made free of charge org/author-info.promoting-transparent-reporting) to first or last authors of original research articles who are • Experimental Details to Report (http://www.physiology. APS members. (Scientifically essential color is published org/author-info.experimental-details-to-report) free of charge in all review articles.) The number of color figures in research articles published in 2017 decreased by Statistics Review. APS collaborated with the American 17.7% from 4,888 in 2016 to 4,021 in 2017, of which 2,248 Statistical Association to identify a small group of (56%) were free to APS members. statisticians that was interested in serving as statistics reviewers for APS journals. In December 2016, seven Advertising. The APS sells commercial advertising in statisticians agreed to participate in this effort. In July its online and print journals through AdNet, a FASEB-

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managed advertising group. Net APS journal advertising permissions for reuse of APS-copyrighted materials in revenue was $65,000 in 2017. AdNet gave notice on electronic format. The CCC is the primary provider to November 30, 2017 of its dissolution. APS Marketing is academic publishers of copyright permissions services; working on replacing this service. the APS has been working with this organization for many years for administration of print copyright permissions. In Author fees. The author survey conducted by the total, 2017 revenue from CCC was $176,237. Publications Department in 2014 raised several important issues that resulted in recommendations from the Editor budgets. The estimated expense for running the Publications and Finance Committees to implement the editors’ offices remains at $150 per manuscript. Almost following revenue-neutral revisions to author fees, which all editors are in alignment, and some realize savings. The were applied to manuscripts submitted as of January 1, ability to make office funds “fungible” for other specific 2016: purposes was implemented as a 2-year trial as of 2013. The • Submission fees were eliminated. guidelines were reviewed and revised by the Publications • Page charges were increased from $75 to $85. Committee at its March 2014 meeting and again at its 2015 • Color fees for nonmembers were reduced to $200 per meeting, wherein it was agreed: figure (from $400), made possible through cost savings • Editors may use their expense budget to benefit the from production changes and renegotiation of the APS journal as they see fit. contract with its composition and printing vendor. • EICs are asked to include in their reports to the • Elimination of page charges for the AuthorChoice option Publications Committee at each March meeting as to whereby only the fixed fee ($2,000 for original research how their EIC and AE fungible budgets were used to articles, $3,000 for review articles) is payable. benefit their journal.

As of 2019 submissions, color fees will be eliminated for Strategic Planning all authors. The free color member benefit to first and last Publications Task Force authors will be replaced by a 12% page charge discount In 2016–2017, the APS Council performed its 5-year strategic (see Eliminate Color Fees to Authors and Offer a Page Charge planning, guided by Minding Your Business, a marketing Discount to Members). consultant firm. At the 2017 Spring Council meeting, it was noted by the Publications Chair that, in the absence APS AuthorChoice. The APS AuthorChoice program was of substantive discussion of the Publications Program introduced to all APS research journals in July 2007. For a during the strategic planning/rebranding process, a fee of $2,000 ($3,000 for review articles) in addition to other Publications Task Force (PTF) was recommended and author fees, an article is made freely available immediately was subsequently approved. The concept was approved upon payment and is delivered by the APS on behalf of the prior to other strategic planning TFs. A PTF was invited to author to PMC, to be uploaded upon publication. Starting establish a vision statement and resulting 5+ big-picture with manuscript submissions in 2016, author page charges strategic initiatives for APS Publications. Members of the additional to the $2,000 (or $3,000 for review articles) were PTF are Curt D. Sigmund (chair), Jo Adams, Kim Barrett, eliminated. This change brings the APS within community David Gutterman, Meredith Hay, Hershel Raff, Loren norms. In 2017, APS received 68 requests for this option Wold, Rita Scheman (ex officio), and Christina Bennett (ex vs. 91 requests in 2016, which represents approximately officio). To inform this activity, the EICs and Publications 2.9% of all published articles during 2017 vs. 2.3% in 2016. Committee (PC) were asked to provide recommendations. These initiatives were ranked on the basis of importance As of 2013, to enable authors to comply with the policies of as determined by the frequency by which they were many funding agencies, APS has instituted the application identified by the EICs, PTF, and PC. of the CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/) to AuthorChoice articles Positioning Statement governing reuse. Position APS journals to provide a first-choice home for researchers in the physiological sciences, delivering Copyright and permissions. Since 2011, the Copyright flexibility and visibility in the publishing model; robust, Clearance Center (CCC) has facilitated on behalf of APS fair and quick peer review; and a high-level of research

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transparency, ethical rigor, and overall value to authors, • APSselect slideshow: more prominent display of the readers, and the librarians who serve the scientific monthly selections research community. • Linked content: article page direct links to related articles, podcasts, press releases, etc. The overarching concepts that emerged were as follows: • PDF access: access article PDFs directly from the table of • Develop a high-impact journal. Start de novo or transfer contents (TOC) and article page—no extra clicks! one of our current journals • PDFplus: more interactive PDF—enlarge images, DOI, • Consolidate existing journals to reduce internal reference links, quicker download competition • MathJax: a much better rendering of equations (and • Open access development hover to enlarge) • Altmetrics: article-level Altmetric scores (number of 2017 fall Council gave its approval to mentions in news, blogs, social media, etc.) and trending 1) Pursue the high-impact journal concept and research lists 2) Empower the EICs to explore the consolidation of • Reviewer/Librarian/APS Member resources: all on one existing titles. page

2018 Council Video Abstracts At its 2018 spring and summer meetings, APS Council AJP-GI was the first journal to implement video abstracts reaffirmed its approval of the concept of a high-impact on the APS journal platform. These abstracts are 3- to journal. Council requested more details of the financial 5-minute videos produced by authors that summarize requirements, composition of the journal development their research outlined in their article. The videos are team, and the process for appointing an editor, to be uploaded to the APS YouTube channel and in the new presented at the 2018 summer council meeting. An Atypon platform; they are embedded on the homepage expanded proposal from the Publications Task Force as well as in the article’s “Related” tab. AJP-GI published was presented to Council. At the 2018 summer Council eight video abstracts in 2017 and has published four so far meeting, funds were allocated for market research to in 2018. be carried out for the high-impact journal concept, with results presented at Fall 2018 Council prior for a “go”/”no- Editorial Initiatives go” decision. Reviewer CME Since 2013, APS has offered Continuing Medical Education Online Journals Hosting and New Initiatives (CME) credit to eligible reviewers; i.e., U.S.-based medical Hosting Platform doctors, who serve as manuscript reviewers and meet The APS contract with HighWire for hosting APS- qualitative criteria that have been set by our editors. As published journal articles ended on December 31, 2017, of 2017, administration of the program has been managed and the new site hosted on Atypon’s Literatum platform by the Washington University School of Medicine. launched on December 7, 2017. During 2017, APS worked Details about Manuscript Review CME are at http://www. with Atypon on designing the new site, converting all physiology.org/reviewers. APS journal content to meet Atypon’s specifications, and integrating the necessary systems (including Personify). Uptake of the program by the journals and their reviewers Site testing was performed between September and continues to be strong. In 2017, the program moved to December 2017. issuing certificates during the fiscal year instead of the calendar year. Between July 2017 and May 2018, CME Key features of the new platform: Credit for manuscript reviewing was requested by 196 • Responsive design: site adjusts to screen size regardless reviewers for reviewing 259 papers as follows: 11 reviewers of the device for 12 papers in AJP-Endo; 6 reviewers for 7 papers in AJP- • Universal login: login to entire site with APS member Heart; 53 reviewers for 69 papers in JAPPL; 46 reviewers credentials for 58 papers in AJP-Lung; 53 reviewers for 79 papers in • Multimedia: more prominent display of audio-visuals, AJP-Renal; 4 reviewers for 10 papers in AJP-Cell; and 23 e.g., video abstracts, podcasts reviewers for 24 papers in AJP-GI.

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Conference Proceedings Initiative 5) AJP-Heart engaged the organizers of the conference, Publication of APS conference proceedings in APS journals Cardiovascular Aging: New Frontiers and Old Friends was proposed by Hershel Raff, then APS Publications Conference, Westminster, Colorado, August 11–14, 2017. Chair, because of its potential for attracting new authors and readers, creating increased submissions, establishing Frontiers for Young Minds a durable record of conferences, and as an overall aid in In May, the APS Publications Department began a publicizing conferences and raising enthusiasm. partnership with Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM; https:// kids.frontiersin.org/), a not-for-profit service that provides The key components of this initiative are: science articles written for young audiences. Authors of • Selected participants are invited to submit short reviews recently published articles that are interesting to multiple or original research. audiences will be invited to opt in and work with a • Submission length up to 4 printed pages, 1 figures (or 1 member of the editorial board at FYM to reshape the article table/1 figure), one in color for a young audience. Authors may choose whether they • Standard ethical/scientific considerations apply. participate, there is no cost associated with the activity, Overall impact is not a criterion. Extensive revisions or and the articles will be made freely available to all on the additional experiments should not be requested. FYM website. • Articles included in standard journal issue and appear in a separate online TOC. In 2017, the APS recommended 19 recently published • Host EIC in agreement with organizers on criteria articles. Ten articles were invited to be rewritten, and established for the conference articles. authors of eight of the articles accepted the invitation. In • No author charges apply; publication costs supported March 2018, one article entitled, “Do cigarettes have long- by APS. lasting effects on children’s sleep?” was published by • Applies to APS conferences in 2015–2016 (up to 2 per authors of an AJP-Regu article (https://kids.frontiersin.org/ year; first-come, first-served); assessment at 2017 Spring article/10.3389/frym.2018.00007). Publications meeting. APSselect Uptake of the initiative APSselect (http://apsselect.physiology.org/) launched January 2014, and highlights and promotes the top APS original 1) AJP-Regu worked with the organizers of the research papers that are published each month across all Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: 10 APS original research journals. As of 2018, APSselect Physiology and Gender Conference, Annapolis MD, is edited by Linda Samuelson (EIC) and Douglas Eaton November 17–20, 2015. (associate editor), who succeeded Founding EIC Joe Metzger and founding Associate Editor Linda Samuelson. 2) AJP-Regu targeted Promoting the Resolution of The monthly selection process is: Inflammation in Sickle Cell Disease Conference, held in • The EICs of each of the 10 journals nominate two Washington, DC, November 6–8, 2017 (http://www.the- recent articles. aps.org/SickleCell). • A Selection Board, representative of disciplines within physiology, chooses the final articles, using a 10-point 3) Advances in Physiology Education commissioned eight rating system similar to that of NIH grant peer review. articles from speakers from the Institute on Teaching and • APS staff manages the nomination/selection and posts Learning (ITL) Workshop, Madison WI, June 20–24, 2016. the winning list to the website.

4) AJP-Heart issued an open Call for Papers to speakers from Usage data. Data show that articles chosen for APSselect the Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease experience a spike in usage on publication vs. non- Conference, Westminster CO, August 24–27, 2016. APSselect articles (see graph below).

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Average usage for selected vs. non-selected original research articles. The data have been normalized across all 10 research journals; values are given as a relative percentage of the maximum amount of usage that an average non-selected or selected article received during this 12-mo period.

Metzger and Linda Samuelson, EIC and associate editor, respectively, of APSselect at that time. The Publication Committee determined that APSselect was doing what it set out to do—highlight the best research published by the APS. Recent Publications Comprehensive Physiology Comprehensive Physiology (www.comprehensivephysiology. com), edited by David Pollock, is a digital update of the Handbook of Physiology published quarterly. The first issue, published in January 2011, included all content of APSselect articles in 2017, as represented across all APS original research the most recent edition of the printed Handbook digitized journals. Journal of Neurophysiology had the highest representation of and presented as “Classic Content,” plus 25 new articles. APSselect articles (20). Comprehensive Physiology is published by Wiley on behalf of the APS. As of May 31, 2018, 939 articles have been Citation analysis. APS conducted an analysis of APSselect invited, of which 501 have been accepted, 36 are in review article citations compared with non-APSselect articles. The or revision, and 476 have been published. The invited control group is a random selection of original research articles are from 12 of the 13 sections, covering 27 topics; articles from 2014–2015 that were published but not “topics” correspond to a volume of the Handbook. selected for APSselect (n = 192 for both groups). We then compared the control groups’ 2016 citations against the The Journal has been accepted in all of the major abstract 2016 citations for the 2014–2015 APSselect articles. We also and indexing services including Scopus, PubMed, compared 2014–2016 (all APSselect years) citations, page SciSearch®; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition; views, and Altmetric Attention Scores for both groups. The BIOSIS Previews; BIOSIS Reviews Reports and Meetings. results show that articles selected for APSselect outperform The Journal was accepted into PubMed in 2012, and their equivalents on every metric we considered. APSselect indexing began in July 2013. Its 2017 Impact Factor is 5.797. articles had 1 59% of the 2016 citations for equivalent articles and 206% of the all-time citations. The calculated To maximize use and appeal for teaching, Comprehensive “Impact Factor” for APSselect articles was higher than that Physiology added Teaching Materials to the Instructions to of the average of APSselect journals: 4.625 vs 3.4225. Authors for newly commissioned and updated articles. Since this requirement was implemented, 83% of accepted The data shown above were presented to the Publications articles include Teaching Materials. Committee at its August, 2017 teleconference by Joe

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Book Monograph Series Physiological Reports In June 2011, APS and Springer signed an agreement for Physiological Reports is a general physiology open access Springer to publish books in the APS Monograph Series journal owned jointly by the APS and The Physiological on behalf of the APS, which was renewed in January 2018. Society and published on their behalf by Wiley. The As part of the program, 33 APS backlist monograph titles contract with Wiley was renewed in as of January 2018 were digitized. for a further 5 years. The Journal is tasked to achieve a • All new titles are published in electronic format as part quick time to publication while upholding a quality of Springer’s “Physiology eBook Collection” and are standard of sound research that constitutes a useful available in print. contribution to the field. The Journal uses a “cascading • All eBooks published in the program—both new and peer review model,” whereby manuscripts considered backlist titles—are freely available to APS members unsuitable for publication in an APS/TPS journal, but yet via login at the APS website at www.the- aps.org/ are deemed to be of publishable value, are “referred” to mm/Publications/Books. The books are hosted on the Physiological Reports, with author agreement to “transfer” Springer website and can be downloaded as a PDF or the manuscript and reviewer agreement to transfer the viewed in the reader’s browser. manuscript reviews. The Journal also accepts de novo • The hardcover print version of each new title published submissions whose peer review process is comparable to in the program is available to APS members at the that of APS journals. special price of $40. Article types. The journal accepts original research Book Committee. The Book Monograph Series is managed articles, reviews, commissioned editorial focus articles, by the Book Committee, which solicits and develops the and case reports (see https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ book projects. Sources of topics and authors include EB hub/journal/2051817X/about/author-guidelines). and other symposia and articles in Physiology that may be appropriate for expansion. Current members of the Joint Managing Board. Physiological Reports is managed by Book Committee: Dee Silverthorn (chair); John West, a Joint Managing Board composed of representatives from UCSD; William H. Dantzler; Sue Barman, MSU; Robert both APS and The Physiological Society. L. Hester, UMC; Michael G. Levitsky, LSU; Gary C. Sieck, Mayo; Allen Cowley, MCW; and Kathy L. Ryan, US Army Editors. Thomas Kleyman (University of Pittsburgh, EIC) Institute. and Morten B. Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Deputy EIC). Sixteen books have been published in the program to date for a cumulative life total of 174,527 full-text downloads. Journal business model. The Journal is funded by an Cumulative downloads for the backlist titles total 28,419. author processing charge (APC) of $1,600 paid by the author upon acceptance. There are waivers in place for submissions from authors based in countries that cannot afford the fees (as for all APS journals). The APC for case reports and reviews is $1,000.

Finances. The societies receive a profit share, split 50:50 for articles published via de novo submissions and split by actual percentage of articles published via transfer from each society. The journal has been profitable since 2014, its first full year after launch.

Editorial status. Physiological Reports launched in March 2013. The first article appeared online in May 2013, and the first issue was compiled in June 2013. Articles are published

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as they are ready, and issues are compiled monthly. From • Host reception at EB 2018 for EICs as a group, highlighting January to May 2018, 176 articles were published, with the new APS journals website (e-mails promoting this the cascading peer review model accounting for ~72% of event resulted in more than 200 “yes” RSVPs and a well- the total submissions and ~90% of these articles accepted attended event) for publication. • Promote SSPA to authors/prospective authors • Monthly APSselect e-mails have consistent open and Impact Factor. Physiological Reports is scheduled to be click rates reviewed by Clarivate in July 2018 for inclusion in Journal • Encourage content alert sign-ups on the Atypon platform Citation Reports. If the journal is accepted, it will receive a (targeted e-mails to APS members, an author list pulled 2018 Impact Factor issued in June 2019 from eJournalPress, and a list of pre-Atypon migration subscribers went out in early May 2018. These initial Acta Physiologica. In June 2015, the societies signed an e-mails were supplemented by follow-up e-mails, print agreement with The Scandinavian Physiological Society collateral distributed at EB 2018, and social media posts. to include their journal, Acta Physiologica, as a supporter A significant surge in content alert sign-ups occurred in journal to Physiological Reports, from which suitable May 2018; see graph below. These efforts will continue manuscripts are referred. in the second half of 2018, with updated messaging encouraging recipients to share this valuable resource with Marketing and Communications their networks using Informz Social Share functionality.) Collaboration on Tactical Journals Marketing with Consultants Scientific Society Publisher Alliance In September 2017, APS Publications retained For details on Scientific Society Publisher Alliance, see DeltaThink consultants to work with the Marketing and Rita Scheman’s article published in the January 2018 issue Communications and the Publications Departments of The Physiologist (Scheman R. Scientific Society Publisher through September 2018 to develop a tactical plan to Alliance. The Physiologist 61: 6–8, 2018; http://www.the-aps. address the top priority of APS journals: that of increasing org/mm/Publications/Journals/Physiologist/Archive/2018- quality submissions. The approach targets messaging by Issues/January-2018-Vol-61No-1). specific segments of the potential author community (who respond differently), targeting early career/pre-tenure, Sci-Hub and APS-Commissioned Report mid-career/senior investigator ,and non-engaged at any For more details, see Rita Scheman’s article in the January career stage. This builds on work done by DeltaThink 2017 issue of The Physiologist (Scheman R. The Physiologist in working with 10 societies, including the APS, on the 60: , 2017; http://www.the-aps.org/mm/Publications/Journals/ Scientific Societies Publisher Alliance (SSPA) to promote Physiologist/Archive/2017-Issues/January-2017-Vol-60No-1/ the unique value and ideals of society publishers (see Report/Sci-Hub-Downloads-of-APS-Papers). below). Highlights of our tactical marketing efforts for APS journals include: In 2011, a graduate student, Alexandra Elbakyan from • Focus on e-mail campaign messages by approaching Kazakhstan, made freely available what has now grown author base/members/potential authors and members to [over] 50 million articles illegally downloaded from by career stage, career stage being a primary influence copyrighted materials, primarily from the scientific on submission habits literature. The copyrighted materials are collected into a • Separate general and journal-specific messaging repository known as Sci-Hub. An injunction filed in the campaigns U.S. in October 2015 ordering Sci-Hub to desist drove the • Develop prospective author list from culling authors website domain name out of the reach of the U.S. legal from journals identified by the EICs as key competitors system behind Russian firewalls, where the servers were • Submission benefits e-mails sent to this list in May 2018 already based. Sci-Hub continued to thrive. Legally, this • Develop new social media guidelines and actively action by Elbakyan constituted theft, or piracy, in the encourage EICs to appoint a young investigator to the lingua franca of intellectual property. Elbakyan has been board as “social media curator” championed by some as a Robin Hood–taking from the • Interviews conducted by DeltaThink with each EIC to rich what morally should be shared by all. How does she inform our plans do it? Loopholes in some academic institutions’ library

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access systems, stemming from lax authentication, as well STM went on to develop the “How Can I Share It?” as complicit institutional users, are understood to be the website to provide authors a quick way to determine how sources of the Sci-Hub repository. Content is updated their article can be shared based on the copyright of the through these methods when articles not yet included are work. This website also includes a list of publisher sharing requested. Currently, Sci-Hub reports nearly 60 million policies, including the APS copyright policy which states downloads by users. in part:

To determine the extent of the unauthorized usage of APS “Websites. Authors may not post a PDF of the accepted journal content by Sci-Hub, the APS commissioned a report or final version of their published article on any from Phil M. Davis, “Sci-Hub Downloads of APS Papers.” website including social and research networking The Report analyzes the sources and frequency of 26,703 platforms; instead, links may be posted to the article downloads in Sci-Hub of APS published papers during on the APS journal website (see exception to authors’ the period September 2015 through February 2016 (see own institution’s repository, as noted below). (http:// also from Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/ www.physiology.org/author-info.permissions)” whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone).

Scholarly Collaborative Networks: STM Consultation The APS policy is intended to ensure that content under on Article Sharing copyright is not illegally posted to public sites that can modify, commercialize, or illegally distribute the work As described on the STM website: “To gain a better of our authors. Instead, we encourage authors to post understanding of the current landscape of article sharing links back to the journal site. Such steps support readers through scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) and obtaining the most up-to-date information from the bona sites [such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, et al.], STM fide source and provide a more accurate assessment of conducted an open consultation across the scholarly reader engagement with our content. community in 2015. The aim of this consultation was to facilitate discussion by all stakeholders in order to In addition, publishers, including the APS, have been in establish a core set of principles that clarify how, where communication with article sharing sites, particularly and what content should be shared using these networks Research Gate, to seek an arrangement that supports the and sites, and to improve this experience for all.” authors’ interests in sharing their work with colleagues and that protects the content from illegal activity. Publishers In the initial phase, APS was part of a working group are committed to taking action against public sharing sites that supported and developed a draft set of “voluntary that illegally post journal content through the use of take- principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration down notices. networks” and posted it for public comment and subsequently publicly endorsed the draft principles (http:// Council accepted the report of the Publications Committee. ● www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015).

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Science Policy Committee

This report provides an overview Leadership Interactions with FASEB of committee activities. There are The APS is represented on the FASEB Board of Directors no action items. by Kevin Kregel. I serve as the APS representative to the FASEB Science Policy Committee (SPC). Hannah Carey Meetings is completing her service as vice president-elect for The Science Policy Committee Science Policy of FASEB. In July, she will become FASEB’s (SPC) met June 26–27, 2017 in president-elect. Bethesda and April 22, 2018 in San Diego. The committee EB 2019 Public Affairs Symposium will also meet September 1617 The SPC will organize the EB 2019 Public Affairs Laura McCabe, Chair in Rockville. Symposium on the topic of sexual harassment in the scientific community. Advocacy Members of the SPC and the 2017 Early Career Advocacy Coalition Activities Fellows went to Capitol Hill on June 27, 2017 to meet with To amplify our advocacy efforts, the APS participates in their Senators and Representatives. They had 22 meetings several advocacy coalitions. with 10 Republican and 12 Democratic offices. Future Plans On September 14, 2017 the SPC encouraged all APS In addition to the topic of sexual harassment, the SPC members to take part in a virtual advocacy campaign identified increased advocacy on behalf of the NSF and called the National Day of Action organized by the Rally peer review at NIH as further areas of focus for its activities for Medical Research. in the coming year.

I was one of 6 APS members who participated in FASEB’s Council accepted the report of the Science Policy Committee. ● annual Capitol Hill Day on March 8, 2018. APS Early Career Advocacy Fellows The 2018–2019 Early Career Advocacy Fellows (ECAF) are Daria Ilatovskaya, (Medical University of South Carolina) and Anna Stanhewicz (Pennsylvania State University).

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Section Advisory Committee

SAC/Council was replaced by the Experimental Biology Task Force Communication that included representation from the SAC/JPC working Section Advisory Committee group. (SAC) and Council held two joint meetings: November Fall Although we have no concrete data, several section chairs Council Meeting in Baltimore have received positive feedback regarding the changes in and Spring Council Meeting at poster programming (10 AM to noon). EB in April. The Spring SAC/ Council Meeting occurred SAC is also tasked with developing metrics to assess during the joint SAC/Council session allocation for the EB meeting. The number of Sean D. Stocker, Chair Dinner. sessions allocated to sections/interest groups is usually assessed every 3 years and originally scheduled for 2015. The discussion at the Fall and Spring SAC/Council However, the assessment of session allocations has been Meeting largely focused on the recommendations of the deliberately delayed due to proposed changes to EB. SAC APS Task Forces. The majority of task forces had SAC will work together with JPC over the next 1-2 years to representation. The task force reports and minutes from develop new metrics and to assess session allocation. these discussions are summarized by the Council Meeting minutes. Engaging Members in Section Operations Sections interact with membership through newsletters Section chairs continue to emphasize the importance of and APS Connect. As noted above, section has various these meetings to serve as two-way conversations and communication issues in previous years using APS brainstorm sessions between Council and section chairs— Connect. This barrier appears to be resolved due to the latter represent APS membership. increased functionality.

Communication Via APS Connect All sections have established a trainee representation on A major issue for sections and section chairs has been the Steering Committee as well as a Trainee Committee communication. APS Connect was implemented to serve within the section. A majority of sections support activities as a platform. Section chairs had experienced numerous to increase interaction with trainees, distinguished problems, formed a working group (Frank, Kuebler, scientists (i.e., Distinguished Lecturers), and opportunities McCole, Lazartigues, Jackson, Kohan, Browning), and for trainees to present research. These activities vary from identified solutions with APS IT (Kaneshige and Zhou). section to section but are reflected by additional trainee award sessions, poster sessions, and dinners. Kevin Kaneshige and Christine Zhou provided two 45- min workshops (APS Fall Council and SAC Onboarding Interactions with Other Sections and APS Journals Session) regarding the improved functionality of APS Connect and Informz platforms. APS has requested Section chairs have repeatedly asked for Council to additional information from section chairs regarding promote interaction across sections. Part of the barrier Informz templates that can be used to track responses to cross-sectional interaction was session allocations from APS membership. These steps have been strongly (abstract numbers). SAC has not formulated new metrics welcomed by APS section chairs. to address session allocation.

Programming at EB Sections continue to interact with various APS Journal Over the past 2-3 years, SAC and JPC have worked editors-in-chief (EICs) and commonly have the respective together to identify solutions to increase the scientific EIC on the Steering Committee. visibility of the EB meeting. The SAC/JPC working group

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Section Finances and APS Matching Funds At least 3 sections are approaching the Matching Funds All sections reported a stable financial outlook. The Account Limit (50K donations: 50K APS matched). In 2016, amount of money within a section general funds account APS Council decided to expand the matching funds program varies. A few sections (CNS, Endo) have endowments from 25K:25K to 50K:50K. What advice do we provide to separate from Matching Funds or General Funds. these sections regarding the matching funds program? How Can SAC and APS Better Serve Your Sections are clearly interested in fundraising and Section? coordinating efforts with the Development Office per new guidelines. Section chair responses: • Monthly SAC conference call are extremely beneficial Fundraising efforts would largely support Matching • Nomination SOP should help tremendously Funds/Trainee Endowment Accounts, although not • Assistance in fund-raising and coordination with exclusively (some actions receive annual gifts or multiple development office year contracts to support awards). Below is a general • Increase communication/interaction between SAC and summary to date of Matching Funds Accounts (as reported Council in annual section reports): • Use “brainstorm” or “work group” sessions at SAC/ Council Meetings. These meetings have too many people in the room to be effective. However, these meetings are Section Matching Funds necessary to maintain communication between SAC and Council. CV $30,000

CNS $65, 000 Council accepted the report of the Section Advisory Committee. ● CEP ? CaMPS $21,000 n/a (plans to develop EEP in 2018-19) Endo ? GI ? NCAR $11,000 Renal $72,000 Respiration $84,000 Teaching $23,000 WEH $33,000

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Training Advisory Committee

Training Advisory Porter Committees) have chosen primary and secondary Committee Trainee participants for the 2018 webinar/podcast recordings. We Survey anticipate production of all webinars and podcasts for A full analysis of the 2010 2018 taking place over the summer months, and prepared survey results, analyzed by for coordinated dissemination within 2018–2019. The educational level, was provided podcast will be launched using FigShare. to Council in 2011, and a Training Advisory Committee Trainee E-Mail Newsletter and Social Media (TAC) subcommittee is Ryan Downey worked with APS staff on the newsletters working on a manuscript to this year, with special emphasis on the spring (EB) and Christopher Banek, Chair publish the 2010 survey results. fall (EB award applications) newsletters. The newsletter At the fall 2013 TAC meeting, subcommittee has also been working closely with APS the Committee approved moving from a survey every 3-5 staff, and a monthly distribution of a formal newsletter years to align this process with the APS Strategic Planning has been replaced by use of Facebook (www.facebook.com/ process that is currently done every 5 years. The TAC apstrainees) and Twitter (@apstrainees). As of June 2018, The began planning for the 2014 survey, including discussion APS Trainee Facebook page currently has 2,284 Facebook of topics and objectives. However, with the change in “Likes” (up from 404 in 2014, a 465% increase), and the timeline for APS Strategic Planning, TAC has put the Twitter account has 228 followers (up from 110 in 2014, a finalization of the survey on hold to coordinate with 107% increase). Postings come from staff, TAC members, Council planning activities. This survey has remained on TAC trainees, and APS Twitter feeds, providing regular hold since 2017. communication (multiple postings per week, on average) to trainees from the APS and the TAC. At the annual TAC Symposium fall meeting, TAC establishes monthly topics relevant to The TAC symposium for EB 2018 focused on increasing trainees and assigns members responsible for posting awareness for the need for rigorous research and was titled materials. “Do It Again: How to Achieve Rigorously Reproducible Research.” Committee members Ryan Downey and Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Ijeoma Obi organized and chaired the session. The goal Service Award of this symposium was to help trainees and early career The Trainee Advisory Committee completed its evaluation scientists to make data collection, analysis, and reporting of the seven applications for the Dale J. Benos Early Career more rigorous and reproducible, and to help young Professional Service Award. The Dale J. Benos Early scientists meet the new reproducibility requirements for Career Professional Service Award honors an early career funding. The speakers addressed the following categories: stage member of APS judged to have made outstanding 1) experimental design and analysis, 2) publishing and contributions to the physiology community and with results, and 3) meeting new funding requirements for rigor demonstrated dedication and commitment to furthering and reproducibility. A new structure for the symposium the broader goals of the physiology community. was used for 2018. The symposium was held across 3 days, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, from 7 AM to 8 AM. The Committee is extremely pleased to note that the Attendance was once again quite good (~150–170 total applicant pool for this ninth year of the award was again attendees) across all sessions. highly competitive. Although all seven candidates were worthy of the award, the Committee agreed that Patricia Career Webinar Series Halpin (Assistant Professor at the University of New The first webinar in this series (by Rudy Ortiz) was Hampshire) was the most outstanding candidate. produced and is ready for coordinated dissemination. All stakeholders in the webinar series (COPC, TAC, and

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APS Graduate Student Ambassador Program up to $1,200 per year in registration and travel costs to The APS Graduate Student Ambassador (GSA) program EB for the 2-year term as a GSA; 2) web-based training was established to foster communication between APS to enhance knowledge of APS programs and membership graduate trainees and undergraduates in their geographic benefits, leadership, and presentation skills; and3) content area. The primary goals of the program are to 1) build materials for outreach presentations. GSA leadership and outreach skills; 2) increase awareness Communication With Sections of the numerous benefits of APS membership; and 3) encourage students to become APS members, particularly Each TAC representative updated their section activity underrepresented minority students. The TAC received information in 2017–2018 and shared information with four applications for the second year of this award. The their Section Steering Committee. The most common applications were reviewed by all Committee members. As trainee activities for Sections were research awards for in previous years, Committee members with a conflict of trainees and junior faculty, discounted banquet tickets interest recused themselves from the review. Application for trainees, involvement of trainees and junior faculty review criteria included having passed qualifying exams, as symposia speakers and chairpersons, and e-media being an active APS student member in good standing, (primarily listserv) use. About two-thirds of the sections and being an outgoing, personable, creative, driven, and have a trainee section in their newsletter and have self-motivated individual. The Committee unanimously trainees co-chair symposia or featured topics at EB, and selected four candidates and recommended them to some sections also include trainee-driven sessions at EB, Council as the 2018 awardees. Council approved this trainee subcommittees within the section, and awards for request for these awardees. Upon approval, the applicants undergraduate students. were contacted and notified of their acceptance into the ● program. The fellowship includes 1) reimbursement of Council accepted the report of the Trainee Advisory Committee.

Women in Physiology Committee

Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen were in attendance, including guests of Lindsey, APS Distinguished Mentor presidents (current, past, incoming), past Schmidt-Nielsen and Scientist Award Award recipients, WIP Committee members, APS trainee Nine excellent nominations were award winners, and APS staff. Lindsey has developed received for the 2018 Bodil M. a Mentoring Forum column based on her lecture, to be Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished published in The Physiologist. Mentor and Scientist Award. The Women in Physiology APS Professional Opportunity Awards: (WIP) Committee selected Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt, Steven M. Horvath, and Fleur L. Strand Merry Lindsey (Professor Awards Sue Marsh, Chair and Director, Mississippi Center for Heart Research, The WIP Committee received 95 complete and eligible Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University applications for the 2018 tum Suden Professional of Mississippi Medical Center) as the awardee. During Opportunity Awards, which is exactly the same as the the Experimental Biology meeting, Lindsey gave an number of applications in 2017 (95) but less than those outstanding talk, providing “The Flight Safety Briefing for received in 2016 (117). The Committee was able to fund 50 Your Career,” an overview of her best tips on mentoring tum Suden Awards, 2 Horvath Awards (awarded to the top that she has developed over her prestigious career. The two URM applicants), and 1 Strand Award (awarded to the slide presentation from Lindsey’s presentation will be top overall applicant) for an overall funding rate of 56% (53 posted on the APS website. Approximately 125 individuals awards in total).

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Mentoring Programs 40, and 25 participants on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, Mentoring Forum respectively, compared with the 125 participants at the 2017 Over the past 12 months, the WIP Committee has Mentoring Workshop. Seventy-one attendees completed a coordinated the development of six new Mentoring Forum survey, with several attendees having attended the sessions columns published in The Physiologist. These columns cover on multiple days. Based on these responses, the audience a wide range of topics, from retirement and career change to was primarily made up of trainees (undergraduate students, “alternative” careers, recruiting students to a new lab, and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows); however, there tips for aspiring physician-scientists. Each article has related was a wide range of audience members, including junior bulletin board discussion topics at the mentoring website and established investigators. The speaker presentations and on LifeSciTRC. received very high ratings (average of 4.3 out of 5.0), and the subsequent 5- to 10-minute question-and-answer period Online Mentoring Programs resulted in an informative and lively dialogue between the speakers and audience members. The WIP Committee continues to provide information about MentorNet on the APS website, and the APS is also Representation of Women in APS and a Scientific & Professional Society partner with the National Scientific Community Leadership Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) (https://nrmnet.net/), One of the charges of the WIP Committee is to support which provides comprehensive mentoring services for advancement of women in APS and in the scientific APS members, including a “Virtual Mentoring Program,” community at large. The WIP Committee annually reviews similar to the MentorNet approach. A variety of mentoring the number of women serving on APS Committees and resources are also available on the APS website under the Section Steering Committees. Of the members who include “Career Development & Mentoring” link. During the 2017 gender in their membership profile (n = 6,311), women Fall Meeting, the WIP Committee continued to explore a currently comprise 33% of the APS membership [29% of the number of innovative options that would provide much regular membership (n = 5,158), 47% of the graduate student needed mentoring experiences across career stages, without membership (n = 932), and 63% of the undergraduate student incurring the logistical and fiscal expenses of establishing membership (n = 221)]. These numbers are consistent with and maintaining a formal mentoring program. The WIP those from last year. Committee plans to establish an APS Connect Community for women in physiology and discussion about other In reviewing the membership of the APS Section Advisory initiatives are ongoing. Committee (SAC) and other Society committees, we found WIP Committee Facebook Page that the representation of women on the general Society committees continues to be good. The WIP Committee The WIP Committee has a very active Facebook page, with commends the Committee on Committees for its ongoing 712 “likes,” and many posts reaching more than 300 views. attention to diversity on APS-appointed committee The specific goals of this page are to share information that positions. The Committee notes, however, that in 2018, the is relevant to the mission of the WIP Committee with both APS Council has 3 women out of 9 elected regular members men and women, including content on gender issues in (33%; down from 44% in 2017) in addition to 1 woman in science, promotion of physiology to early career scientists, the Past-President position. Thus, overall, 4 (33%) of the and mentoring. Please visit and “Like” the WIPC Committee 12 elected members of Council are women. While this is Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/APS.WIPC. lower than in 2017, the Committee feels that this reflects Experimental Biology Mentoring Workshop the overall distribution of women in the Society as a whole, but that it could be improved. In 2018, the SAC also has 4 The EB 2018 workshop was entitled, “Recognizing and women representatives out of 14 (29%), which is also lower Responding to Implicit Bias in Science.” The workshop was than in 2017 (31%); we continue encouraging all Sections to held during the new “Trainee Hour” over 3 days (Sunday to involve women in their leadership positions, particularly as Tuesday) from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM. Given that this was the Section chairs. first year of the change in format for the symposia, attendance was understandably lower than the previous years with 35,

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In reviewing the Section Steering Committees, we found a Historically, there have been very few women selected for higher proportion of women compared with last year (43% the major APS awards. At EB 2017, only 2 of the 15 (13%) compared with 38% in 2017). In 2017, there were three Sections Distinguished Lectures were given by women. Although that had Steering Committees where <25% of the members this is more than the single lecture in 2017, this is down from are women, and this has improved in 2018 such that all but 3 lectures in 2016 and 6 lectures in 2015. The Committee one Section (EEP) now has >30% of women members. We continues to strongly encourage Sections to include are also pleased to report that 3 of the 12 Sections now have women on their slate of candidates for their Distinguished Steering Committees where at least 50% of the members are Lectureships in the future. women. In 2017, 20 of 22 APS Committees were comprised of at least 25% women members; however, this has dropped Concluding Remarks in 2018 such as only 18 of 22 Committees now meet this The WIP Committee continues to work to promote women benchmark. Women are also Chairs of 10 of these APS within the Society and the scientific community and to Committees (45%), which is a noticeable increase over 32% provide mentoring for early career investigators and trainees; from 2017. The WIP Committee encourages the Committee we are also working to specifically address the mentoring on Committees and the Section Steering Committees to needs of LGBTQ scientists. We look forward to additional continue their efforts to identify and select women members involvement in new APS programs and activities, and we for APS Committees. will strive to remain instrumental in the implementation of the New Strategic Plan developed by Council.

Council accepted the report of the WIP Committee. ●

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Fellows complete 10 weeks of summer research and “APS has provided participate in interactive me with an excellent online professional platform to meet development activities with pioneers in my field APS Fellows. to advance my Learn more and apply at scientific and skillful knowledge. the-aps.org/summerresearch. —” Parul Chaudhary University of North Texas Health Science Center

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2018–2019 Porter Fellows Announced

The APS and Porter Physiology Development and Minority Naiomy Rios-Arce was named the 2018–2019 Eleanor Affairs Committee congratulate the 2018–2019 Porter Ison Franklin Fellow in honor of Dr. Franklin, the past co- Physiology Development Fellowship recipients: chair of the Porter Committee, indicating that she had the highest-ranked application among the renewal applicants.

Name Institution Porter Fellowships are 1-year graduate fellowships that Nathalie Fuentes Penn State College of Medicine provide a stipend of $28,300, with the opportunity to Rosario Marroquin-Flores Illinois State University reapply for a second year of funding. The fellowships Naiomy Rios-Arce Michigan State University are open to underrepresented racial/ethnic minority Crystal Taylor University of Alabama at Birmingham applicants who have been accepted into or are currently Keon Wimberly University of Florida enrolled in a graduate program pursuing an advanced Inevy Sequinot Ponce Health Sciences University degree in the physiological sciences; the applicant and their Emily Larson University of Oregon PI must both be members of APS. For more information, Matthew Romero Auburn University see the APS website (www.the-aps.org/porter) or contact APS at [email protected]. ●

Award Opportunities – Deadlines Through February 2019

To apply for any of these awards, go to the-aps.org/awardapps. Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awards Translational Research Awards for Predoctoral Steven M. Horvath Professional Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Opportunity Awards Application deadline: November 14, 2018 (coincides with Fleur L. Strand Professional EB abstract deadline) Opportunity Award the-aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS-Awards Application deadline: November 14, 2018 (coincides with EB abstract deadline) This award recognizes a postdoctoral fellow ($800 the-aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS-Awards award) and a predoctoral student ($500 award) whose area of experimental research is translatable to industry applications (treatment development or improvement, To be considered for these awards, the applicant must be diagnosis, mechanism of action, health and wellness). either a graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow, the first Applicants will be evaluated on their first-author author of an abstract submitted to APS, and a member of abstract submitted to the APS annual meeting at EB and APS in good standing at the time of application (either a supplementary 1-page (maximum) description of 1) the Student or Regular). To receive the award, recipients must translational nature of their project and its potential utility attend the APS annual meeting at EB, present a poster at for future research, 2) their contribution to the work, and the meeting, and attend the APS Business Meeting. The top 3) their career goals. Applicants do not have to be APS applicant will be designated as the Strand Awardee and will members, and there are no restrictions on how the award receive $1,000. The top two underrepresented racial/ethnic is spent; however, their sponsor must be an APS member underrepresented minority recipients will be designated as in good standing at the time of application. Steven M. Horvath Awardees. The tum Suden/Hellebrandt and Strand awardees receive $500 and complimentary EB registration. Awardees will be allowed to only receive a tum Suden, Strand, or Horvath Award once as a predoctoral student and once as a postdoctoral fellow.

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Graduate Student Ambassadors who demonstrates the greatest potential for incorporating Application deadline: November 21, 2018 innovative teaching techniques and effectively utilizing www.the-aps.org/gsa technology resources in engaging undergraduate students in physiology education. The awardee receives a $1,500 honorarium plus up to $2,000 in travel The Graduate Student Ambassador (GSA) program seeks expense reimbursement and complimentary advanced to foster communication between current APS graduate registration to attend the APS annual meeting at EB and trainees and undergraduates in their geographic area. an Institutional Grant providing the awardee’s institution The 2-year GSA fellowship includes travel support with a PowerLab PTB4152 Physiology Teaching Bundle to attend the APS annual meeting at EB, web-based or equivalent. Applicants must be a member of the APS training, and local outreach activities involving visits to Teaching Section (1st, 2nd, or 3rd affiliation). primarily undergraduate institutions to promote careers in biomedical sciences and APS membership, programs, Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz and awards. The APS Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) Undergraduate Research Awards is recruiting a passionate and dedicated group of graduate Abstract deadline: November 14, 2018 students to become part of the next class of Graduate Application deadline: January 12, 2019 Student Ambassadors. the-aps.org/eb-undergrad Martin Frank Diversity Travel Fellowship Awards The Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Undergraduate Research Awards are presented annually Application deadline: November 21, 2018 to undergraduate students who submit a first-author the-aps.org/MFDT abstract to the APS annual meeting at EB and present their research at the meeting. There are two types of Horwitz/ The Martin Frank Diversity Travel Fellowship Awards Horowitz Undergraduate Awards that students can apply (formerly known as the Minority Travel Fellowship for through a single application. Awards) are open to underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards career faculty (recently transitioned or within 5 years of These awards provide $100 and a 2-year complimentary receiving a PhD); and graduate students, postdoctoral APS membership. The student must be enrolled as an fellows, and early career faculty (recently transitioned) undergraduate at the time of the abstract submission, be with disabilities. This travel award is designed to increase the first author on an abstract submitted to the APS annual active participation in, and networking at, APS’s scientific meeting at EB, and be working with an APS member. meetings. See website for full eligibility details. Selection of awardees is based on the abstract, letter of application, and letter of support from the research host. Awardees will receive up to $1,800 in expense Receipt of the award is contingent upon presenting the reimbursement for registration, housing, meals, air and research at EB. ground transportation, and tips. These awards do not provide funds for international travel. Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards To be considered for this award, students must be an ADInstruments Macknight Early Career Innovative Educator Award Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awardee and must attend and present a poster at the APS annual meeting Application deadline: December 1, 2018 at EB. The recipients receive $400 and a certificate. The the-aps.org/adi highest-ranked awardee receives an additional $250, thanks The ADInstruments Macknight Early Career Innovative to the generous contribution of an APS member. Selection Educator Award honors an early career APS member of awardees is based on the quality of the poster and oral presentation of the poster to the Award Selection Committee.

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Porter Physiology Development Fellowships who is judged to have made outstanding contributions to Application deadline: January 15, 2019 the physiology community and demonstrated dedication the-aps.org/porter and commitment to furthering the broader goals of the physiology community. This can be by serving on The goal of the Porter Physiology Development Program is professional committees, participating in K-12 education to encourage diversity among students pursuing full-time outreach, participating in scientific advocacy and outreach studies toward a PhD in the physiological sciences and to programs, or by otherwise strengthening and promoting encourage their participation in APS. the physiology community. The awardee receives a $1,000 honorarium plus complimentary advanced registration to The Porter Fellowship provides a full-time graduate attend the APS annual meeting at EB. fellowship ($28,300 during the academic year) to students in programs leading to the PhD in the physiological sciences at Undergraduate Summer Research U.S. institutions. The program is open to underrepresented Fellowships racial and ethnic minority applicants who are citizens or Application deadline: February 1, 2019 permanent residents of the U.S. or its territories and are the-aps.org/summerresearch student members of APS. The applicant’s mentor/PI must also be an APS member. The APS undergraduate summer research fellowships Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional offer undergraduate students the opportunity to Service Award participate in a summer immersed in research. Fellows spend an average of 10 weeks in the laboratory of an APS

Application deadline: January 24, 2019 member-researcher. Each fellow receives a $4,000 stipend the-aps.org/benos plus additional funds for travel to present his or her research at the APS annual meeting at EB. Research hosts The Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Service receive funds for student lab supplies. See the website for Award honors an early career stage (graduate student, more details about eligibility requirements, application postdoctoral fellow, assistant professor or equivalent instructions, and program benefits. ● position) member of APS. The award will honor someone

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APS/ASPET Presidential Symposium Series

APS President Jeff Sands has collaborated with ASPET Speakers: Rachel Perry, Yale University; Martin Blaser, NYU; President Edward Morgan to create an exciting series Eugene Chang, University of Chicago on the microbiome. This APS/ASPET Presidential Symposium Series features a Saturday workshop followed Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM by three symposia held each day of the meeting. Come Gut Microbiota: A Chemical Factory hear the latest research advances in understanding the gut microbiome featuring presenters working on the forefront Chairs: Hyunyoung Jeong, University of Illinois; Jennifer of this emerging area. Pluznick, Johns Hopkins Medical School

Schedule of Sessions Speakers: Emma Allen-Vercoe, University of Guelph; Saturday, April 6, 2019, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Matthew Redinbo, University of North Carolina; Emily Workshop on Microbiome Research: What You Need to Know Balskus, Harvard University

Chairs: Andrew D. Patterson, Penn State University; Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Meredith Hullar, University of Washington Microbiota in Action: The Gut and Beyond

Speakers: Cathryn R. Nagler, University of Chicago; Chairs: Laura McCabe, Michigan State; Julia Cui, University Meredith A. Hullar, University of Washington; J. Greg of Washington Caporaso, Northern Arizona University; Andrew D. Patterson, Penn State University Speakers: Andrew Neish, Emory University; Dominik Mueller, MDC-Berlin; Elaine Y. Hsiao, UCLA ● Sunday, April 7, 2019, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Disorders

Chairs: Jeff M. Sands,Emory University; Edward T. Morgan, Emory University Connect APS member online community

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NIH Moves to Protect Research Integrity

On August 23, 2018, NIH Director Francis Collins issued Committee Chair Sen. Lamar Alexander acknowledged a public statement on protecting the integrity of U.S. the important contributions of foreign-born researchers biomedical research (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who- but expressed concern that certain countries have taken we-are/nih-director/statements/statement-protecting-integrity- advantage of U.S. investments in science and technology. us-biomedical-research). After declaring that NIH research Previously reported cases of data or intellectual property is “built on the bedrock principles of scientific excellence, diversions seem to have involved engineering and the unassailable integrity, and fair competition,” Collins went physical sciences, but in an August 31 Science article, on to say that “the robustness of the biomedical research Jocelyn Kaiser and David Malakoff reported that, due to enterprise is under constant threat by risks to the security widening concerns about the problem, the FBI has begun of intellectual property and the integrity of peer review.” briefing university officials on information security issues. Collins told Science that NIH’s actions were not prompted Collins outlined three areas of concern. The first is the failure by “some big explosive episode” but rather a “gathering of some NIH-funded researchers to “disclose substantial sense that it’s time to take action.” contributions of resources from other organizations, including foreign governments.” This failure “threatens to A few days earlier, on August 20, Collins took the distort decisions about the appropriate use of NIH funds.” extraordinary step of sending a letter to more than 10,000 The second is the “diversion of intellectual property research institutions, urging them to ensure that NIH in grant applications or produced by NIH-su`pported grantees are reporting foreign funding for their work or if biomedical research to other entities, including other they have a second laboratory in another country. Collins countries.” The third concern involves instances where has appointed a working group of the Director’s Advisory peer reviewers have shared confidential information with Committee that will “tap experts in academic research and others, “including in some instances with foreign entities, security” to do the following: or otherwise attempting to influence funding decisions.” • Improve accurate reporting of all sources of research support, financial interests, and relevant affiliations. On August 23, Collins also discussed these issues in his • Mitigate the risk to IP (Intellectual Property) security opening statement before the Senate Committee on Health, while continuing NIH’s long tradition of collaborations Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). The hearing had with foreign scientists and institutions. been called to review progress on the goals of the 21st • Explore additional steps to protect the integrity of Century Cures act, but Collins used the occasion to note the peer review. ● existence and increasing magnitude of these threats. HELP

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Starting a Science Policy Group

In a recent article in Scientific American, graduate student a faculty mentor may be able to help the group become an Thaiesha Wright offers advice about how to start a science official campus organization. policy group. The article provides pointers on how graduate students can create and maintain a successful group at Starting a science policy group isn’t always easy, but if their university that focuses on science advocacy, scientific attendance and audience participation are low for one event, communication, and science-based policy making. The first try to find a topic of broader interest for the next one. Since step, according to Wright, is to identify core members, and it may be difficult to secure speakers without sufficient both current and future officers. This is critical to ensure a funding, one option is inviting campus faculty. Wright also smooth leadership transition as the current officers graduate. suggests inviting local professionals in science-related fields. For example, campuses in rural areas may be able to host Equally important is finding a faculty mentor who can local agricultural experts. For more information, see “How provide guidance on science policy issues. Some professors to Create a Science Policy Group” on Scientific American’s may have attended science-policy workshops, March for website (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how- Science events, and national or local lobbying days through to-create-a-science-policy-group/). ● their scientific society. In addition to providing mentorship,

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Current Calls for Papers

Physiological Genomics American Journal of • Mitochondria Dysfunction in Physiology – Cell Physiology • Physiology of Cell State Transitions Aging and Metabolic Diseases Submission deadline: • Cell Physiology of Germ Cells Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 Submission deadline: December 31, 2018 December 31, 2018 • Immunometabolic Cross-Talk • Channels and Transporters in and Regulation of Endocrine and Journal of Neurophysiology Cell Signaling Metabolic Functions Submission deadline: Submission deadline: • Model Systems of Synaptic December 31, 2018 December 31, 2018 Transmission • Correlating Muscle Function with Submission deadline: Muscle Health Markers December 31, 2018 NEW deadline: American Journal of • Society for the Neural Control December 31, 2018 Physiology – Heart and of Movement • Endoplasmic Reticulum Circulatory Physiology Submission deadline: Functions in Cell Physiology December 31, 2018 • Adaptive Immunity in and Disease Cardiovascular Disease • Advances in Vestibular Research: NEW deadline: Submission deadline: A Tribute to Bernard Cohen, MD December 31, 2018 January 31, 2019 Submission deadline: • Mitophagy, Autophagy and December 31, 2018 • Many Avenues to Cardiac Cell Death Cell Death • 50 Years of Modeling NEW deadline: Submission deadline: Neural Activity: Celebrating December 31, 2018 January 31, 2019 Jack Cowan’s Career Submission deadline: • Chromatin and Epigenetics in June 30, 2019 Cardiovascular Disease American Journal of Submission deadline: • International Motoneuron Society Physiology – Endocrinology February 15, 2019 Submission deadline: Physiology June 30, 2019 • Role of Gut Microbiota, Gut- • Modularity and Compositionality American Journal of in Motor Control: Acknowledging Brain and Gut Liver Axes in Physiology – Lung Cellular Emilio Bizzi Physiological Regulation of and Molecular Physiology Submission deadline: Inflammation, Energy Balance, June 30, 2019 and Metabolism • Electronic Cigarettes: Not All Submission deadline: Good News? December 31, 2018 Submission deadline: Advances in Physiology • Browning and Beiging of Adipose December 31, 2018 Education Tissue: Its Role in the Regulation • K – 12 Outreach of Energy Homeostasis and as a • Curricular Integration Potential Target for Alleviating of Physiology Metabolic Diseases Submission deadline: December 31, 2018

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Current Calls for Papers (continued)

American Journal of American Journal of • Sex and Gender in Renal Health Physiology – Regulatory, Physiology – Renal and Function Integrative and Physiology Submission deadline: Comparative Physiology • Epigenetics and MicroRNAs December 31, 2018 • Cardiovascular and Metabolic in Kidney Physiology and • Inflammatory Mediators in Consequences of Sleep and/or Pathophysiology Kidney/Bladder Diseases, and in Circadian Disruption Submission deadline: Hypertension Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 NEW Submission deadline: April 1, 2019 • Circadian Rhythms or Time-of- December 31, 2018 Day Effects in Renal Physiology, • Mechanism and Treatment of the Urinary System, Blood Renal Fibrosis Pressure or Volume and NEW Submission deadline: Electrolyte Regulation December 31, 2018 Submission deadline: June 30, 2019

For a complete list of current Calls for Papers, visit the APS website.

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Nominations, accompanied by a curriculum vitae, should be sent to the Chair of the APS Publications Committee via regular mail: Nominations are invited for the Editorship of Advances in Physiology Education to Curt D. Sigmund, PhD succeed Douglas C. Curran-Everett, who will American Physiological Society complete his term as Editor on December 31, 2019. The APS Publications Committee plans 6120 Executive Boulevard, Suite 600 to interview candidates in the spring of 2019. Rockville, MD 20852-4911

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Experimental Biology 2019 Distinguished Lectures

Physiology in Henry Pickering Robert M. Berne Perspective: The Bowditch Award Distinguished Walter B. Cannon Lecture Lectureship Memorial Award of the APS Lecture Cardiovascular Section

Peter Aronson Jennifer Pluznick Rong Tian Yale University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University University of Washington From Salt to Stones to CKD: Anion Functional Roles for Orphan GPCRs Cardiac Metabolism: An Odyssey of Transporters in Health and Disease in the Kidney Energy and Beyond Sunday, April 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 5:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:30 AM

Hugh Davson Joseph Erlanger August Krogh Distinguished Distinguished Distinguished Lectureship of Lectureship of Lectureship of the the APS Cell the APS Central APS Comparative and Molecular Nervous System and Evolutionary Physiology Section Section Physiology Section

David Dawson Tracy Bale Terrie Williams Oregon Health Sciences University of Maryland School University of California, Santa Cruz University of Medicine On the Cardio-Neural Trail of Stranded Membranes, Music and Economics: Parental Stress and Germ Cell Whales and Wounded Warriors: An What I Learned from CFTR, Bob Epigenetic Contributions to August Krogh Investigation Dylan and Adam Smith Offspring Development Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden

Solomon Berson Edward F. Adolph Horace W. Distinguished Distinguished Davenport Distin- Lectureship of the Lectureship of the guished Lectureship APS Endocrinology APS Environmental of the APS Gastro- and Metabolism and Exercise intestinal and Liver Section Physiology Section Physiology Section

Juleen R. Zierath Sue Bodine Nicholas LaRusso Karolinska Institutet University of Iowa Mayo Clinic Epigenetic Control and the Circadian Skeletal Muscle Atrophy: Clock: Turning Back Time on Diabetes Multiple Pathways Can Achieve Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Pathogenesis the Same Outcome Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 1:30 PM

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History of Carl Ludwig Carl W. Gottschalk Physiology Lecture Distinguished Distinguished Lectureship of the Lectureship of the APS Neural Control APS Renal Section and Autonomic Regulation Section

James Bassingthwaighte Susan Barman R. Ariel Gomez University of Washington Michigan State University University of Virginia School Ancel Keys Lambasted at the Faraday What Can We Learn about Neural of Medicine Society Meeting of 1937! Control of the Circulation by Studying Regulation of Renin Cell Fate in Rhythms in Sympathetic Nerve Activity? Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 1:00 PM Homeostasis and Disease Monday, April 8, 2019, 1:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:30 PM

Julius H. Comroe, Claude Bernard Distin- Ernest H. Starling Jr. Distinguished guished Lectureship Distinguished Lectureship of the of the APS Teaching Lectureship of the APS Respiration of Physiology Section Water and Electro- Section lyte Homeostasis Section

Sadis Matalon Mary Pat Wenderoth Jennifer S. Pollock University of Alabama, Birmingham University of Washington University of Alabama at Birmingham Heme as a Central Mediator of Evidence Based Teaching: So That There’s NO Place Like Home(ostasis) Acute and Chronic Lung Injury All Students May Learn Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:30 PM Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 1:30 PM Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:30 AM Supported by APS Strategic Partner ADInstruments

APS Nobel Prize Award Lecture Peter Agre Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 5:30 PM

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Experimental Biology 2019 April 6–9, 2019, Orlando, FL www.apsebmeeting.org

We are excited to present the tentative educational program for the APS annual meeting held in conjunction with Experimental Biology (EB) 2019 in Orlando.

NEW this year: The 2019 annual meeting features a compressed, 4-day meeting schedule from Saturday, April 6 to Tuesday, April 9. The daily schedule for APS will be:

7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Professional development sessions 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM Oral scientific sessions 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM Poster presentations 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM Free time for lunch and visiting exhibits 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Oral scientific sessions 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Oral scientific sessions 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Plenary named lectures

We hope you find the new meeting format valuable and that you take advantage of the many collaborative, cross-society offerings, such as the plenary Tang Award Prize lecture, the EB-wide Opening Reception, and the joint APS/ASPET President’s Symposium Series held daily throughout the meeting. Submit an abstract, register, reserve your housing, and more on the EB 2019 website (www.experimentalbiology.org). We can’t wait to see you in Orlando!

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION JO DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 14 900 SPEAKERS • 65 COUNTRIES I N • 12,000 ATTENDEES • 5,000 POSTER PRESENTATIONS • MORE THAN 50 CONCURRENT SESSIONS US experimentalbiology.org APRIL 6–9, @ 2019

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Morning Afternoon Afternoon/Evening 8:00 AM–12:00 PM 12:00–1:00 PM 2:00–5:00 PM Education Committee Refresher MCS Mentoring Lunch WEH Section Course Trainee Award Finalists and Data Beyond the Weight Room: The Diuresis Importance of Skeletal Muscle in Health and Disease (Supported by APS Strategic Partner ADInstruments) Merritt/Durocher

9:00 AM–5:00 PM 1:00–2:30 PM 3:00–4:30 PM ETG Pre-EB Meeting Conference AFMR Symp AFMR Symp TBD Alzheimer’s Disease: Many Failed New Method and Models to Study Trials so Where Do We Go from Human Metabolism with Stable Here? Isotope Tracers Reiss/Stecker Cree-Green/Parks

9:30 AM–11:30 AM 1:00–3:00 PM 3:00–5:00 PM MCS President’s Symp Science Policy Committee Symp NCAR Section Awards Session Clinical Perspectives on the A Role for Professional Societies in Data NCARnation Microcirculation Addressing and Preventing Sexual Pierce-Cottler/Mendelson Harassment in the Sciences Goulopoulou/Wilson

1:00–3:00 PM 3:15–5:15 PM APS-ASPET Presidential Symp Series Techniques Workshop on Microbiome Writing Good Multiple Choice Workshop on Microbiome Research: Questions: A Hands-on Workshop What You Need to Know Silverthorn Patterson/Hullar

1:00–5:00 PM 3:30 PM–5:30 PM Physiological Omics Group 6th MCS Symp Annual PG Conference

1:00–3:00 PM 6:00–7:00 PM MCS Symp Tang Prize Award Lecture Druker

6:00–8:00 PM MCS Poster Discussion and Reception Pierce-Cottler

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour Trainee Advisory CV Section FT Physiological -Omics Group Symp MCS Landis Award Lecture and Committee Symp Kaley Award FT: The Metagenomic and Business Meeting Marketing Yourself for a Microcirculation and Its Many Metabolomic Studies of Host- Successful Career I Cells that Contribute to Microbiotal Contributions to Obi/Zarate Tissue Repair Health and Disease Kubes Joe/Abais-Battad

Women in Physiology Resp Section Symp Hypoxia Group Symp EB Symp Series Committee Symp Central Control of Breathing: The Lahari Cherniak Lecture Carotid Body Sensing—More Career Planning: No Gliocentric Mechanisms Symp than Just an O2 Sensor Scientist Left Behind Funk/Mulkey Wilson MacFarlane Nichols/Maura Porta

Career Opportunities in Pubs Committee Workshop CNS Section Symp GIL Section Symp Physiology Committee Publications 101 Workshop Interaction of Cardiovascular Innovative Imaging Approaches Symp Sigmund/Scheman Disease and Neuro-cognitive in Gastrointestinal Epithelial The Hidden Job: Aspects Impairment. Biology of a Physiology Career Wallace Edelblum You May not be Aware of Becker/Trimby Renal Section FT Cell Section FT EM Section Symp Young Investigator Award: At pH Homeostasis and Acid-Base Hormonal Influences on Tissue the Nexus of Circadian Biology Transport Remodeling and Renal Physiology Parker/Romero Lindsey/Gohar Gumz

NCAR Section FT PIC Symp NCAR Section Symp Young Investigator Awards SGLT2 Inhibitors: From Autonomic Control of TBD Basic Physiology to Clinical Metabolism Success Aubert Gonzalez Villalobos/Pati

EEP Section Symp ETG Ussing Lecture FT Nutrition Group Symp Exercise and Heat Therapy: Keely Nutrition as a Biological Shared Molecular Targets and Variable: Considerations for the Cardiometabolic Benefits Future of Physiology Research Minson Anthony/Baum

WEH Section Symp NCAR Section FT Renal Section Symp Translational Models of Renal Autonomic Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Hypertension- and Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanisms: Which Branch induced Kidney Damage Informing Human Health or Not? Trumps? Li/Prieto Harrison-Bernard/Osborn Harwani/Pham

CV Section FT TPIG FT 3:30–4:30 PM Cardiac ECM Niche in Health Translational Physiology Cell Section Davson Lecture and Disease Highlights Dawson Dixon/Griffiths Young

CV Section Symp CV Section Symp Respiration Section FT Neurodegeneration and Heart Survived a Complicated Sex and Gender in Respiratory Failure: An Intimate Connection Pregnancy? Maternal, Physiology del Monte/Wold Postpartum, and Fetal Silveyra/Prakash Cerebrovascular Risks Warrington/Cipolla

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Sunday, April 7, 2019, continued

CEP Section FT EM Section FT Sex/Gender Symp Trainee session Sex Specific Differences in Sex and Metabolic Health: Crossley Obesity Induced Hypertension Emerging Challenges and Barnes/Primeaux Discoveries Alexander/Rice

Teach Section FT CV Section FT PanAm Symp Innovative Techniques for Aging, Exercise, and Heart Common Pathways of Teaching Health Sciences Failure: Common Connections Angiotensin on Cardiovascular to Increase Retention and and New Targets and Respiratory Responses Mastery Learning Emter/Wrann Induced by High-Fat- Jones/ElSayed Diet, Hypoxia, and Renal Hypertension Colombari/Del Rio

EB Symp Series Teaching Section Symp EEP Section Symp Aquaporins – More than Water Using Writing to Teach Nrf2 as a Promising Target under the Bridge and Assess Undergraduate for Increasing Healthspan and Mamenko/Ilatovskaya Physiology Students Diminishing Aging-Related Anderson Chronic Diseases Hamilton APS/ASPET President’s Symp EEP Section Symp 3:30–4:30 PM Series on Microbiome The Role of Skeletal Muscle WEH Section Starling Lecture Gut Microbiome and Damage in Adaptive Remodeling Pollock Metabolic Disorders McCarthy/Murach Sands/Morgan 4:30–5:30 PM WEH Section Lecture New Investigator Award

5:30–6:30 PM Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award Lecture Aronson

Monday, April 8, 2019

7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour

Trainee Advisory 8:30–9:30 AM 1:30–2:30 PM 3:30–4:30 PM Committee Symp CV Section Berne Lecture NCAR Section Ludwig Lecture EM Section Berson Lecture Marketing Yourself for a Tian Barman Zierath Successful Career II Obi/Zarate Women in Physiology EEP Section FT 1:30–2:30 PM 3:30–4:30 PM Committee Symp EEP Impact Award FT: EEP Section Adolph Lecture CEP Section Krogh Lecture Career Planning: No Modulation of Systemic Bodine Supported by Novo Nordisk Scientist Left Behind and Tissue Metabolism via Fonden (Monday) Differences in Activity and Williams Nichols/Maura Porta Fitness Morris/Rector

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Monday, April 8, 2019, continued

Careers in Physiology 8:30–9:30 AM GIL Section FT 3:30–4:30­ PM Committee Symp Teaching Section Bernard Gastrointestinal and Liver GIL Section Davenport Lecture The Hidden Job: Aspects Lecture Physiology and Disease LaRusso of a Physiology Career Supported by APS Strategic Zachos You May not be Aware of Partner ADInstruments Becker/Trimby Wenderoth

Cell Section FT CAC Symp Cell Section Symp Molecular Mechanisms APS Chapters: Why, How, What of New Frontier in Direct Effects of Cellular Signaling and Starting New Chapters of Lipids and Lipid Metabolic Transduction Hopper Defects on Membrane Proteins Blazer-Yost/Teal Jiang/Greenberg

WEH and ETG FT History Symp WEH Section FT Hot Topics in Water and Updating the History of Insulin: Environmental and Epigenetic Electrolyte Homeostasis and Novel Insights into Regulation of Contributions to Disease Origin Epithelial Transport Release, Delivery, and Functions TBD TBD Molina/Souza-Smith

TPIG Symp EM Section Symp CV Section FT Type 2 Diabetes: A Metabolic Crosstalk between Metabolic Wiggers Award Featured Topic Karma Disorders and Mitochondrial Chien Sepulveda/Chen Oxidative Stress Dikalov/Sack

CNS Section FT Renal Section FT Respiration Section Symp Effects of Diet on Emotion and Advances in Renal Physiology I ENaC and Fluid Transport across Motivated Behavior Ellison Airway Epithelia Silberman Althaus/Butterworth

EB Symp Series EB Symp Series 3:30–4:30 PM Oxidative Stress and Post- Brown Adipose Tissue – The Fat Renal Section Gottschalk Lecture translational Modification of that Makes you Thin Gomez Protein Thiols in Cell Signaling Symonds Helms

NCAR Section Symp CV Section FT 3:30–4:30 PM Neural Circulatory Mechanisms CV Section Young Investigator CNS Section Erlanger Lecture Linking Sleep Loss to Competition Bale Hypertension Faulkner/Dorrance Limberg/Somers

Respiration Section FT WEH Section FT EEP Section FT Mapping The Lung: Leveraging Therapeutic and Adverse Effects Mechanisms underlying Emerging Technologies To of Pharmacological Agents the Greater Propensity for Better Understand Pulmonary on Integrative Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease in Disease Pathophysiology Populations with Elevated Risk Beers/Bastarache TBD Keller/Brothers

Muscle Biology Group FT CV Section Symp CV Section FT Hot Topics in Muscle Biology Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Cardiac and Peripheral Wang/Mitch Aneurysm: From Models and Vasculopathies: Emerging Mechanism to Clinical Trials and Biomarkers, Imaging and Therapy Updates Treatments Kassiri/Liu LeBlanc/Kaufman

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Monday, April 8, 2019, continued

Respiration Section FT CEPS Symp Respiration Section FT Perinatal reprogramming of From The Brainstem to the Heart: Emerging Therapeutics for respiratory control Cardio-Respiratory Control in Respiratory Dysfunction Huxtable/Baker Ectothermic Vertebrates Turner/Falk Janes/Conner

APS/ASPET President’s Symp 5:30–6:30 PM Series on Microbiome Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Gut Microbiota: A Chemical Lecture Factory Pluznick Jeong/Pluznick

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00–8:00 AM 8:30–10:00 AM 1:30–3:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM Professional Development Hour

Trainee Advisory Muscle Biology Group Symp 1:00–2:00 PM EM Section Committee Symp Muscle-Derived Extracellular History Lecture Awardees Session Marketing Yourself for a Vesicles in the Regulation of Romero/Sidossis Successful Career III Metabolic Health and Disease Obi/Zarate Lark Women in Physiology Physoc/APS Joint Symp 1:30–2:30 PM Physoc Symp Committee Symp Physiology of Obesity: From Respiration Section Comroe The Clinical and Metabolic Career Planning: No Mechanisms to Medicine Lecture Benefits of Exercise for People Scientist Left Behind Aldiss/Lewis Matalon with Type 1 Diabetes Nichols/and Maura Porta Wagenmakers

Careers in Physiology CV Section Symp GIL Section FT ETG Hebert Lecture Committee Symp Protein Degradation Control of cellular organelle McDonough The Hidden Job: Aspects Mechanisms: A function, metabolism, and injury of a Physiology Career Compartmentalized Affair in in liver and intestinal diseases You May not be Aware of Cardiac Muscle and Disease? Li Becker/Trimby Sheik/Liang

Cell Section FT Cell Section Symp NCAR and CNS FT Ion Channels, Solute and Emerging Roles of the Hot Topics in Neuroscience Molecular Transporters In Cytoskeleton in Striated Muscle TBD Heath and Disease Hawke/Perry Baines/Althaus

NCAR Section FT WEH Section FT Nutrition Group FT Autonomic Function in Normal Hormones and Receptors Hot Topics in Nutrition and Preeclamptic Pregnancies in Homeostatic Control of Thalacker-Mercer/Borsheim Stachenfeld Physiology and during Allostasis in Pathophysiology TBD

CV Section FT CNS Section FT WEH Section FT Cardiovascular Metabolism in New Advances in CNS Physiology Effect of Diet on Metabolism, Diabetes Wainford Cardiovascular and Renal Hill/Harmancey Physiology and Pathophysiology TBD

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019, continued

EEP Section FT NCAR Section FT CV Section FT Examining Physiological Regulation of Muscle Sympathetic Inflammation and Leukocyte Mechanisms Using Outflow during Exercise Biology in Cardiovascular Disease Environmental Stressors Floras/Millar Halade/de Castro Brás Johnson/Schlader

Renal Section FT EB Symp Series 5:30–6:30 PM Advances in Renal Physiology II Metabolism, Organ Crosstalk, Nobel Prize Award Lecture Layton Microbiome and Mechanisms Agre Sun

Respiration Section Symp Renal Section Symp Musculoskeletal Afferents and Mighty Concepts in Mitochondrial the Control of Breathing Biology in the Kidney Streeter/Fuller Mallipattu/Li

GIL Section FT CV Section Symp John Forte Plenary Session AJP-Heart Editors Symposium Frey Zucker/DeLeon Pennell

EB Symp Series EM Section FT Crosstalk among Myofibers, Noncoding RNAs: Emerging Microvessels and Motor Functions in Metabolism and Nerves during Skeletal Diseases Muscle Regeneration Huang/Zhang Segal Resp Section FT Hypoxia Group FT Inflammasome Activation in Hot Topics in Hypoxia Diseases of the Lung TBD Waters/Yeligar

APS/ASPET President’s Symp CEP Section Symp Series on Microbiome Causes and Consequences of Microbiota in Action: The Gut Inter-individual Physiological and Beyond Variation McCabe/Cui Rees

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Robert Carroll Named 2018 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher

APS member Robert Carroll professor of physiology at the Brody School of Medicine at has been named the 2018 Alpha East Carolina University, and a founder of the International Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Association of Medical Science Educators. The Robert Distinguished Teacher by Alpha J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award recognizes four Omega Alpha, a medical honors faculty members each year who have made outstanding society, and the Association of contributions to the education of medical students. Read American Medical Colleges more in the AAMC press release at https://www.aamc.org/ (AAMC). Carroll is associate dean initiatives/awards/2018-aamc-awards-recipients/490578/2018- for medical student education and alpha-omega-glaserd-distinguished-teacher-award.html. ● Robert Carroll

Curt Sigmund Named Chair of Physiology Denise O’Grady Gaffney, Jamie Sands, and Elizabeth Dorr

We are pleased to announce the completion of our search workshops. He has been recognized with research awards for the Chair of the Department of Physiology at the from the American Federation for Medical Research and Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). From a strong American Society of Hypertension. From the American pool of candidates, Curt D. Sigmund has been named Physiological Society, he received the Henry Pickering to this important position. He will assume his post in Bowditch Award Lecture in 2000, the Ernest H. Starling January of 2019. Distinguished Lecturer in 2011, the Distinguished Lecturer in Physiological Genomics in 2016, and, in 2018, the Sigmund currently serves as Chair and Department Carl J. Wiggers Award from the Cardiovascular Section. Executive Officer, Department of Pharmacology; Professor Sigmund was the recipient of the Inaugural Vancouver and Roy J. Carver Chair in Hypertension Research; and 2010 Lectureship from Hypertension Canada in 2015, and Director, UIHC Center for Hypertension Research at the Roy from the Council on Hypertension of the American Heart J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Association, he received the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Iowa in Iowa City. He also holds appointments at the Carver Lecture Award in 2007 and the Excellence Award in College of Medicine as Professor of Internal Medicine Hypertension Research (commonly known as the Novartis and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. A Award) in 2009. member of the Iowa faculty since 1991, Sigmund has been significantly involved in undergraduate, medical student, Sigmund earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degrees graduate, and postdoctoral education in the areas of in biology in 1982 and 1984, respectively, from the State molecular genetics, molecular biology, human physiology, University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He received a physiology for physicians assistants, pharmacogenetics, PhD in cell and molecular biology from SUNY-Buffalo in pharmacology for pharmacy students, pharmacology for 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he was a postdoctoral fellow in nurse anesthetists, cardiovascular research, and more. the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell He also continues to serve as a mentor to junior faculty Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, and performed members at the University of Iowa and at the UIHC Center molecular and physiological studies examining some of the for Hypertension Research. first transgenic mice with genetic alterations in the renin- angiotensin system. Sigmund has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles and more than 75 books, reviews, and On behalf of MCW and Isaacson, Miller, we extend our invited commentaries. He has presented at more than 170 appreciation and best wishes. Please let us know if we can local, regional, national, and international lectures and be of help to you in the future. ●

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Letter to Ulla Kopp

Ronald Kramp writes: “I feel highly honored and thankful an international research Fellow of the NIH (1967–1969) to have been asked on my 80th birthday by Professor Ulla and as a Career Investigator Fellow of the American Heart Kopp to write this letter as a senior physiologist. Such a Association (1969–1970). This was my first introduction request brings many memories concerning professional to renal physiology and the discovery of a new way to and career choices. In this regard, I have been privileged approach research! Indeed, in French-speaking Europe, during my lifetime to have encountered wonderful physiology was still greatly influenced by Claude teachers and mentors. They have greatly influenced my Bernard and mainly based on experimental observation, career. Although I initially combined clinical activities whereas in the USA emphasis was put on elucidating and basic medical research, physiology became my mechanisms underlying function. My main research predominant interest. assignment concerned the determination of urate fluxes and transport mechanisms along the rat tubule using ”Born and raised in Antwerp (Belgium), I started the the tracer microinjection technic. I also studied the 7-years medical curriculum at the University of Louvain function and structure of chronically altered nephrons in 1957. During my medical studies, two teachers initiated using micropuncture and microdissection technics in my curiosity for research. First was Professor Christian de collaboration with Dr. J. Oliver to further investigate the Duve, future Nobel laureate, who was a fascinating lecturer adaptive nephron concept. and enthusiastic communicator about fundamental research. Second, Professor René Lambert attracted me ”These were 3 marvelous years spent in an exciting to his laboratory (my first experiments with rats) in the research environment. Therafter, I frequently returned department of gastroenterology at the Edouard Herriot to Chapel Hill for brief visits with Carl Gottschalk, an Hospital in Lyon, where I practiced patient history taking outstanding mentor who became a longlife friend. and clinical examinations during the summer months (from 1961 to 1963). ”Upon returning to Belgium to fulfil military duties, I set up a micropuncture unit in Dr. Van Ypersele‘s ”After the 7 years of medical education, I was fortunate to nephrology laboratory in Louvain and undertook further become resident in the department of internal medicine at investigations on urate transport mechanisms focusing at the University Hospital in Louvain (1964–1966). During the urate secretory pathway in the rat kidney. These studies my second year of residency, I joined the newly created were the basis of a PhD thesis (1976), a necessary step to Nephrology Unit headed by Dr Charles Van Ypersele, pursue an academic career in Belgium. The urate project my first mentor. He had just returned from Boston (Dr. was completed by a micropuncture study on allantoin W. Schwartz). He stimulated my curiosity for nephrology excretion in the rat kidney undertaken in collaboration research and suggested that I should to go abroad, first to with F. Roch-Ramel of Lausanne. Paris and, thereafter, to the USA. ”These studies were carried out as a research fellow of the ”In Paris, I was a foreign resident in the department of Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique. nephrology headed by Professor G. Richet at the Hôpital Tenon and worked in the immuno-histology laboratory ”During these years in a clinical environment and a short directed by Dr. L. Morel-Maroger (1966–1967). Until his stay at Merck & Co Belgium, my orientation toward recent death, Professor Richet and I remained regularly in research and teaching in physiology grew steadily. The touch. He was a friendly and close advisor over all these main focus of my professional career began with the years. opportunity in 1977 to join the newly created medical school at the State University of Mons. In 1979, I was ”In the USA, my objective was to acquire the technics of appointed Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology. micropuncture. I was fortunate to join the micropuncture The main objective of the new school of medicine was laboratory of Dr. CW Gottschalk at UNC Chapel Hill as quality teaching. I was fortunate to be assisted by

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dedicated collaborators to achieve this goal. My research 2012–2018). The two memberships recently came to an orientation became the study of renal hemodynamics end. It was a most interesting and challenging experience in the rat using electromagnetic probes investigating where rigor of jugdment had to be applied likewise to implications of endothelial and paracrine factors such methodological rigor in physiological research. as NO and endothelin on autoregulation. Among administrative commitments, I fulfiled a 4-year term as ”I’m now member on the disciplinary Appeal Court of the Dean of the Faculty and subsequently as Vice-Chancelor of National Council of Physicians (2018–2024). the University. I was also President of the Belgian Society of Nephrology and of the Belgian Society of Physiology ”Looking back on my career, I feel the most important and Pharmacology. In 2000, I was elected member of the thing is to be passionate about your chosen field. At times, Royal Academy of Medicine. frustrations may occur, but research also provides moments of great joy when an unexpected finding leads to a better ”At the time of mandatory retirement (2003), the University understanding of the problem. Teaching physiology has of Mons kindly provided an office that was outside of the been an important part of my academic career. It was department of physiology. During the following 5 years, most enjoyable to be able to transmit to young medical I participated as a delegate of the University of Mons to students that physiology is an indispensable link toward audits of Belgian universitary cooperations with developing comprehension of pathophysiology and disease processes. countries as well as of INSERM research units in France. ”During all these professional years, many ties of ”Stimulated by physicians in Mons, my curiosity led me to sincere friendship were made on different continents. a new field: theOrdre des Médecins or Council of Physicians Nevertheless, my best and most faithful supporter was, for regulatory affairs, deontological rules, medical laws, and still is, my dear spouse Cécile. Our three cherished ethical matters, and disciplinary juridiction. I was elected children gave us seven grandchildren, with whom we to the Provincial Council of Hainaut (Mons) (2003–2009 will now spend some more time to discover together new and 2012–2018), where I served as President during the countries and new cultures.” ● last term, and to the National Council (2006–2012 and Letter to Peter K. Lauf

Loy William Frazier, Jr. writes: “Thank you so much composed of an MD (clinical director), a PhD (laboratory for what you are doing for the APS as chair of the director), six registered nurses, and many support Distinguished Physiologist Committee. volunteers. We have only one paid employee, and that is a business manager. The clinic takes no government funding ”I have enclosed a short narrative of my professional and operates on donations from private foundations and activities since retiring from Baylor University College of individuals. We currently have clinic 4 days a week, Dentistry, in Dallas, Texas, in 1999 (now part of the Texas accommodating an average 80–100 patients each week. A & M. System). I did continue to teach part time at Texas The clinic accepts only patients between the ages of 16 Wesleyan University and the University of Texas at Tyler and 65 years of age, who are uninsured or under-insured. until2004. I will say more about this in the following note Clinic and laboratory fees to patients are only 15–20% of of my activity since that time. these same fees paid in the private sector.

”I retired from Baylor in 1999. After retirement, I continued ”In my extra time, I enjoy a couple of rounds of golf each to teach part-time at Texas Wesleyan University, Fort week. The remainder of our time is spent traveling around Worth, Texas and also at the University of Texas at Tyler, East Texas and spending some time with our 7 kids, 10 Texas until 2004. In 2004, myself, a nurse, and a nurse grand kids, and 1 great grandson. Retirement has been practitioner launched a medical clinic, Grace Community great for my wife and I, and we are enjoying a great life Heahh Care of Mineola Texas. Our current medical staff is here in East Texas.” ●

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Letter to Luis G. Navar

Yoshinobu Ohira writes: “Thank you for the nice letter. “The third Monday in September is the national holiday I retired from Osaka University, when I reached to the ‘Respect for the Aged Day’ in Japan. However, it looks retirement age 5 years ago. But I am still working at Doshisha like young fellows do not understand what that holiday University as a full-time distinguished visiting professor. I means. They asked me to work as one of the dissectors of have been conducting research in the area of space medicine. mice in our current experiment. What a huge generation Doshisha University kindly founded Research Center for gap!!! But I enjoyed the party after that.” ● Space and Medical Sciences in 2007, and I currently am acting as the director of the Research Center.

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2018 APS Workshop: The APS Institute on Teaching and Learning

Madison, Wisconsin, June 18–22, 2018

In early summer 2018, APS held its third Institute on Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin. The workshop allowed attendees to learn new skills and techniques so they can teach physiology in their own classrooms.

The workshop was organized by Thomas Pressley (Chair; Texas Tech. University Health Science Center), Barbara Goodman (Co-chair; University of South Dakota), along with an Organizing Committee that is equally dedicated Workshop Organizers Barb Goodman and Thomas Pressely with the to the art of teaching. The committee members included Minority Travel Fellowship Awardees Nancy Aguilar-Roca (University of California, Irvine); Beth their ideas and thoughts with the speakers at the end of Beason-Abmayer (Rice University); Gregory Brower (Texas their talks. The workshop also had several social activities Tech. University Health Science Center); Robert Carroll (East including a welcome dinner, which was designed to give Carolina University); Jane Chapman (Heartland Community attendees a chance to meet with long-time colleagues, create College); Ryan Downey (Georgetown University); Jonathon new friendships, and enjoy some desserts and beverages Kibble (University of Central Florida College of Medicine); before the opening keynote lecture. There were also three Joan Lafuze (Indiana University); Andy Petzold (University afternoon poster sessions where scientists presented their of Minnesota at Rochester); Jennifer Rogers (University of work and discussed their teaching styles and techniques Iowa); Kathleen Seiler (Champlain College); Jennifer Stokes with other attendees. Moreover, the workshop had daily (Centenary College); Steve Swoap (Williams College); group meals that facilitated further discussions between Christopher Trimby (University of Delaware). The committee the attendees. organized a program that included a packed schedule of dynamic plenary lectures, workshops, interactive poster A total of 60 abstracts were submitted for the workshop. sessions, and networking opportunities that made the Thirty-two of these abstracts were programmed as poster workshop a valuable experience not only for those who are presentations. The remaining 28 abstracts were submitted interested in teaching physiology but also for attendees who by invited speakers. Of the abstracts submitted for the wanted to learn some new teaching techniques to engage workshop, 35 (58%) were submitted by a female first their students. author; 8 (13%) were submitted from institutions outside of the U.S., including abstracts from Canada, China, The workshop was attended by 116 total registrants, of Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia Federation, and the whom 61 identified as APS members; 13 registered as United Kingdom. nonmembers; 7 identified as postdoctoral fellows; 9 were considered student attendees; and the remaining 26 were At the workshop the following attendees were awarded invited speakers. Table 1 shows the breakdown of the the Minority Travel Fellowship Award: Elinette Albino different registration types. This workshop mainly attracted (University of Puerto Rico); Angelina Hernandez-Carretero individuals from the U.S.; however, of the 116 registrants, 9 (University of California, San Diego); and Rebeca Nuñez were from outside of the U.S. Table 2 depicts the breakdown (University of Puerto Rico). The award is provided to of attendees by country. encourage participation of under-represented minority individuals in the physiological sciences. The fellowship The workshop program consisted of 2 keynote lectures, 7 provides reimbursement of all expenses associated with plenary lectures, and 18 unique workshops on a wide variety travel and participation in the workshop. of topics related to the teaching of physiology and classroom teaching techniques. The audience was encouraged to share

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Attendees of the 2018 APS Institute on Teaching and Learning Workshop

Also at the workshop, there were 19 undergraduate Table 1. Registration Statistics educators who received Physiology Education Community No. of % of Registration Type of Practice (PECOP) Fellowships, which were funded Attendees Attendees through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The APS Member 61 54% PECOP project is designed to build a growing and dynamic Nonmember 13 11% community of undergraduate physiology educators who Postdoctoral interact, share resources, and collaborate on an ongoing 7 6% Fellows basis; learn and apply effective scientific teaching methods in their classrooms, such as student-centered learning Students 9 7% Invited Chairs/ emphasized in Vision and Change; and use scholarship of 26 22% teaching and learning (SOTL) methodologies to improve Speakers their teaching. The PECOP Fellows are Scott Amiss (Cal State TOTAL 116 100% Northridge Katie Kowalski (University of Oregon); Carol Britson (University of Mississippi); Monica McCullough (Western Michigan University April Carpenter (Ursinus College); Patricio Mujica Urzua (CUNY-Lehman College); Table 2. Registration Geographic Region Statistics Joann Chang (Arizona Western College); Amber Schlater No. of % of (The College of St. Scholastica); Gregory Crowther (Everett Registration Type Attendees Attendees Community College); Jennifer Stokes (Centenary College); U.S. 107 91% John Henry Dasinger (Medical College of Wisconsin); Heidi Walsh (Wabash College); Ryan Downey (Georgetown Canada 2 2% University); Laura Weise Cross (University of New Mexico); Cayman Islands 1 1% Jessica Fry (Curry College); Christopher Wingard (Bellarmine New Zealand 1 1% University); Patricia Halpin (University of New Hampshire); St. Kitts & Nevis 2 2% Matthew Zahner (East Tennessee State University); Yass Saudi Arabia 1 1% Kobayashi (Fort Hays State University). United Kingdom 2 2% TOTAL 116 100% In addition, Tara Slominski of the Univ. of North Dakota received the William Galey Professional Skills Training Scholarship Award.

The American Physiological Society and the Organizing Committee gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided though a generous educational grant from ADInstruments and the National Science Foundation. ●

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Assistant Professor: The Department of Human biomedical research. At the undergraduate level, future Physiology at the University of Oregon invites researchers, educators, physicians, physical therapists applications for two tenure track faculty positions (one and other health care providers receive comprehensive, open rank and one at the Assistant Professor level), multidisciplinary training in the physical, biological, and to begin fall 2019. We are seeking individuals with chemical sciences that prepares them well for entrance research interests in motor control, biomechanics, and/ into most professional health care-related programs. or neurophysiology that complement existing areas Human Physiology students also examine the health of excellence within the department. Competitive sciences from a perspective that explores the functional candidates will be broadly trained and have experience and structural mechanisms underlying human with the mechanical and/or neural principles underlying movement across health and disease, using a variety movement, neurorehabilitation, motor control, or other of physiological methods, ranging from biochemical aspects of neuromuscular physiology. Applicants with a and systems techniques through whole body analysis. research program focused on orthopaedic or movement The graduate program develops researchers and health disorders are strongly encouraged to apply. Competitive professionals who are creative thinkers and innovators salary support and start-up funds will be provided. capable of generating new knowledge in the physiological Application deadline: November 16, 2018; position open sciences. To this end, the department has a number of until filled.Required application materials: Apply at https:// outstanding, funded laboratories that use physiological academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11693. Applicants should and engineering methods to evaluate human subjects submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of under a broad spectrum of experimental conditions. The recommendation, three representative publications, Department’s faculty members recognize that cutting- and three statements: 1) research accomplishments and edge translational research, from basic physiological future plans, 2) teaching philosophy, and 3) personal mechanisms through integrative systems physiology contributions to foster an environment of equity and related to health, human movement, and physical activity, inclusion for faculty, staff, and students from diverse has a major influence on disease treatment and prevention. backgrounds. Questions about the application process Consequently, in the performance of their research, they should be addressed to Andy Karduna (karduna@ routinely work closely with physicians and other clinical uoregon.edu). To ensure consideration, please submit personnel. Minimum requirements: PhD in Physiology, application materials by November 16, 2018. The Kinesiology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering or positions will remain open until filled. Applications related field; postdoctoral research experience (2 years). are encouraged from minorities, women, or members Preferred qualifications: Demonstrated commitment of other underrepresented groups. The Department of and contribution to institutional diversity, equity, Human Physiology is dedicated to the goal of building and inclusion; previous experience with university- a diverse community that is committed to teaching and level teaching and service; assistant professor level, working in a multicultural environment. Applicants promising publication record and experience with grant are requested to include a statement about how they writing; associate professor level, established record of will further this goal. In particular, candidates should publications and grant funding (eg, NIH, NSF or DoD); describe any experience with mentoring minorities, full professor level, exceptional record of publications women, or members of other underrepresented and grant funding, demonstrated leader in their field. groups, including examples of supporting or leading About the university: The University of Oregon is one of activities that promoted interest and retention in the only two Pacific Northwest members of the Association science by individuals from under-represented groups. of American Universities and holds the distinction of a Additionally, candidates are encouraged to provide “very high research activity” ranking in the Carnegie information of how their research agenda addresses or Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The incorporates issues that involve or affect diverse groups. UO enrolls more than 20,000 undergraduate and 3,600 Department or program summary: The UO Department graduate students representing all 50 states and nearly of Human Physiology is home to undergraduate and 100 countries. The UO’s 295-acre campus features state- graduate students who desire strong training in human of-the art facilities in an arboretum-like setting within physiology and anatomy that will prepare them for the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people. The careers in medicine, allied health professions, and UO is located in Eugene, a vibrant city of 157,000 within

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easy driving distance of the Pacific Coast, the Cascade models; translational using basic and clinical models; Mountains, and Portland. The University of Oregon and/or clinical with a focus on nutrition, human health, is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible and the microbiome. The successful applicant’s research employees, including health insurance, retirement is expected to be synergistic with core areas of the plans, and paid time off. For more information about strategic plans of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, benefits, visit http://hr.uoregon.edu/careers/about-benefits. the College of Health and Human Development, and The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, the University of which Enhancing Health is one of five affirmative action institution committed to cultural thematic priorities (http://strategicplan.psu.edu/thematic- diversity and compliance with the ADA. The University priorities/). The position is a tenure-track position in encourages all qualified individuals to apply and does the Department of Nutritional Sciences, one of eight not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, departments in the College of Health and Human including veteran and disability status. The University Development (http://hhd.psu.edu/). Penn State takes pride is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in faculty who integrate research, teaching, and service to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request activities and seeks excellence in all three domains of an accommodation in connection with the application academic activity. The National Research Council ranked process, please contact us at [email protected] Penn State’s Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences or 541-346-5112. UO prohibits discrimination on the among the nation’s best. More information is available at basis of race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, http://nutrition.hhd.psu.edu/. The Department has 26 full- religion, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual time faculty and 17 research scientists. Current student orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in enrollments are 212 undergraduate students and 35 all programs, activities, and employment practices as PhD candidates. The Department provides a supportive required by Title IX, other applicable laws, and policies. environment for interdisciplinary translational research Retaliation is prohibited by UO policy. Questions may be spanning applied and basic sciences. Collaborative referred to the Title IX Coordinator, Office of Civil Rights opportunities abound in the Department of Nutritional Compliance, or to the Office for Civil Rights. Contact Sciences; in other departments in the College of Health information, related policies, and complaint procedures and Human Development; as well as in other Penn are listed on the statement of non-discrimination. In State Colleges (e.g. Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, compliance with federal law, the University of Oregon Science), Centers, and Institutes across campus, including prepares an annual report on campus security and fire but not limited to the newly formed Microbiome Center, safety programs and services. The Annual Campus the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, Penn State Security and Fire Safety Report is available online at Clinical and Translational Institute (CTSI), and the http://police.uoregon.edu/annual-report. Penn State Cancer Institute. Furthermore, depending on the research area of the candidate, this position may Assistant/Associate Professor: The Department of be part of a co-hire with the Huck Institutes for the Life Nutritional Sciences seeks applications for a tenure- Sciences (https://www.huck.psu.edu/). Applicants should track Assistant/Associate Professor position with a have strong academic training in nutritional sciences, focus on nutrition and the microbiome. This position physiology, microbiology, or a closely related field. A will complement the research of existing faculty, doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, MD, and/or equivalent) which includes research related to the prevention and 2 or more years of postdoctoral research experience of cardiovascular disease; ingestive behavior and is required. Candidates will be expected to establish an mechanisms underlying obesity; studies of diet, physical extramurally funded research program and to teach in the activity and cancer prevention; micronutrient metabolism Department’s undergraduate and graduate programs. in animal models or humans; epidemiology, and/or Service expectations will be appropriate to Penn State’s global health nutrition. The research area of the successful mission as a land grant university. Qualified candidates applicant could include questions exploring the maternal should provide evidence of original research published in and infant microbiome, diet and the microbiome, and/or peer-reviewed journals and are expected to have obtained the microbiome and metabolic diseases. The successful or show strong potential to obtain external support for applicant’s research can be basic using cell and animal their independent research program. Applicants should

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also have experience that demonstrates proficiency in research programs that leverage molecular and cellular both teaching and potential for mentoring students. insights to inform physiological and pathophysiological Candidates should address their ability to work functions, are highly desired. Competitive lab space effectively with diverse populations and audiences. To and start-up funds are available. Please apply online at: apply, interested candidates should complete an online https://cw.na1.hgncloud.com/pcom/loadJobPostingDetails. application (https://psu.jobs/job/82918) and upload: 1) do?jobPostingID=102600&source=jobList. Applicants must a cover letter of application; 2) a personal statement be authorized to work in the U.S. PCOM adheres to a policy addressing interests and vision (future goals and plans) that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, in a) research and b) teaching; 3) a curriculum vitae along sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national with 4) names, titles, and complete contact information. or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran Review of applications will begin immediately and status, or any other legally protected class. continue until the position is filled. Salary is competitive, commensurate with background and experience. An Assistant/Associate/Full Professor: The Mohammed attractive benefits package is available. To review the Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences Annual Security Report, which contains information (MBRU) is a newly launched University in Dubai about crime statistics and other safety and security Healthcare City (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). matters and policies, please go to https://police.psu.edu/ With Queen’s University of Belfast as its academic annual-security-reports, which will also explain how to partner, MBRU aims to train healthcare professionals request a paper copy of the Annual Security Report. in a culture that champions excellence in education, Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action clinical service, and research. The College of Medicine employer, and is committed to providing employment offers an innovative 6-year MBBS program, open to all opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard nationalities. The language of instruction is English. to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, MBRU is soliciting applications for positions at all gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected academic ranks in the following disciplines: Physiology veteran status. for the College of Medicine. Faculty members will be working in an academic and healthcare environment Assistant/Associate Professor: The Philadelphia located in the heart of Dubai, a major travel hub with College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), Department direct flight connections to most major cities. Our of Biomedical Sciences, invites applications for a strategic partnership with Al Jalila Foundation (www. 12-month, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant aljalilafoundation.ae) will facilitate access to research grants or Associate Professor. In this position, based at our and research facilities in a number of disciplines. MBRU Philadelphia, PA campus, you will be instrumental offers competitive compensation packages, including in establishing and conducting an independent tuition fee support for children’s education and air travel extramurally funded research program, aid in course tickets for faculty and eligible family members. Successful administration and contribute to institutional and candidates must meet the following requirements: PhD, departmental governance and service. Applicants at the MD, or MD/PhD degree(s). For clinical disciplines, Associate Professor level are expected to have funding candidate must hold Board certification (U.S. and and a recognized reputation of innovative research Canada), CCT (UK), or equivalent. Academic experience excellence and productivity. Rank will be commensurate in a recognized university (at least 5 years for Associate with experience. Requirements: DO, MD, or PhD degree Professor position and at least 10 years for Full Professor in the biological sciences and demonstrated excellence in position). Significant research track record. Experience in graduate biomedical education; 3 years of experience in teaching and assessment of medical students. Interested teaching any aspect of physiology or pathophysiology, candidates should e-mail their CV and a cover letter bringing innovative approaches into the classroom, and indicating the candidates’ teaching philosophy, research the ability to work collaboratively with other faculty plans and motivation to move to MBRU to faculty. and staff in team taught courses. Candidates working [email protected]. Positions will remain open until at all levels of approaches (molecular, cellular, and filled. To learn more about (MBRU) please visitwww. ( organismal) will be considered. Investigators using state- mbruniversity.ac.ae). of-the-art techniques, including animal models, with

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor: American University as well as basic and applied research and associated of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) is actively clinical services. Research areas of strength align with seeking a dynamic, experienced full-time faculty member key initiatives of West Virginia University and include to join the 2nd Semester Medical Sciences Unit at their cardiopulmonary, neuromotor, and muscle physiology St. Maarten Campus to teach cardiovascular physiology. science. At this exciting time, West Virginia University, in Education is the primary focus of the AUC faculty. The conjunction with the WVU Medicine clinical enterprise, academic year is divided into three semesters, with a new has established the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. class of students admitted each semester. Lectures and Core innovation areas of the Institute include Human other educational responsibilities continue throughout Performance Research, which aspires to maximize human the year. AUC is particularly interested in individuals performance through accelerated recovery, reduced injury, who have an interest in improving medical education optimized readiness, and holistic wellness. This new and are effective team members. Essential duties and initiative will afford exciting collaborative opportunities responsibilities: Preparation of course materials (lecture for the Division of Exercise Physiology, which already notes and slides, and USMLE style questions); effective has a reputation for high-impact education, research, and delivery of lectures; supervise educational activities of clinical programs. The Division of Exercise Physiology is students under actual or simulated situations; advise administratively housed within the School of Medicine’s students in academic matters and exercise professional Professional Programs unit, which is home to over 1,000 judgment in referring students to appropriate personnel; students enrolled in degree programs including exercise develop new instructional materials and teaching physiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, techniques with participation in on-going reviews and medical laboratory sciences, immunology, pathologists’ revision of curriculum planning; actively participate assistant, physician assistant, and health information in relevant professional activities to improve teaching management. Many of the graduate and professional and subject matter competence; serve on faculty programs within the unit use the exercise physiology committees as appointed or elected, and confer with undergraduate program as the preferred baccalaureate advisory groups to modify course content; prepare, degree for admission. Therefore, the exercise physiology administer, and evaluate examinations to assess the program has a large undergraduate enrollment of development of student accomplishments; participate approximately 650 students. In addition, the program in other activities in coordination with the Semester offers a master’s degree with thesis and clinical track Lead or Executive Dean. Qualifications: PhD, MD, or options and a doctoral (PhD) program. The exercise DO from an accredited U.S. or Canadian medical school physiology chairperson will report directly to the Vice required; recent 5–7 years teaching experience in the U.S. Dean for Professional Programs. The chairperson will also or Canadian medical curriculum required; applicants represent exercise physiology as part of a team of leaders must have proven teaching experience in Cardiovascular working closely with the Senior Associate Vice President Physiology; flexibility and ability to work well on a team for Research and Graduate Education. The Chairperson with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. will serve as leader of the academic program and will be Please submit your CV, cover letter, and list of physiology responsible for administration of the education program lectures taught and number of years teaching those at all levels, including budget, oversight of recruitment, lectures in a U.S. or Canadian medical school curriculum retention and new education initiatives, quality of student to Talent Acquisition Consultant, Barbara Roberge, at experience, and program assessment. The chairperson is [email protected]. also expected to maintain an active research program and serve as a mentor to tenure-track research faculty, Leadership Position: West Virginia University, located including oversight of all funded research projects in Morgantown, WV, is seeking a highly qualified leader within the division and plans for strategic growth of the to serve as the Chairperson for the Division of Exercise research mission. The School of Medicine is committed Physiology in the Department of Human Performance to investment in exercise physiology to maximize the in the School of Medicine. The Division of Exercise interdisciplinary collaborative research and education Physiology is nationally recognized and encompasses opportunities. The Chairperson must meet the education from the baccalaureate to doctoral level, following criteria for consideration: doctoral degree in

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Exercise Science or related field; minimum of 10 years of Anesthesiology for the University of Nebraska of experience in higher education, with experience at Medical Center. The Vice-Chair for Research represents both undergraduate and graduate levels; scholarship a major leadership opportunity within the Department. record consistent with appointment at the Associate This individual will lead and facilitate collaborations or full Professor rank; 2–3 years of advanced level within the department and across campus. This is administrative/leadership experience. In addition to a tremendous opportunity for a seasoned scientific the required qualifications listed above, candidates with leader to expand and further develop research in a the following qualifications are strongly encouraged supportive clinical environment. In addition, s/he to apply: research record with a consistently funded will guide the department’s research programs and program that documents competitiveness at the national provide strong research mentorship to both basic science level. West Virginia University is a land grant Carnegie- and clinical faculty and fellows. S/he will have an designated Doctoral Research/Extensive institution, opportunity to make an impact on translational science with approximately 32,500 students, including 27,000 that covers multiple disciplines. The Department of undergraduate and 5,500 graduate/professional Anesthesiology is the exclusive provider of anesthesia students. The WVU Health Sciences Center includes the services for Nebraska Medicine, including all academic Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, and private clinical practices. Nebraska Medicine’s and Nursing. Patient care facilities include a 645-bed integrated academic health science center has almost teaching hospital, a Level I trauma center, and a 70-bed 700 licensed beds, 40 specialty and primary care clinics, psychiatric hospital. Morgantown is within easy traveling and handles over 30,000 inpatient admissions and more distance of Washington, DC to the east, Pittsburgh, PA than half a million outpatient visits per year. Under to the north, and Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio to the the leadership of its Chairman, Steven J. Lisco, MD, northwest. Morgantown has 55,000 residents and is rated FCCM, FCCP, the department has grown tremendously as one of the best small towns in the U.S., with affordable and is currently ranked 45th in NIH research awards housing, excellent schools, a picturesque countryside, among anesthesiology departments in the U.S. The and many outdoor activities. Review of applications Department has a highly dedicated faculty, including will begin immediately and continue until the position junior, mid-career, and senior members, with a diverse is filled. The appointment date is negotiable, but the mix of clinical, research, and educational interests. It is goal is to have the position filled no later than January well positioned to expand research on an already solid 1, 2019. To inquire about the position, please contact the base. The successful Vice-Chair candidate will be an MD, chairperson of the search committee, Dr. Linda Vona- MD/PhD, or PhD. S/he will have a vibrant, well-funded Davis, PhD, Director, Biomedical Master of Science in research program and prior administrative experience. S/ Health Sciences, [email protected]. Applicants should he will have a history of extramural research funding. As apply at https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobdetail. Vice-Chair for Research in UNMC/Nebraska Medicine, ftl?job=09324 with a cover letter of interest, current CV, s/he will have a vision for building an interactive and contact information, including e-mail addresses for basic/clinical/translational program bridging multiple three professional references. If you have any questions departments and groups. UNMC is a premier academic regarding this position/process, please feel free to contact medical center located in Omaha, NE with newly built Carol Smith, Executive Recruiter at [email protected] research and clinical space. Total campus research or 304-293-4512. WVU is an EEO/Affirmative Action space is approximately 1 million square feet. Active Employer and the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award training programs exist in basic and clinical sciences. In for gender equity. The university values diversity among addition, busy pain management, critical care, ECMO, its faculty, staff, and students, and invites applications echocardiography, and cardiovascular surgery programs from all qualified individuals, including minorities, exist at UNMC, providing outstanding resources for females, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. clinical and translational research. For consideration, please submit CV and letter of interest in confidence Leadership Position: Applications are invited from to: Eileen Blake Alexander, Wollman & Stark eblake@ high energy, results-oriented individuals to fill the AlexanderWollmanStark.com, 610-399-5284. Individuals position of Vice-Chair for Research in the Department from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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setting. Important qualifications also include service on Leadership Position: The University of Arkansas national grant review study sections, service to national for Medical Science (UAMS) seeks a dynamic and scientific professional organizations, and proven skills innovative academic leader with a nationally recognized in mentoring young researchers. Interested individuals research portfolio and strong interpersonal skills to serve are asked to submit their CV, NIH-biosketch, and a letter as the next Chair of the Department of Physiology and addressing their experiences that fulfill the criteria for Biophysics. The Chair is responsible for ensuring the this position to Julian Tunno, Manager of Executive highest-quality academic, research, and administrative and Faculty Recruitment at [email protected]. Contact leadership for the department, including strategic Julian Tunno by phone at 501-686-2590. For further planning, faculty recruitment/retention and diversity, information please visit https://physiology.uams.edu/chair- resource development and allocation, continuous quality search/. Written nominations, inquiries, and applications improvement, and representation to external entities. (including e-mails) may be subject to disclosure under The opportunity: The next Chair will have an opportunity the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. UAMS is an to build on the Department’s strong foundation and inclusive Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity craft a vision that will continue to foster discovery and Employer of individuals with disabilities and protected excellence in physiological sciences. Areas of current veterans and is committed to excellence. research focus by departmental faculty broadly include gene transcription, protein targeting, posttranslational Postdoctoral Fellow: An NIH-funded postdoctoral protein processing, subcellular signaling, extracellular fellow position is available in the laboratory of Dr. matrix, control of differentiation and growth, and Kevin Cummings, Associate Professor in the Dept. tumorigenesis. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Missouri- of Medicine, the Chair will provide broad leadership Columbia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, our to strengthen and grow the Department’s research research program focuses on the neurohumoral control initiatives, resources, and educational contributions to of breathing and cardiovascular function in neonatal UAMS’s College of Medicine and Graduate School. The and adult animals during sleep and wakefulness. We potential exists for teaching within UAMS’s other four are particularly interested in the parallel functions of health professions colleges. Responsibilities: Engage the serotonin and orexin in cardiorespiratory function, Department’s faculty and staff in defining its vision for sleep, and thermoregulation across vigilance states. This the future in alignment with the University’s mission and work is relevant to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, strategic plan; recruit and develop a diverse cohort of which occurs during periods of sleep and is associated professors who will join the current faculty to execute the with defects in brainstem serotonin and orexin systems. Department’s mission and provide a strong succession Studies will involve the recording of breathing and plan for research, teaching, and mentorship activities; cardiovascular variables during wakefulness and sleep, work collaboratively with the Department’s faculty the microinjection of drugs into the CNS, and the and the Dean to manage the Department’s budget; utilization of DREADD technologies to silence or activate demonstrate innovation in advancing the Department’s specific groups of neurons in the CNS. We are looking for national prominence in its various research areas and highly motivated people who can work independently exhibit a central role in building academic collaborations and who also thrive in a group setting. Candidates and partnerships across the University; foster the should hold a PhD degree in an area of cardiorespiratory Department’s continued innovation and leadership in the physiology or neuroscience, and have excellent oral and use of learning technologies; serve as a model of integrity, written communication skills. Our laboratory is located demonstrating the highest ethical standards of conduct in Columbia, Missouri, a small city with a low cost of in all aspects of the Department’s work and in fostering living that is only a 2-hr drive from both St. Louis and collegiality. Qualifications: The successful candidate will Kansas City. Columbia has vibrant art and music scenes, hold a PhD and/or MD with a scholarly history that each year hosting the world-renowned True/False Film warrants appointment as a professor, a robust research Festival and the Roots and Blues BBW Music Festival. portfolio, and evidence of leadership and administrative There are many excellent restaurants and bars in the experience in an academic health sciences or equivalent downtown “District” that will satisfy your food, drink,

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and coffee cravings. We are only a couple of hours drive within and outside the university; 4) present results from the beautiful Ozark mountains and spring-fed lakes in lab meetings and other scientific meetings; 5) write and rivers. Interested candidates are encouraged to send manuscripts; and 6) assist in grant writing. The applicant a cover letter, CV with publications, and names and must have a PhD in Applied Mathematics, Biomedical e-mail addresses of three referees to Dr. Kevin Cummings Engineering, or related disciplines. Interested individuals by e-mail at [email protected]. should send a cover letter, CV, and the names/phone numbers of three people who could provide letters Postdoctoral Fellow: The Department of Physiology & of reference by e-mail to [email protected]. Review of Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University School of applications will begin immediately and continue until Medicine seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar the position is filled. In employment, as in education, to conduct research in the laboratory of Dr. Walter F. Boron Case Western Reserve University is committed to Equal (https://physiology.case.edu/people/faculty/walter-f-boron/). Opportunity and Diversity. Women, veterans, members The Boron lab focuses on two major and closely related of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals research areas: acid-base homeostasis and the transport with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Case Western of gases across biological membranes. Because virtually Reserve University provides reasonable accommodations every biological process is pH sensitive, understanding to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring a acid-base physiology is of vital importance. The Boron reasonable accommodation for any part of the application lab uses a combination of cell biological, biophysical, and hiring process should contact the Office of Inclusion, and electrophysiological approaches to study 1) how Diversity and Equal Opportunity at 216-368-8877 to cells regulate intracellular pH; 2) how proximal tubule request a reasonable accommodation. Determinations as cells sense extracellular carbon dioxide and bicarbonate; to granting reasonable accommodations for any applicant and 3) how gases move through membrane proteins, will be made on a case-by-case basis. such as the aquaporins and the Rh complex. Also, the Boron lab uses mathematical modeling to complement Postdoctoral Fellow: The laboratory of Dr. Jalees Rehman wet-lab experiments with the goal of helping in data at the University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking to fill a interpretation and in guiding the experiments. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in cardiovascular successful applicant will participate in an NIH-funded regeneration and stem cell biology. One of the main goals project focused on developing multi-scale computational of the Rehman laboratory’s research program (http://mcph. models of acid-base physiology to study the mechanisms uic.edu/rehman/) is studying mechanisms of cardiovascular by which gases move through gas channels. The ideal regeneration and using induced pluripotent stem cells candidate will have 1) demonstrated experience in (iPSCs) to model cardiovascular disease. All candidates developing reaction-diffusion mathematical models of must have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in the biological systems; 2) strong background in numerical biological or biomedical sciences, as well as experience analysis, in particular in Finite Difference and Finite working in two or more of the following areas: 1) stem Element Methods; 3) advanced proficiency with cell biology, 2) epigenetic or transcriptional regulation, MATLAB; 4) strong interest in learning acid-base and 3) animal models of cardiovascular disease, 4) RNA-Seq transport physiology; 5) excellent oral and written or ChIP-Seq analysis, 5) lineage tracing of cardiovascular communication skills and interpersonal skills; 6) ability regeneration in vivo, and 6) cellular metabolism. All to effectively and professionally communicate and candidates must have published at least one first-author work in a multidisciplinary environment; 7) excellent original research article accepted for publication in a organization skills and willingness to collaborate. leading peer-reviewed journal. The successful applicant Experience on mesoscopic modeling and knowledge of will develop a research project studying induced Python will be a plus.Key responsibilities will include pluripotent stem cell differentiation into cardiomyocyte 1) conduct independent research-including generating and vascular lineages as well as assess their function hypotheses, designing and executing research plans, and fate in vivo. The position is ideally suited for an data analysis-under the supervision of the PI and/ enthusiastic postdoctoral scientist who wants to pursue or senior members of the lab; 2) interact/collaborate a career in academic research and develop expertise with technicians, students, postdoctoral fellows, and in multidisciplinary research. Our institution offers a instructors in the laboratory; 3) interact with collaborators dynamic, multidisciplinary environment with close

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interaction with other basic and clinical scientists. The function to understanding chronic effects of ventricular laboratory of Dr. Rehman is part of the Department ectopy and how premature ventricular contraction of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine, the (PVC) induce cardiomyopathy. By characterizing Department of Bioengineering and the UIC Stem Cell underlying mechanism(s), we hope to identify strategies and Regenerative Medicine Center. All laboratory to prevent and reverse PVC-induced cardiomyopathy. members have access to state-of-the-art research We plan to expand studies involving RNA sequencing. equipment, including super-resolution microscopy and Applicant: We seek strong candidates with training single-cell RNA-Seq, which enable our researchers to in molecular cardiology research on disease models conduct high-impact work and significantly advance with expertise utilizing DNA, RNA, proteins, tissue/ the field. Minimum degree and field of knowledge: PhD cell culture, immunostaining/histology, and a strong or equivalent doctoral degree in molecular biology, publication record. Candidates must have a PhD and physiology, pharmacology, stem cell biology, or a experience in cardiovascular physiology, biochemistry, related field. An ideal candidate would have extensive biophysics, or other relevant fields. Knowledge in experience in cardiovascular differentiation of stem cells, proteomics and microRNA biology, bioinformatics, animal models of cardiac disease, as well as expertise and electron microscopy are also desired. We require in the use of confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, and excellent communication, presentation, and writing molecular biology (qPCR, cloning, immunoprecipitation, skills to present findings at internal, national, and Western blotting). Expertise in epigenetics and high- international meetings, and submit original publications. throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, DNA The successful candidates’ duties will include but are methylation, RNA-seq) would be very valuable. Salary not limited to organizing and implementing research will be commensurate with relevant experience and is plans, the development of new methods, testing, data competitive for postdoctoral research fellows. Interested collection, analysis, interpretation of data, and preparing candidates should submit a CV with the names of at manuscripts for publication. The successful faculty least two references to Dr. Jalees Rehman (jalees@uic. candidate will have the opportunity for mentoring edu), by August 31, 2018. The University of Illinois may graduate and undergraduate students and applying conduct background checks on all job candidates upon for career development and other research awards. acceptance of a contingent offer. Background checks Interested Assistant Professor candidates should apply will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit at https://www.vcujobs.com/postings/77868. Interested Reporting Act. The University of Illinois at Chicago is Postdoctoral Associate candidates should apply at https:// an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. www.vcujobs.com/postings/81824. Submit a cover letter, Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with curriculum vitae, and three reference letters. Potential disabilities are encouraged to apply. Start Date: Summer/Fall 2018. Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and Postdoctoral Fellow: Description: Assistant Professor student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty (grant-supported, term track) and Postdoctoral Associate member at VCU is required. Virginia Commonwealth (grant-supported) positions are available for talented University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action scientists to be part of ongoing exciting arrhythmia and employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons heart failure projects directed by Faculty within the with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Pauley Heart Center and the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University School Postdoctoral Fellow: A Postdoctoral Fellow position is of Medicine, in Richmond, VA. The selected individuals available in the George Washington University Institute will work with a multidisciplinary team including clinical for Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology and cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and cellular and Physiology. Description: A Postdoctoral Fellow position molecular cardiologists. Term Assistant Professors who is available for a highly motivated individual in The develop appropriate independence and a track-record of George Washington University Institute for Neuroscience funding and publications can be considered for transfer and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology. to the tenure track. Our laboratory’s translational studies The position is within an integrative physiology and integrate molecular, cellular and whole organ system behavioral neurosciences laboratory that is focused

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on understanding how stress and anxiety related Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral disorders (i.e., posttraumatic stress disorder) contribute Sciences, GW Institute for Neuroscience, The George to increased cardiovascular disease risk. Using multi- Washington University, 2300 Eye St., NW, Washington, disciplinary approaches, we investigate integrative DC 20037, Ross Hall 457; [email protected]; (202) 994-5584. (i.e., neuroimmune) mechanisms related to the brain neurocircuitry involved in cardiovascular autonomic and Postdoctoral Fellow: A postdoctoral position is available fear/stress regulation. We have a particular interest in the in the laboratory of Dr. Soroush Tahmasebi at Department renin angiotensin system and its role in the development of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago. The of cardiovascular and anxiety related diseases. The focus of the lab is to study the role of mRNA translation laboratory utilizes a variety of novel transgenic mouse control in embryonic stem cell (ESC) and human models and state-of-the-art cardiovascular, behavioral, diseases. The trainees will have opportunities to work and immunological interdisciplinary approaches. with genetically modified animals and solve scientific Applicant: We seek an individual with PhD biomedical problems utilizing a combination of molecular, high- sciences with strong background and expertise in the throughput, cellular and animal model approaches. related field of cardiovascular physiology/immunology/ The candidate must have a PhD degree. Candidates behavioral neurosciences. Expertise in whole animal with research backgrounds in molecular biology, signal physiology, immunology, including flow cytometry, transduction, and mouse models of lung diseases (e.g., animal behavior, and surgery are highly desirable. pulmonary hypertension) are encouraged to apply. Expertise with basic techniques utilizing DNA, RNA, Preference will be given to recent PhD graduates. protein, tissue/cell culture ,and immunostaining/ Selected candidates will perform highly interdisciplinary histology are also desired. The successful applicant’s and collaborative scientific research in one or more of duties will include but are not limited to organizing and the following projects, working with human cell lines, implementing research plans, the development of new mouse models, and clinical samples: 1) exploring the methods, testing, data collection, analysis, interpretation function of signaling-regulated mRNA translation in of data, writing grant proposals, and preparing ESCs employing state-of-the-art high throughput (e.g., manuscripts for publication. The successful candidate ribosome profiling) and synthetic biology (e.g., iPSC and will also have the opportunity for mentoring graduate CRISPR) approaches; 2) deciphering the role of mRNA and undergraduate students and for applying for career translation control in mouse model of human diseases. development awards. The candidate will be expected to To apply, please send a letter of intent, CV with a list possess excellent communication skills and to present of publications, names and e-mails of three referees to their research findings on a regular basis to both peers [email protected]. The University of Illinois at Chicago within the department and at national and international is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. meetings. Please provide a cover letter with a brief Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with description of your current research, CV, and contact disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University of information for 3 references to [email protected]. More Illinois conducts background checks on all job candidates info at http://smhs.gwu.edu/neuroscience/positions. Potential upon acceptance of contingent offer of employment. Start Date: Fall 2018–2019. Contact: Paul J. Marvar, Ph.D. Background checks will be performed in compliance Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ●

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April 6–9 2018 Experimental Biology, Orlando, FL. May 27–June 3 November 8–9 PanAm 2019, Havana, Cuba. Information: Internet: 11th Edition of the International Conference: ICT for http://panam2019.com/ Language Learning, Florence, Italy. Information: Internet: https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/index.php June 10–13 14th FELASA Congress, Prague, Czech Republic. December 14–15 Information: Internet: http://www.felasa2019.eu/ Frontiers in the Clinical Management of Thyroid Diseases, Paris, France. Information: Internet: http://icmfs2019.com/ June 23–29 2019 Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease, Charlottesville, VA. 2019 September 11–14 March 20–23 The Interface of Mathematical Models and Experimental 23rd Annual Regenerative Medicine Workshop, Physiology: Organ Function from the Microvascular Charleston, SC. Information: Internet: https:// Perspective, Scottsdale, AZ regenerativemedicineworkshop.com/ October 2–5 March 25–26 9th Annual International Conference of Aldosterone 8th Edition International Conference on Internal and ENaC in Health and Disease: The Kidney and Medicine, 2019, Rome, Italy. Information: Internet: Beyond, Estes Park, CO https://internalmedicine.euroscicon.com/ October 29–November 1 April 5–6 31st World Congress of the International College European Meeting on Adult Congenital Heart Disease for Maxillo-Facial-Surgery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Information: (EuroGUCH), Zagreb, Croatia. Information: Internet: http://icmfs2019.com/ http://wp1.euroguch.com/

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 Keynote Lecture I: Student-Instructor Interactions in a Large-group Environment ...... Page 15

3.0 Plenary I: Teaching Best Practices ...... Page 15

4.0 Concurrent Workshop I: Assessment - The Nuts and Bolts of Exam Analysis ...... Page 15

5.0 Concurrent Workshop I: Professional Development - Compiling an Educator Portfolio for Promotion and Tenure ...... Page 15

6.0 Concurrent Workshop I: Tricks of the Trade - Introduction to the CREATE Strategy - Deep Analysis of Primary Literature Benefits Both Students and Faculty ...... Page 15

7.0 Plenary II: Why Collaborative Learning Works and How to Make it Happen ...... Page 15

8.0 Concurrent Workshop II: Assessment – Objective Assessment of Instruction: How do you know your students are learning? ...... Page 16

9.0 Concurrent Workshop II: Professional Development - Embracing Diversity and Combating Bias ...... Page 16

10.0 Concurrent Workshop II: Tricks of the Trade - Collaborative Learning ...... Page 16

11.0 Poster Session I and Group Discussions: Best Practices in Professional School Physiology ...... Page 16

13.0 Plenary III: Forgetting as a Friend of Learning ...... Page 21

14.0 Concurrent Workshop III: Assessment - Defining Competence in Physiology...... Page 21

15.0 Concurrent Workshop III: Professional Development – Crossing Over to the Dark Side: The Path to Academic Administration ...... Page 21

16.0 Concurrent Workshop III: Tricks of the Trade - Effective Use of Peer Learning and Teaching ...... Page 22

17.0 Plenary Lecture IV: Transcending Content and Teaching Context: How to Foster Meaningful Scientific Literacy in the 21st Century ...... Page 22

18.0 Concurrent Workshop IV: Assessment - Team Teaching: Is it Worth the Hassle? ...... Page 22

19.0 Concurrent Workshop IV: Professional Development - Moving Beyond the Classroom (and Becoming a Media Star) ...... Page 22

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5: Concurrent Workshop I: Professional 1: Keynote Lecture I Development 1.1 5.1 Student-Instructor Interactions in a Large-group Compiling an Educator Portfolio for Promotion and Environment 1 Tenure Prem Kumar L. Britt Wilson1 1 Univ. of Birmingham, Col. of Med. and Dent. Sci. 1 Univ. of South Carolina The gradient of the knowledge-doubling curve in our Educator tracks in medical schools are becoming more digital age demonstrates the futility of delivering an common. In this presentation we will discuss ways to increasingly out of date curriculum using didactic create an educator portfolio for promotion and tenure. methods. Such methods drive an instrumental approach The look of this portfolio should accentuate the to learning and reduce the meaning, feeling and guidelines of your institution. Thus, if you are at an relevance of the taught material. In contrast, effective institution that has an educator track, please consider active learning returns control to the student and bringing the guidelines to facilitate our discussion. personalizes the experience by relinquishing content delivery for understanding. This interactive lecture will 6: Concurrent Workshop I: Tricks of the Trade describe the challenges and enjoyment of implementing 6.1 flipped teaching to large physiology classes. Introduction to the CREATE Strategy - Deep Analysis of 3: Plenary I Primary Literature Benefits Both Students and Faculty 1 3.1 Christopher Trimby 1 Teaching Best Practices Univ. of Delaware Jae-Eun Russell1 CREATE courses use close analysis of linked sets of 1 Univ. of Iowa, Office of Teaching, Learning & journal articles as a portal into the research laboratory. Technology Faculty bring their deep research understanding to class, What specific knowledge, skills, and competencies do we decreasing prep time and building students’ want our students to gain when they complete the independence and transferable skills. Workshop: (1) Brief course? Although lecture has been a traditional mainstay CREATE overview; (2) Major focus: participants act as of any university campus, abundant research indicates “CREATE students” in hands- on literature-based that effective learning is supported when students are activities that introduce the CREATE strategy and toolkit; actively engaged in the learning process. Dr. Russell will (3) Consider ways to apply CREATE approaches in briefly sketch teaching best practices and will provide the physiology courses. participants with useful rules of thumb to effectively 7: Plenary II implement them in the classroom. 7.1 4: Concurrent Workshop I: Assessment Why Collaborative Learning Works and How to Make it Happen 4.1 1 Nuts and Bolts of Exam Analysis Robin Paige 1 Anne Schoening1 Rice Univ., Ctr. for Teaching Excellence 1 Creighton Univ., Col. of Nursing Is group work an effective means to teach disciplinary This session answers the question, "What do those exam content and skills or does it simply teach cooperation stats mean anyway?" Participants will review the and teamwork? In this talk I will present research on how definitions of common statistical terms used in exam carefully organized student interaction through analysis and individual item analysis and will analyze collaborative learning techniques enable students to statistical data for selected response items. Discussion engage in knowledge production, develop complex and will focus on using exam item analysis data as a means critical thinking, and build fluency with the course for quality improvement and making meaningful material. I will discuss strategies for planning, managing, decisions about student learning. and assessing collaborative learning.

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8: Concurrent Workshop II: Assessment 11: Poster Session I and Group Discussions: Best Practices in Professional School Physiology 8.1 Objective Assessment of Instruction: How do you know 11.1 your students are learning? Case-Based Review Sessions Incorporating the Student Jae-Eun Russell1 Response Polling Feature of an Active Learning Platform 1 Univ. of Iowa, Office of Teaching, Learning & Give Faculty and Students Real-Time Formative Technology Feedback in Pre-Clerkship Medical School Courses Assessments shuld reeal h ell students hae Rebecca Sullivan1, Thomas Fanrak2 learned hat u ant them t learn hile instructin 1Physiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple prides paths r them t learn it d u n University, 2Information Technology, Lewis Katz School ur students are learning rmatie assessment is of Medicine at Temple University critical t supprt ur student learning and t impre The eis at chl edicine at Temple niersit ur instructin This rshp ill cus n deelping annuall elcmes a dierse class students t the and seuencing a rmatie and summatie assessment prgram ur gal is t create an interactie and plan t pride rich learning eperiences that ill cllabratie eperience t prmte deeper leels supprt ur student learning and perrmance learning r large grups students hile ering the 9: Concurrent Workshop II: Professional attentin guidance and epertise ur acult Development Curse directrs are tased ith increasing the actie learning cmpnent hile decreasing the passie lecture 9.1 cmpnent the preclership curses The aailabilit Embracing Diversity and Combatting Bias 1 curse recrdings lectures cupled ith the Sydella Blatch 1 attendance plic that attendance at lectures is nt American Society of Cell Biology reuired has shited the classrm culture such that nclusie enirnments are e r all t succeed ut lecture attendance is l eerne es eerne has biases s h can u as A challenge acult ace ith large class sies is btaining the leader ster an inclusie enirnment hen aluable eedbac as t hich cncepts the students eerne is perating ith bias iases g bend struggle t learn r adpt miscnceptins hich cme racegender hich are nt the sle cus here n this rm either prir nledge r the misunderstanding rshp u ill use methds t identi arius tpes curse material rmatie practice uestins are bias in an enirnment practice using tls t prided t students as a stud tl but are neither decrease it and learn strategies t help u bridge the reuired nr cllected and therere cannt be used as needs students cming t u ith a hst persnal eedbac b the acult ten acult receie mst eperiences eedbac rm the summatie assessment 10: Concurrent Workshop II: Tricks of the Trade Attendance in ptinal preeam reie sessins has 10.1 als been in decline acilitatrs these sessins see Collaborative Learning methds t pride meaningul reie a multitude Beth Beason-Abmayr1 tpics hile gaining and eeping the attentin the 1 students ast methds include lecturestle reies Rice Univ. A stle reies and casebased reies during hich Cllabratie grup r can be an eectie methd t students are called n indiiduall acilitate inuirbased learning scalding assignments thrughut the semester students r in T address these issues e pilted a ne reie sessin teams t prgress rm structured t penended and rmat in a secnd ear preclership medical independent leels inuir n this rshp u ill curse This rmat incrprates casebased learning r ith ne eample a teambased prect t help ith realtime rmatie assessment using student students learn animal phsilg and brainstrm respnse plling stare aailable in the Ech Actie strategies t incrprate similar prects int ur n earning latrm The gals ere t increase student curses engagement in the large class setting and t er a methd b hich bth students and acult gained real time insight int hether students understd e cncepts acult designed the sessins t build n cases preiusl intrduced in lecture andr rshps t integrate the structureunctin relatinships

AE 2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS disease This alls acult t address big picture and perrmance n summatie assessments in this mdern highield cncepts hile mdeling h t dierentiate era disease states t als alls r spaced retrieal The stud as perrmed during the secndear inrmatin hich has been shn t impre learning astrintestinal and Renal sstems mdule the Anther beneit this methd includes priding a academic ear Curriculum as diided int methd b hich acult can mdel h t apprach mandatr and luntar sessins The mandatr bardstle uestins hich is particular interest t sessins included teambased learning and small grup the students as the prepare r their irst tep eam at casebased learning sessins n cntrast the luntar the cnclusin this academic ear sessins cnsisted lectures and small grup Faculty appreciate the students’ enthusiasm and that applicatin eercises material preiusl cered in the can instantl discer hich tpics students ind the curriculum All lectures ere recrded and all ther challenging and clear up cnusin and materials eg erint iles small grup case miscnceptins tudents cmment that the appreciate materials and ansers ere aailable t students nline h a large amunt material can be cered in a hether r nt the attended in persn Attendance meaningul a in a shrt perid time that the can as recrded r all sessins using a luetth enabled practice uestins and cases ith immediate acult smartphne applicatin Tealpass errmance as eedbac and that due t the timing these sessins determined based n the multiplechice uestin the can reine their stud plan and impre their time inal eaminatin at the end the ee mdule management cering all material presented tudents luntaril ased n the success this pilt prgram e plan t cmpleted the tiated trategies r earning epand these methds t ther curses as ell as ther uestinnaire (MSLQ). Spearman’s rho correlation lecture and small grupbased actiities ceicients ere calculated t assess the relatinships Reerences beteen percentage classes attended and each the subscales r mtiatin and learning strategies arpice auernschmidt A paced Retrieal measured b the This stud as Rappred Abslute pacing Enhances earning Regardless and students gae inrmed cnsent Relatie pacing Ep schl earn em Cgn ep di a The stud grup cnsisted students ttal hich cmpleted the The percentage attendance in the stud grup as nt dierent than ichael A Students’ misconceptions about that the hle class Attenders made up the perceied phsilgical respnses Am hsil grup ith attending nne the nnmandatr un t sessins igh leels seleicac and the abilit t 11.2 selregulate ert ere predictie l attendance Classroom attendance patterns and examination Attendance as psitiel predicted b an rientatin performance in pre-clinical medical students. tards peerlearning and helpseeing The nn Christine Kauffman1, Jonathan Kibble1, Megan Derazin1, attenders perrmed better n the inal eam than the Abdo Asmar2 attenders grup eer there as n crrelatin 1Medical Education, University of Central Florida beteen the percent classes attended and College of Medicine, 2Internal Medicine, University of perrmance n the inal eam Central Florida College of Medicine e cnclude that dierent acets selregulated tudies cmpleted ith undergraduate ppulatins hae learning predict attendance ith highl cnident shn that attendance psitiel crrelates ith students being the least liel t attend and that academic perrmance These ere primaril dne attendance at inclass sessins is n lnger a gd bere the current era the internet ith nline marer r thse h ill d ell in a curse urther streaming inclass sessins and multiple surces r r is needed t characterie the nature student cntent n recent ears a mared decline in classrm engagement and eectie appraches t stud attendance ithin medical schl has been nticed ith the adent this nline material The gals this stud included a descriptin classrm attendance patterns a determinatin learner traits assciated ith luntar attendance using selregulated learning ther as a theretical ramer and the assciated

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11.3 11.4 Flipping the Course: Independent Study of Online Utilization of an Interprofessional Simulation Videos and Interactive Sessions in a Medical Experience to Change Student Perception of Pathophysiology Course Interprofessional Education Thomas Pressley1, Gilbert Berdine2 Chris Wingard1, Beth Quinn1 1Medical Education, Texas Tech University Health 1Doctor of Physical Therapy, Bellarmine University 2 Sciences Center, Internal Medicine, Texas Tech Rationale: ollaboratie practice in healthcare results in University Health Sciences Center improed patient saety uality healthcare deliery and he intensity and depth o learnin reuired in medical oerall optimal health serices (nterproessional school poses challenes or both students and ducation ollaboratie pert anel ). o produce aculty. Students must constantly adust priorities as a healthcare workforce that is “collaboratie practice they ule scheduled content deliery such as lectures ready”, interprofessional education must be introduced ith the need or independent study. Lie many medical and intentionally incorporated into the appropriate schools e record lie lectures or diital distribution to curriculums to allo students to learn about rom and the students. s each class proresses in its trainin ith other healthcare proessionals. Similarly hoeer e hae ound that an increasin number o simulationbased education has demonstrated eectie students rely eclusiely on the recordins rather than results in improin patient care serices and better attend the lie presentations. s a result they spend patient outcomes in a learnin enironment that is sae less and less time interactin ith aculty members and structured and reproducible (Schmidt et al homas each other. t the same time increasin demands in the et al ). he purpose o this study is to determine i laboratory and clinics hae made it more and more an interproessional simulation eperience chanes diicult or our aculty to inest the time needed or lie octorate o hysical herapy () and achelor o lecture. ather than ihtin these trends e adopted a Respiratory Therapy (RT) students’ perception of model or our secondyear pathophysioloy course in interproessional education and eectiely meets hich the bul o subect material as deliered as learnin obecties established to promote prerecorded ideos that ere made aailable interproessional communication collaboratie online. lthouh some ideos ere custommade most implementation o silled therapy and eectie team ere adapted rom recordins made in preious years. assessment of the patient’s intervention response. suested schedule o study as posted or the students Participants: students enrolled in ardiopulmonary and each aternoon e scheduled interactie sessions in hysical herapy in the and students enrolled in hich students could apply their learnin. hese espiratory herapy Science in the proram both included case studies patient interies class discussion at ellarmine niersity. o inettestyle uestions and arious handson clinical Methodology: ll students ere inited to participate in simulations. Some sessions ere mandatory but most an anonymous surey prior to the scheduled simulation ere optional. ith this lipped stratey e hoped to eperience. he surey included identiication o enhance actie enaement by students hile reducin proram enrollment any prior interproessional the time commitments or aculty. ieldtest as education trainin and the Student erceptions o conducted in ith the respiratory section o the hysicianharmacist nterproessional linical course and perormance and student eedbac ere ducationeised (S) nstrument. encourain. y the current year () the entire n interproessional simulation lab eperience as course is conducted usin the online material and desined to include both and students in the interactie sessions. Student perormance as measured early mobiliation o a entilated hihidelity simulation by inhouse eams and hihstaes standardied eams manneuin ith comple cardiopulmonary clinical has not declined and in many respects is presentation. mmediately olloin the lab students improin. Moreoer ealuations o the course suest ere inited aain to complete a second anonymous that most students appreciate the leibility and surey that included the S nstrument and independence aailable ith this approach. e beliee Simulation ectieness ool Modiied. that the lipped stratey or a course in the preclinical years acilitates student learnin hile optimiin aculty Summary of Results: students participated in the re enaement. eperience surey and participated in the ost eperience surey. n eneral there as a positie shit in student perception as noted beteen S sureys. he simulation eperience appears to hae had the greatest impact on student’s feeling that their education

2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS is enhanced when working with students from another guidelines. e produced and distributed an electronic health profession. . responded trongly gree pre module introducing students to the layout and clinical eperience and . responded trongly gree post features of our model mergency epartment imulation eperience. tudents also perceived that patient room. dditionally, we developed new simulation satisfaction is improved when a patient is treated by a activities based on cardiac, endocrine, gastrointestinal team that consists of individuals from two or more and renal physiology and the recognition of several health professions. . responded trongly gree pre common clinical conditions (e.g., prerenal aotemia). eperience and responded trongly gree post inally, we developed an dvanced linical kills elective eperience. to provide chool of edicine Teaching ssistants the Conclusion: urvey results demonstrated a positive shift relevant clinical epertise needed to effectively eplain in student perception of interprofessional education. the clinical reasoning relevant to diagnosis and treatment embedded into health professional curriculums can have of the pathophysiology encountered in these new a positive impact on student perception on the value of simulations. tudent performance was assessed by a pre as well as the positive patient outcomes that result and posttest focused on clinical management of from interprofessional collaboration. emergent disease and evaluation of clinical writeups Reference List: (i.e., notes) documenting the simulated patient encounters. arly analysis of the data indicates that this nterprofessional ducation ollaborative pert anel. intervention has produced improved clinical reasoning (). Core competencies for interprofessional skills in firstyear undergraduate medical students at our collaborative practice: Report of an expert panel. institution. hile there is accumulating ualitative data ashington, .. nterprofessional ducation surrounding the benefit of early clinical education in the ollaborative. literature, these findings provide uantitative evidence chmidt , oldhaberiebert , o , conald . that early clinical eposure is beneficial to integration imulation eercises as a patient safety strategy a and retention of clinical information, as well as the systematic review. nn nt ed development of improved clinical reasoning skills, in first (art)–. year undergraduate medical students. Thomas , Rybski , pke T, egelmeyer , loos . n acute interprofessional simulation eperience for 11.6 occupational and physical therapy students ey findings Students in a graduate-level physiology class believe from a survey study. nterprof are. participation in group assessments improves their ay(). doi understanding of course concepts but knowledge .... pub eb . retention is reduced in low-performing students. Renee McFee1, Katie Bidne2 11.5 1School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Benefits of Early Clinical Exposure Using Simulated 2 Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Animal Patient Encounters for First-Year Medical Students Science Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln James Bunch1, Dan Webster2, Gregory Brower2 roup assessments have been shown to benefit both low 1School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health 2 and highperforming students and several studies have Sciences Center, Medical Education, Texas Tech reported positive student perceptions of collaborative University Health Sciences Center testing, including improved learning. nfortunately, arly clinical eposure has the potential to improve there is conflicting evidence regarding the impact on retention of important physiological concepts in knowledge retention. roup uies have previously undergraduate medical education. periential learning been utilied in our systemic physiology course for has been linked to improved skill development, with one graduate and professional students students complete benefit being facilitating the transition between pre uies individually and are then organied into groups of clinical and clinical education. irstyear medical students to retake the same ui. owever, uestions on at Teas Tech niversity ealth ciences enter chool of formative weekly uies typically assess lowerlevel edicine partake in mergency epartment imulations learning while uestions on summative unit eams assess during the aor rgan ystems (ystems hysiology) a higherlevel of learning. Therefore, use of both group block, and again in the second year as part of the uies and eams was evaluated for the ystems isorders block. ith the goal of improving academic year. roup uies and individual eams were retention of clinical pathophysiology and uality of administered during the fall semester and individual clinical reasoning, we embarked on a threefold uality uies and group eams were administered during the improvement proect in conformance with nstitutional spring semester. The group testing format was the same

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11.7 Individualised student learning and feedback in large medical student cohorts: flipping respiratory physiology Clare Ray1, Prem Kumar1 1Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham P We now use a ‘flipped classroom’ approach P P explanations, guided by the students’ responses, help to

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ollowing the success of this approach for respiratory attitudes and abilities to meet the challenge of the physiology we are now using it successfully for the expanding body of medical nowledge and the social teaching of cardioascular physiology to year medical demands students s the doubling time for medical nowledge is 13: Plenary III predicted to be ust days by wider use of the flipped approach may increase student confidence in 13.1 their ability to learn and understand independently in a Forgetting as a Friend of Learning fastchanging enironment his will euip them with the Robert Bjork1 sills that they reuire for a career of lifelong learning 1 Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles and we should focus on the understanding of core t is natural to thin that learning is building up sills or principles in the initial years of medical education knowledge in one’s memory and that forgetting is losing aur Science 323, some of what was built up he relationship between ensen Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 122, learning and forgetting is not, howeer, so simple and in some important respects is uite the opposite onditions that produce forgetting can enable additional 11.8 learning, and learning or recalling some things can Teaching reform practice and reflections based on contribute to forgetting other things n this tal focus undergraduate Pathophysiology course in Tongji on why forgetting enables, rather than undoes, learning University in the past ten years Kun Li1, Gong Qian2, Yongyu Li1, Yanna Li1, Yuxian Li3, 14: Concurrent Workshop III: Assessment 1,4 5 5 Maomao An , Mingzheng Zhou , Ling Zhu , Junfang 14.1 5 6 Zhang , Yan Zhao Defining Competency in Physiology 1Department of Pathophysiology, Department of Jeff LaRochelle1 2 Pathophysiology, Editorial Department of the Journal 1 Univ. of Central Florida of Tongji University, Editorial Department of the Journal ffectie peer leaders augment student learning and 3 of Tongji University, Department of Physiology, engagement aculty in a number of fields 4 Department of Physiology, Department of incorporate peer leaders in the classroom, and this Pathphysiology, Department of Pathphysiology, approach is growing in undergraduate anatomy and 5 Functional experimental center, Functional physiology courses his worshop will examine practical 6 experimental center, Department of Pathology and approaches to designing a peer leader program while Morphology, Department of Pathology and Morphology addressing logistical concerns onsiderations will include ntering to th century, teaching reform was carried peer leader roles, session design, effectie out in full swing in hina ongi niersity is one of the communication, and constructie assessment tailored to ey uniersities of the inistry of ducation, and your course innoations in medical education are imperatie as well 15: Concurrent Workshop III: Professional as other subects s an important basic subect of Development undergraduate education in hinese medical colleges and uniersities, athophysiology is deeply inoled in 15.1 the teaching reform action in ongi niersity, coering Crossing Over to the Dark Side: The Path to Academic a large amount of debates on curriculum deelopment, Administration teaching methodology, student assessment, curriculum Joseph Benoit1 ealuation, teachers training, and so on ere only 1 Burrell Col. of Osteopathic Med. reiew the construction practice of some teaching cademic careers offer many opportunities for reform proects based on undergraduate theory and adancement that can extend beyond the traditional experiments course in the past ten years, including classroom ach step proides exciting opportunities but excellent course construction of experimental often are accompanied by tradeoffs that should become hemorrhagic shoc , curriculum integration based part of the decision to ross oer to the darside on organs and system , shoc problem based oin us for an exciting interactie session designed to learning course since , bilingual education , help you deelop an administratie portfolio and assess excellent course construction of experimental hypoxia your of readiness for academic adancement , experimental teaching reform proect experimental hepatic encephalopathy his article also addresses some thining to the teaching reform practice on undergraduate their nowledge, sills, good 2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS

16: Concurrent Workshop III: Tricks of the Trade 19: Concurrent Workshop IV: Professional Development 16.1 Effective Use of Peer-Learning and -Teaching 19.1 Kathleen Hughes1 Moving Beyond the Classroom (and Becoming a Media 1 Columbus State Star) 1 ffetie eer leaders agment stdent learning and Mary Poffenroth engagement alty in a nmer of fields 1San Jose State inororate eer leaders in the lassroom and this hold yo share yor researh with nonaademis aroah is growing in ndergradate anatomy and With your already demanding schedule, it’s so much hysiology orses his worksho will eamine ratial easier to st talk to other rofessionals in yor field t aroahes to designing a eer leader rogram while sirios nonaademi adienes are ot there and addressing logistial onerns onsiderations will inlde they want to hear aot yor researh diretly from o eer leader roles session design effetie tart reating engaging digital ontent for wider ommniation and onstrtie assessment tailored to adienes sing ideo odast lie eents and olar yor orse writing y oining ary offenroth niersity iology etrer and iene ommniator for this hands on 17: Plenary IV worksho 17.1 20: Concurrent Workshop IV: Tricks of the Trade Transcending Content and Teaching Context: How to Foster Meaningful Scientific Literacy in the 21st Century 20.1 Cyndi Brandenburg1 Implementing Universal Design of Learning in Science 1 1 Champlain Col. Stacie Rose he rate of sientifi disoery makes ontent mastery a 1Heartland Comm. Col. hallenge een for eerts eanwhile while oetiity eahing eery stdent is a danting task niersal in siene is highly aled in theory in reality the esign in earning is a omrehensie framework ased roess is mediated y flawed hmans in a omle and on three areas we know inflene learning engagement setie world therey limiting its asolte otential ontent and assessment his worksho will introde his resentation makes an argment for why yo to the onet of roide onrete eamles ontetaliing the role of siene in soiety may e and aide instrtors in the imlementation of in more imortant than teahing siene ontent in and of their own lassrooms itself and roides one ossile framework for doing so 21: Poster Session II and Group Discussions: 18: Concurrent Workshop IV: Assessment Best Practices in Undergraduate Physiology 18.1 21.1 Team Teaching: Is it Worth the Hassle? Engaging Middle Schoolers and Undergraduates with Aaron Kostko1 Zehr's Becoming Batman 1Univ. MN at Rochester, Ctr. for Learning Innovation Heidi Walsh1 his session foses on the edagogial merits and 1Biology Department, Wabash College hallenges of team teahing fter a rief srey of aash ollege is an indeendent lieral arts ollege for arios team teahing models artiiants will e men, whose mission is to educate students “to think introded to reslts from the author’s research on the ritially at resonsily lead effetiely and lie imat of team teahing on stdent attitdes and humanely.” roimately of inoming freshmen lassroom erformane artiiants will then onsider indiate an interest in health rofessions whih has how they old imlement team teahing within their shifted the olation of stdent who take or own orses and disss the instittional and hysiology orse from those needing an edagogial arriers of doing so eletie for the iology maor to those flfilling a reirement for admission to rofessional shool raditionally was taght with an emhasis on organismal hysiology t the large degree of rehealth stdent enrollment droe me to reonsider the course’s focus. ease health rofessionals mst e rofiient in ommniating omle hysiologial onets to a dierse olation of atients adated 2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS the laoratory section of to include a community and intrinsic alue in an undergraduate human engaged learning roect where Waash students hysiology course. Methods tudents enrolled in developed their own “superhero physiology” lessons for uman hysiology during the ring , local middle school science classes, insired y the ook ummer , and all semesters were recruited Becoming Batman: The Possibility of Superhero y aul for articiation in this study, which included ehr. his roect had three aims nhance working collection of demograhic information maor, class knowledge of hysiological concets y creating lessons standing, gender, first generation status, to educate others. ain eertise in communicating underreresented minority status, surey comletion science to general audiences. ngage with the local ercetions of course actiities, motiation factors, community to romote science and health. uring the instructor characteristics, and assessment of first third of in all , Waash students hysiologysecific content knowledge aseline, learned hysiology concets through traditional formatie, and summatie assessments. his course classroom instruction, human hysiology laoratory was offered in three deliery formats traditional lecture, exercises using iWorx, and reading Zehr’s book. fter online, and lended, and each section rogressed multile rainstorming sessions, three grous of through the same course content at the same ace. ll students deeloed interactie lessons ased on hor students had access to the same rerecorded lectures muscle hysiology, iderman nerous system and comleted weekly adatie learning reflees, and uerman resiratory assignments. he traditional lecture resented the same hysiology. tudents ran these lessons during content as in the rerecorded lectures during two oemer in th, th, and th grade science classes min inclass sessions er week reiew of the re at rawfordsille iddle chool in rawfordsille, recorded content was otional and . While the Waash students had hoed to sulemental. nline students reiewed the re incororate iWor more fully into their lessons, the recorded lectures and engaged in asynchronous online middle school class sies and time constraints made discussion actiities aroimately eery two simler actiities more feasile. ne of the most weeks. tudents in the lended section met in a successful activities, however, involved a replica of Thor’s classroom once er week for min to reiew concets hammer linked to the iWor hand resented in the rerecorded lectures, comlete inclass dynamometer. gallon ucket was filled with uick formatie learning actiities, and engage in guided eer dry cement with a small shoel laced in the middle to discussions. Results total of students articiated form the handle of Thor’s hammer. nce dry, the ul of in this study out of the students enrolled the hand dynamometer was attached to the handle so in the traditional lecture sections, out of that force alied while sueeing the handle to lift the from the online sections, and out of from the hammer could e measured with iWor. oth Waash lended section. here were no significant differences in and middle school students resonded ositiely to the students’ prior knowledge across the three course lessons, as did the middle school science teachers. or deliery formats. o significant differences in cumulatie all , we will erform more systematic assessments eam scores were noted relatie to course deliery of the uerhero hysiology roect, and incororate format after controlling for students’ prior learning (72% more eosure to edagogy rior to lesson lan . , ., and . resectiely for design. his work was funded y a illy ndowment traditional lecture, online, and lended course formats P aculty taff inirant. .. oweer, erformance on a ostcourse knowledge assessment was significantly higher for the 21.2 lended format ersus the traditional lecture and online Course Delivery Format, Content Knowledge, and formats ., ., and . Motivation Factors in Undergraduate Human Physiology resectiely P .. f motiational factors, self Jennifer Rogers1, Jae-Eun Russell2, Anna Smith2, Yeajin 3 efficacy and aniety were significant redictors of oth Ham cumulatie eam scores P . selfefficacy, P . 1 Health & Human Physiology, The University of Iowa, aniety and the ostcourse knowledge assessment P 2 Office of Teaching, Learning, & Technology, The . selfefficacy, P . aniety. urthermore, 3 University of Iowa, College of Education, The University students in the lended section reorted significantly of Iowa lower aniety at the end of the semester comared with Introduction he urose of this study was to eamine students the online section . ersus . on a oint the effects of course deliery format traditional lecture, scale, P .. he lended course format was online, and lended uon endofsemester content associated with lower W rates . comared with knowledge and motiation factors selfefficacy, aniety, traditional lecture . and online . course

2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS formats (P .2. Conclusions The W rate for the 21.4 blended course delivery format was lower, and anxiety Scaffolded approach to primary literature in a non- lower, compared with the traditional lecture and online majors biology course: a pilot study sections of uman hysiology. Thus, the blended course Melissa Petreaca1 structure may be an effective course delivery format to 1Biology, DePauw University facilitate perseverance and mastery of human physiology lthough undergraduate research experiences have a content knowledge. substantial impact on student retention and success in 21.3 T fields, relatively few students have the opportunity Utilization of a critical thinking framework to teach to participate in individual research opportunities, and students to think through concepts in a second year these research opportunities are freuently reserved for Exercise Science course more advanced students. To increase the numbers of Jeremy Dicus1, Brock Jensen1 introductorylevel students engaged in biology research, 1Exercise and Rehabilitative Sciences, Slippery Rock incorporated studentdesigned group research proects University in my introductorylevel, nonmaors nflammation course. n these research proects, students developed The typical xercise cience program may see students proect proposals that included a hypothesis based upon pursue a multitude of directions upon program evidence from previously published studies and a series completion. estinations commonly range from entering of experiments that tested the hypothesis. owever, a fitness profession to a variety of healthrelated before the students could develop a hypothesis and graduate programs (e.g. , T, etc.. ll of these rationale for their proects, they needed to learn how to desired paths reuire substantial contentknowledge for read and understand the primary sources that could success. owever, it has been suggested that employers provide evidence for their hypotheses. To guide students value critical thinking more than the acuisition of through the process of reading and understanding these disciplinespecific knowledge. Therefore, programs and primary sources, created and implemented a series of instructors are tasked with preparing students with both scaffolded studentcentered activities, minilectures, and content knowledge and the ability to think critically. n short writing activities. used data from pre and post order to bridge this gap, we have designed this course course surveys as well as comments in student around critical thinking theory and identified tactics that opinion surveys to assess student confidence gains in develop basic critical thinking skills while students several key areas, and both survey results and process course concepts. The aullder model of critical student opinion surveys suggest that students in this thinking provides a rich conception of critical thinking. class made substantial gains in their abilities to read and ubstantial investigation into the aullder has provided understand scientific literature. sing this type of the framework to design a sophomorelevel course in approach to scaffold the process of comprehending which students develop an understanding of critical scientific literature may make students more confident in thinking theory while leaning course concepts. There their understanding of the literature, which may make were six significant components to the successful design studentdesigned research proects more feasible for and implementation of this course. The first step was to introductorylevel courses. identify and design the course around the most significant concepts of the subect. econd, students 21.5 were provided with an introduction to the theory and Context as a source of difficulty in human physiology language of critical thinking. The third component Tara Slominski1, Jennifer Momsen1 reuired the creation of opportunities for students to 1Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University prepare for class sessions by clarifying their tudents struggle to succeed in uman natomy and understanding of a course concept. ourth, ocratic hysiology ( for several reasons , 2. any uestioning was used to cultivate discussions that students enter science classrooms with nave, informal intentionally utilied the language of critical thinking. knowledge constructs that complicate or conflict with ifth, assignments were designed to deliberately address the concepts they are learning in class. These ideas one or more lements of Thought as students processed originate from observing natural phenomena in the real a course concept. The final component was to provide world ,, and often conflict with formal instruction. ample opportunity for meaningful feedback through the s a result, a student must undergo considerable use of ntellectual tandards. conceptual conflict and reformation of that knowledge if they are to be a successful learner .

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indings from my earlier research ,2 on student challenges students experience when learning difficulties suggest students may rely on intuitive physiology. reasoning and experiential knowledge to frame their References. thinking about physiology. or example, when asked to lominski, et al. (submitted. Advances in Physiology reason about neurotransmitters, students may associate Education. 2 lominski, T. ., omsen, . ., this concept with an everyday example of movement or ontplaisir, . . (27. Advances in Physiology flow (e.g. water moving through pipes or electricity Education. aillargeon, ., arey, . (22. Early moving along a wire. uperficially, building links to Childhood Development and Later Outcome. diessa, existing knowledge structures may help students reason . . (. Cognition Instruction. Wellman, . ., about biological phenomenon however, this type of elman, . . (. nowledge acuisition in framing may lead students to make incorrect foundational domains. osniadou, . (2. assumptions and reason inappropriately. sing the European Journal of Developmental Psychology. neurotransmitter example, if a student attempts to learn synapse physiology by relying on previous experiences 21.6 from the real world (i.e. signal flow reuiring physical Engaging A&P Students in Communities of Practice contact like electricity moves along a wire, they will Inside and Outside of Class. likely struggle to understand the actual mechanisms of Jane Chapman1 synaptic transmission. 1Biology, Heartland Community College lthough my previous research provides some evidence bective To engage students in communities of that students use experiential or intuitive knowledge to practice both in and outside of class. shape their reasoning about neurophysiology, the results ethods everal changes were made to the design of from this single study are limited. y current research the course to both inclass, facttoface time and outside, expands on this work by directly investigating the role of information acuisition time, to engage students in social students’ intuitive ways of thinking in classrooms. learning and develop a community of practice in and out pecifically, am researching if, when, and how students of class. hanges inside of class included creating employ intuitive reasoning strategies when presented permanent and diverse student groups with whom the with a physiology problem or scenario and how these students would work on collaborative learning lab reasoning strategies affect student understanding of activities, case studies, concept uestions and peer content. instruction 2 converting all exams to a teambased used surveys and interviews to investigate the impact of learning format using the teambased assessment in context, specifically human physiology context, on earning atalytics that were focused more on student reasoning. Through collaborating with physicists, application rather than recall of the material. These developed a set of isomorphic tasks that ask identical assessments include an individual round followed by a uestions but present the uestions in different team round and allow for implicit confidence level situational contexts. y comparing student responses in scoring options. ssessment of group functionality was each context, can identify the impact of context on made by instructor observation as well as with peer student reasoning. n addition, this experimental design evaluation surveys via the T.org website. hanges enables me to control for student ability and isolate the outside of class added an annotation component to the effect of physiology context. collected data in multiple preclass reading assignment which is to be completed iterations of and physics courses at , prior to completion of the preui. The annotation uses resulting in over 7 data points. n addition, conducted the social learning eplatform, erusall, and provides semistructured, thinkaloud interviews with 2 students with the opportunity to interact with each other students. ach participant was given one set of the outside of class. utomated erusall scoring determines isomorphic task and asked to reason through the how well the students are annotating the material and question set. During the interviews, students’ interacting with classmates. explanations were probed to gather deeper insight into esults nside of class tudent groups Within a fairly their reasoning patterns. short period of time these groups transitioned into The data gathered from students in both the classroom positive support networks all working toward a common setting and the interviews provide insight into how goal – learning anatomy and physiology. tudent students reason about human physiology. ore behavior in the groups was informally observed by the importantly, the results from this study provide instructor and formally evaluated by their peers in peer instructors and researchers with new insight into the evaluation surveys throughout the semester – two minds of students and bring to light the uniue formatively and a third summatively, administered

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2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS that attendance increased. We conclude that learning activities to work through the Wigger Diagram incorporating active learning sessions into traditional using this framework. amples of active learning lecture courses, especially with the use of eamUp, activities based on this framework will be presented with enhances student engagement, enoyment and the poster presentation. perceptions of learning. 22: Keynote Lecture II 1) Mazur E. 1997. Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. oronto rentice‐all. 22.1 What Determines the Physiology That Students Learn reeman S, ddy S, cDonough , Smith , 1 koroafor , ordt and Wenderoth . . ctive Tony Macknight 1 learning increases student performance in science, ADInstruments engineering, and mathematics. S . he different ways that students are motivated to learn pstein , aarus D, alvano , atthews , will be discussed. hese will include some historical endel R, pstein and rosvic G . mmediate perspective, the role of eaminations, different modes of feedback assessment technique promotes learning and presentation, and some newer tools that are now corrects inaccurate first responses. he sychological available to promote learning. Record . 24: Plenary V 21.9 24.1 A Framework for Integrating the events of the cardiac Integrating Research into the Undergraduate cycle: Electrical, mechanical, pressure, valve, volume Experience (EMP double V) Paula Mazzer1 1 Lisa Carney Anderson 1 Dakota Western Univ. 1 Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of ur S maors arrive on campus as rule followers— Minnesota “Tell me what to do, and I’ll do it” is their refrain. To he cardiac cycle can be described and eplained by the break this mindset, we redesigned our suite of lab Wigger Diagram, a comple graph showing the changes courses to scaffold research throughout the maor. very in cardiac electrical activity, ventricular volume and lab incorporates both disciplinespecific and research cardiac pressures during the cardiac cycle. Students may specific skills. oundational courses introduce skills, be able to follow individual outcome variables over time, leading to upper level studentdriven research. his but it can be a daunting eercise for students to consider model should be etensible to any curriculum, and makes multiple variables simultaneously. urthermore, while research an integral part of the undergraduate career. students may understand that two cardiac events are 25: Concurrent Workshop V: Need Your Homework associated in time, they may not realie that one event is caused by a previous event. or eample, depolariation 25.1 of the ventricles causes the release of calcium ions that Expanding the Classroom with Social Media permit the ventricle to contract students may know that John Kanady1 an increase in ventricle pressure occurs after the RS 1 Univ. of Arizona comple, but they may not fully understand that the n this workshop, ll show you how you can use social increase in pressure is caused by cardiac contraction or media primarily acebook to provide added value to that contraction of the ventricles is caused by your classes. Well discuss some benefits/pitfalls of depolariation of ventricles. he following framework incorporating social media into your teaching and electrical, mechanical, pressure, valve, volume was consider how you can analye student participation. ll developed by the author after several years of trying to share some of my tips for best practices, and youll spend help students learn and integrate the events of the handson time creating a framework of content you can cardiac cycle. Using this framework, students identify an deploy for your very net course offering lease make electrical event, either a deflection or an isoelectric event sure to bring a laptop and/or smartphone for this within the electrocardiogram. hen the student session. identifies the mechanical event contraction or relaation that occurs because of the electrical event. he mechanical event causes a pressure change that allows a valve to open, stay open, close or stay closed. f a valve is open, then ventricular volume can change if all four valves are closed then the ventricular volume stays the same. Students can engage in active G 2018 APS ITL ABSTRACTS OF INVITED AND VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS

26: Concurrent Workshop V: The One-minute learnin. oT is comrised of three consistent Paper and Other Interactive Tricks for a Large- comonents, accordin to most definitions: sstematic group Class stud, focus on teachin and learnin, wor that is made ulic. This lenar will introduce attendees to the 26.1 concet of oT and discuss the need to uild a The One-minute Paper and Other Interactive Tricks for a discilinar eidence ase to inform decisions aout Large-group Class 1 course desin, imlementation, and assessment of Rebecca Teed 1 student learnin. rier will elain how oT research Wright State can inform what we do to sole rolems in our courses The est techniues to allow instructors to meaninfull and how we measure the imacts of an oortunities enae with lare rous of students often inole asin we imlement or wonderments we elore. rier will what the understand. I’m going to review ways to make roide eamles of oT wor from clinical discilines to een a lecture class more interactie usin informal frame this lenar. A follow‐u worsho offered assessment, structured student discussion, and rolem‐ immediatel after the lenar will hel those interested solving exercises. We’ll discuss challenges posed by class in oT to conert their teachin into oT. size, how to et student u‐in, and how to use technolo includin inde cards and whiteoards) to 29: Concurrent Workshop VI: Practicing enae and assess almost all the students in the Scholarship Sessions - Converting Your classroom. Teaching into SOTL 27: Concurrent Workshop V: Developing 29.1 Multimedia Practicing Scholarship Sessions – Converting Your Teaching into SOTL 27.1 Jennifer Friberg1 Developing Mulimedia 1 1 Illinois State Renee Link 1 Picking up where Dr. Friberg’s “Engaging in the Univ. of California, Irvine Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” plenary address Tools allowin instructors to deelo custom media are left off, this worsho will focus on main oT widel accessile, ut main a ideo can e dauntin. oerational in our own institutional contet. In this 9‐ Have you wanted to make videos for your class but aren’t minute session, articiants will identif a otential oT sure where to start Are ou unsure of what software to research uestion and lan how that uestion could e use e will reiew est ractices for main ideos and conerted into an interestin and informatie research mae one. rin a comuter and materials to use for a roect. Adantaes and disadantaes of arious short ideo. e will use amtasia in the worsho. research methods and data sources for studin teachin Please download the free trial ersion in adance. The and learnin will e discussed. Ideas for disseminatin facilitator will e aailale efore the worsho for hel. oT wor will e roided. Uniersal and readil 28: Plenary VI accessile suorts for oT will e identified. It is intended that this worsho will e interactie and that 28.1 each articiant will leae the worsho with an outline Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 1 of a oT roect that could e comleted after this Jennifer Friberg conference. 1 Illinois State Prolems, oortunities, and wonderments: these are 30: Concurrent Workshop VI: Effective the hallmar of collee‐leel teachin for man. ourse Management of Team Teaching instructors encounter rolems due to their classroom 30.1 enironment, instructional contet, or other ariales Effective Management of Team Teaching the cannot control. ortunities eist to chane that, Thomas Schmidt1 from stud aroad to simulation encounters to out‐of‐ 1 Univ. of Iowa class learnin eeriences to name a few). As teachers, acult directors for team tauht courses should ehiit we hae wonderments, too ‐‐ ideas we consider as ecellent communication, oranizational, networin and ossile edaoies in our classrooms ‐‐ thouh we are mentorin sills, and e reconized as enthusiastic and unsure of their imact or efficac. dedicated educators. irectors must now how to effectiel recruit new team memers and how to mae The scholarshi of teachin and learnin oT) is a form all facult eectations elicit. tudents should e ien of research that focuses on ust that, teachin and multile oortunities to anonmousl ealuate course PAE content and organiation the effectiveness of course knowledge prior to and following the exam and directors and the teaching skills of individual faculty. reduction in associated stress. – ur college is a commuter campus and most students work parttime to help defray the cost of attendance. For Integrated curricula and the burgeoning online many a study abroad experience is out of reach due to resources available can create tensions between the use the high cost. In order to increase access to study abroad of traditional resources such as texts and primary opportunities a new semesterlong course was designed literature and the digested and selfdirected learning with a study abroad trip to elie occurring during spring platforms increasingly available. This workshop will break. The cost of the study abroad portion was made a review curriculum design practices that enable the course fee so it could potentially be covered under a seamless incorporation of educational resources in ways financial aid package that provides funds for tuition and that maximie educational benefits and student fees. n information session was held in the fall with the outcomes in ways that fit into institutional budgets. instructor department chair study abroad director and financial aid director. Ten students enrolled in the spring semester course four of them obtaining their first passports prior to travel. Financial aid covered the additional cost of the trip for four students and three students received partial coverage. The students were placed into four groups and performed background research on the specific ecosystem selected coral reef mangroves and rain forests of elmopan or Punta orda. uest speakers came into class prior to spring break to provide information on the flora fauna and Preparing appropriate summative assessments that marine ecosystems of entral merica. In elie they accurately test a student’s breadth of knowledge and performed research learned about ayan culture and critical thinking can be a difficult task. ften times to do travelled to many different locations. any reported this in a simple response format can be difficult generally that in addition to learning about elie they learned leading to the creation of overly complex uestions. To more about themselves and felt more comfortable combat this professors often rely upon a longanswer getting out of their comfort one. ll of the students essay question to gauge the student’s depth of stated this course increased the likelihood that knowledge and critical thinking skills. nfortunately they would travel abroad again and that they would students often have negative associations with essay recommend the course to a friend. Each group displayed only exams either due to writing phobia discomfort their research findings in poster format at the answering openended uestions or being unsure of ndergraduate esearch onference and expectations or concepts being covered. To address presented their travelogue videos at the inema these issues I have employed an extemporaneous essay rts Day. Individual student’s reflective writing was approach that uses random chance to provide students published as a blog on the university’s Center for with a number of prompts in a written summative International Engagement and lobal Education website. assessment that I call “Exam Roulette.” Specifically, This course fulfills an upper level biological science students are given twelve potential essay prompts a elective for both iology and iotechnology maors and week prior to sitting for the examination with the an elective for the lobal Studies minor. Due to the instructions that they are able to ask clarifying uestions successful first offering the course will be offered again but are unable to seek affirmation of content. n the day in spring . of the exam a sided die is rolled once for each uniue

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lower course in all four course levels. Students with a documented Individual Education ccommodation lan IE underperformed students without an IE. nalysis of ethnic background showed that students who selfidentified as lack or ispanicatino underperformed in earlycareer sciences courses relative to Caucasian students. Importantly, students who If the aim of higher education science programs is to reported completing at least one collegelevel course train the next generation of physiology researchers and outside our institution e.g., dvance lacement, educators, it is critical to understand how some students International accalaureate, etc. performed benefit from advantages while others may face barriers substantially and highly statistically significantly better to success. In the context of today’s diversifying student over students who received no academic credit for such body, we studied the academic progress of earlycareer courses. verage differences between students who physiology students by analying records of courses that reported at least one such course and those who did not are required to complete basic core competencies in ranged between . and . points and were human anatomy and physiology at our institution. hese especially prominent in introductory iology courses. courses consist of a required semester course sequence in introductory biology io , io followed ur data provide important information on academic by a semester human anatomy and physiology course progression of earlycareer physiology students. sequence , . In addition, we also assessed cademic institutions may alter curricular or structural the relationship between several social, educational, and approaches in order to emphasie academic achievement other characteristics on gradepoint average in among earlycareer science students based on such data. these four courses. e intend to follow up on this proect by further exploring our data and designing interventions intended e examined course records from individual to target students at risk as well as critical unctures students at a residential small liberalarts college. e during students’ academic careers. analyed grades in these courses along with information on gender, social activities reek life, arsity athletics, formalied educational support individual educational accommodation plan IE, ethnicity, and the number of collegelevel courses a student had completed. verage course s for students completing the four semester course sequence were within . of one he merican hysiological Society S another. hat is, students who complete a foursemester ndergraduate Summer Research ellowship SR course sequence of io , io , , and can be rogram is designed to provide laboratorybased characteried as a group which attains consistency research opportunities for undergraduate students and throughout these courses. encourage them to pursue a career as a basic e also sought to determine whether academic scientist. he program aims to teach students the performance in introductory science courses predicts scientific method, encourage presentation of data and later success in and . Student grades in io attendance at a national scientific conference, were . points, p n.s. lower in students who demonstrate a commitment to research and enroll in only completed io , io , rather than all four graduate or professional education which includes courses io , io , , and of the sequence. research. ata regarding this program is Conversely, average io grades were significantly lower collected through pre and postprogram surveys, in students who only completed one rather than completion of online professional development activities semesters of . point difference, p and followup surveys about educational and career .. his suggests that a lack of success in firstyear pursuits. Since , students have biology may prevent academic success in subsequent participated in this program. ata collection program anatomy and physiology courses. In support of this, aims was divided into two segments, initial student grades among all courses were highly correlated. program years and current program or examples, io grades correlated well with years. uring the initial program, of participants grades r ., p .. developed a hypothesis and conducted their own verall, women outperformed men in all courses. experiments. In the current program, of Involvement in extracurricular activities reek life, participants developed a hypothesis and conducted thletics was generally associated with numerically experiments, as well as drafted a scientific

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pretest to posttest for the and odues. hen ased to rate their sis in deaing with professiona ethics topics in each area, students’ selfratings increased significanty on a five odues. e aso poed the fiedtest students on their preferences for the fina versions of the onine odues. tudent popuations are becoing ore diverse and it is hey epressed cear preferences for: ndeand any critica for educators and institutions to ipeent tie odues that they coud access and reaccess as practices that ensure the success of a students. ractica needed aving feedbac fro eperts recorded approaches incuding sa changes in the cassroo rather than individua asynchronous interaction and aboratory can have a huge ipact on student euiring registration but no fee aving coputer eperience success and retention in the sciences. graded utipe choice tests rather than getting Diversification of successfu scientists is essentia for instructor feedbac and eceiving an autoated optia scientific progress and innovation as we as eai certificate to indicate that they copeted the addressing iportant issues of euity and socia ustice. odue and passed the posttest. heir feedbac was ore ied about whether and how they wanted to interact with other participants. bout recoended no interaction aong participants as was done in the fied test odues but said they woud ie the odues offered during a period of tie e.g. wees and have ive but asynchronous discussions Dr. ressey wi hep participants begin panning for the aong participants. net in . he fina versions of the onine ondeand courses wi be housed at the onine training center at www.schooogy.co. oe courses wi incude asynchronous discussions and a wi incude recorded epert voices feedbac. ach course wi aso in students to the cassroo versions of the aterias to encourage the to share the aterias with their advisors and instructors to proote cassroo and ab group use. his wor was supported by a grant fro ive onine ondeand odues were piottested for the ationa cience oundation . their effectiveness in teaching trainees graduate students and postdoctora feows about pubication ethics topics: authorship conficts of interest data fabrication fasification D data anageent integrity D and overapping pubications . he odues incuded both didactic and studentcentered activities that focused on increasing student nowedge of and sis in appying professiona standards of practice of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s reated to ethics issues in these five topica areas. articipants were recruited via eber istservs and etacognitive abiity and sefefficacy are correated socia edia. tudents were encouraged to share the with increased acadeic perforance. etacognition prootion with coeagues. vera students has been defined in various ways but neary a copeted a tota of fied tests of the five onine definitions derive from “thinking about one’s own odues. articipants received an aon gift card after thinking” (Flavell, 1979; Flavell et al., 2002; NRC, 2000; copeting the registration entry and eit survey entry anner . etacognitive abiity has a direct and eit ui odue activities incuding providing reationship with acadeic success icerson et a written answers to a activities and a refection for. eorghiades anner . efefficacy—a any students copeted ore than one odue. student’s confidence in his or her academic abilityaso tudents rated a of the odues as usefu on a has a direct reationship with acadeic success andura point scale (“Very useful” = 7; “Not at all useful” = 1): uton et a. aares ieran . and . were the highest rated ruio and anner . odues foowed by D . D . and efefficacy and etacognitive abiity have been ined .. tudents’ test scores significantly increased from with each other but the causative reationship S BSS SS underlying this correlation is murky (outveen et al., 200; Cera et al., 201). t is likely that high selfefficacy increases metacognitive performance. egacognitive performance improvement via high selfefficacy may be due to a positive effect of selfefficacy on intrinsic motivation, which enhances metacognitive performance (immerman and itsantas, 1999). lternately, self efficacy improve use of effective learning strategies (immerman and artineons, 1990; immerman and andura, 199). t is unclear whether the reverse—a positive effect of metacognitive performance on selfefficacy—eists. his study hypothesied that improved metacognitive performance increases selfefficacy. f so, metacognitive training could increase academic performance indirectly through increased selfefficacy in addition to its direct effect. etacognitive training would thereby be of increased value due to the synergistic effect of metacognition and selfefficacy on academic performance. f selfefficacy could be increased through metacognitive training, the effect would be especially important in courses perceived as “challenging” (such as upper division biology courses) because selfefficacy is situationspecific such that general academic ability may not determine selfefficacy in the challenging course. his study found that metacognitive training preserved and increased student metacognitive practices, as measured by the otivated trategies for earning uestionnaire () etacognitive elfRegulation scale (intrich et al., 1991). tudent metacognitive practices, however, did not correlate with average or final eam score, eam score improvement, or final course grade. tudent selfefficacy measured by the New eneral elffficacy (N) scale (Chen et al., 2001) correlated with eam scores and this correlation strengthened throughout the course. his correlation was stronger in control students than in students who received metacognitive training. verage selfefficacy measured by the elffficacy for earning and erformance scale was lower at the end of the course than at the beginning but metacognitive training reduced this loss in selfefficacy. verall, metacognitive training improved student metacognition and attenuated decreases in student selfefficacy. Neither of these effects increased academic performance measures such as eam scores and final course grades.

2018 APS ITL Author Index

A J R An, Maomao, 11.8 Jensen, Brock, 21.3, 32.8 Ray, Clare, 11.7 Anderson, Lisa Carney, 21.9 Johnson, Kathryn, 34.1 Rogers, Jennifer, 21.2 Asmar, Abdo, 11.2 Rose, Stacie, 20.1 K Russell, Jae-Eun, 3.1, 8.1, 21.2 B Kanady, John, 25.1 Beason-Abmayr, Beth, 10.1 Kauffman, Christine, 11.2 S Bennett, Christina, LB1 Kibble, Jonathan, 11.2 Schaefer, Jennifer LB2 Benoit, Joseph, 15.1 Kostko, Aaron, 18.1 Schmidt, Thomas, 30.1 Berdine, Gilbert, 11.3 Kumar, Prem, 1.1, 11.7 Schoening, Anne, 4.1 Bidne, Katie, 11.6 Slominski, Tara, 21.5 Bjork, Robert, 13.1 L Smith, Anna, 21.2 Blatch, Sydella, 9.1 Lakes Matyas, Marsha, 32.4, 32.5 Stieben, Margaret, 32.6 Brandauer, Josef, 32.3 LaRochelle, Jeff, 14.1 Sullivan, Rebecca, 11.1 Brandenburg, Cyndi, 17.1 Li, Kun, 11.8 Brower, Gregory, 11.5 Li, Yanna, 11.8 T Bunch, James, 11.5 Li, Yongyu, 11.8 Taverna, Franco, 21.8 Li, Yuxian, 11.8 Taylor, Jessica C, 32.4, 32.5 C Link, Renee, 27.1 Teed, Rebecca, 26.1 Chapman, Jane, 21.6 Trimby, Christopher, 6.1 Cole, Jennifer, 32.3 M Cooke, James, 32.7 Macknight, Tony, 22.1 W Maytas, Marsha, 32.6, LB1 Walsh, Heidi, 21.1 D Mazzer, Paula, 24.1 Webster, Dan, 11.5 Derazin, Megan, 11.2 McFee, Renee, 11.6 Williams, Simon, 31.1 Dicus, Jeremy, 21.3, 32.8 Momsen, Jennifer, 21.5 Wilson, L. Britt, 5.1 Diener, Lynn M, 32.5 Wingard, Chris, 11.4 N F Nedjat-Haiem, Matthew, 32.7 Z Neumann, Melody, 21.8 Zhang, Junfang, 11.8 Fanrak, Thomas, 11.1 Zhao, Yan, 11.8 French, Michelle, 21.8 P Zhou, Mingzheng, 11.8 Friberg, Jennifer, 28.1, 29.1 Paige, Robin, 7.1 Zhu, Ling, 11.8 Fry, Jessica, 21.7 Petreaca, Melissa, 21.4 Petzold, Andrew, 32.1 G Poffenroth, Mary, 19.1 George, Riya, 21.8 Pressley, Thomas, 11.3, 35.1 H Q Halpin, Patricia, 32.2 Qian, Gong, 11.8 Ham, Yeajin, 21.2 Quinn, Beth, 11.4 Hedman, Emma, 32.6 Hood, Allison, 32.4 Hughes, Kathleen, 16.1