AAD Cochrane Scholarship
This award program is founded on the goal of expanding the training in — and reach of — evidence-based medicine in dermatology.
Award: Two annual AAD Cochrane Scholars will be chosen to receive a travel grant to attend the GIN 2025 Conference and develop a systematic review on a topic that supports AAD Clinical Guideline development. The Clinical Guidelines Committee will provide the topics for the systematic review based on current priorities. This year, scholars will be able to choose whether to conduct their systematic review on a topic related to melanoma or hidradenitis suppurativa. These efforts will support AAD clinical guideline development or update and highlight areas for future dermatologic research.
Each scholar will serve as a second reviewer for their co-awardee’s literature search. The scholar will ultimately prepare and submit a publication-quality systematic review for consideration of publication in the JAAD. The review should be completed within 12-18 months following the GIN 2025 Conference. Prior recipients have contributed significantly to the AAD Clinical Guidelines Committee and have had the opportunity to pursue leadership opportunities.
Successful applicants often have had experience conducting systematic reviews. However, anyone with an interest in learning how to complete one is invited to apply.
Date and location: The GIN 2025 Conference will be held Sept. 16-19, 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Applications are being accepted July 8 to Sept. 20, 2024 for travel to the GIN 2025 Conference.
For questions or more information, please contact Sameer Malik at smalik@aad.org.
US/Canadian AAD members and residents
Only one lifetime receipt of award
Fill out the online submission form.
The form requires applicants to answer the following questions:
What prior experience or training do you have with systematic reviews?
What prior experience or training do you have with statistics and evidence-based medicine?
Have you previously attended a Cochrane meeting? If so which ones?
Why are you interested in attending this Cochrane meeting?
What subject areas or topics are you interested in reviewing if you receive this award?
Include the following material with the form submission:
Letter of recommendation/support (if resident/fellow application this should be from the Program Director).
Detailed CV including a listing of your peer-reviewed publications (if applicable).
Current AAD Conflict of Interest Disclosure on record.
2024
Howa Yeung, MD, MSc
Fatima Mirza, MD, MPH
2020
Alex Ortega-Loayza, MD
Brandon Adler, MD
2019
Audrey Jacobsen, MD, MPH
Annie Langley, MD, MSc
2018
Peter Shumaker, MD
Kachiu Lee, MD
2017
Jerry Brewer, MD
Cathryn Sibbald, MD
2016
Hadar Lev-Tov, MD, MAS
William W. Huang, MD, MPH
2015
Esther Freeman, MD, PhD
Peggy Wu, MD, MPH
