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 Cochrane Scholars will be awarded annually to develop a systematic review on a topic that supports AAD clinical practice guideline development. The Clinical Guidelines Committee will provide the topics for the systematic review based on current priorities. You will find the potential topics currently under consideration below:
Psoriasis alternative medicine
Psoriasis phototherapy
Basal cell carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Atypical nevi
Chronic pruritus
Systematic reviews on these topics will support AAD clinical practice guideline development or updating. Successful applicants often have had experience conducting systematic reviews. However, anyone with an interest in learning how to complete a systematic review is invited to apply.
The Academy considers a Cochrane systematic review to be the gold standard and supports training in this area. As a Scholar, the Academy will support your completion of online Cochrane Interactive Learning modules on conducting a systematic review before commencement of your review. The Academy will also support and expects scholars’ attendance at the Cochrane Colloquium, an in-person learning event, during award years in which the event is held.
Each scholar will support their co-awardee’s systematic review by serving as a dual reviewer for select steps of the systematic review process for alignment with Cochrane review standards.
Each scholar will ultimately prepare and submit a publication-quality systematic review for consideration for publication in JAAD. The review should be completed within 12-18 months of the training.
Applications are being accepted July 8 to Sept. 20, 2024.
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
