Awards & Grants
An amount of £5,000 is available during any single calendar year, and will usually be paid to a single applicant but may be divided between applicants, at the discretion of the education committee. The award is intended to support a trainee or consultant within three years of appointment to travel to an overseas centre of interest. Awards will not normally be made to assist with attendance at training courses (for example transoesophageal echo courses) or conferences unless there is a clear benefit to the wider membership of the Association. Recipients of awards will be expected to write a report for the ACTA Newsletter and give an oral or poster presentation at an ACTA Spring or Autumn Scientific Meeting within 12 months of completing their overseas visit. Applications should include an outline of your intended fellowship on the attached form and a truncated copy of your CV and should be submitted to the Honorary Secretary by the 31st December each year. Applications will be adjudicated by the ACTA Education Committee and announced during the Spring Scientific Meeting. Applicants need to have been an ACTA member in good standing for at least 12 months by the closing date of applications on 31 December each year. If the Award is to be used to part-fund an educational activity, ACTA will require written confirmation that the rest of the funding required is available before any money is released.
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In 2009, Dr Kirstin Wilkinson was awarded £1500 from the Bill Pallister Travelling Fellowship Award in support of travelling expenses to visit the Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre in Nepal with Southampton Overseas Health and Medicine (SOHMED). SOHMED is a multi-disciplinary initiative supporting education in global health and building healthcare partnerships between Southampton and the developing world. Through a core group of clinicians, the Shackleton Department of Anaesthesia at Southampton General, has developed a training programme to assist anaesthesia training in Nepal. |
Closing date: Noon, Friday 23 September 2011 Award: £15,000 This grant is intended to support a research project to be undertaken in Great Britain or Ireland in a subject related to cardiothoracic anaesthesia. Applicants need not be members of ACTA The application is coordinated by the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia. |
The 2009 Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists Project Grants was awarded £5250 to Dr Ben Shelley, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Glasgow for the project entitled 'Endogenous Antioxidant Capacity and Oxidative Stress after Thoracic Surgery'
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