Membership Committee

Selection committee membership: Service or self-service

Project funding is an increasingly important mode of research funding. The rationale is that through project funding new fields and new themes can be supported more effectively. Furthermore, project funding improves competition, which is expected to select the better research projects and researchers. However, project funding has a price, as it requires researchers to invest time in reviewing p...

Analysis of Animal Research Ethics Committee Membership at American Institutions

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) were created to review, approve and oversee animal experiments and to balance the interests of researchers, animals, institutions and the general public. This study analyzed the overall membership of IACUCs at leading U.S. research institutions. We found that these committees and their leadership are comprised of a preponderance of animal re...

The ACR Intersociety Committee: history, activities, and membership.

The Intersociety Committee is a freestanding committee of the ACR established to promote collegiality and improve communication among national radiology organizations. The Intersociety Committee began in 1980 with 22 member organizations and has grown to approximately 50 member organizations. Each year, the Intersociety Committee sponsors a summer conference, at which representatives from the m...

Proposal to Implement Pre-Transplant Performance Review by the Membership and Professional Standards Committee

Currently, transplant program performance monitoring relies almost exclusively on riskadjusted graft and patient survival rates among recipients. The overemphasis on posttransplant metrics may result in risk-aversion and decreased transplant volumes, and may not be in the best interest of waitlisted patients. Further, post-transplant outcomes may not identify structural problems (e.g., understa...

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