Deadline: 19-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Visiting Professorship Program to address Multiple Myeloma Gaps in Care for Patients.
The intent of this RFP is to provide financial support to organizations to host and coordinate a medical education program at their organization, to be led by two international Visiting Professors with expertise matched to the organization’s unmet educational needs surrounding the management of Multiple Myeloma.
Healthcare practitioners, researchers and patients will benefit from the knowledge and on-site presence of distinguished medical experts who might otherwise be inaccessible.
Area of Interest
- The intent of this Visiting Professor program is to improve patient care for Multiple Myeloma patients in Latin America by sharing advanced medical expertise, build capacity in Latin American cancer medicine by identifying unresolved gaps in patient care, and bringing solutions and building global collaborations between Latin American and Western Multiple Myeloma care professionals.
Funding Information
- Individual Grant amounts will be up to $ 30.000 to cover for local costs related to this program.
Geographic Scope
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
Target Audience
- Medical hematologists should serve as Principal Investigator (PI) and Program Chair, but all other medical disciplines can be included in the Program plan, such as: nurses, pharmacists, allied Multiple Myeloma healthcare providers, and infectiology, orthopedic, emergency and intensive care, pathology and nuclear medicine MDs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant (Principal Investigator; PI) must have a medical degree (MD, MBBS, or equivalent), and hold a position as Hematologist managing patients with Multiple Myeloma in the respective market.
- Principal Investigator should serve as Chair of the proposed VP two-day medical education program.
- Applicants must be from healthcare/medical organizations that provide comprehensive medical care for patients with Multiple Myeloma, located in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, or Mexico.
- Only institutions/organizations/associations are eligible to receive Grants, not individuals or physician-owned medical practice groups
- Institutions applying for this grant must have proven hematology-care capacity to host this Visiting Professorship.
- The project can involve multiple departments within an institution and/or between different institutions / organizations / associations. In this case all institutions must have a relevant role and the requesting organization must have a key role in the project.
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