Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award

Research Grants and awards Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award

Honoring a foreign researcher or teacher

The Radboud Institute for Health Sciences honors a foreign researcher or teacher with the Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award. This award is named after the founder of the institute. read more

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Honoring a foreign researcher or teacher

The Radboud Institute for Health Sciences honors a foreign researcher or teacher with the Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award. This award is named after the founder of the institute (former NCEBP, Nijmegen Centre for Evidence Based Practice) who had the vision to connect the population sciences of Radboudumc in a strong methodology-oriented research institute.

This award aims at the initiation of new collaborations with foreign institutes in the field of Health Sciences in order to strengthen the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences through teaching or research. Radboud Institute for Health Sciences' (junior) principal investigators may nominate a candidate from a foreign institution to the management of the institute.

The award is granted once a year, and comes in the form of 5,000 Euro for travel and accommodation for the awardee for a stay in Nijmegen of approximately one month.

Applications

Find out how you can nominate someone for this award. Applications can be submitted throughout the year to the RIHS Scientific Director. Only one award will be granted per year. read more

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Applications

Applications should be submitted in the form of:

a max 2 A4 proposal by the welcoming (j)PI containing
1. Candidate
2. Motivation (strategic fit)
3. Plan for activities by the candidate
4. Plans for ongoing collaboration
5. Cost summary
the candidate’s CV

Eligibility / evaluation criteria:

impressive resume
strategic importance of collaboration for the applicant and the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences
new collaboration

Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award 2018 for Heather Whitson

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Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award 2018 for Heather Whitson

* Nominated

Heather Whitson is Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure in the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Dr Whitson was nominated for the award by René Melis of theme Healthcare improvement science.
Considering her impressive CV as well as her inspiring lecture and college tour in Nijmegen on 12 April 2018, the RIHS management had an easy task in deciding to award Heather Whitson.

* About Heather Whitson

Dr. Heather Whitson is an Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure in the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Whitson's research is focused on improving care and health outcomes for people with multiple chronic conditions. She is interested in improving care delivery systems and intervention programs to better serve medically complex patients. Against this background she focuses on frailty as a generic characteristic of aging and predictor of negative health outcomes. She is a pioneer in the subject of resilience, specifically physical resilience. Physical resilience is defined as one’s ability to withstand or recover from functional decline following an acute or chronic health stressor. Physical resilience is a topic that has received considerable interest and support in the aging research community in the United States (with Dr. Whitson as a strong voice in the field), and this topic is likely to enable collaborative research efforts between Duke Aging Center and Radboudumc, where geriatrics investigators are leading European initiatives to elaborate the construct of physical resilience. As the Deputy Director of the Duke Aging Center, Dr. Whitson leads research efforts aimed at promoting physical resilience to late-life stressors. As such, she is co-PI of the NIH funded Physical Resiliencies: Indicators and Mechanisms in the Elderly (PRIME) Collaborative and a Core Leader in Duke’s NIH funded Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center, which conducts research within its theme: optimizing physical resilience. Dr. Whitson applies the knowledge and understanding of resilience gained from this research in an interdisciplinary team seeking to improve peri-operative outcomes for frail or at-risk seniors who must undergo surgery.

* About the award

Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award 2016 for Trish Greenhalgh

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Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award 2016 for Trish Greenhalgh

* Nominated

Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Prof. Greenhalgh was nominated for the award by prof.dr. Gert Westert, leader of the Radboudumc research theme Healthcare Improvement Science.

Considering her extremely impressive CV as well as her inspiring college tour and lecture in Nijmegen on May 26th 2016, the RIHS management had an easy task in deciding to award Trish Greenhalgh.

* About Trish Greenhalgh

Trish Greenhalgh is an internationally recognised academic in health services research/ primary health care and a practising GP. She joined her department in January 2015 after previously holding professorships at University College London and Queen Mary University of London. As Director of the Interdisciplinary Research In Health Sciences (IRIHS) unit, she leads a program of research at the interface between social sciences and medicine, with strong emphasis on the organisation and delivery of health services. Her research seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and humanistic aspects of medicine while also embracing the unparalleled opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering.