We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the 2009 NIH Career Symposium.
 
May 19, 2009
7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Natcher Conference Center
 
Website:  http://www.training.nih.gov/symposium
Registration: http://www.training.nih.gov/nihonly/register/career-symposium.asp
 
This event has been organized to highlight the diversity of career choices available to your generation of biomedical researchers.  Whether you are a new graduate student, a postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you.
 
The Symposium will include 28 panels and workshops with over 75 speakers.  Highlights:

Keynote: Toni Hoover, PhD, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development

Panel sessions covering a spectrum of careers including; academics, industry, government, patents/tech transfer, policy, and communications.  Panelists include PhDs and MD/DO/DVMs as indicated in the speaker list.

Skills workshops on managing people, negotiating outcomes, balancing work and life, beginning a job search, and other topics
 
Please take a minute to look over the panel descriptions and speaker lists (under the agenda tab of the website) so that you can indicate your preferred sessions in your registration. http://www.training.nih.gov/symposium/agenda.asp
 
Please register by May 12: http://www.training.nih.gov/nihonly/register/career-symposium.asp
 
If you are a graduate student or fellow at RML, NIEHS, Phoenix, Detroit, or Framingham -- the OITE will provide limited travel money.  To be considered for travel funding, please send a 100 word description of how Symposium attendance would influence your career to Lori Conlan, PhD, at conlanlo@mail.nih.gov by April 23.  Please also indicate how long you have been at the NIH.
 
If enough trainees on the Frederick and Baltimore campuses register for the Symposium, we will arrange for van/bus transportation to Bethesda.  We recommend that trainees from these campuses register ASAP.  More information will be provided in early May.
 
Hope to see you at the Symposium,
Lori