All right, so our next presenter is going to be Taylor Wilson talking about creation of academic neurosurgery leaders Characteristics and career outcomes of double NSNREF research award recipients. Let me make sure I get you plugged in here. Dr. Wilson And left is left is forward right is back and you can scroll if you like Hi everybody, my name is Taylor Wilson, and I'm a PGY4 at the University of Arkansas My project is entitled creation of academic neurosurgery leaders characteristics and career outcomes of double ANS NREF research fellowship recipients So there has been a lot of research that has shown that recipient of the NREF award Has been correlated with early academic success The double ANS neurosurgery research education foundation and NREF provides a competitive award every year for Residents and young investigators as such I hypothesized that winners of this award would be more likely to you know Have a success in an academic career in neurosurgery as such I sought to determine career outcomes as well as Characteristics associated with winning these awards To date there have been 224 winners of the NREF award six winners have won the award two times and winners have come from 66 different institutions In this pie graph, you can see that 60% of winners were residents when they won and 40% were young investigators Of resident winners you can see that The most common year to win the NREF award was during the fifth year with 37% of winners winning that year In the following graph you can see in blue there is the different categories of NREF research awards In red are the different fellowship subspecialties pursued by those that won an NREF research award overall research award category and Subspecialty a fellowship pursued were similar There were some small differences. However, you can see the research category That was most commonly won an award in was neuro-onc The second most common category was functional and for fellowship subspecialty pursued Spine was the most common followed by neuro-onc Additionally NREF award winners with a Research award topic of vascular surgery were the most likely to go on to become a chair Followed by neuro-onc and then spine interestingly no NREF award winner with the topic in pediatrics or trauma neurocritical care went on to become a chair of a department So Top-tier academic programs are defined as programs that have been based on several studies that have a large academic output The seven programs are listed below R25 programs are also associated with a large amount of academic output and those programs are also listed below Three institutions are both a top-tier academic program and have an R25 Those programs are UCSF Brigham and Women's and UCLA In this diagram you can see that top-tier academic programs comprise 11% of Institutions however 20% of award winners came from a top-tier academic program You can also see that 23% of programs have an R25. However, 40% of winners came from an R25 program 78% Of award winners went on to pursue a career in academic neurosurgery The highest position attained of those in academics is listed below with 18% going on to become chair Additionally those winners who went on to become chair were significantly more likely to receive NIH funding as well as to go on to become a principal investigator with an RO1 grant There are also regional variations that were seen among award winners as you can see in this Chart, there are five different regions in North America and all of the regions have roughly the same number of programs however, there are differences in the amount of winners from each region The Northeast had the most winners followed by the West and then the Southeast had significantly less award winners than any other region relative to the amount of programs with only 12% Additionally, there are some other regional variations of award winners There were significantly more winners from the Northeast as well as the Southeast that went on to receive NIH funding And there were also significantly more winners from the Southeast that went on to become a future principal investigator with an RO1 grant Additionally I looked at NREF winners and compared them to double ANS members at large Of double ANS members at large only 4% of them have won an NREF award NREF award winners are more likely to have a both a PhD as well as a master's degree compared with double ANS members at large Regarding subspecialties those with a subspecialty in neuro-onc and functional were seen more with those of award winners of NREF whereas Double ANS members at large more than half of them pursued a career in spine Overall We can see that the NREF award has been associated with both higher rates of success in a academic neurosurgery career both early as well as staying in that academic career Thank you

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