Cardiovascular Section Awards
Statement of Organization and Procedures
(Approved by Council April 1980, Amended April 1990, Revised 1999, 2000,
2004)
ARTICLE I. Name
The name of this organization is the CARDIOVASCULAR SECTION (CVS) OF THE
AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
ARTICLE II. Purposes
The purposes of this Section are to:
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Advise the
Society on matters of interest to the members of the Section.
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Assist the
Society, through representation on the Joint Program Committee, in the
organization of the scientific meetings of the Society.
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Nominate
individuals for membership on Society committees.
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Be open to
all members of the Society expressing an interest in Section membership.
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Provide
the President-Elect with recommendations of, and supporting material
for, individuals to be nominated by the Society for awards.
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To
recognize members who have made significant contributions to the affairs
of the Section and the Society.
ARTICLE III. Membership
Section 1. Regular Membership
Regular membership is open to any member (student, affiliate, regular or
emeritus) of the American Physiological Society who wishes to be a member.
Section membership is automatic upon application to the Executive Director
of the American Physiological Society.
Section 2. Fellows
Fellowship is an elected position open to members who have demonstrated
continuous, meritorious research in cardiovascular physiology. The purpose
of electing fellows is to: 1) Recognize meritorious research in
cardiovascular physiology; 2) Provide a candidate pool for officers and
committee members of the Section; and 3) Provide a candidate pool for
awardees - except for the Cardiovascular Section Young Investigator Award.
A prospective fellow shall: 1) Be a regular member of the American
Physiological Society; 2) Have their primary or secondary affiliation with
the Cardiovascular Section; 3) Publish meritorious physiological research
in the cardiovascular field; and 4) Be an established investigator.
Nominations for fellowship will be made by two Cardiovascular Fellows
submitting letters of nomination to the Chair of the Section’s Fellowship
Committee. Once elected, an individual remains a fellow of the Section as
long as he/she is a regular member of the American Physiological Society.
When a fellow becomes an emeritus member of the APS, he/she relinquishes
his/her fellowship and becomes an emeritus member of the Section.
ARTICLE IV. Officers
Section 1. Steering Committee
The responsibility for management and supervision of the affairs of the
Section shall be vested in the Steering Committee. The members of the
Steering Committee shall be the Chairperson, the Secretary-Treasurer, the
past Chairperson as an ex-officio, and the Chairs of the standing committees
of the Section (i.e., Nominating Committee, Fellowship Committee, Awards
Committee, NIH-NHLBI Liaison Committee, Industry-Foundations Liaison
Committee, Trainee Committee, Programming Committee (2 chairpersons), and
the Editor of AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology). In addition,
the winners of the Sections’ Wiggers and Young Investigator awards will
serve as ad hoc members for one year following their awards. The Section
Chair will serve as the Section Advisory Committee representative (SACR) and
the Section Program Chair will serve as the Section representative to the
Joint Program Committee. These officers must have been fellows of the
parent Cardiovascular Section for at least one year to be eligible for
office.
A quorum for conducting official business of this Section will be six
members of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee will meet or
converse four times yearly, i.e., at the annual spring meeting, the fall
conference of the Society, by conference call, or at the meeting of a
parallel-interest society.
Section 2. Steering Committee Members and their Duties
The Chair shall call and chair meetings of the Steering Committee and
supervise the election process in coordination with the Secretary-Treasurer
and Chair of the Nominating Committee. The Chair may appoint committees
that are necessary for the proper conduct of the affairs of the Section and
appoint additional members to the standing committees to extend the
cardiovascular areas represented.
The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep the minutes of any Steering Committee
meetings, prepare and send newsletters to the membership of the Section, and
maintain fiscal records.
The Chair of the Section Program Committee shall chair a committee
composed of the Section’s Steering Committee and one or two appointed
members to extend the cardiovascular areas represented on the committee.
The Section Program Committee shall be charged with developing the Section’s
scientific program for the Experimental Biology Meeting. The SPC Chair will
interact with the Society’s Joint Program Committee to ensure minimal
overlap or redundancy with respect to other sections’ programming activities
and develop joint programs integrating more than one section. Members of
the Program Committee shall serve a three year term with the exception of
the Awardees, who will serve a one year term.
Section 3. Election of Officer and Terms of Office
The terms of office for Chair and Secretary-Treasurer shall be for three
years. The responsibility for the preparation of a slate of at least three
nominees for the offices of Chair and Secretary-Treasurer shall be vested in
the Nominating Committee. This slate shall be mailed to the fellows of the
Section in January of the election year. Elections for Chair or
Secretary-Treasurer will be held in different years.
Section 4. Committees
In addition to the Steering Committee and Section Program Committee, the
Section has five other committees – the Nominating Committee, Fellowship
Committee, Awards Committee, Industry-Foundations Liaison Committee and
NIH-NHLBI Liaison Committee. Membership on these committees is decided by
the Steering Committee at the recommendation of the Nominating Committee,
with the exception of the Nominating Committee members. Nominating
Committee members are voted on by the membership.
The Nominating Committee shall consist of six committee members
each serving a three-year term. The responsibilities of the Nominating
Committee are to solicit and compile nominations for: 1) All Cardiovascular
Section Officers and membership on all Cardiovascular Section committees,
including both elected and non-elected positions. Elected positions
include the Section Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and Nominating Committee
members. Non-elected Committee positions include members of the Awards,
Fellowship, Industry-Foundations Liaison, and NIH-NHLBI Committees; 2)
Representatives on all APS ad hoc committees, especially the representatives
for the Committee on Committees, Industry-Liaison Committee ,Program
Advisory Committee, and Trainee Committee; and 3) Candidates for APS Council
and APS Presidency.
An official call for nominations for the various elected positions of the
CV Section will be placed in the CV Section Newsletter and sent out over the
CV Section List Server in the summer and fall of each year. The slates for
the election of CV Section Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and Nominating
Committee members shall consist of the individuals receiving the largest
number of nominations from the Section membership. For all candidates, the
Nominating Committee will determine the willingness of the candidate to
serve. At least two individuals will appear on the election slate for each
elected position. The election ballots shall be mailed to the Section
membership no later than January of each year. The candidates receiving the
largest number (majority) of votes by the election deadline date shall
become the new Section Officers or Members of the Nominating Committee.
For non-elected CV Section committee memberships, an official call for
nominations will be sent to the Section membership in the CV Section
Newsletter and sent out over the CV Section List Server in the summer and/or
fall of each year. For all candidates, the Nominating Committee will
determine the willingness of the candidate to serve. The three individuals
receiving the largest number of nominations for each committee position
shall be submitted to the CV Section Steering Committee for final selection
of the new committee member. Final selection of new committee members will
come from the slate of candidates submitted by the Nominating Committee.
The official call for nominations for APS Council and APS Presidency will
be sent to the Section membership in the CV Section Newsletter and sent out
over the CV Section List Server in the summer and/or fall of each year. In
addition, candidates for other APS ad hoc committees will be requested. For
all candidates, the Nominating Committee will determine the willingness of
the candidates to serve and will prepare their dossier/bio-sketch that will
be forwarded to the CV Section Chair for distribution to the Section
Steering Committee and Committee on Committees Section representative.
The Nominating Committee shall include the following in their
consideration of committee nominees: expertise of nominated individuals to
provide balanced representation of different topical cardiovascular areas on
various committees, geographic and institutional balance, gender and race.
All committee members shall serve staggered three-year terms so that at
least one new member is elected or appointed each year. Chairs of the
committees shall serve a three-year term and shall be appointed from among
currently serving committee members by the outgoing committee Chair in
consultation with the current Section Chair and Steering Committee.
The responsibilities of the Fellowship Committee are to evaluate
candidates for fellowship in the Section and make recommendations to the
Steering Committee concerning the eligibility of candidates for fellowship.
The responsibilities of the Cardiovascular Section Awards Committee
are to: 1) review the nominations and prepare a slate of at least three
nominees each for the Carl J. Wiggers Award and the
Berne Distinguished Lectureship; 2) review the nominations for
and select the recipient of the Cardiovascular Section New
Investigator Award; 3) review the nominations for and select the
recipient of the Cardiovascular Section Young Investigator Award
Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb; 4) review the abstracts submitted
for and select the recipient of the Hsueh-Hwa Wang Cardiovascular
Section Travel Award; and 5) review the abstracts submitted for and
select the recipients of the Cardiovascular Section Research
Recognition Awards. Nominations for each of these awards will be
solicited from the Section membership in January of each year. The slates
of nominees for the Wiggers Award and for the Berne Lectureship will be sent
to members of the Steering Committee for a final vote; those receiving the
largest number of votes shall become the Wiggers Awardee and Berne Lecturer,
respectively.
The Industry-Foundations Liaison Committee (ILC) will be comprised
of Fellows from the Cardiovascular Section and scientists from industry and
foundations. The mission of the ILC will be to promote interactions between
academia and industry within the CV Section and to raise money for the Young
Investigator Award and Section activities.
The NIH/NHLBI Liaison Committee will be comprised of members of
the Steering Committee and Fellows who are approved by the Steering
Committee. The mission of the committee will be to facilitate dialogue with
the NHLBI to better communicate the concerns of the Section.
The responsibilities of the Trainee
Committee are to address the concerns of CV trainees and encourage
participation within the Section. Trainees are defined as graduate students
and post-doctoral fellows or equivalent. The Trainee Committee shall
consist of seven members comprised of graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows, young investigators, and faculty from the Cardiovascular Section.
The Chair of the Trainee Committee should be a faculty member who has a
primary affiliation with the CV Section. Membership should also include the
CV Trainee Representative who should be a graduate student, fellow, or a
young investigator prior to faculty appointment. The five remaining members
can be faculty, young investigators, graduate students, or fellows from the
Cardiovascular Section. The Trainee Committee will be working with other
committees, such as the Awards and Programming Committees, on matters that
concern CV trainee participation.
ARTICLE V. Awards
The CV Section confers the following six types
of awards annually:
a. The Carl J. Wiggers Award is in
honor of the Cardiovascular Section's founder, Carl J. Wiggers, whose
research defined fundamental pressure-flow relationships in the
cardiovascular system. In addition to publishing definitive texts in
circulatory physiology, Dr. Wiggers founded Circulation Research and
trained numerous future department heads as well as several presidents of
the APS. The award is presented to a scientist who is a Fellow of the
Cardiovascular Section of the APS, who has made outstanding and lasting
contributions to cardiovascular research throughout their career, and who
will attract outstanding new members to the Cardiovascular Section from the
United States and abroad. The nomination package should consist of: (1) a
letter of nomination; (2) one or more seconding letters (preferably from
someone outside of the nominee's institution); and (3) a Curriculum Vitae of
the candidate. The complete package should be sent electronically to (name
and Email), Chair of the Awards Committee of the APS CV Section.
All materials should be submitted to arrive by January 31st.
b. The Berne Distinguished Lectureship is in honor of one of the
most distinguished members of the Cardiovascular Section, Robert M. Berne,
whose research focused on the local chemical regulation of tissue blood
flow, with an emphasis on understanding the role of adenosine and how it
elicits vasodilation. This award is presented to a scientist who is a
Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the APS, who has made outstanding
prior contributions to cardiovascular research, and whose current research
is particularly stimulating, such that the presentation of this work would
contribute to interest in, and growth of, the Cardiovascular Section. The
nomination package should consist of: (1) a letter of nomination; (2) one or
more seconding letters (preferably from someone outside of the nominee's
institution); and (3) a Curriculum Vitae of the candidate. The complete
package should be sent electronically to (name and Email),
Chair of the Awards Committee of the APS Cardiovascular Section. All
materials should be submitted to arrive by January 31st.
c. The Cardiovascular Section New Investigator Award ($1,000 plus
reimbursement of the advance registration fee) was founded by the APS
in 2002 in recognition of outstanding investigators in the early stages of
their career who have made meritorious contributions to the scientific areas
represented by the Cardiovascular Section of the APS. They should not be
above the rank of Assistant Professor or a comparable position in a research
track at an academic institution or in industry. Candidates should receive
nominations from at least two regular members of the APS and will be judged
on their publications, how the publications relate to the Cardiovascular
Section, and evidence for independence and promise (grant funding, peer
review activities, etc.). Although this award is not based upon an
abstract, awardees are expected to attend the Experimental Biology meeting
and present their research. The candidate must be an APS member in good
standing. The nomination package should consist of: (1) a copy of a
first-authored abstract submitted to Experimental Biology in a
Cardiovascular section category; (2) two nomination letters from APS
members; (3) a Curriculum Vitae of the candidate; and (4) reprints of 3
publications to The American Physiology Society, Membership Office, to
arrive by January 31st. Applications from eligible individuals will be
forwarded to the Cardiovascular Section Awards Committee for review.
d. The Cardiovascular Section Young Investigator Award Sponsored by
Bristol-Myers Squibb ($1,000) was
founded in 2001 by a contribution from Bristol-Myers Squibb. This award is
intended for Regular Members of the Cardiovascular Section of APS who have
received an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree within the last 5 years.
Individuals should hold an academic rank or equivalent which is not higher
than that of assistant professor, have already made a substantive
independent contribution, and hold future promise but are not, as yet, well
established. While this is not an abstract-based award, it is
expected that awardees will attend the Experimental Biology meeting and
present their research. The candidate must be an APS member in good
standing. The nomination package should consist of: 1) a letter of nomination; 2) a
seconding letter (preferably from someone outside the nominee's
institution); and 3) the candidate's CV. The complete package should be
sent electronically to (name and Email), Chair of the
Awards Committee of the Cardiovascular Section. All materials should be
submitted to arrive by January 31st.
e. The Hsueh-Hwa Wang
Cardiovascular Section Travel Award ($800)
was founded in 2003 and recognizes an outstanding graduate student or
postdoctoral trainee involved in cardiovascular research. This award honors
Dr. Wang’s contributions to understanding the physiology and pharmacology of
the coronary vasculature and autonomic control of circulation and is
designed to assist the award recipient to attend the Experimental Biology
meeting. Graduate students should be in a doctoral degree program, while
eligible postdoctoral trainees should be within 5 years after receipt of
their doctorate. Each applicant must have submitted a first-authored
abstract to a Cardiovascular Section topic category. The Cardiovascular
Section Awards Committee will judge abstracts from eligible individuals, who
should send a copy of their submitted abstract electronically to (name
and Email), Chair of the Awards Committee of the Cardiovascular
Section, to arrive by January 31st.
f. The Cardiovascular Section Research Recognition Awards ($500)
are designed to entice submission of abstracts to the Experimental Biology
meetings from junior investigators (i.e., postdoctoral fellows) and to aid
them in their travel expenses. To be eligible, the investigator must have
earned an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree within the past 3 years and have
submitted a first-authored abstract to a Cardiovascular Section topic
category. Abstracts from eligible individuals will be judged by the
Cardiovascular Section Awards Committee. Up to nine Research Recognition
Awards will be made each year based upon those abstracts judged to be most
meritorious. Eligible individuals should send a copy of their submitted
abstract electronically to (name and Email), Chair of the
Awards Committee of the Cardiovascular Section, to arrive by January 31st.
ARTICLE VI. Dues
Dues will not be assessed.
ARTICLE VII. Amendments
Amendments to these procedures should be proposed in writing or
electronically (e.g. by email) to the Steering Committee by at least five
regular Section members at any time up to six months in advance of the
Spring Meeting of the Section. Such proposed amendments must accompany the
mail ballot (paper or electronic) for the
election of officers or member of the Nominating Committee.
For adoption, amendments to these procedures
must be approved by 2/3 of a quorum (20 members) either at the annual
meeting or by electronic ballot.
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