Visiting Professorship Program

How to Apply

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine established the Visiting Professorship Program in 1998 to promote the understanding and practice of psychosomatic medicine and to increase interest in, and awareness of, psychosomatic medicine.

Visiting Professorship awards — up to $2,500 each — are used to support the travel expenses, lodging, meals, and honorarium for an APM member to serve as a visiting professor to a host university, hospital, or medical facility. The faculty sponsor at the host institution must also be a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.

This program is supported by a generous grant from Eli Lilly and Company. A limited number of grants are awarded each year. Any university, hospital, or medical facility may apply for an APM Visiting Professorship grant, although preference is given to programs that support interdisciplinary and/or interdepartmental interactions and institution-wide involvement.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIP AWARDS
2009	Kurt Kroenke, MD, visiting Cambridge Health Alliance; Amy Bauer, faculty sponsor Theodore Stern, MD, FAPM, visiting Thomas Jefferson University; Keira Chism, MD and Madeline Becker, MD, faculty sponsors Paula Trzepacz, MD, FAPM, visiting Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Hochang Lee, MD, faculty sponsor

2008	Roger G. Kathol, MD, FAPM, visiting Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; Elisabeth J.S. Kunkel, MD, FAPM, faculty sponsor Andrea DiMartini, MD, FAPM, visiting Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Miller, School of Medicine; Jorge Luis Sotelo, MD, FAPM, faculty sponsor Tomer T. Levin, MD, FAPM, visiting VA New York Harbor Medical Center, New York Campus; Brian D. Bronson, MD, faculty sponsor

2007	Steven D. Passik, PhD, visiting Massachusetts General Hospital, faculty sponsor William Pirl, MD, FAPM Philip R. Muskin, MD, FAPM, visiting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, faculty sponsor Andrew J. Roth, MD Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD, FAPM, visiting Austin Medical Education Programs/Seton Hospitals, faculty sponsor Lawrence A. Houser, MD

2006	James L. Levenson, MD, FAPM Michael C. Sharpe, MD, FAPM Harold J. Wain, PhD, FAPM Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD, FAPM

2005	No award

2004	Andrew J. Roth, MD, FAPM

2003	Paula T. Trzepacz, MD, FAPM William R. Yates, MD, FAPM

2002	Harvey M. Chochinov, MD, PhD, FAPM Francisco Fernandez, MD

2001	James L. Levenson, MD, FAPM

2000	Andrea DiMartini, MD, FAPM Seth Powsner, MD Wayne J. Katon, MD, FAPM

1999	Wayne J. Katon, MD, FAPM Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, FAPM

1998	Michael K. Popkin, MD, FAPM Paula T. Trzepacz, MD, FAPM


Harold Goforth, MD (right) presented the 2008 Visiting Professorship awards in Miami. Roger G. Kathol, MD, FAPM (center) will be the visiting professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, faculty sponsor Elisabeth Kunkel, MD, FAPM (left).


2008 Visiting Professor Andrea DiMartini, MD, FAPM will visit the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine	2008 Visiting Professor Tomer T. Levin, MD, FAPM will visit VA New York Harbor Medical Center


Mary Jane Massie, MD, FAPM presented the 2007 Visiting Professorship awards in Amelia Island, Florida. Steven D. Passik, PhD, visited Massachusetts General Hospital.


2007 Visiting Professor Philip R. Muskin, MD, FAPM visited MSKCC.	2007 Visiting Professor Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD, FAPM visited Austen/Seton Hospitals.

How to Apply for the Visiting Professorship Program

Any university, hospital, or medical facility may apply for an APM Visiting Professorship grant. Both the faculty sponsor and the Visiting Professor must be a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. All applications are reviewed for competitiveness by an APM-appointed committee.

APM strongly encourages applications for programs that support interdisciplinary and/or interdepartmental interactions and institution-wide involvement. Applications are rated on relevance to psychosomatic medicine; overall quality of program design; inclusion of plans for interdepartmental and interdisciplinary programs; and likely impact on the institution and/or community.

Application for the Visiting Professorship Program may be made online or by mailing or faxing a completed application form available in PDF format. All three parts of the application, described below, must be filled in with as much detail as you can provide. Applications must be received by April 1.

Three Parts to the Application:

PART 1. Institution and Faculty Sponsor. Identify and describe the institution and indicate the faculty sponsor, who must be a member of APM.

PART 2. Goals for the Program at Your Institution. Identify a main topic of interest which the Visiting Professor will address. Topics could be general principles in the evaluation and management of the medically ill (psychiatric assessment, legal issues, ethical issues; psychological responses to illness), psychiatric symptoms and disorders in the medically ill, psychiatric treatment of the medically ill, and issues within specialties and subspecialties (e.g., pain, oncology, pediatrics, organ transplantation, etc.).

Relevant PM systems topics include setting up or improving a PM teaching service, providing PM services in non-academic settings, primary care integration, research in PM Psychiatry, and PM Psychiatry Administration (e.g., reimbursement for PM services).

In addition, provide a brief summary of the background of your department. Describe your goals for the Visiting Professorship Program at your institution and how the Visiting Professor will help you achieve these goals. Justify the need for the Program, and how it will further psychosomatic education in your hospital/community.

PART 3. Format. Provide a detailed listing of specific activities that clearly describe what is expected of the Visiting Professor. This should include the types of venues, the composition and size of the anticipated audience, and the time alloted for each activity. The program duration may be from one to three days. Please be as specific as possible.