Stephen J. Korn's research while affiliated with National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes and other places
What is this page?
This page lists the scientific contributions of an author, who either does not have a ResearchGate profile, or has not yet added these contributions to their profile.
It was automatically created by ResearchGate to create a record of this author's body of work. We create such pages to advance our goal of creating and maintaining the most comprehensive scientific repository possible. In doing so, we process publicly available (personal) data relating to the author as a member of the scientific community.
If you're a ResearchGate member, you can follow this page to keep up with this author's work.
If you are this author, and you don't want us to display this page anymore, please let us know.
It was automatically created by ResearchGate to create a record of this author's body of work. We create such pages to advance our goal of creating and maintaining the most comprehensive scientific repository possible. In doing so, we process publicly available (personal) data relating to the author as a member of the scientific community.
If you're a ResearchGate member, you can follow this page to keep up with this author's work.
If you are this author, and you don't want us to display this page anymore, please let us know.
Publications (10)
A benchmark of success for the neurosurgeon-scientist includes obtaining individual research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Successful roadmaps to this goal highlight diversity, individual commitment and resiliency, innovative research goals, intentional mentoring, protected research time, and financial support. We must equip neuro...
A benchmark of success for the neurosurgeon-scientist includes obtaining individual research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Successful roadmaps to this goal highlight individual commitment and resiliency, innovative research goals, intentional mentoring, protected research time, and financial support. Neurosurgery residents must ca...
INTRODUCTION
Neurosurgeon-scientists have unique expertise to make important contributions to medicine. However, the transition from residency/fellowship training to becoming junior faculty, with the accompanying expectation of securing NIH funding, is a vulnerable period of an academic neurosurgeon’s career. The Emerging Investigator Program (EIP)...
We at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke routinely receive questions and statements from trainees and faculty that suggest widespread beliefs about the necessity of a National Institutes of Health K99/R00 award, other prior funding, and/or specific types of publications for obtaining one’s first tenure-track position in neu...
OBJECTIVE
To increase the number of independent National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded neurosurgeons and to enhance neurosurgery research, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) developed two national comprehensive programs (R25 [established 2009] for residents/fellows and K12 [2013] for early-career neurosurgical f...
In 2013 and 2014, the NIH Common Fund issued its Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) awards to 17 research sites. The BEST awards focused on enabling institutions to develop innovative programs to increase biomedical trainee exposure to a range of research‐related career options through activities like coursework, workshops, and ac...
Biomedical research training has undergone considerable change over the past several years. At its core, the goal of graduate and postdoctoral training is to provide individuals with the skills and knowledge to become outstanding scientists and expand knowledge through the scientific method. Historically, graduate school training has focused on pre...
Citations
... • Mentorship programs: Establishing formal mentorship programs can connect ECRs with established neurosurgeons who can provide guidance, support, and career development opportunities [8]. India's potential to become a global leader in neurosurgery depends on its ability to growth its ECR talent. ...
![[object Object]](https://i1.rgstatic.net/ii/profile.image/11431281088262741-1664988666523_Q64/Gregory-J-Zipfel.jpg)
... Previously, conversion rates to independent NIH funding have been shown to be lower for NIH in-training awards than for NIH early career awards. 1 However, these prior data also demonstrated that in-training and early career awards have critical overlapping but distinct roles in specialty research growth and impact. In-training awards are essential to nurture research understanding that supports and expands the pipeline of future neurosurgeon-scientists. ...
... Equally, Nobel laureates are also known to log low h-and i10-indices prior to the award. Alternate ways of truly selecting "creative scientists" were thoroughly investigated in a recent article in science [12]. Indeed, we can envision a much better AI algorithm based on the current Google Scholar library by including a mathematical model which properly weighs all parameters of creativity. ...
... Consequently, young investigators who strive for research independence need significant support to re-tain their research careers. [15][16][17] In this assessment of NREF awards during a 15-year span, success was measured with both qualitative and quantitative metrics of neurosurgeons' academic careers. Although it is difficult to estimate how NREF awardees would have fared without NREF funding, our data suggest that NREF funding likely impacted the outcomes of awardees significantly, as 73% of NREF awardees remained in academic practice, with 26% holding senior leadership roles (i.e., chair and full professor) in their departments. ...
... There are ongoing efforts to expand the training of PhD students for a wider range of careers, such as those supported by the National Institutes of Health Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) program (Lenzi et al., 2020). The NIH BEST programs have been shown to shift their biomedical sciences graduate students' perceptions regarding the range of career opportunities available and instill greater confidence in pursuing nonacademic careers (Lenzi et al., 2020). ...
... An unspoken underlying issue for the next several findings is that, traditionally, funders, academic institutions, and faculty often consider student and postdoctoral "success" to equate to remaining in academia (Sauermann & Roach, 2012). While this attitude has been changing, institutions within the STEM ecosystem should continue to promote the broad array of careers for students and postdocs, and tailor training and experiences to the career path that each individual prefers (Cynthia N Fuhrmann, 2016;Lenzi et al., 2020). Our findings suggest that personal history, interests, and values are all factors that contribute to an individual's career interests and outcome. ...
