Announcing the 2012 NLCAHR Fellowships

The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research is pleased to announce the recipients of Master’s and Doctoral Fellowships under the NLCAHR Annual Awards Program for 2012:

Doctoral Fellowship:
Meagan MacKenzie, Psychology,

‘Social Reciprocity and Social Support within Social Anxiety: Implications for Predicting Severity’

$20,000/year for up to three years

Master’s Fellowship:
Kendra Lester, Clinical Epidemiology,

‘Improvement and/or Resolution of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Patients who have Undergone Bariatric Surgery’

$18,000/year for up to two years

Master’s Fellowship:
Hao Wu, Community Health and Humanities,  

Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Chinese Immigrants: Perceptions of Family Caregivers’

$18,000/year for up to two years

NLCAHR supports applied health research and training in the province by providing fellowships, project grants and development grants to researchers and students whose projects have an applied health research focus.  Fellowships were awarded in two categories this year:  Master’s Fellowships and Doctoral Fellowships.  We will announce the recipients of Development Grants and Project Grants in Fall 2012.

The NLCAHR Fellowships Program funds graduate students enrolled in, or applying to graduate programs at Memorial University.  Each NLCAHR Fellowship is funded on the basis of a partnership between the Centre and Memorial University’s School of Graduate Studies.

This year, we received a total of sixteen fellowship applications, eleven from Master’s students and five from Doctoral candidates.  In its assessment of these applications, the Peer Review Committee was impressed by the overall quality and diversity of research being conducted by graduate students at Memorial.  The Centre would like to thank the five members of our Peer Review Committee for their contribution to the peer review process that is so essential to the fair and effective functioning of our awards programs. NLCAHR would also like to thank all students who submitted applications this year and to congratulate all recipients of fellowships under the 2012 NLCAHR Annual Awards Program.