What is Utah StARR?
The Utah Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (Utah StARR) is designed to prepare outstanding residents for a career in academic medicine and clinical investigation by providing them with opportunities to learn and practice clinical, transitional, health service, and community-engaged research skills during their residency training. Utah StARR will provide an early "on-ramp" to research careers for competitive academic faculty positions.
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The program main components are: career mentoring, individual development plan, non-degree coursework, research seminars, grant writing, pre-submission grant review, pre-award support and writing workshops. Click here for an overview of the Utah StARR resources.
Because the recruitment and training of clinician-researchers is such a high priority at the current time, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has implemented a loan-forgiveness program for doctors who commit to a career in clinical research. Individuals in the Utah StARR program may consider applying for the loan-forgiveness program when their residency is completed.
Additional information about the program or information on application procedures, please visit our application information page or email us at utahstarr@utah.edu.
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UStARR Scholar Highlights
Dr. Eric Stulberg and Dr. RJ Williams both presented at the University of Utah’s Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Ground Rounds on Thursday, February 29th 2024. The title of their discussion was “Machine Learning in Global Health: Developing Clinical Decision Support Tools for Acute Febrile Illness Management and Population Health: Leveraging 'Big Data' and Epidemiologic Methods to Address the Great Public Health Challenge of Our Time” and they each presented their research interests in the context of the Utah StARR program. Both Dr. Stulberg and Dr. Williams are on-track to graduate from Utah StARR on June 30th 2024, after completing all program and residency requirements. Dr. Stulberg, a current Neurology resident, has focused his research on modern causal inference methods into clinical neurology research. Dr. Williams, an Internal Medicine resident, has worked on develoing a clinical prediction models for communicable diseases in a global health context.
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IM Grand Rounds
Dr. Boomer Olsen was selected as a finalist at the Utah CP Poster Competition last month in the Research Category. This poster competition allows submissions that detail an interesting patient case or research/quality improvement work related to topics in Internal Medicine. All posters were presented at the ACP Chapter Meeting from March 7-8, 2024. Judges only select two semi-finalist winners: one from the Clinical category and one from the Research category. Dr. Olsen's research focuses on diabetes, particularly genomics, beta-cell biology, novel therapeutics, management strategies, and clinical outcomes. In addition to being selected as a finalist for this poster competition, he has also recently been accepted into the American Diabetes Association's Scholar Program where he hopes to continue honing his skills to continue his work.
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Meet the Utah StARR Program Directors
Molly Conroy MD, MPH is a Primary Care Provider and General Internist at the Madsen Internal Medicine Clinic. As a General Internist, her clinical interests include physical activity and lifestyle counseling, weight management, cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension management, and women’s health. Dr. Conroy received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed an Internal Medicine residency in the Primary Care Track at the University of California, San Francisco and a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and recognized as a Fellow of both the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association.
Joe Stanford, MD, MSPH, CFCMC, is the Professor and Director of the Office of Cooperative Reproductive Health at the UofU School of Medicine and is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. With expertise in reproductive epidemiology, restorative reproductive medicine, natural family planning, women's health, and periconceptional/prenatal origins of health, he has led five preconception cohort studies. Stanford has contributed to national scientific advisory committees, including for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. Dr. Stanford also serves on the board of the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine.