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Becoming an Academic Researcher in Psychiatry: A View From the Trenches

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the CDI Faculty, particularly the CDI directors Drs. David Kupfer and Alan Schatzberg, and the NIMH for its continued support of the CDI.

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DI is supported by a KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training award (an appointed KL2 award) from Harvard Catalyst/The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health Award KL2 TR001100), a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and through the Massachusetts General Hospital Executive Committee on Research (ECOR). CJM is supported by NIMH K23 MH093684. AOD is supported by Society in Science – The Branco Weiss Fellowship and a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Career Development Award KL2 TR000143. NSP is supported by grant IK2 CX000724 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This article represents the opinions of the authors and does not reflect the opinions or position of the NIMH, NIH, VA, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers. All are current junior academic researchers in psychiatry and alumni of the CDI program.

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    1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

      Dawn F. Ionescu

    2. University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

      Carrie J. McAdams

    3. University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

      Aoife O’Donovan

    4. Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

      Noah S. Philip

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    Dawn F. Ionescu, Carrie J. McAdams, Aoife O’Donovan and Noah S. Philip contributed equally to this work.

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    Ionescu, D.F., McAdams, C.J., O’Donovan, A. et al. Becoming an Academic Researcher in Psychiatry: A View From the Trenches. Acad Psychiatry 41, 293–296 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0514-2

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