Scientific Review Committee

Outline for Review of Proposals Submitted to the PSG

Prior to submitting any proposal to the PSG, we encourage all investigators to make use of the PSG Working Groups and get assistance, if needed, from the PSG Mentoring Committee.

PLEASE NOTE: The PSG SRC  will accept proposals for review if they are not requesting funding from the PSG and are not requesting access to DATATOP biospecimens.   

1. Proposal is submitted to PSG and reviewed by PSG Chair and Co-chair

2. Proposal is assigned a primary and secondary reviewer from the SRC

3. Primary and secondary reviewers submit their review within 30 days of receipt

4. Proposal and reviews are distributed to the SRC

5. SRC rates the proposal using the NIH 9-point scoring system. Individual reviewer scores will be averaged and the result multiplied by 10 to determine the final impact/priority score
(range of 10 to 90)

6. Proposal is approved, approved with criticisms, or not approved

7. Proposals with criticisms are referred to the PSG Executive Committee

Submissions due 30 days before SRC meeting and responses back to proposing investigator within 30 days of SRC meeting. SRC meets 3x/year, every 4 months.

The Procedures for Submission and Review of Proposals is also available in the "New Study Proposal Toolkit". 

The current list of committee members includes:

G. Webster Ross, MD, Chair
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute
VA Pacific Islands Health Care System
459 Patterson Road (151)
Honolulu, HI   96819
(808) 433-7785/Fax: (808) 433-0379
Email: george.ross@va.gov

David K. Simon, MD, PhD, Co-Chair
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Avenue
EC/CLS-638
Boston, MA 02115 
(617) 735-2821/Fax: (617) 735-2826
E-mail: dsimon1@bidmc.harvard.edu

Statistics:

Sue Leurgans, PhD
Rush University Medical Center
Department of Preventive Medicine
600 South Paulina, Suite 1038
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 942-8215/Fax:(312) 942-2292
Email: Sue_E_Leurgans@rush.edu

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD
Director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
8700 Beverly Boulevard, Mezzanine C2002
Los Angeles, CA  90048
(310) 423-8431/Fax: (310) 423-8300
Email: Steven.Piantadosi@csmc.edu
Executive Assistant: Elyce.Larsen@cshs.org

Barbara C. Tilley, Ph.D
Lorne C. Bain Distinguished Professor and Director
Division of Biostatistics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
School of Public Health
1200 Herman Pressler Dr.
RAS E833
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 500-9564/Fax: (713) 500-9530
Email: barbara.c.tilley@uth.tmc.edu

Ronald F. Pfeiffer, MD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Department of Neurology, Link Bldg Rm 415
855 Monroe Avenue
Memphis, TN 38163
(901) 448-6811/Fax: (901) 448-7440
E-mail: rpfeiffer@utmem.edu 

Kelly Lyons, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center
Department of Neurology, Mail Stop #2012
3599 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66160-7314 
(913) 588-7159/Fax: (913) 588-6920
E-mail: lyons.kelly@worldnet.att.net

Basic Science:

Jeff Bronstein, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Director of Movement Disorders
UCLA School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
710 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 206-9799/Fax: (310) 206-9819
Email: jbronste@ucla.edu

Genetics/Genetic Epi:

Martha Nance, MD
Struthers Parkinson's Center
6701 Country Club Drive
Golden Valley, MN 55427  
(952) 993-6592/Fax: (952) 993-2250
E-mail: martha.nance@parknicollet.com

Epidemiology:

Connie Marras, MD, PhD
Toronto Western Hospital UN Health Network
Movement Disorders Centre
399 Bathurst Street MC 7-402
Toronto, ON M5T 2S8 CANADA
(416) 603-5990/Fax: (416) 603-5004
E-mail: connie.marras@utoronto.ca 

Psychiatry:

Matthew Menza, MD,

Professor, Psychiatry & Neurology

Interim Chair, department of Psychiatry

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

RM D205, UBHC

671 Hoes Lane

Piscataway, NJ 08854

(732) 235-4440/Fax: (732) 235-5158

E-mail: menza@umdnj.edu

Neuropsychology:

Neurosurgery/Surgical Clinical Trials:

Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD
Director, of Epilepsy, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota Medical Center
429 Delaware Street SE, MMC 96
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 626-8786/Fax: (612) 624-0644
Email: aabosch@umn.edu

William J. Marks, Jr., MD
Director, San Francisco VA Parkinson's Disease Research, Education & Clinical Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
UCSF Medical Center-Mt. Zion
Department of Neurology
Surgical Movement Disorders Outpatient Clinic
1635 Divisadero Street, 5th floor Suite #520-530
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 750-2100/Fax: (415) 750-2273
Email:william.marks@ucsf.edu

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