Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Applications are invited for the Midcareer Investigator Research grant program for seed money for new research related to the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation with the potential to extend an established investigator's work in new directions. Preference will be given to projects that address FPMR research priorities, including health services, health policy, and research capacity; additional priorities include chronic pain, musculoskeletal, spinal cord injury, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. Special consideration will be given to proposals that meet the foundation's goal of driving the evidence base for cost-effective, results-oriented rehabilitative care.

Eligible applicants include any physiatrist or faculty member in a division or department of physical medicine and rehabilitation who is at least five and not more than twenty years post-completion of a terminal degree and subsequent training program. At least one member of the research team (PI or co-investigator) must be a member of the American Academy of PM&R and/or the Association of Academic Physiatrists.