Funding Available for CATS Resident Members to Attend the STS Virtual Meeting

STS Virtual Meeting

January 29-31, 2021

https://www.sts.org/meetings/calendar-of-events/sts-57th-annual-meeting

CATS resident members are invited to provide their CV and write a brief letter outlining why they would like to attend the STS meeting to cats@CanadianThoracicsSurgeons.ca. Three resident members will be selected. 

  • CATS will cover the costs of their registration for the virtual meeting. 

Applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:

  • quality of the letter of application detailing the reasons to attend  
  • quality of the applicant’s CV

Bonus criteria:

  • if the applicant has something accepted to present 
  • if the applicant is a thoracic fellow

Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 23:59.

CATS Executive Committee

cats@CanadianThoracicsSurgeons.ca

Previous winners:

YearTraveling Fellowship AwardTraveling Fellowship AwardeeCity Province
2021Resident - (Virtual) STS Meeting Travel AwardAl Sawalhi, Samer
Jogiat, Uzair
Ednie, Alexander
2019Resident - STS Meeting Travel AwardNayak, RahulHamiltonON
2019Resident - Travelling FellowshipQiabi, MehdiLondonON
2019Staff - Travelling FellowshipTurner, SimonEdmontonAB
2018Staff - Travelling FellowshipScheiman, ColinCalgaryAB
2018Resident - Travelling FellowshipChoi, JamesVancouverBC
2017Resident - Travelling FellowshipCheung, VictoriaCalgaryAB