{"id":40037,"date":"2013-11-17T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=40037"},"modified":"2013-11-18T16:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:44:28","slug":"council-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/11\/17\/council-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"What Council Involvement Can Add"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.13 in Dallas this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Vimal Ramjee<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Siqin Ye<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Seth Martin<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Reva Balakrishnan<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0\u00a0Saurav Chatterjee<\/strong><\/a>. The current post is written by the comoderator of the Fellowship Training discussions. You can find the preceding post\u00a0here<\/a>. For more of our AHA.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our <\/em>AHA.13 Headquarters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

When I became a cardiology fellow and joined AHA, as part of the first application, the website asked me what I wanted my primary council to be. I had no idea what this meant. It then asked what my secondary council was. Again, I was perplexed. I saw the clinical cardiology council and thought that sounded relevant to me and so chose that. As time has evolved, so have my involvement and my understanding of AHA councils, and I have joined the functional genomics and translational biology council and the 3CPR council.<\/p>\n

On the Saturday before the Scientific Sessions started, the program committee from the FGTB council established an early career session. The title of my talk was \u201cTools for Epigenetic Research,\u201d and I built my presentation around epigenetic research in pulmonary hypertension to demonstrate the tools and techniques of the trade. I was nervous about this presentation — trying to condense a field of epigenetics into a 10-minute talk is challenging. However, in the world of academic medicine, being able to explain complex ideas to a broad audience is an important skill, one that I am still working on. As Albert Einstein famously said, \u201cIf you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.\u201d All in all, the talk went well, with good questions at the end and constructive feedback from the FGTB leadership committee afterwards.<\/p>\n

The council structure within the AHA provides a unique opportunity not only to be involved in the association but also to meet and get to know people who are influential in your field. Navigating what council works for you is difficult, with limited guidance from the AHA to figure out the council that fits your need. But once you find your fit and get involved in council activities, it adds an extra dimension to the AHA Scientific Sessions and valuable career experience.<\/p>\n

What has council involvement given you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Associate Editor of CardioExchange explains the myriad benefits of AHA council involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,1306,1187,195],"class_list":["post-40037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aha","tag-american-heart-association","tag-cardiology-conferences","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}