The first CAPS networking event was held Wednesday, June 11th in the Gordon Center Atrium. This event was an opportunity for physician-scientists across the division to meet and connect. Dean Mark Anderson gave opening remarks. Program Director Sonia Kupfer spoke about program goals and introduced this year’s CAPS Fellow and Scholars:
"In 2019, before Dean Anderson’s arrival, Scott Oakes, Ivan Moskowitz, and I began a grass-roots effort to provide common programming for physician-scientists in training across Pathology, Pediatrics, and Medicine. While there has been a long tradition of training physician-scientists at UChicago, this had previously been somewhat siloed and was more developed in some Clinical Departments compared to others. We felt that a unified approach would help all boats to rise for recruitment & training of physician-scientists and could encourage inter-Departmental collaborations and mentorship. With Dean Anderson’s arrival, the three of us along with Marcus Clark and Yun Fung crafted a proposal to formalize this grass-roots effort as a formal Divisional program dedicated to building the number of successful physician-scientist trainees across the BSD... thus was born the Community for Advancement of Physician-Scientists or CAPS in the fall of 2024.
CAPS will serve as an umbrella program that builds on the long-standing tradition of exceptional research by physician-scientists at the University of Chicago spanning from training through faculty levels and will foster opportunities for horizontal and vertical community-building and mentorship."
2025 CAPS Scholars:
Shrey Sindhwani, MD, PhD; Hematology Oncology Fellow, Medicine Department
William Zhang, MD, PhD; Experimental Pathology Fellow, Pathology Department
2025 CAPS Fellow:
Nicole Miranda, MS2
You can view photos from this event on the CAPS homepage.
Past:
- CAPS Social- Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Upcoming:
- Fall Retreat (September/October 2025, Date TBA)
- Monthly Career Development Series (Fall 2025 Kickoff, Date TBA)
- Mock Study Sections (Beginning November 2025, Dates TBA)
- Virtual Physician-Scientist Recruitment (November/December 2025, Date TBA)