Scientific Review Committee

What is the PSG Scientific Review Committee (SRC)?  

The PSG SRC reviews all PSG research proposals including retrospective datamining projects and prospective studies, whether observational or interventional.  Reviewers are assigned and the Committee reviews and scores each proposal.  The Committee also facilitates contacts with the Mentoring Committee and Working Groups as appropriate.  Requests for use of PSG repositories are also reviewed by the SRC.  The SRC consists of a chair and co-chair and approximately 10 to 15 members to serve terms of three years rotating off one third of its members every year.

 

 

 

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 not accept proposals if they are requesting access to DATATOP biospecimens until further notice.   

 

 

 

1. Proposal is submitted to PSG and reviewed by PSG Chair/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

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.

 
   
Submissions Due     SRC Meeting in Response Back to PIs by
December 3, 2012
   
January 2013
February 1, 2013
April 1, 2013
   
May 2013
June 3, 2013
 
   

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

 
   
Who serves on the PSG Scientific Review Committee?  
(Those names underlined link to a picture and bio of that member)  
   

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:

 
   
Jordan Elm, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina

Biostatistics Bioinformatics & Epidemiology
135 Cannon St., Suite 303, Box 250835
Charleston, South Carolina, 29425
(843) 876-1605/Fax: (843) 792-4359
Email: elmj@musc.edu
 
   

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

 
   
David Oakes, PhD  
University of Rochester
Department of Biostatistics
265 Crittenden Blvd., CU 420694
Rochester, NY 14642-0694
(585) 275-2405/Fax: (585) 273-1031
Email: oakes@bst.rochester.edu
 
   

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

 
   
General Clinical:  
   
Marian L. Evatt, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
1842 Clifton Rd, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404)728-4996 (pvt. line)/(404)728-4952 (Admin.Asst.Pam Best)
Fax: (404)728-4915
Email: mevatt@emory.org
 
   

Peter A. LeWitt, MD
Professor of Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Director, Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders Program
Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
6777 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI  48034
(248) 325-2452/Fax: (248) 325-3115
Email: palewitt@ameritech.net

 
   

Basic Science:

 
   

Cathi A. Thomas, MS, RN, CNRN
Program Director
BUMC Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
72 East Concord Street C3
Boston, MA  02118
(617) 638-7737; Fax: (617) 638-5354
Email: neurocat@bu.edu

 
   

Genetics/Genetic Epi:

 
   

William K. Scott, PhD
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Box 019132 (M-860) Division of Human Genetics
Miami, Fl 33101
(305) 243-2371; Fax: (305) 243-2396
Email: bscott@med.miami.edu

 
   

Epidemiology:

 
   

Honglei Chen, MD
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T. W. Alexander Drive
P. O. Box 12233, Mail Drop A3-05
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
(919) 541-3782; Fax: (919) 541-2511
Email: chenh2@niehs.nih.gov

 
   

Neuropsychology:

 
   
John H. Growdon, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neurology, ACC Suite 830
15 Parkman Street
Boston, MA  02114
(617) 726-1728; Fax: (617) 726-4101
Email: growdon@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
 
   
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
Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurology
1635 Divisadero Street, Suite #520-530
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 750-2100/Fax: (415) 750-2273
Email:william.marks@ucsf.edu

 

updated 10.11.12