Drs. Jabs & McCallum Endowment Research Grant | Diagnostic Radiology | School of Medicine

Drs. Jabs & McCallum Endowment Research Grant 2025

Research grant award of up to $10,000.

The successful applicant/s must meet the following criteria:

Attending physician within the Department of Diagnostic Radiology must be the PI or Co-PI
Project must have a significant radiology related component
Project must be completed in a time frame of 2 years or less (longer time frames may be considered). The grant money allocation is not renewable.
Project must be presented at the Annual Department of Diagnostic radiology Research Evening as plenary talk
Project should have pilot data for evaluation
The recipient(s) must provide a midterm progress report and final report.
All publications resulting from this grant must acknowledge this funding source.

The following criterion will be utilized to help determine the recipient of the award:

Innovative project advancing the field of medicine
High likelihood of publication
High likelihood of presentation
Major involvement of imaging resident/s
Application for matching funds thru other grant sources
Collaborative effort with further subspecialists

A research board composed of the Department Faculty research director, Drs. Jabs and McCallum, PGME director, project content expert (within or external to the department) and department manager will select the successful project(s). In evaluating projects with a conflict of interest to a research board member, that member will be excused.

The grant application deadline will be June 30, 2025. The successful applicant will be advised by September 2025.

The grant application will include:

Purpose of the study
Background on the significance with references
Proposed methodology
Expected starting date and expected completion date and timeline for:
1. development of ‘mock’ abstract
2. data collecting
3. data analysis
Formal abstract composed with presentation site/s (Abstract not exceeding 1000 words, double spaced including name of PI, Co-PI and residents if applicable).
Completion of manuscript for submission
Budget breakdown - eligible budget cost may include:
1. salary of student/summer student
2. cost of epidemiologic/statistical support
3. departmental support expenses including imaging costs
4. materials related to research project
5. presentation costs (no more than 10% of budget)
6. Queen’s IRB approval has to be obtained for consideration.
7. Pilot data on project

The grant could potentially be split to support multiple projects depending on merit and proposed budgets.

Awarded grant will be issued in two halves: the first half will be provided at the beginning of the project and the second half will be provided after receipt of satisfactory midterm report.

Submission

The grant application deadline will be June 30, 2025. The successful applicant will be advised by September 2025.

Submit your completed grant application via email to Brenda Wood (woodb@queensu.ca).

Prior Research Grant Recipients

2024

“Leveraging machine learning for competency-based medical education: A pilot study for developing a tool to facilitate decision-making in resident progress and promotion assessments.”

Dr. Benjamin Kwan, Dr. Nicholas Cofie, Dr. Farhana Zulkernine, Dr. Karen Schultz, Dr. Adam Szulewski, Dr. Laura McEwen, Dr. Nancy Dalgarno, Dr. Heather Braund.

2023

“Improving Radiology Discrepancy Quality Assurance Process for Emergency Department Patients: An Interdisciplinary Approach Research Project.”

Dr. Omar Islam, Dr. Shane Natalwalla, Dr. Samantha Calder-Sprackman

2022

“Collaborative Partnership in Diagnostic Radiology Training between Queen’s Department of Diagnostic Radiology and the University of Nairobi Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Medicine.”

Dr. Omar Islam, Dr. Gladys Mwango, Dr. Callen Kwamboka, Dr. Denise Castor, Dr. Nicholas Cofie, Dr. Nancy Dalgarno

2021

“Video assisted thorascopic surgery decortication versus interventional radiology-guided chest tube insertion for the management of empyema (DICE Trial).”

Dr. Alexandre Menard

“A pilot study on semantic similarity between resident preliminary reports and final reports in diagnostic radiology residency”

Dr. Benjamin Kwan