{"doi":"10.1016/j.sopen.2024.12.005","title":"NIH funding for the pediatric surgeon-scientist: An analysis of current trends","abstract":"Background/purpose: Previous studies highlighted the success of pediatric surgeons in obtaining NIH funding. Given increasing clinical demands, we sought to analyze the current state of NIH funding for pediatric surgeon-scientists. Methods: APSA membership in August 2023 was filtered for Regular/Associate members and referenced through NIH RePORTER. Data included history of prior/active NIH funding, award type/institute, and funding pathways. Demographics collected included level of professorship, post-graduate degrees, and gender. Academic productivity was assessed by PubMed publications. In addition, a survey was distributed to Regular/Associate APSA members. Results: 1079 APSA Regular/Associate members were identified. Total (previous/current) funding: 149 (13.8 %) surgeons had previous/current NIH funding, 145 with complete funding information. There were 371 previous/current grants totaling $387,148,625. 31.7 % of funded surgeons held Chair/Chief positions, 77.9 % were male, and 84.1 % had M.D. degree only. 282 (76.0 %) grants were independent, and 42 (11.3 %) were mentored. 100 (69.0 %) funded surgeons obtained independent investigator awards, 33 (22.8 %) with and 67 (46.2 %) without prior training/mentored grants. Current funding: 52 (4.8 %) surgeons had current NIH funding, with 80 grants totaling $44,232,644. 73 (91.25 %) were independent while 7 (8.75 %) were mentored awards. Academic productivity: Assessment revealed 7197 total publications (range = 0-207, mean = 49.6). Survey: results highlighted perceived challenges and suggested improvements. Conclusions: Compared to a 2013 study by King et al., the percent of funded APSA members has trended downward; however, the number of funded pediatric surgeon-scientists and dollar amount of active NIH funds has increased. Concentrated efforts are needed to support surgical trainees and junior faculty, particularly females, to pursue research and academic pediatric surgery.","journal":"Surgery Open Science","year":2024,"id":482825,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6645,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1062126,"name":"Zachary Dumbauld","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1323746,"name":"Ethan Mills","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":308767,"name":"Diana L. Farmer","orcid":"0000-0002-3530-5993","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":277763,"name":"Gail E. Besner","orcid":"0000-0002-9280-4836","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1323745,"name":"Colton D Wayne","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":30,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:07:18.280369Z","pmid":"39990720","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}