Welcome to the SciPAC
 

	Welcome Announcements About Us

Welcome

Welcome to the USPHS Commissioned Corps Scientist Category web site.

This site is supported by the Scientist Professional Advisory Committee (SciPAC) and provides news and information to Scientist Officers as well as links for civilian scientists interested in joining the Corps.

The SciPAC provides advice and consultation to the Office of the Surgeon General and to the Scientist Chief Professional Officer on professional and personnel issues.  RADM Helena O. Mishoe is the SciPAC Chief Professional Officer [read more about RADM Mishoe].  CDR Rachel Avchen is the 2008-2009 SciPAC Chair [read more about CDR Avchen].
 

See our Scientist Officers in Action!

LCDR Dominic Frasca, CDR Sara Newman, LCDR Aliceo Candido, and CAPT Michael McLaughlin, proudly serving in Alexandria, Louisiana in September 2008. 

Announcements

• We have updated the old "Scientist Officer Handbook!"  The updated content is now available in the form of downloadable content-specific fact sheets on our Career Development page.  Check it out!
   

• Call for Members - Hispanic Officers Advisory Committee [PDF]
   

• Promotion Year 2009 Benchmarks for the Scientist Category are available now.
   

• Category Day Presentations and photos from the 2008 USPHS Scientific Training and Symposium are now available!
   

• All scientist officers are encouraged to subscribe to the Scientist Category Listserv [instructions for subscribing]
   

• 2007 SciPAC Awardees Announced
   

• Order the new SciPAC Coin [PDF]
   

• Guidance and sample curriculum vitae for Scientist officers now available! [PDF][Word]
   

• SciPAC meeting schedule and call-in information [PDF]
   

• The Scientist Professional Advisory Committee, SciPAC, has several subcommittees which are designed to help you as a Scientist Officer develop professionally. The subcommittees are chaired by PAC members, but membership in the subcommittees is open to all interested Scientist officers. You can benefit yourself personally and the Category as a whole by getting involved. Visit the Membership page to learn more about the subcommittees and who to contact to get involved.
   

• There is a new email address set up to handle questions to the PAC chair. That email address is on the global and is Scipac@cdc.gov. The new email address for CAPT Mishoe is on the global and is nhlbi_cposcientist@nhlbi.nih.gov.
   

• Information about Psychology Professional Advisory Group (PSYPAG) available through HSPAC web site.

About Us

About SciPAC

The Scientist Professional Advisory Committee (SciPAC) represents a large number of professional interests and disciplines, and recognizes the importance of the cumulative efforts of individual scientific contributions to the mission of the U.S. Public Health Service. The committee functions in a resource and advisory capacity to assist in development, coordination, and evaluation of activities related to the respective scientific disciplines in the PHS. Chapter 5 of the Scientist Handbook further describes the functions of the SciPAC.

Membership on the SciPAC is professionally rewarding. It provides the opportunity to:

• meet, know and work with a number of other highly motivated PHS scientists;

• advise the Surgeon General via the Chief Scientist Officer on issues/policies affecting commissioned corps and civil service scientists, and;

• provide guidance and assistance to other scientists on career development, staffing etc.

Membership assumes your commitment in providing the necessary support to make this committee effective. For more information on becoming a member, please visit the Membership page.

Officers interested in learning more about the SciPAC are encouraged to read the SciPAC Charter and the SciPAC Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). 

More about the history of the SciPAC [PDF]