Anatomy Donor Stewardship Support Team

The HAPS Anatomical Donor Stewardship Committee (ADS), previously known as the Cadaver Use Committee, is committed to helping HAPS members learn best practices for dissection, gross anatomy lab design, gross anatomy education, and human body donor stewardship. In order to better facilitate the advancement of gross anatomy instructors and labs, our committee has developed the ADS Support Team, which is a network of HAPS members who are experts in different gross anatomy specialties (e.g., dissection, lab design). These experts can then be connected with HAPS members who want to learn more about the different specialties. To learn more about this new program, the ADS recorded a recent overview and training session which can be accessed below.

Here is a link to the presentation slides.

HAPS ADS Coaching Travel Award-click for more information

The Awards and Scholarships (A&S) committee and Anatomical Donor Stewardship (ADS) committee are collaborating on this award. This funding would allow for either ADS Support Team participants to visit others’ labs or help with funding to attend ADS sponsored dissection workshops (excluding those that may take place at HAPS conferences where Travel Awards are offered). The A&S would review and award travel awards to support ADS’s dissection coaching program. Apply here.

The HAPS ADS committee is committed to helping HAPS members learn best practices for dissection, gross anatomy lab design, gross anatomy education, and human body donor stewardship. In order to better facilitate the advancement of gross anatomy instructors and labs, the committee has developed the ADS Support Team, which is a network of HAPS members who are experts in different gross anatomy specialties (e.g., dissection, lab design). These experts can then be connected with HAPS members who want to learn more about the different specialties. This funding would allow for either participants to visit their coach’s lab or allow the coach to visit the participant. In other cases, it could also help with funding to attend ADS sponsored dissection workshops (excluding those that may take place at HAPS conferences where Travel Awards are offered). 

As we are working to launch this program, we are looking for HAPS Members who are 1) interested in being coaches and 2) looking to learn from coaches.

If you are interested in being a coach, please fill out this form.

If you are interested in being paired with a coach, please fill out this form.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Jeremy Grachan (ADS Chair) at jgrachan@hapsconnect.org or Danielle Edwards (ADS Support Team Sub-Committee Chair) at  dedwards@hapsconnect.org.