The ALPS Traveling Fellowship provides a unique mentorship opportunity for clinicians with a strong interest in limb salvage. This fellowship is created to foster global collaboration and provide hands-on learning experiences in interdisciplinary limb preservation care. Here is everything you need to know about the ALPS Traveling Fellowship:
What You Get as a Fellow
As a recipient of the Traveling Fellowship, you will be afforded the opportunity for professional growth aligned with the aim of ALPS to serve as an interdisciplinary bridge that identifies, develops and mentors the next generation of clinicians, scientists and clinician scientists working to preserve at-risk lower extremities.
As an ALPS Traveling Fellow you will get:
$7,500 grant to support travel, research, and clerical expenses.
Two Centers of Excellence: One week at each for hands-on mentorship.
Immersive Learning: Gain insights from top experts in limb preservation.
Professional Growth: Strengthen capacity to implement interdisciplinary team-based care for patients at your home institutions.
Join an Impressive Community: Serve as a future leader in the advocacy for limb preservation in close collaboration with the ALPS community.
Why the ALPS Traveling Fellowship?
Prof. Dr. Kate McGinigle, ALPS Board Member and earlier Fellowship recipient tells why the fellowship is an invaluable experience:
“I think the fellowship was so valuable for me because it gave me the time away from my daily life to actually think about bigger questions and think about ways to strategize with people from around the world about how to solve the problems that we all face.”
Prof. Dr. Michael Conte, Chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery & ALPS Founding Scientific Chair highlights:
“This unique traveling fellowship provides opportunity to build a community of leaders and expand limb preservation centers around the nation.”
Prof. Dr. David Armstrong, ALPS Founding President elaborates on the benefits of mentorship visits abroad:
“No clinician is an island unto herself or himself. It is invaluable to visit other folks’ shops. While there are differences from place to place, you see there are many things that are similar no matter where in the world you are set up. And the great thing is that you generate lifelong friendships with these folks.”
Who Can Apply?
There is no discipline restriction on who can apply for the ALPS Traveling Fellowship. Applicants can be an internal medicine doctor, an endocrinologist, or an infectious diseases specialist just as well as a podiatrist or vascular surgeon. To be ALPS’ next Traveling Fellowship grant recipient ALPS has the following criterea for eligibility for selection:
- Be committed to an academic career in lower limb preservation and have obtained an academic appointment in a university or clinical center devoted to excellence in medical education.
- Have a demonstrated record of success in pursuing clinical or basic science research sufficient to ensure academic excellence in his or her career pursuits.
- Applicants who have received prior traveling fellowships may apply. Special consideration will be given to those applicants who have not previously received a traveling fellowship.
- Be an active Member of ALPS (student members are not eligible): 🔗 Become a Member
- Have completed a postgraduate program.
Application Procedure
The application proces for the ALPS Traveling Fellowship is swift and easy and you can learn all about what it requires on the ALPS Traveling Fellow page on the ALPS website. If you would like to apply for 2026, all application materials should be submitted via the online application submission form before Junly 1, 2026. Learn more here about procedure and deadlines:
‘How to apply for the ALPS Traveling Fellowship’ with Prof Dr. Kate McGinigle
Listen to the 2022 ALPS Traveling Fellowship recipient, Kate McGinigle, mention what to include in the ALPS Traveling Fellowship application on the ALPS’ Youtube channel.
