Research Training for Child Psychiatry and Neurodevelopment

这一申请代表着一项非常成功的机构博士后培训资助的竞争性续签。 总部设在斯坦福大学跨学科脑科学研究中心(CIBSR)，在Dr。 艾伦·赖斯。培训计划位于一个异常多样化和研究密集的环境中。 这是为了促进新一代调查人员的发展，他们拥有知识和 在儿童精神病学的前沿进行创新的跨学科研究所需的技能和 神经发育。有发展潜力的医生(医学博士)和博士生 富有成效的临床前、临床或转化性研究职业优先招募并被 程序。医生候选人有资格完成至少三年的精神病学、儿科学 或神经学培训和/或希望将T32计划与他们目前的临床住院医师或研究员资格相结合 训练。如果博士生在相关领域以优异的成绩完成博士学位，则有资格获得博士学位。 包括心理学、神经科学和计算(数据)科学。能够清楚地表达出强有力的 渴望进一步发展他们的专业知识、经验和生产力，以解决关键的精确医学问题 儿科神经精神病学和神经发育的主题被优先选择。 该计划目前已进入第26个年头。29名研究生实习生(5名医学博士、2名医学博士和22名博士) 在过去的15年里都参加了这个项目。我们在当前阶段成功实现了所有预定义指标 授权期。该项目吸引了一大批一流的申请者(n=75)，填补了所有的资助名额(4个 每年，到2020年5月，共10名研究员)，保留所有受训人员2-3年(除1名研究员外， 一年后加入教职)，并为受训人员作为独立调查人员的成功职业生涯做好准备。 我们还继续使导师的分配多样化，并将共同导师视为“常态”。尽管 该计划以专题为重点，科学范围广泛，包括基础、临床和转化性研究- 有方向的人。增加了几个新的初级导师(他们将与高级导师“合作”)，包括 三名毕业于斯坦福大学博士后奖学金的教员。我们将继续致力于吸引学员 来自代表人数不足的少数族裔背景的人(本期10人中有2人)。 在接下来的五年资助期内，我们将额外培训9-11名研究员。增加医学博士或医学博士学位的计划 已经确定从目前10名研究员中的2名进行征聘。为了实现我们显著扩张的目标 每个学员的知识基础和方法，我们将继续建立个性化的教学， 为每个研究员制定导师和研究计划，同时促进科学知识的交叉受精 实习生班。使用这种方法，我们将学员的课程和研究性培训重点放在桥接上 传统的、学科间的方法差距，以及专注于跨学科的应用 解决儿童精神病学和神经发育中复杂的精准医学问题。

This application represents a competitive renewal of a highly-successful institutional postdoctoral training grant based in Stanford's Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR), under the direction of Dr. Allan Reiss. The training program is situated within an exceptionally diverse and research-intensive environment that is designed to facilitate the development of a new-generation of investigators who have the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct innovative, interdisciplinary research at the forefront of child psychiatry and neurodevelopment. Physician (MD, PhD) and PhD candidates who have the potential to develop highly productive preclinical, clinical or translational research careers are preferentially recruited and accepted into the program. Physician candidates are eligible if they have completed at least three years of psychiatry, pediatrics or neurology training and/or wish to combine the T32 program with their current clinical residency or fellowship training. PhD candidates are eligible if they have completed their doctorate with distinction in relevant fields including psychology, neuroscience and computational (data) sciences. Candidates who articulate a strong desire to further develop their expertise, experience and productivity to address critical precision medicine themes in pediatric neuropsychiatry and neurodevelopment are preferentially selected. The program is now in its 26th year. Twenty-nine postgraduate trainees (5 MDs, 2 MD/PhDs and 22 PhDs) have been in the program in the past 15 years. We successfully attained all predefined metrics during the current grant period. The program attracted a very large pool of first-rate applicants (n=75), filled all funded slots (four per year, total of 10 fellows through May 2020), retained all trainees for 2-3 years (except one fellow who is joining the faculty after one year), and prepared trainees for successful careers as independent investigators. We also continue to diversify the assignment of mentors and consider co-mentorship the “norm”. Though topically-focused, the scientific scope of the program is broad, with basic, clinical and translational research- oriented fellows. Several new junior mentors (who will “partner” with senior mentors) have been added, including three faculty who are graduates of Stanford postdoctoral fellowships. We remain committed to attracting trainees who come from an underrepresented minority background (two of 10 in the current period). During the next 5-year grant period, we will train an additional 9-11 fellows. Plans to increase MD or MD/PhD recruitment from the current 2 of 10 fellows have been established. To meet our goal of significantly expanding the knowledge base and methods of each trainee, we will continue to establish individually tailored didactic, mentorship and research plans for each fellow while promoting cross-fertilization of scientific knowledge across the trainee class. Using this approach, we focus the trainee's curriculum and research training on bridging traditional, between-discipline gaps in methodology, and on focusing on the application of interdisciplinary solutions to complex precision medicine issues in child psychiatry and neurodevelopment.