NIA ACADEMIC CAREER LEADERSHIP AWARD

本申请建议使用NIA学术职业生涯领导力 将纽约医院著名的老龄化相关项目联系起来的奖项- 康奈尔大学医学院通过配对研究方法 候选人的专业知识。马克·拉克斯，医学博士，公共卫生硕士，老年病学家， 临床流行病学家和卫生服务研究员，与 在研究员或研究员的指导下的其他老年学计划教师 初级教员参与每年的特定研究项目 获奖。新任命的老年医学和医学司司长 老年学在医学院，拉克斯博士奠定了基础 利用康奈尔大学在老年医学领域的现有资源 医学、精神病学、机动性、社会学和神经学 将有效地扩大老龄化研究和培训能力 该机构与RFA的目标一致。 这些非凡的资源包括：(1)美国国立卫生研究院研究中心拨款 乔治·阿列克索普洛斯博士指导下的情绪障碍，(2)A NIAMS多功能关节炎和肌肉骨骼疾病中心赠款 由康奈尔大学风湿科主任史蒂文·佩杰博士领导 特殊外科医院主任医师，(3)NIA 康奈尔应用大学Roybal社会老年学中心赠款 卡尔·皮莱默博士领导的老年病研究所(The 候选人在家庭暴力研究方面的长期合作伙伴 致力于针对老年人)，(4)康奈尔神经老年病计划 在康奈尔医学院和#年的希伯来养老院 Riverdale，由Fred Plum博士和Norman Relkin博士领导，以及(5)AHCPR 为获得硕士学位的医生资助的培训计划 康奈尔大学的临床流行病学和卫生服务研究 玛丽·查尔森博士领导的医学研究生院 和帕梅拉·威廉姆斯-鲁索，候选人在那里担任教员。 此外，在1998年春天，该机构将开设 欧文·舍伍德·赖特老龄中心，一个15,000平方英尺的社区- 总部设在老龄中心，以纪念老龄研究和 康奈尔大学名誉教授欧文·赖特。 提供了第一年的试点项目样本，具体目标是 这是为了估计新的或恶化的抑郁症的发生率 一组“自我忽视”者的症状学和认知功能障碍 老年人指的是成人保护服务，他们已经 作为纽黑文EPESE队列的一部分，跟踪了十多年。这 该项目将候选人与老年精神病院的两名成员配对 项目(心理社会流行病学家Martha Bruce博士和Robert博士 艾布拉姆斯，一位在晚年人格方面有专长的老年精神病学家 精神障碍)在新教员Denis Keohane博士的指导下 在老年医学和老年病学分部中，谁有科学的 对内科疾病预测的兴趣和临床兴趣 在留守家中的老人。

This application proposes use of the NIA Academic Career Leadership Award to link renowned aging related programs at the New York Hospital- Cornell University Medical College by pairing the research methodology expertise of the candidate. Mark Lachs MD, MPH, a geriatrician, clinical epidemiologist, and health services researcher, with that of other gerontology program faculty in the mentorship of a fellow or junior faculty member in specific research projects for each year of the award. The newly appointed Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Medical College, Dr. Lachs has laid the foundation for leveraging Cornell's existing resources in the areas of geriatric medicine, psychiatry, mobility, sociology, and neurology in a way that will efficiently expand the aging research and training capabilities of the institution consistent with the goals of the RFA. These remarkable resources include: (1) An NIMH Research Center Grant on Mood Disorders under the direction of Dr. George Alexopoulos, (2) A NIAMS Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center Grant headed by Dr. Steven Paget, Chief of Rheumatology at Cornell and Physician-in-Chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery, (3) An NIA Roybal Social Gerontology Center Grant based at the Cornell Applied Geriatrics Research Institute headed by Dr. Karl Pillemer (the candidate's long-standing collaborator in studies of family violence committed against the elderly), (4) The Cornell Neurogeriatrics Program at Cornell Medical College and the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, headed by Drs. Fred Plum and Norman Relkin, and (5) an AHCPR funded training program for physicians leading to a masters degree in clinical epidemiology and health services research from the Cornell's Graduate School of the Medical Sciences, headed by Drs. Mary Charlson and Pamela Williams-Russo, and on which the candidate serves as faculty. Additionally, in the spring of 1998, the institution will open the Irving Sherwood Wright Center on Aging, a 15,000 square foot community- based aging center, named in honor of pioneer in aging research and Cornell Professor Emeritus Irving Wright. A sample pilot project for year one is provided, the specific aim of which is to estimate the incidence of new or worsening depressive symptomatology and cognitive impairment in a group of "self-neglecting" older adults referred to adult protective services and who have been followed for over a decade as part of the New Haven EPESE cohort. This project pairs the candidate with two members of the geropsychiatry program (Dr. Martha Bruce, a Psychosocial Epidemiologist, and Dr. Robert Abrams, a geriatric psychiatrist with expertise in late life personality disorders) in the mentorship of Dr. Denis Keohane, a new faculty member in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology who has a scientific interest in prognostication in medical illness and a clinical interest in the homebound elderly.