Patient-oriented research in geriatric palliative care

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请表支持R.肖恩·莫里森医学博士获得NIA以患者为中心的研究中的职业生涯中期奖。莫里森博士目前是西奈山医学院老年病学系和医学系的副教授和赫尔曼·默金姑息治疗教授。他在老龄化方面的临床研究一直专注于改善患有严重和危及生命的疾病的老年人的医疗保健。莫里森博士致力于扩大老年姑息治疗的领域，并将指导初级教员和研究员作为职业生涯的优先事项。他共指导了15名内科医生和2名医学生，目前担任6名初级教员和2名老年研究员的主要导师。在这份申请中，莫里森博士建议：1)进一步发展他作为以患者为中心的研究导师和领导者的技能和能力；2)增加来自不同学科的研究生研究员和初级教师发展以患者为中心的研究所需的知识和技能的机会；以及3)在以患者为中心的研究中建立一个强大和可持续的研究计划，重点是老年姑息治疗。候选人具体参与了两项旨在改善疼痛管理的研究倡议，这两项倡议将为受辅导者提供必要的研究基础设施和机会，以便在这两个较大的资助项目的保护伞下开发他们自己的项目。拟议的指导计划确定了来自不同医学专业(例如普通内科、肿瘤学、老年病学、肺科和重症监护医学)的有前途的初级研究人员，并在莫里森博士的指导下提供了一套系统和严格的研究经验、以患者为导向的研究的正式和非正式培训以及职业发展的计划。该应用程序的总体目标是1)建立一个成功的职业生涯，进行高质量的老年姑息治疗研究；2)培训和发展新一代临床研究人员来进行这项研究；以及3)通过在老年姑息治疗研究中开发严格的量化方法，改善患有严重和危及生命的疾病的老年人的医疗护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application supports R. Sean Morrison, M.D. for a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the NIA. Dr. Morrison is currently Associate Professor in the Departments of Geriatrics and Medicine and the Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Care at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His clinical research in aging has focused on improving the medical care of older adults living with serious and life threatening illness. Dr. Morrison is committed to expanding the field of geriatric palliative care and has made mentoring of junior faculty and fellows a career priority. He has mentored a total of 15 physicians and 2 medical students and currently serves as the primary mentor to 6 junior faculty and 2 geriatrics fellows. In this application, Dr. Morrison proposes to: 1) further develop his skills and abilities as a mentor and leader in patient-oriented research; 2) increase the opportunities for post-graduate fellows and junior faculty from different disciplines to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in patient-oriented research; and 3) build a strong and sustainable research program in patient oriented research focused on geriatric palliative care. The candidate is specifically involved in two research initiatives to improve the management of pain that will provide the necessary research infrastructure and opportunities for mentees to develop their own projects under the umbrella of these two larger funded projects. The mentoring plan that is proposed identifies promising junior investigators from different medical specialties (e.g., general internal medicine, oncology, geriatrics, pulmonary and critical care medicine) and provides a structured and rigorous program of research experience, formal and informal training in patient-oriented research, and career development under Dr. Morrison's mentorship. The overall goals of this application are to 1) build a successful career conducting high quality patient-oriented research in geriatric palliative care; 2) train and develop a new generation of clinical investigators to conduct this research; and 3) through the development of rigorous quantitative methods in geriatric palliative care research, improve the medical care of older adults living with serious and life threatening illness.