Western Oral Research Consortium: Career Development

描述：(申请者提供)西方口腔研究联盟 加州大学旧金山分校、UCHSC、OHSU、UOP和UW的(WEORC)计划寻求对被指导的 牙科、颅面和口腔临床科学家发展计划奖 健康研究(K12机构职业发展奖)。本节目 提供了一种独特的创新方法来发展调查人员和 从事口腔健康研究的教职员工。涉及的机构 代表一个新的美国西部地区财团，该财团既包括 研究密集型和研究密集型较低的私营和国家支持 牙科学校，其中一些是以研究为导向的主要学术卫生科学学校 中心和一个缺乏这样的环境。我们的目标是提供职业发展 机会：1)建立在集成的DDS/PHD/专业及类似专业基础上 计划；2)提供学者发展(博士后水平)导师培训 在生物医学、社会和行为科学的全方位选择中；3)提供 受保护时间的教师过渡独立调查员发展选项 在相同学科范围内；4)发展跨学科的新模式 通过参与内部和参与之间的指导伙伴关系进行指导 学校；5)在关键领域发展新的综合口语研究经验， 如临床研究、循证护理、信息学、科学团队 经验和基因组学；6)提供跨机构基础设施 参加这项计划的学员团体和导师的组成；以及 7)实施评估工具，使计划发展适应变化 新一代参与者的需求。我们寻求促进牙科、颅面和口腔健康研究的广泛视角的总体成果， 提供学员所需的关键工具，并提供科学严谨的 基础研究的开展。WEORC将是补充和建设 几个现有的和新的项目。这些包括：待定的T32 UCSF Cohort及其在威斯康星大学的同等职位；最近资助的发现中心，地址为 加州大学旧金山分校和华盛顿大学；其他国际标准的中心和计划项目：以及 广泛资助参与学校的研究项目。我们将发展 在不同的财团成员中充分利用网络体验 优势WEORC？S冲刺区。该计划将导演和站点统一起来 具有广泛的研究、培训和领导经验的联席董事，以及 构建促进广泛发展的多轨培训脚手架 为我们的学员提供跨学科体验，同时确保他们 继续提供严谨的科学基础。杰出的 科学和临床导师将指导每一位被选中参加 组件程序。这允许进行综合培训和 研究人员-从博士后到独立博士后的发展经验 口腔健康研究人员和职业生涯的研究人员阶段 未来的牙科学术领袖。该计划将包括以下组件 满足探索、技能扩展和多学科团队的需求 由博士后研究员和初级教员工作。内部和外部 咨询小组将定期监督该计划。因此，我们将相遇 学员和口腔健康研究界的需求，提供 确保持续接触尖端科学的培训， 最先进的研究工具，以及创新、跨学科、 今天需要团队视角吗？S复杂的科学问题。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) The Western Oral Research Consortium (WEORC) Program at UCSF, UCHSC, OHSU, UOP and UW seeks support for a Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award in Dental, Craniofacial and Oral Health Research (K12 Institutional Career Development Award). This program offers a unique and innovative approach to the development of investigators and faculty members devoted or oral health research. The institutions involved represent a new Western US regional consortium that includes both research-intensive and less research-intensive private and state-supported dental schools, some within major research-oriented academic health science centers and one lacking such an environment. We aim to offer career development opportunities that: 1) build on the integrated DDS/PhD/specialty and similar programs; 2) offer Scholar Development (postdoctoral level) mentored training in a full range of biomedical, social and behavior science options; 3) provide protected-time Faculty Transition independent investigator development options in that same range of subjects; 4) develop a new model for cross-disciplinary mentoring through mentoring partnerships within and between participating schools; 5) develop new comprehensive oral research experiences in key areas, such as clinical research, evidenced-based care, informatics, scientific team experiences, and genomics; 6) provide cross-institutional infrastructure for the constituent trainee groups and mentors participating in this program; and 7) implement evaluation tools to allow program evolution to meet the changing needs of new generations of participants. The overall outcome we seek to promote broad perspectives on dental, craniofacial and oral health research, provide key tools needed by trainees, and provide a scientifically rigorous foundation of the conduct of research. WEORC will be complementary to and build on several existing and new programs. These include: the pending T32 UCSF COHORT and its equivalent at UW; the recently funded Centers of Discovery at UCSF and UW; other international-standard Centers and Program Projects: and a broadly funded research portfolio at the participating schools. We will develop networking experiences within the diverse consortium members to take full advantage of WEORC?s thrust areas. The program unites a Director and site co-directors with extensive research, training and leadership experience, and constructs a multi-track training scaffold that promotes broad cross-disciplinary experiences for our trainees, while assuring that they continue to be provided with rigorous scientific foundations. Outstanding scientific and clinical mentors will guide each trainee selected for the component programs. This permits an integrated training and investigator-development experience that spans postdoctoral to independent investigator phases of the career spectrum for oral health researchers and future leaders in academic dentistry. The program will include components that meet the needs for exploration, skill expansion and multidisciplinary team working by postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. Internal and external advisory groups will monitor the program on a regular basis. Thus, we will meet the needs of the trainees and the oral health research community, providing training that assures continuing access to cutting edge science, state-of-the-art research tools, and the innovative, cross-disciplinary, team-based perspectives required by today?s complex scientific problems.