Mid Career Mentoring Award In Patient-Oriented Research

以患者为导向的研究中的职业生涯中期指导奖

• 批准号: 6796360
• 负责人: MARK STEVEN LACHS
• 金额: $ 12.21万
• 依托单位: WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6796360
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; behavioral /social science research tag; cognition disorders; functional ability; health behavior; human old age (65+); human subject; interview; mental health epidemiology; patient oriented research; psychological aspect of aging

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes use of the NIA mid-career award in patient-oriented research to create and sustain a mentoring program for aspiring aging researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University led by Dr. Mark Lachs. Dr. Lachs is a geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist with expertise in the areas of elder mistreatment, protective services, and functional status. He is also Directs the Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care (CCARCC), an institution wide entity seeded by an NIA Academic Leadership Award and formalized by the Dean in 2000. CCARCC's infrastructure will assist in identifying mentored trainees, provide additional resources to them (e.g., through its pilot grant program), and formally evaluate Dr. Lachs' K24 program through an external advisory committee led by Dr. William Hazzard. Two new patient-oriented research projects are proposed in the area of elder self-neglect (ESN). The specific aims of these are: (1) to estimate the contribution of executive dysfunction to self-care behaviors that may precede ESN, and (2) to determine if alcohol consumption is an risk factor for ESN. These studies hypothesize that ESN is a continuum of progressively more egregious low self-care states. ESN as chosen as a content area because (a) it is a multi-factorial syndrome likely to attract trainees with interests from diverse fields (e.g., geriatric medicine and psychiatry, neuropsychology, nutrition, alcohol, and medicalethics), (b) it is prevalent but studied despite substantial mortality and indignity, and (c) Cornell has an unusual depth of expertise (and potential mentees) in geriatric psychiatry in the form of the Cornell Geriatric Psychiatry Institute headed by George Alexopoulos. Preliminary data on depression and ESN are provided. Strengths of the candidate include his formal training in research methodology as an RWJ Clinical Scholar at Yale, his history of academic productivity and continuous NIH funding including an active RO1 in the area of crime and health in older people, and an early track record of mentoring junior trainees at all levels. Strengths of the institution include the resources of CCARCC, several aging related Centers at Cornell from which to garner potential mentees, the availability of divisional resources to "protect" promising trainees in the critical period between fellowship and initial extramural funding, and a divisional co-chief structure that can insulate the candidate from undue administrative and clinical burdens should this application be successful.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请建议在以患者为导向的研究中使用NIA职业中期奖，以创建和维持康奈尔大学威尔医学院由Mark Lachs博士领导的有抱负的老龄化研究人员的指导计划。Lachs博士是一位老年病学家和临床流行病学家，在老年人虐待，保护服务和功能状态方面具有专业知识。他还指导康奈尔大学老龄化研究和临床护理中心（CCARCC），这是一个由NIA学术领导奖播种的机构范围的实体，并于2000年由院长正式化。CCARCC的基础设施将有助于确定受指导的学员，为他们提供额外的资源（例如，通过其试点赠款计划），并正式评估博士拉克斯' K24计划通过外部咨询委员会由博士威廉哈扎德领导。在老年人自我忽视（ESN）领域提出了两个新的面向患者的研究项目。这些研究的具体目的是：（1）估计执行功能障碍对ESN之前的自我护理行为的贡献，以及（2）确定饮酒是否是ESN的危险因素。这些研究假设ESN是一个连续的渐进更令人震惊的低自我护理状态。选择ESN作为一个内容领域，因为（a）它是一个多因素综合征，可能吸引来自不同领域的兴趣的受训者（例如，老年医学和精神病学、神经心理学、营养学、酒精和医学伦理学），（B）它很普遍，但尽管有大量的死亡率和侮辱，但仍在研究，（c）康奈尔大学在老年精神病学方面拥有不同寻常的专业知识深度（和潜在的学员），其形式是由乔治亚历克西斯领导的康奈尔老年精神病学研究所。提供了抑郁症和ESN的初步数据。候选人的优势包括他在研究方法的正式培训，作为耶鲁大学的RWJ临床学者，他的学术生产力和持续的NIH资助历史，包括在老年人犯罪和健康领域的活跃RO1，以及指导各级初级学员的早期记录。该机构的优势包括CCARCC的资源，康奈尔大学的几个老龄化相关中心，以获得潜在的学员，部门资源的可用性，以“保护”有前途的学员在奖学金和初始校外资金之间的关键时期，以及一个部门共同负责人结构，可以隔离候选人不必要的行政和临床负担，如果这个应用程序是成功的。