UM-SPAHS Endowment Fund Program

描述（由申请人提供）：蒙大拿大学药学院和联合健康科学学院有着悠久的历史，致力于招收和培训少数民族学生（主要是美洲印第安人）攻读药学和物理治疗学位。最近获得的美国原住民卓越中心（NACOE）拨款建立在HHS-Health Careers Opportunity Program （HCOP）、NIH-Bridges到学士学位项目（BRIDGES）和NSF-EPSCoR项目获得的资金基础上，为代表性不足的少数民族提供必要的环境和基础设施，以提供药学（药学博士）、物理治疗（硕士和博士）以及最近的研究生教育（硕士、博士）的学位培训。在过去的十年里，学院的药学系的研究基础设施得到了极大的增加，在NIH的85所学院/药学院中，学院的博士教师人均资助排名第11位。该系建立了两个国家批准的研究中心，并提供两个硕士和两个博士学位。捐赠基金项目的主要目标是通过培训和招聘努力增加至少两名终身教职的少数民族教师，同时在药学、物理治疗和研究生课程的少数民族学生的招聘、保留和培训方面保持最近的成功。将继续扩大对少数民族健康差异的研究重点。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：1)为少数民族教师（最好是美洲印第安人）创建新的终身教职人员路线；2)增加获得药学博士学位的少数民族学生的机会。3)增加少数民族学生攻读博士学位的机会。4)建立一个强大的项目来招募和培训本科少数民族学生，5)使用捐赠收入来利用额外的机构/州和联邦支持，6)捐赠主体的逐步增长。A)招收和培养2名少数民族博士生和1名少数民族药学博士。研究员（1-3年级）和B)完成培训和/或招聘两名少数民族教员，优先考虑美洲土著教员候选人，特别是参与健康差异研究的教员（3-5年级）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Montana School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences has a long standing history and commitment to the recruitment and training of minority students (principally Native American Indians) for degrees in pharmacy and physical therapy. The recently obtained Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE) grant builds on strength from funding obtained for the HHS-Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), the NIH-Bridges to Baccalaureate Program (BRIDGES), and the NSF-EPSCoR Program to provide both the environment and the infrastructure necessary to offer degree training for under-represented minorities in pharmacy (Pharm.D.), physical therapy (M.S. and D.P.T.), and more recently in graduate education (M.S., Ph.D.). Research infrastructure has dramatically increased in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the past ten years to the point where the School is ranked 1lth of 85 schools/Colleges of Pharmacy in NIH funding per Ph.D. faculty. The Department has created two state-approved research centers and offers two M.S. and two Ph.D. programs. The primary goal of the Endowment Fund Program is to add at least two tenure track minority faculty through training and recruitment efforts, while perpetuating recent success in the recruitment, retention, and training of minority students in Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Graduate programs. Focus on minority health disparities research will continue to be expanded. These goals will be accomplished as follows: 1) creating new tenure track faculty lines for minority faculty (preferably Native American Indians), 2) Enhancing opportunities for minority students who earn the Pharm.D. or D.P.T. degree to obtain postdoctoral fellowship training in clinically relevant areas, 3) Enhancement of opportunities for minority students to pursue graduate training leading to the Ph.D. degree. 4) Perpetuation of a strong program to recruit and train undergraduate minority students, 5) Use of endowment income to leverage additional institutional/state and federal support, and 6) Progressive growth of the endowment corpus. Priorities for use of the endowment income are A) Recruitment and training of two minority PhD, students and one minority post Pharm.D. Fellow (Years 1-3) and B) Complete training and/or recruitment of two minority faculty with priority given to Native American Faculty candidates, particularly those involved in health disparities research (Years 3-5).