Academic Career Award

描述（由申请人提供）：此K 07申请寻求对以下感兴趣的候选人的5年支持：（1）长期维持补充和替代疗法研究中心及其补充和替代医学临床研究培训计划（CAM CRTP）在弗吉尼亚大学;（2）维持跨学科CAM利益的势头在弗吉尼亚大学后，CAM CRTP的资金已经失效;及（3）平衡各独立学院/学系及大学其他对计算机辅助教学研究感兴趣的机构的需要及利益。因此，候选人的5年领导目标是获得额外的领导技能，通过培养她的愿景和个人领导力的清晰度，以解决这三个领域，激励他人在CAM研究领域的非凡表现。在花园工商管理研究生院的教师的指导下，候选人将参加领导力培训，该培训使用强大的领导力模型，重点关注个人特征，战略思维能力，影响他人的能力，创造鼓舞人心的组织设计，以及领导变革的原则。她还将访问CAM中心，这些中心仍然是联邦资助中心基础设施的典范。候选人的第二个重点是维持CAM相关研究的计划，调查身心干预，基于身体的实践，电磁和其他能量模式。具体来说，在第一年，她将继续为已经在进行的研究做出贡献，以结束这些研究。在第2年，她将开始实施一项多中心试验，以测试一种新型的7周按摩疗法干预，用于接受自体干细胞移植的癌症患者，以评估症状和生活质量随时间的变化。在第3年，候选人将继续实施研究;在第4-5年，研究活动将包括数据分析和手稿开发。此外，在第1-5年，候选人将继续指导博士前学员进行CAM相关的论文和博士后研究员规划K奖或竞争性探索性研究。该K 07应用程序的领导力培训部分的相关性在于，它解决了候选人的承诺，通过提供职业发展机会和增加知识，经验和从业人员的多样化群体进行严格的CAM研究的能力，发展CAM调查员的干部（NCCAM的目标）。该研究与公共卫生的相关性在于，许多患者使用CAM实践和产品，希望减少不良症状和改善生活质量，使这项研究与确定的需要一致，以开发更多关于CAM模式在不同人群中的影响的知识基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K07 application seeks 5 years of support for a candidate interested in: (1) sustaining long-term the Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies and its Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clinical Research Training Program (CAM CRTP) at the University of Virginia; (2) sustaining the momentum of interdisciplinary CAM interests at UVA after funding for the CAM CRTP has lapsed; and (3) balancing the needs and interests of independent schools/departments and other components of the University interested in CAM research. Thus, the candidate's 5-year leadership goal is to acquire additional leadership skills to address these three areas through nurturing clarity of her vision and personal leadership to inspire others to extraordinary performance in the field of CAM research. Under the mentorship of faculty members in the Garden Graduate School of Business Administration, the candidate will engage in leadership training that uses a powerful leadership model with a focus on personal characteristics, strategic thinking skills, abilities in influencing others, creating inspiring organizational designs, and principles of leading change. She will also visit CAM centers that remain exemplary post federal funding for the centers' infrastructure. The candidate's second focus is directed toward sustaining a program of CAM-related research that investigates mind-body interventions, body-based practices, and electromagnetic and other energy modalities. Specifically, in Year 1 she will continue to contribute to studies already in progress to bring closure to these studies. In Year 2 she will begin to implement a multi- site trial to test a novel 7-week massage therapy intervention for patients with cancer undergoing autologous stem cell transplant to assess changes in symptoms and quality of life over time. In Year 3, the candidate will continue implementation of studies; in Years 4-5, research activity will include data analyses and manuscript development. Also, in Years 1-5, the candidate will continue to mentor predoctoral trainees in conducting CAM-related dissertations and postdoctoral fellows in planning either K-awards or competitive exploratory studies. The relevance of the leadership training component of this K07 application is that it addresses the candidate's commitment to develop a cadre of CAM investigators (a NCCAM goal) through providing career development opportunities and increasing the knowledge, experience, and capacity of a diverse group of practitioners to conduct rigorous CAM research. Relevance of the research to public health is that many patients use CAM practices and products in hopes of reducing adverse symptoms and improving quality of life, making this research consistent with the identified need to develop a greater knowledge base on the effects of CAM modalities in various populations.