Preparing the Next Generation of Researchers in Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：有抱负的研究科学家经常未能发展成功的职业生涯，由于缺乏重点，指导不足，合作机会不足。早期的教师年是一个特别脆弱的时期，在此期间，他们可以受益于高级教师的指导，个性化定制的正式教学，参与既定的研究计划，对正在进行的工作的批评，以及专业网络的机会。这个学术领导职业奖（K 07）的目标是双重的：（1）促进成功培养健康科学学科的初级研究人员，他们的工作将有助于人们对在社区和长期护理环境中向患有慢性病和残疾的老年人提供保健服务的紧迫问题有新的认识，并在这样做的过程中，（2）加强查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学（UNC-CH）在这些领域作出重大研究贡献的能力。拟议的项目将被安置在塞西尔G的老龄化、残疾和长期护理方案中。Sheps健康服务研究中心-校园内最大的老龄化研究项目，进行一系列跨学科研究，并有良好的指导记录。该项目将由菲利普斯隆，医学博士，公共卫生硕士，该计划的联合主任，谁将致力于四分之一的时间，这一努力。谢丽尔齐默尔曼，博士，该计划的另一个共同主任，将捐赠百分之十的时间在相关领域，她的K 02长期护理。其他计划的教师和工作人员谁将协助这项工作包括生物统计学家，分析师，项目经理和研究助理。项目指导委员会将包括校园内以老龄化为导向的项目、中心和研究所的主任。拟议的项目将包括一个密集的指导和研究职业发展计划，每年为四个初级学院（学院研究员）。与会者将来自医学，护理，药学，社会工作，专职医疗，牙科和公共卫生学科。每个参与者的赞助单位将保证至少40%的专门研究时间。参与者将参加一个结构化的方案，包括：a）职业指导; B）密集的研究指导; c）可供试点和初步研究使用的受试者群体; d）关于老龄化关键方法和资金问题的每月系列研讨会; e）每两周讨论一次正在进行的工作; f）所需的研究报告和建议;以及g）每年4，000美元的网络、专业旅行和研究开发津贴。候选人的选择将优先考虑传统上代表性不足的少数民族，妇女和医生科学家。研究员将通过研究职业奖，R 01或主要基金会研究补助金获得重要的独立资金后，过渡出该计划。个人和计划层面的项目成功将通过现任和前任教职员工的学术成就来衡量。体制机制已经到位，如果成功的话，将为这种指导模式提供持续的支持，并将作为候选人，Sheps中心和大学负责研究和研究生学习的副校长之间的伙伴关系进行追求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aspiring research scientists frequently fail to develop successful careers due to a lack of focus, insufficient mentoring, and inadequate opportunities for collaboration. The early faculty years are an especially vulnerable period, during which time they could benefit from the guidance of senior faculty, individually-tailored formal instruction, participation in established research programs, critique of works-in-progress, and opportunities for professional networking. The goal of this academic leadership career award (K07) is twofold: (1) to promote the successful development of junior faculty researchers in the health sciences disciplines whose work will shed new light on pressing issues related to the provision of health services to older persons with chronic illness and disability in community and long-term care settings, and, in doing so, (2) to enhance the capacity of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to make significant research contributions in these areas. The proposed project will be housed in the Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research - the largest aging research program on campus, which conducts a range of interdisciplinary research and has a strong track record of mentoring. The project will be directed by Philip Sloane, MD, MPH, the program's co-director, who will devote one-quarter time to this effort. Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, the program's other co-director, will donate ten percent time in areas relevant to her K02 on long-term care. Other program faculty and staff who will assist in this effort include a biostatistician, analyst, project manager, and research assistant. The project steering committee will include directors of aging-oriented programs, centers and institutes on campus. The proposed project will consist of an intensive mentoring and research career development program for four junior faculties per year (Faculty Fellows). Participants will be drawn from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, allied health, dentistry, and public health. Each participant's sponsoring unit will guarantee a minimum of 40 % dedicated research time. Participants will engage in a structured program consisting of: a) career mentoring; b) intensive research mentoring; c) availability of subject cohorts for use in pilot and preliminary studies; d) a monthly seminar series on critical methodological and funding issues in aging; e) biweekly discussions of works-in-progress; f) required research presentations and proposals; and g) a $4,000 annual allowance for networking, professional travel, and research development. Candidate selection will assign priority to traditionally underrepresented minorities, women, and physician-scientists. Fellows will transition out of the program upon obtaining significant independent funding through a research career award, R01, or major foundation research grant. Project success on both individual and programmatic levels will be measured by academic accomplishments of current and former Faculty Fellows. Institutional mechanisms are in place to provide ongoing support for this model of mentoring, if successful, and they will be pursued as a partnership between the Candidate, the Sheps Center, and the University's Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies.