Training in Complementary and Alternative Medical Research

补充和替代医学研究培训

• 批准号: 7365228
• 负责人: LEANNA J STANDISH
• 金额: $ 30.08万
• 依托单位: BASTYR UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7365228
• 关键词: Medical Research; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Patient utilization of a broad spectrum of Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) therapies is at the highest level in the recent history of this country and continues to increase. However, there is a lack of adequate research providing accurate information to illuminate and validate the efficacy, economy, and safety of CAM therapies. A successful medical system provides patients and physicians with the ability to choose from the largest possible armamentarium of therapeutic and preventative health care regimens that have been proven to be both medically efficacious and cost effective. To continue to move toward such a system, it is vitally important that the panoply of CAM therapeutic regimens be validated scientifically. This will proceed most quickly and efficiently with an interdisciplinary and collaborative research effort carried out by scientists trained both in both rigorous research methodology and in CAM. Bastyr University, the nation's leading CAM training institution, is submitting this competing continuation application to continue our successful postdoctoral and predoctoral training program for scientists who desire careers as research scholars and clinical investigators in the field of CAM. Over the past 3 years, this training program at Bastyr has resulted in the successful development of multi-disciplinary collaborations among researchers and allied health professionals at CAM and allopathic institutions, and has trained 8 postdoctoral fellows and 18 short-term predoctoral trainees in CAM-related research. We currently propose to extend this successful program for another 5 years to train an additional 8 postdoctoral fellows (4 ND, 2 PhD and 2 MD) for three years each, and thirty predoctoral students in short term summer positions. Training opportunities are available from 19 faculty members, representing four preeminent research and educational institutions in Washington state. We have assembled mentors with acknowledged expertise in their fields, with divergent enough backgrounds to provide a breadth of training experiences, and with a common interest in the efficacy of CAM in the treatment of chronic disease, particularly cancer, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. We believe that the combined expertise and commitment of these individuals, in the context of the superlative research environment in Seattle, creates a unique opportunity to successfully train scientists who will be able to bring traditional research methods to bear upon CAM-related research topics. By centering CAM research training at an institution with a mission of training CAM practitioners and researchers and enhancing collaborations with mainstream biomedical research institutions, this application addresses a critical and strategic need of building resources and infrastructure to allow for cutting-edge research on CAM modalities.

描述（由申请人提供）：患者对广泛的补充和替代医学（CAM）疗法的利用处于该国近代历史上的最高水平，并且还在继续增加。然而，缺乏足够的研究来提供准确的信息来阐明和验证 CAM 疗法的功效、经济性和安全性。成功的医疗系统使患者和医生能够从尽可能多的治疗和预防保健方案中进行选择，这些方案已被证明具有医疗效果和成本效益。为了继续向这样的系统迈进，对 CAM 治疗方案进行科学验证至关重要。通过由受过严格研究方法和 CAM 培训的科学家进行的跨学科和协作研究工作，这一过程将最快速、最有效地进行。巴斯蒂尔大学是全国领先的 CAM 培训机构，正在提交这份竞争性的继续申请，以继续为那些希望在 CAM 领域成为研究学者和临床研究人员的科学家提供成功的博士后和博士前培训计划。过去3年里，Bastyr的这一培训项目成功发展了CAM和对抗疗法机构的研究人员和专职医疗专业人员之间的多学科合作，并培训了8名博士后研究员和18名短期博士前培训生进行CAM相关研究。我们目前建议将这一成功的项目再延长 5 年，以分别培训 8 名博士后研究员（4 名博士后、2 名博士和 2 名医学博士），每人为期三年，以及 30 名短期暑期博士生。代表华盛顿州四家杰出研究和教育机构的 19 名教职人员提供培训机会。我们聚集了在各自领域拥有公认专业知识的导师，他们的背景足够多样化，可以提供广泛的培训经验，并且对 CAM 在治疗慢性疾病（特别是癌症、肥胖和 2 型糖尿病）方面的功效有着共同的兴趣。我们相信，在西雅图最高级的研究环境中，这些人的专业知识和奉献精神相结合，创造了一个独特的机会来成功培训能够将传统研究方法应用于 CAM 相关研究课题的科学家。通过将 CAM 研究培训集中在一个以培训 CAM 从业者和研究人员为使命的机构，并加强与主流生物医学研究机构的合作，该应用程序解决了建设资源和基础设施以进行 CAM 模式前沿研究的关键和战略需求。