FACULTY AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORE

教师研究发展核心：核心目标是提高复杂的水平， 教师进行的研究，并增加项目的数量和质量进行内 CHP.学院研究发展核心旨在建立一个有能力的研究人员在该领域的干部， 能够成功竞争校外资助的人。将特别强调 建立少数族裔教师的技能组合，至少与他们在整个教师队伍中的代表性成比例。 将努力保持少数民族教师的兴趣和保留作为项目 进步。值得注意的是，截至本文件提交时，非洲裔美国人、亚洲人、拉丁美洲人和土著人 美国教师在计划的研究项目中有代表。这种多样性显然是作为 已经制定了一个项目，并作出规定，在一些少数民族中建立能力， 教师谁目前不具备足够的基础来建立研究议程。 作为这个核心的一部分，每个感兴趣的教师研究人员将至少有一个导师。当 感兴趣的教师已经清楚地界定了一个研究课题，并对性质的初步想法， 研究，他们将被分配给我们的合作机构的导师。事实上， 更充分开发的项目协议作为本申请的一部分。对于那些 教师尚未明确重点GSU导师将提供。事实上，对于两个拟议中的 研究项目内部导师一直致力于培养教师的专业知识。的目的 导师是为了确保教师建立在他们现有的研究技能，并有支持， 他们推进个人和跨学科的研究项目。研究重点将继续 是健康的差距，以建立在健康学院内的研究确定的计划 卫生防护中心。如简历所示，沈博士、约翰逊博士和萨姆森博士已经 建立了一些研究经验，在健康差距，沈博士在人口层面上看访问 护理，以及约翰逊和萨姆森博士在社区和个人层面。目前在下列领域的研究： 非裔美国儿童的肥胖，非裔美国儿童和拉丁美洲儿童的药物滥用，以及ER 在无法获得初级保健的情况下利用这些资源是正在进行的项目之一。 教师可以选择在他们的职业生涯中扩展到其他研究领域，因为他们建立了技能组合 和资金跟踪记录来支持这一举措。能力建设期间确定的研究活动 该进程侧重于与获得保健、基础科学和成果有关的健康差距领域 研究，预防保健和社会医学，由七个当前驱动的特殊方向 卫生防护中心的学科：成瘾研究、沟通障碍、卫生管理、护理、 职业治疗，物理治疗和社会工作。教师将与导师密切合作， 开发和实施由该赠款支持的项目。跨学科研究团队将 鼓励。还将鼓励教师与其他外部学者和社区合作， 他们的项目。根据这项补助金提出的具体研究项目包括以下领域： 药物滥用，脑瘫儿童获得护理，医疗补助患者获得护理，获得 照顾没有保险的人，怀孕期间的哮喘，预防儿童肥胖和糖尿病，老年PT/OT 服务、解剖学和组织研究。

Faculty Research Development Core: The Core goals are to raise the sophistication level of the research conducted by faculty and to increase the number and quality of projects conducted within CHP. The Faculty Research Development Core seeks to build a cadre of competent researchers in the area of health disparities who can successfully compete for extramural funding. Particular emphasis will be directed to building the skill sets of minority faculty at least proportionate to their representation on the overall faculty. Efforts will be made to maintain the interest and retention of minority faculty members as the project progresses. It is important to note that as of this submission African American, Asian, Latino, and Native American faculty are represented in the planned research projects. This diversity was clearly sought as the project has been developed and provisions have been made to build competencies in some of the minority faculty who do not currently possess adequate foundations to build research agendas. As a part of this core, each interested faculty researcher will have at least one mentor. When the interested faculty members have clearly delineated a research topic and preliminary ideas on the nature of the research, they will be assigned to a mentor from our collaborating institution. In fact the mentor letters of agreement for projects that are more fully developed are contained as a part of this application. For those faculty members not yet clearly focused GSU mentors will be made available. In fact for two of the proposed research projects internal mentors have been working to build the expertise of the faculty. The purpose of the mentors is to ensure that faculty builds upon their existing repertoire of research skills and have support as they move forward with individual and interdisciplinary research projects. The research emphasis will continue to be health disparities in order to build on the identified program of research within the College of Health Professions (CHP). As indicated in the biographical sketches, Drs. Shen, Johnson, and Samson have already established some research experience in health disparities, Dr. Shen at the population level looking at access to care, and Drs. Johnson and Samson at the community and individual levels. Current research in the area of obesity in African American children, substance abuse in African American and Latino children, and ER utilization in the absence of access to primary care are among the ongoing projects. Faculty may choose to expand to other research areas during their careers as they build the skill set and funding track record to support such a move. Research activities identified during the capacity building process focus on areas of health disparities as they relate to Access to Care, Basic Science and Outcomes Research, Preventive Care and Social Medicine, with special orientations driven by the seven current disciplines in the CHP: Addictions Studies, Communication Disorders, Health Administration, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Social Work. Faculty will work closely with their mentors to develop and implement their projects supported by this grant. Cross-disciplinary research teams will be encouraged. Faculty will also be encouraged work with other external scholars and communities to accomplish their projects. Specific research projects that have been proposed under this grant cover such areas as substance abuse, access to care for children with cerebral palsy, access to care of Medicaid patients, access to care of uninsured, asthma in pregnancy, prevention of childhood obesity and diabetes, geriatric PT/OT services, anatomy and tissue research.