Academic Career Leadership Award in Geriatric Palliative Care Research

描述(由申请者提供)：这个学术职业领袖奖的目标是在科罗拉多大学丹佛分校和健康科学中心(UCDHSC)开发一个姑息治疗研究项目。该计划将通过将关键联系正规化，促进跨学科、部门、部门和机构的合作，并提供必要的基础设施、指导以及内容和方法专业知识，来提高UCDHSC与老龄化相关的姑息治疗研究的能力。这些合作研究关系将引发新的和创新的方法，以改善对严重晚期疾病负担日益沉重的老龄化人口的护理。候选人Jean S.Kutner，医学博士，MSPH和该机构是唯一有资格实现这些目标的机构。通过利用K07奖项的资源、现有和新的机构资源、她在学术部门在老龄研究能力建设方面取得的成功以及她在领导力和项目建设方面的成熟技能，Kutner博士和UCDHSC准备提高UCDHSC以及地区和国家在姑息治疗研究方面的知名度、整体研究支持和学术能力。拟议的研究计划侧重于与护理患有严重晚期疾病的老年人相关的行为研究，纳入了不同的学科、方法、方法和人群。扩大和促进老年姑息治疗跨学科临床研究的这一目标将通过以下方式实现：1)为现有和新的研究人员提供基础设施支持、指导和协作场所；2)在学生、实习生、教师和社区中更积极地参与姑息治疗研究；以及3)找出现有证据基础中的差距，解决与护理患有严重晚期疾病的老年人有关的研究优先事项。这一奖项的预期结果是一个可持续的姑息治疗研究计划，增加积极参与姑息治疗研究的教职员工和受训人员的数量和多样性。相关性：虽然死亡在老年人中比其他年龄段的人更常见，但姑息治疗的研究主要集中在年轻人，特别是那些患有癌症的人。拟议的老年姑息治疗研究计划寻求改善对患有晚期疾病的老年人的研究和护理，以满足这一不断增长的人口的需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Academic Career Leadership Award is to develop a Program in Palliative Care Research at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). The Program will increase capacity for aging-related palliative care research at UCDHSC by formalizing critical connections and facilitating collaborations across disciplines, divisions, departments and institutions and providing necessary infrastructure, mentoring, and content and methodologic expertise. These collaborative research relationships will spark new and innovative approaches to improving care for an aging population with an increasing burden of serious advanced illness. The candidate, Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH, and the institution are uniquely qualified and situated to realize these goals. By leveraging the resources of the K07 award, current and new institutional resources, her demonstrated success within her academic division of building capacity in aging research and her established skills in leadership and program building, Dr. Kutner and the UCDHSC are poised to increase the visibility, overall research support and academic capacity for palliative care research at UCDHSC, as well as regionally and nationally. The proposed research plan focuses on behavioral research related to care for older adults with serious advanced illness, incorporating diverse disciplines, methodologies, approaches and populations. This goal of expanding and promoting interdisciplinary clinical research in geriatric palliative care will be attained by: 1) Providing infrastructural support, mentorship and a venue for collaboration for both established and new investigators; 2) Increasing active engagement in palliative care research among students, trainees, faculty and the community; and 3) Identifying gaps in the current evidence base and addressing research priorities relative to care of older adults with serious advanced illness. The expected outcome of this award is a sustainable Program in Palliative Care research that increases the number and diversity of faculty and trainees actively participating in palliative care research. Relevance: Although death occurs far more commonly in older adults than in any other age group, research in palliative care has predominantly focused on younger adults, especially those with cancer. The proposed geriatric palliative care research program seeks to improve research in and care for older adults with advanced illness to meet the needs of this growing population.