Moving Alcoholism Treatment Behavioral Therapies from the Lab to the Community

描述（由申请人提供）：康涅狄格大学医学院精神病学系酒精研究中心正在寻求资源，以招募具有酒精研究经验的临床/翻译研究人员。通过ARRA恢复法有限竞争提供的资源：生物医学研究核心中心，以加强研究资源（P30）[RFA-OD-09-005]拨款申请国家研究所对酒精中毒和酒精滥用，我们正在寻求招聘一个全职，终身职位的轨道，入门级助理教授，以补充和加强该中心正在进行的研究活动，在该领域的行为疗法有关的治疗酒精使用和相关疾病。重点将是招募谁带来了新的和新颖的行为方法的酗酒治疗的研究，其研究结果可以很容易地和快速地扩展到社区临床医生和机构治疗服务提供者的人。康州大学酒精研究中心有着悠久的初级教师发展历史，并为培养临床研究人员提供了良好的培养环境。我们预计，新的教师，与现有的酒精研究中心的调查人员和调查人员从大学的其他分支机构与相关利益的合作，将迅速采取行动，以开发自己的跨学科的独立研究计划。我们正在寻求资金，以提供工资支持和启动费用，为这位新教师在他们的头两年就业。为了有时间开始发展他们的研究计划，这个人将有100%的保护时间在他们的前两年就业和75%的保护时间在他们的第二个两年。医学院已同意为新招募的终身教职人员提供机构支持，包括办公室和研究空间以及通过第3年和第4年的任何必要的工资支持。如果获得资助，这项申请将创造三个[研究人员; 2个研究助理]新的工作岗位。 公共卫生相关性;这位新聘教师的工作将直接解决美国最严重的公共卫生问题之一，即与酒精有关的疾病和伤害。在针对重度饮酒者和酒精依赖者的对照实验室研究中，行为疗法已被证明是有效的，可以提高治疗的依从性，从而改善治疗结果。重要的是，下一步是通过将这项工作转移到社区治疗机构和社区服务提供者的办公室来证明这些治疗的转化价值。这些成本相对较低的干预措施可以帮助降低慢性重度饮酒者的死亡率、发病率和伤害，从而节省大量的医疗保健费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Alcohol Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine is seeking resources for the recruitment of a clinical / translational investigator with experience in alcohol research. Through resources to be provided by the ARRA Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources (P30) [RFA-OD-09-005] grant application to the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, we are seeking to recruit a fulltime, tenure track, entry level assistant professor to complement and enhance the Center's ongoing research activities in the area of behavioral therapies related to the treatment of alcohol use and related disorders. The focus will be on recruiting someone who brings newer and novel behavioral approaches to the study of alcoholism treatment and whose research findings can be easily and quickly extended to community clinicians and agency treatment service providers. The UConn Alcohol Research Center has a strong history of junior faculty development and provides an outstanding nurturing environment for developing clinical investigators. We expect that the new faculty member, in collaboration with existing Alcohol Research Center investigators and investigators from other branches of the university with related interests, will move quickly to develop their own interdisciplinary independent research program. We are seeking funds to provide salary support and start-up costs for this new faculty member during their first two years of employment. In order to have time to begin to develop their research program, this individual will have 100% protected time during their first two years of employment and 75% protected time during their second two years. The School of Medicine has agreed to provide institutional support for the newly recruited tenure-track individual, including office and research space and any necessary salary support through years 3&4. If funded this application would create three [investigator; 2 research assistants] new jobs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE; The work to be conducted by this newly hired faculty member will directly address one of the most serious public health problems in the US, alcohol-related illness and injury. Behavioral therapies have been shown to be effective in controlled laboratory studies with both heavy drinkers and persons with alcohol dependence by improving compliance with treatment and therefore treatment outcomes. Importantly, the next step is to demonstrate the translational value of these treatments by moving this work into community treatment agencies and the offices of community service providers. These relatively low cost interventions can help reduce mortality, morbidity and injury among chronic heavy drinkers resulting in significant health care savings.