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学系酒精研究中心现招聘一名具有酒精研究经验的临床/转化研究者。通过ARRA恢复法案有限竞争提供的资源：生物医学研究核心中心加强研究资源（P30） [rfa - oid -09-005]向国家酒精中毒和酒精滥用研究所申请拨款，我们正在寻求招聘一名全职，终身职位，入门级助理教授，以补充和加强该中心正在进行的与酒精使用和相关疾病治疗相关的行为疗法领域的研究活动。重点将是招募那些为酗酒治疗研究带来更新和新颖行为方法的人，他们的研究成果可以很容易和迅速地推广到社区临床医生和机构治疗服务提供者。康涅狄格大学酒精研究中心在培养年轻教师方面有着悠久的历史，并为培养临床研究人员提供了良好的培养环境。我们期待新的教员与现有的酒精研究中心研究者和来自大学其他分支机构的有相关兴趣的研究者合作，迅速发展他们自己的跨学科独立研究项目。我们正在寻求资金，为这位新教员在工作的头两年提供工资支持和启动费用。为了有时间开始发展他们的研究计划，这个人在工作的前两年将有100%的保护时间，在工作的后两年有75%的保护时间。医学院同意为新聘用的终身教授提供机构支持，包括办公室和研究空间，以及第三和第四年的任何必要的薪资支持。如果得到资助，该应用程序将创建三个[调查员；[研究助理]新的工作。

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.