Women's Reproductive Health Research at the Univ of WA

描述（由申请人提供）：妇女生殖健康研究（WRHR）中心是妇产科医生的职业发展计划，于1998年在华盛顿大学成立。华盛顿大学（UW WRHR）的妇产科医生培训计划的目标是培养具有明确研究潜力并致力于学术医学事业的妇产科医生的教育、培训和科学发展。我们的长期目标是改善妇女的健康。该项目已成功培训了6名个人，另有3名学者正在培训中。该提案描述了UW WRHR项目的延续计划。目标仍然是致力于弥合临床和研究培训之间的差距，使年轻医生能够建立适合他们特定兴趣的研究职业，并成为独立的研究者。建议的培训是2-5年的多学科指导经验。在此期间，一个学者将80%的时间用于研究。该计划旨在从其他机构招募个人，并招募来自服务不足背景的个人。西澳大学人力资源学院的独特之处在于提供广泛的科学学科和培训环境，旨在为学员创造最佳机会。我们有一个由18名导师组成的杰出小组，他们在从基因组学到全球健康的各种专业领域具有专业知识，其中产科、妇科和妇女生殖健康研究的调查是核心活动。特别的优势包括：生殖免疫学、传染病、医学遗传学、全球健康（如艾滋病毒/艾滋病、疟疾）、早产、行为医学、癌症流行病学和胎盘药代动力学。我们相信，通过与妇产科传统界限以外学科（如妇科肿瘤学、围产期医学和生殖内分泌学）的杰出科学家合作，我们的学者有最大的机会实现他们的科学潜力，建立独特而成功的跨学科职业，并推进改善妇女及其家庭健康和福祉的事业。西澳大学妇产科和医学院准备做出重大承诺，支持西澳大学WRHR项目的延续。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Center, a career development program for obstetrician gynecologists, was established at the University of Washington in 1998. The aim of the WRHR program at the University of Washington (UW WRHR) is to foster the education, training and scientific development of obstetrician gynecologists who demonstrate clear research potential and are committed to a career in academic medicine. Our long-term goal is to improve women's health. The program has successfully trained 6 individuals, with 3 additional scholars in training. This proposal describes a plan for continuation of the UW WRHR program. The goal remains a commitment to bridge the gap between clinical and research training to enable young physicians to establish research careers tailored to their specific interests and to become independent investigators. Proposed training is a multidisciplinary mentored experience for 2-5 years. During this period, a scholar devotes 80% of his/her time to research. The program aims to recruit individuals from other institutions and to recruit individuals from underserved backgrounds. The UW WRHR is unique in offering a broad menu of scientific disciplines and training environments designed to create the best opportunities for trainees. We have a distinguished group of 18 mentors with expertise in a diverse spectrum of specialties ranging from genomics to global health - with investigation in obstetrics, gynecology, and women's reproductive health research as the core activity. Particular strengths include: reproductive immunology, infectious disease, medical genetics, global health (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria), prematurity, behavioral medicine, cancer epidemiology, and placental pharmacokinetics. We believe that through partnerships with outstanding scientists in disciplines that lie outside of the traditional boundaries of obstetrics and gynecology (e.g., gynecologic oncology, perinatal medicine and reproductive endocrinology), our scholars have the greatest opportunity to achieve their scientific potential, build unique and successful interdisciplinary careers, and advance the cause to improve the health and well-being of women and their families. The Ob/Gyn Department and the School of Medicine at UW are prepared to make major commitments to support continuation of the UW WRHR program. PUBLIC RELEVANCE: The UW WRHR Program plans to promote diversity in the approach, originality in the execution, and vision in the direction of training women's reproductive health researchers and thus foster the development of a national resource that grows and trains future generations of Ob/Gyn clinician-scientists. The novel multidisciplinary approach proposed is most apt to be successful in answering questions of greatest merit, with the greatest possibility of significantly impacting the health of all women.