Interdisciplinary mentoring in adolescent/young adult alcohol and drug research

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是加强和扩大克里斯托弗·马丁博士在青少年和年轻成人酒精和药物问题方面的以患者为导向的研究（POR）计划，在指导工作的背景下，与一批有潜力成为该领域未来领导者的优秀学员合作。马丁博士是一名职业生涯中期的调查员，在POR中有着良好的业绩记录和持续的资金支持，以及成功的指导和研究培训的历史。工作和工资支持将涉及对优秀年轻调查人员的密集辅导，以及健康差异和成瘾遗传学方面的职业发展活动，这将加强辅导活动。指导和职业发展活动是高度整合的，具有促进学员职业发展和加强博士的POR计划的相互加强的目标。两名受训人员是初级教员，他们获得了K-奖，马丁博士担任共同导师：NCI授予非洲裔美国青年尼古丁依赖相关性的补助金，以及NIDA授予物质使用和危险性行为的补助金。另一名受训人员将从2012年9月开始开始与马丁博士作为主要导师进行博士后研究。马丁博士还将指导三名即将完成或最近完成研究生学业的优秀学员。这些学员分享马丁博士在纵向潜在变量建模和/或候选基因方法的发展和环境影响的背景下物质问题表型的兴趣。这些学员将与马丁博士就这些主题进行合作，他将作为导师，帮助他们在匹兹堡或其他地方担任博士后或初级教师职位时制定下一个赠款提案。马丁博士将确定和指导其他TBN博士后和初级教员学员（例如，K23和K 01支持）。有一套丰富的机构资源可用于支持辅导和研究计划。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的总体目标是加强和扩大克里斯托弗·马丁博士在青少年和年轻成人酒精和毒品问题方面的以患者为导向的研究（POR）计划，并与博士前和博士后研究员和初级教师进行指导。辅导将有助于培养优秀的年轻调查人员。这项研究将直接促进对青少年和年轻成人物质问题的原因和临床过程的了解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to enhance and expand Dr. Christopher Martin's patient-oriented research (POR) program in adolescent and young adult alcohol and drug problems, in the context of mentoring efforts with a set of outstanding trainees who have the potential to be future leaders in the field. Dr. Martin is a mid-career investigator with a strong track record and ongoing funding in POR, and a history of successful mentoring and research training. Effort and salary support will involve intensive mentoring with outstanding young investigators, and career development activities in health disparities and the genetics of addiction that will enhance the mentoring activities. The mentoring and career development activities are highly integrated, with the mutually reinforcing goals of advancing trainee careers and enhancing Dr. Martin's program of POR. Two trainees are junior faculty members with K- awards on which Dr. Martin serves as co-mentor: an NCI grant on the correlates of Nicotine Dependence in African-American youth, and an NIDA grant on substance use and risky sex. Another trainee will begin a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Martin as primary mentor beginning 9/2012. Dr. Martin also will mentor three outstanding trainees who will soon finish or have recently finished graduate school. These trainees share Dr. Martin's interests in longitudinal latent variable modeling and/or candidate gene approaches to substance problem phenotypes in the context of developmental and environmental influences. These trainees will collaborate on these topics with Dr. Martin, and he will serve as a mentor helping them develop their next grant proposal as they move on to postdoctoral or junior faculty positions in Pittsburgh or elsewhere. Dr. Martin will identify and mentor other TBN postdoctoral and junior faculty trainees (e.g., those with K23 and K01 support) during the K24 period. There are a rich set of institutional resources available to support the mentoring and research plans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overall goal of this project is to enhance and expand Dr. Christopher Martin's patient- oriented research (POR) program in adolescent and young adult alcohol and drug problems, in the context of mentoring efforts with pre-and post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. The mentoring will help train outstanding young investigators. The research will directly advance knowledge of the causes and clinical course of adolescent and young adult substance problems.