Postdoctoral Research Training in Eating Disorders

饮食失调博士后研究培训

• 批准号: 8461111
• 负责人: CYNTHIA M BULIK
• 金额: $ 14.58万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-17 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8461111
• 关键词: Eating Disorders; Research Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continuing support is requested for the University of North Carolina Research Training Program in Eating Disorders. This program involves 23 senior and 12 junior research mentors, 3 biostatisticians, 4 foreign affiliates, and 8 clinical advisors. Mentors span the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Social Work, Nursing, Journalism and Mass Communications, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Trainees are guided by a mentorship team (two research faculty and a clinical advisor) to achieve seven core aims: 1) to achieve a high level of research expertise in a specialist area while becoming well-versed in the broader context of eating disorders; 2) to achieve excellence in research design, methodology, and biostatistics; 3) to be sensitive to and aware of ethical issues related to human participants and the ethical conduct of science; 4) to be well-versed in animal welfare issues; 5) to be aware of key clinical issues with eating disorders patients; 6) to complete a research project commensurate with prior training under the supervision of training faculty; and, 7) to follow an individualized training path that builds necessary skills necessary to achieve the status of an independent investigator efficiently. Our approach encourages collaborative science across disciplines applying state-of-the-science approaches and technologies. With this renewal, we incorporate expertise of new faculty and developments in the field, and broaden our interdisciplinary focus. We will recruit scientist-practitioners and scientists from diverse fields who may or may not identify as eating disorders researchers, but whose research could critically inform the eating disorders field. In addition to trainees with pre-existing eating disorders interests, we will recruit MDs, PhDs, and MD/PhDs with graduate training or interest in neuroscience, animal behavior, behavioral and molecular genetics, statistical genetics, clinical psychology, health disparities and other disciplines to bring their expertise and methodologies to bear on eating disorders. Attracting the brightest trainees from relevant neighboring disciplines will invigorate eating disorders science and underscore the far-reaching implications of eating disorders research to our understanding of appetite, weight, and mood regulation. We will recruit three qualified applicants per year and provide rigorous advanced training maintaining our interdisciplinary bench to society approach. We remain extremely well-poised to attract excellent candidates including female and minority trainees. A systematic series of bidirectional internal and external program evaluations with clear benchmarks facilitates optimization of the program, with the ultimate goal of nurturing highly trained, methodologically rigorous, clinically competent or clinically informed researchers. Our trainees will continue their track record of successful proposals to NIH and other funding bodies to become established independent investigators and elevate eating disorders to the next level of scientific sophistication.

描述（由申请人提供）：继续支持北卡罗来纳州大学饮食失调研究培训计划的要求。该计划涉及23名高级和12名初级研究导师，3名生物统计学家，4名外国附属机构和8名临床顾问。导师横跨医学院、公共卫生学院、社会工作学院、护理学院、新闻与大众传播学院以及文理学院。学员由导师团队指导（两名研究人员和一名临床顾问），以实现七个核心目标：1）在专业领域实现高水平的研究专业知识，同时精通饮食失调的更广泛的背景; 2）在研究设计，方法和生物统计学方面取得卓越成就; 3）对与人类参与者和科学道德行为有关的伦理问题敏感并意识到; 4）精通动物福利问题; 5）了解进食障碍患者的关键临床问题; 6）在培训教师的监督下完成与先前培训相称的研究项目;以及，7）遵循个性化的培训路径，建立有效实现独立调查员地位所需的必要技能。我们的方法鼓励跨学科的协作科学应用国家的科学方法和技术。通过这次更新，我们将新教师的专业知识和该领域的发展结合起来，并扩大了我们的跨学科重点。我们将招募来自不同领域的科学实践者和科学家 他们可能是也可能不是饮食失调研究者，但他们的研究可以为饮食失调领域提供重要信息。除了与预先存在的饮食失调的兴趣学员，我们将招募医学博士，博士，和MD/博士与研究生培训或神经科学的兴趣，动物行为，行为和分子遗传学，统计遗传学，临床心理学，健康差异和其他学科，使他们的专业知识和方法，以承担饮食失调。吸引来自相关邻近学科的最聪明的学员将振兴饮食失调科学，并强调饮食失调研究对我们理解食欲，体重和情绪调节的深远影响。我们将每年招募三名合格的申请人，并提供严格的高级培训，以保持我们的跨学科板凳社会方法。我们仍然非常有能力吸引优秀的候选人，包括女性和少数族裔学员。一系列系统的双向内部和外部计划评估，具有明确的基准，有利于优化计划，最终目标是培养训练有素，方法严谨，临床胜任或临床知情的研究人员。我们的学员将继续向NIH和其他资助机构成功提出建议的记录，成为独立的调查人员，并将饮食失调提升到科学复杂性的新水平。