Neuroendocrine Investigators and Mentoring in the field of Alcohol Research

描述(由申请人提供)：Wand博士是一名神经内分泌学家，在临床前和临床研究方面都受过培训。他与一个多学科团队合作，并获得了激素、神经化学、遗传学以及人类和啮齿动物实验室技能，以追求他的研究议程。目前，Wand博士是4项研究的首席研究员：2项R01，1R03和一项R37(无费用扩展)。他也是其他6个R01奖项的联合调查员。在过去的12年里，Wand博士成功地指导了16名医学博士和博士生。他的三名学员在第一次提交时就获得了K23奖项。所有16名受训人员都是自筹资金的学者或在卫生政策职位上工作。Wand博士因指导而获奖，约翰·霍普金斯大学因为其培训项目带来多样性而获得最高奖项。Wand博士建议最初指导5名实习生。他预计，在该奖项的有效期内，每年将额外指导大约2名受训人员。他参加了多个项目，提供了大量机会来寻找有前途的学员进行指导。Wand博士的指导计划旨在为动物和人类研究实习生提供酒精理论、研究设计、数据分析策略、临床前和临床研究中的伦理问题以及技能方面的共同知识基础。此外，每个受训人员都接受了与其特殊兴趣相一致的更密集的个人培训。这些方面包括假设生成、方案开发和数据分析。对于人类研究者，他涵盖了人类受试者的考虑(包括获得知情同意的过程)、受试者招募、面谈、数据收集、数据清理、分析、陈述和手稿准备。指导的一个主要目标是使学员能够发展写作和数据分析技能，以及熟悉新的研究技术。每名受训人员将每季度接受一次目标和进度的正式审查，以进行业绩评估和职业指导。每名受训者每周都会与之一对一地会面，讨论研究进展，并回顾数据、手稿、评论/章节以及任何其他相关问题。个人辅导为培训计划提供了基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Wand is a neuroendocrinologist trained in both preclinical and clinical investigation. He works with a multidiscipline team and has acquired hormonal, neurochemical, genetic and human and rodent laboratory skills to pursue his research agenda. Currently Dr. Wand is principle investigator of 4 studies: 2 R01s, 1R03 and a R37 (no cost extension). He is also co- investigator on 6 other R01 awards. Dr. Wand has successfully been the scientific mentor for 16 MD and PhD trainees over the last 12 years. Three of his trainees received K23 awards on their first submission. All 16 trainees are in academics with their own funding or work in health policy positions. Dr. Wand has received awards for mentoring and Johns Hopkins University's highest award for bringing diversity to its training programs. Dr. Wand proposes to initially mentor 5 trainees. He anticipates mentoring approximately 2 additional trainees per year for the life of the award. He participates in multiple programs providing ample opportunities to identify promising trainees to mentor. Dr. Wand's mentoring program is designed to provide animal and human research trainees with a common knowledge base in alcohol theory, research design, data analysis strategies, ethical issues in pre-clinical and clinical research, and grantsmanship skills. In addition, each trainee receives more intensive individual training consistent with his/her special interests. These aspects include hypothesis generation, protocol development, and data analysis. For human investigators he covers human subjects considerations (including the process of obtaining informed consent), subject recruitment, interviewing, data collection, data cleaning, analysis, presentation and manuscript preparation. A primary goal of the mentoring is to enable trainees to develop writing and data analytic skills, as well as familiarity with new research technologies. Each trainee will receive quarterly formal review of goals and progress for performance evaluation and for career guidance. Each trainee meets weekly with one-on-one where he discusses research progress and goes over data, manuscript and reviews/chapters and any other pertinent issues. Individual mentorship provides the foundation for the training program.