Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health in Pittsburgh

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的职业发展计划，题为建设跨学科研究职业生涯在匹兹堡妇女健康（BIRCWH@皮特）的竞争性更新的目标是建立在我们过去的计划成功，以培训，培养和支持跨学科研究的匹兹堡大学教师学者的人才。 女人的寿命我们的目标建立在我们在生殖科学和妇女健康研究方面无与伦比的实力之上，这些研究来自位于匹兹堡大学主校区地理中心的马吉妇女研究所（MWRI）。MWRI还毗邻匹兹堡大学医学中心（UPMC）的马吉妇女医院，这是全国最大和最成功的学术医疗保健系统之一。随着近110名研究人员充分参与基础，翻译，行为，临床和卫生服务研究，在匹兹堡大学和MWRI的研究设施的六个健康科学学校追求，我们准备催化培训和研究在妇女的健康本地，区域和国家。使用MWRI作为BIRCWH@皮特方案枢纽，我们的妇女健康网络包括完善的节点和链接在我们的校园。BIRCWH计划的成功，加上MWRI的声誉，促进了整个大学妇女健康研究的整合。事实上，内科学系提供了妇女健康方面的住院医师培训和研究金培训，公共卫生研究生院流行病学系的重点是妇女健康和生殖流行病学。这一强大的大学基础使我们能够专注于我们的长期目标，即学者教育，实践培训，激烈的职业发展，实现完全的学术独立，通过智力刺激吸引新学员，激励新的协作协同作用，以及实施可持续的妇女健康研究。认识到我们的学者以不同的学术背景和调查技能进入我们的计划，我们根据每个学者的培训和专业知识制定了2-4年的个性化职业发展计划。根据学者的背景和需求，组建了一个具有不同但互补技能的导师团队，并与每个学者合作，以实现她/他的教学，技术，个人和资金目标。我们计划培养七位具有不同研究兴趣的学者，每位学者由三位导师组成的跨学科小组指导，并由具有不同科学背景的研究人员组成的咨询委员会监督。通过我们的计划获得的资源与妇产科，MWRI和大学其他地方的部门的其他生殖科学学员共享。总之，BIRCWH@皮特强调想象力思维，交叉施肥和合作，桥梁基础科学和临床医学，并有助于推动我们的学者在妇女健康事业的成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this competitive renewal of our career development program, entitled Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health in Pittsburgh (BIRCWH@Pitt), is to build on our past programmatic success to train, nurture, and support talented University of Pittsburgh faculty scholars in interdisciplinary research across a woman's lifespan. Our objectives build on our unparalleled strength in reproductive sciences and women's health research, emanating from Magee-Women Research Institute (MWRI) at the geographical center of the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh. MWRI is also adjacent to Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), one of the nation's largest and most successful academic health care systems. With nearly 110 researchers fully engaged in basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and health services research, pursued at the six Health Sciences schools of the University of Pittsburgh and MWRI's research facility, we are poised to catalyze training and research in women's health locally, regionally and nationally. Using MWRI as the BIRCWH@Pitt programmatic hub, our women's health network includes well-established nodes and links throughout our campus. The success of the BIRCWH program, coupled with the reputation of MWRI, facilitated the integration of women's health research throughout the entire University. Indeed, the Department of Internal Medicine provides a residency track and fellowship training in women's health, and the Department of Epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public Health features an emphasis in women's health and reproductive epidemiology. This strong university foundation enables us to focus on our long-term objectives of scholars' education, hands-on training, intense career development toward full academic independence, attraction of new trainees through intellectual stimulation, motivation of new collaborative synergies, and implementation of sustainable women's health research. Cognizant of the fact that our scholars enter our program with diverse academic backgrounds and investigative skills, we have crafted individually tailored career development plans of 2-4 years, depending on each scholar's training and expertise. A team of mentors with diverse yet complementary skills is assembled based on the scholar's background and needs, and works with each scholar to achieve her/his didactic, technological, personal and funding goals. We plan to train seven scholars with diverse research interests, each guided by an interdisciplinary group of three mentors, and overseen by an Advisory Committee comprised of researchers with heterogeneous scientific backgrounds. Resources garnered through our program are shared with other reproductive sciences trainees in the Department of OBGYN, MWRI, and elsewhere in the University. Together, BIRCWH@Pitt emphasizes imaginative thinking, cross-fertilization and collaboration that bridges basic sciences and clinical medicine, and serves to propel our scholars to successful careers in women's health.