UCLA - Cairo University Addiction Unit Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：开罗大学（Kasr El-Ainy）是埃及和中东地区领先的教育机构，近世纪来一直是领先的医学培训机构，将医学博士培养为整个地区的从业者和医学领袖。医药和保健服务方面的进步要求更多地应用新的研究成果，埃及社会特有的与健康有关的问题也出现了。开罗大学越来越需要发展研究能力，以利用和促进医学和保健服务的研究。福格蒂国际研究培训计划是一个很好的机制，通过扩展大学精神病学系之间的现有关系，建立开罗大学在药物使用障碍研究领域的能力，将加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）医学院与开罗大学医学院（开罗大学）联系起来，达成有益的合作协议。他们的治疗和提供治疗的护理系统在埃及。埃及需要研究能力，以：1。确定物质使用障碍的性质和程度; 2.评估特定治疗的功效和有效性;以及，3.定量评估创新治疗服务提供工作。虽然临床试验研究是主要的 培训计划的主题，有研究知识和专业知识的多样性在UCLA ISAP。研究员还将大量接触成瘾的基本神经生理学研究，脑成像研究，人类实验室研究方法，妇女和青少年问题，药物使用的医疗后果（包括艾滋病毒和肝炎），流行病学研究，卫生服务研究，药物滥用和刑事司法系统，以及许多其他领域。拟议的培训计划将包括：2名长期研究员，他们将在加州大学洛杉矶分校学习12个月和6个月（5年以上10人）; 2名短期研究员将访问加州大学洛杉矶分校并参加CPDD会议（5年中有10人）;在开罗举行的成瘾研究所年度会议;由4名加州大学洛杉矶分校教员在开罗举办的2个为期一周的讲习班;开罗大学研究员和其他开罗大学精神病学系参加定期安排的加州大学洛杉矶分校药物滥用研究研讨会; Tarek Gawad博士和4名研究员前往药物依赖问题学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校。每个研究员将有一个来自加州大学洛杉矶分校的教师研究导师，以监督研究知识/技能发展计划。将向研究员提供小额赠款，以进行研究项目。开罗大学成瘾股副主任Gawad博士和加州大学洛杉矶分校ISAP副主任罗森博士将协调所有活动。该培训计划的目的是：（1）使目前开罗大学教师和医学博士候选人从事研究职业;（2）介绍和启动硕士候选人的研究兴趣和技能;（3）增加整个开罗大学医学课程的研究培训（4）解决埃及重要的物质使用研究问题，最后;（5）促进开罗大学教师和学生成功的NIDA和其他研究赠款。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cairo University (Kasr El-Ainy) is a leading educational institution in Egypt and the Middle East and has been a leading medical training institution for almost a century, training MDs as practitioners and medical leaders throughout the region. Advances in medicine and health services delivery have required increased application of emerging research findings and health-related questions specific to Egyptian society have emerged. There is an increasing demand for Cairo University to develop a research capacity to use and contribute to the research in medicine and health care delivery. The Fogarty International Research Training Program is an excellent mechanism to link the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine with the Cairo University School of Medicine (Cairo U) in a beneficial collaborative agreement by extending the existing relationship between the universities' Departments of Psychiatry to build Cairo U's capacity in the area of research on substance use disorders, their treatment and on the systems of care that deliver treatment in Egypt. Egypt needs a research capacity to: 1. determine the nature and extent of substance use disorders; 2. assess the efficacy and effectiveness of specific treatments; and, 3. quantitatively evaluate innovative treatment service delivery efforts. While clinical trials research is the major theme of the training program, there is a diversity of research knowledge and expertise at UCLA ISAP. Fellows will also receive tremendous exposure to research on the basic neurophysiology of addiction, brain imaging research, human laboratory research methods, women and adolescent issues, medical sequellae of drug use (including HIV and hepatitis), epidemiological research, health services research, drug abuse and the criminal justice system, and many other areas. The proposed training plan will include: 2 long-term fellows, who will spend 12 and 6 months at UCLA (10 over 5 years); 2 short-term fellows who will visit UCLA and attend CPDD meeting (10 over 5 years); an annual addiction research institute conference in Cairo; 2 week-long workshops by 4 UCLA faculty members in Cairo; distance learning participation by Cairo U fellows and other Cairo U psychiatric faculty in regularly scheduled UCLA substance abuse research seminars; travel by Dr. Tarek Gawad and the 4 fellows to College on Problems of Drug Dependence and UCLA. Each fellow will have a faculty research mentor from UCLA to oversee a plan of research knowledge/skills development. Small grants will be awarded to fellows to conduct a research project. Dr. Gawad, Associate Director of the Addiction Unit at Cairo U and Dr. Rawson, Associate Director of UCLA ISAP, will coordinate all activities. The aims of this training program are to: (1) Engage current Cairo U faculty and MD Candidates into careers in research; (2) Introduce and initiate research interests and skills of MSc candidates; (3) Increase research training throughout the Cairo U medical curriculum (4) Address substance use research questions of importance in Egypt, and finally; (5) Promote successful NIDA and other research grants by Cairo U faculty and students.