Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health in Pittsburgh

描述(由申请人提供)：我们职业发展计划的竞争性更新的目标是在匹兹堡建立女性健康的跨学科研究职业(BIRCWH@Pitt)，目的是在我们过去的计划成功的基础上，培养、培养和支持匹兹堡大学在跨学科研究方面有才华的教职员工学者 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的无与伦比的实力之上，这一优势来自匹兹堡大学主校区地理中心的玛吉妇女研究所(MWRI)。MWRI还毗邻匹兹堡大学医学中心(UPMC)的玛吉妇女医院，该医院是美国最大和最成功的学术医疗保健系统之一。我们拥有近110名研究人员，在匹兹堡大学的六所健康科学学院和MWRI的研究机构从事基础、翻译、行为、临床和健康服务研究，我们准备在地方、地区和全国范围内推动妇女健康方面的培训和研究。利用妇幼保健院作为BIRCWH@PITT项目中心，我们的妇女健康网络包括遍布整个校园的完善的节点和链接。BIRCWH项目的成功，加上MWRI的声誉，促进了整个大学女性健康研究的整合。事实上，内科提供了关于妇女健康的住院医师培训和研究金培训，公共卫生研究生院的流行病学系的重点是妇女健康和生殖流行病学。这一雄厚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、朝着完全学术独立的方向紧张的职业发展、通过智力刺激吸引新的实习生、新的协作协同的动机以及可持续的女性健康研究的实施。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项目这一事实，我们根据每个学者的培训和专业知识，制定了个性化的2-4年职业发展计划。根据学者的背景和需求，组建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。我们计划培训七名具有不同研究兴趣的学者，每个人由一个由三名导师组成的跨学科小组指导，并由一个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OBGYN系、MWRI和大学其他地方的其他生殖科学实习生共享。BIRCWH@PIT强调想象力思维、交叉受精和协作，将基础科学和临床医学联系在一起，并推动我们的学者在妇女健康领域取得成功。

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.