Enrichment Program

丰富计划：摘要 加州大学旧金山分校-NORC铀浓缩计划的使命仍然是提供异常高质量的 加州大学旧金山分校的研究人员有机会与公认的肥胖专家交流研究信息 和营养学，以启发加州大学旧金山分校的社区在研究和临床实践，并为教师 教育受训人员，并加强多学科和协作网络，将营养和 加州大学旧金山分校正在进行肥胖研究。然而，该计划也在具体和 变革性的方式。这一增长包括A)与来自世界各地的其他学术机构NORC建立联系 国家加强同事之间的科学交流；B)具体努力参与、培养和 发展与NORC目标相关的多样化临床和转化性研究社区；以及C)建立 加州大学旧金山分校-NORC作为与北方各地机构分享肥胖和营养研究的中心 加利福尼亚。浓缩方案的要素(详述如下)，特别是自 赠款资金，令人印象深刻，因为它们在仅仅四年的时间里就得到了全面实施。 浓缩项目主任Suneil Koliwad博士(也是NORC的联合主任)的任务是 在供资期间执行该方案的任务。科利瓦德博士近距离地执行这一功能 与中心主任(Vaisse，PI)和包括NORC其他成员的监督委员会合作 核心和计划主任，NIDDK赞助的相关T32培训赠款的主要调查人员和 与NORC有关的重要系列研讨会和专题讨论会的组织者。 该方案的具体目标是： 1.战略性地整合一组补充的一年的演讲者，这些演讲者定期在每周中穿插 加州大学旧金山分校内分泌系列讲座，糖尿病和肥胖研讨会，以及机构范围内的讲座 研究生院系列研讨会。这一努力包括招募两位在 加州大学旧金山分校，来自该地区邻近顶级学术中心的演讲者，以及著名的NORC访问 来自世界各地的教授(与糖尿病中心杰出演讲者系列合作)。 2.监督加州大学旧金山分校每周高质量肥胖和营养杂志俱乐部的维护，以便 进一步执行NORC任务的培训部分。 3.举办并战略性地继续发展加州大学旧金山分校糖尿病、肥胖和营养方面的年度务虚会。 4.继续主办跨学科协作丰富活动，包括临床参与 由肥胖评估和治疗中心(COSTAR)联合主办的研讨会，旨在激励 通过促进加州大学旧金山分校临床和基础研究人员之间的联合项目来利用核心。 5.联合主办一年一度的海岸糖、压力、环境和体重(SSEW)研讨会。 6.提供讲者，作为与肥胖和营养有关的继续医学教育(CME)活动的一部分。 通过促进继续实现这些具体目标，为加州大学旧金山分校-NORC提供新的资金 浓缩计划将使其能够实现正在进行的使命和长期目标，即培养一个高度 协作、世界级的学习环境，推动和促进成功的基础、翻译、 加州大学旧金山分校和整个北加州地区的临床营养和肥胖研究。

Enrichment Program: Summary The mission of the UCSF-NORC Enrichment Program remains to provide exceptionally high-quality opportunities for investigators at UCSF to exchange research information, for recognized experts in obesity and nutrition to enlighten the UCSF community on both research and clinical practice, and for faculty to educate trainees, as well as to strengthen the multidisciplinary and collaborative network that links nutrition and obesity research being conducted across UCSF. However, the Program has also grown in specific and transformative ways. This growth includes A) Networking with other academic institutional NORCs from around the country to increase scientific exchange between colleagues; B) Specific efforts to engage, cultivate, and grow a diverse clinical and translational research community relevant to NORC objectives; and C) Establishing the UCSF-NORC as a hub for sharing research in obesity and nutrition with institutions across Northern California. The elements of the Enrichment Program (detailed below), in particular those developed since initial grant funding, are impressive given they were fully implemented in only four years. The Director of the Enrichment Program, Dr. Suneil Koliwad (also Co-Director of the NORC) has been tasked with implementing the Program's mission over the funding period. Dr. Koliwad performs this function in close collaboration with the Center Director (Vaisse, PI) and an oversight committee that includes the other NORC Core and Program Directors, the principal investigators of relevant NIDDK-sponsored T32 training grants and the organizers of key NORC-connected seminar series and symposia. The specific objectives of the program are to: 1. Strategically integrate a complementary yearlong set of speakers regularly interspersed in the weekly UCSF Endocrine Grand Rounds, Diabetes and Obesity Seminar Series, and institution-wide talks within the graduate school seminar series. This effort includes the recruitment of both preeminent scientists working at UCSF, speakers from neighboring top-tier academic centers within the region, and renowned NORC visiting professors (in collaboration with the Diabetes Center Distinguished Speakers Series) from around the world. 2. Oversee the maintenance of a high-quality weekly Obesity and Nutrition Journal Club at UCSF in order to implement further the training components of the NORC mission. 3. Conduct and strategically continue to grow the annual UCSF Diabetes, Obesity, and Nutrition Retreat. 4. Continue to host interdisciplinary collaborative enrichment activities, including a clinical engagement symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Obesity Assessment and Treatment (COAST), which incentivize core utilization by promoting joint projects between clinical and basic researchers at UCSF. 5. Co-host the annual COAST Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) symposium. 6. Provide speakers as part of continuing medical education (CME) activities relevant to obesity and nutrition. By facilitating continued achievement of these specific objectives, renewed funding of the UCSF-NORC Enrichment Program will allow it to realize the ongoing mission and long-term goal of fostering a highly collaborative, world-class learning environment that advances and promotes successful basic, translational, and clinical nutrition and obesity research at UCSF and across the Northern California Region.