Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's WRHR Center of Excellence

项目摘要/摘要 我们建议在贝勒医学院(BCM)产科开设一个新的WRHR项目 和妇科，将由迈克尔·贝尔福特博士指导，医学博士KJersti Aagaard博士担任主席， 博士和钱德拉·雅兰帕利，DVM，博士担任研究联席主任。梅丽莎·苏特博士将担任 项目总监。该项目的使命是发展和提升OB/GYN的学术生涯 在有经验的指导下从事翻译和临床研究的研究人员 生殖研究科学家。这些学者将能够从29位敬业的教师导师中选择一位 从事12个专题研究领域中的一个。我们有一个生物统计学家团队，他们承诺 支持我们的学者的数据分析需求。WRHR学者不仅将从事 如提案中概述的研究和职业发展活动，他们还将接受培训，以 导师自己通过我们的国家研究辅导网络课程和参与我们的 加强下一代科学家多样性和包容性的计划。拥有最先进的 核心资源，覆盖妇女健康研究广度和深度的强大导师团队 主题，以及强大的内部咨询委员会的支持，BCM-TCH WRHR计划是理想的 准备完成这项任务。 凭借极具竞争力的实习计划和6个与妇产科相关的奖学金计划，我们拥有 一个强大的潜在未来候选人的内部人才库，我们可以从中招聘非常合格和有前途的人 学者。我们的29名教员研究导师，以及我们经验丰富的生物统计学家团队，都是 基础科学家和翻译科学家的协作小组。因为我们快速扩张的声誉和 创新，我们经常有年轻的同事联系我们，他们希望加入这个部门成为 学术内科科学家。此外，我们将在我们的不同专业招聘学者候选人 各协会的全国会议。该计划的所有申请将由咨询公司进行审查和选择 使用定义的标准的委员会。每个被录取的奖学金获得者将有一个教育计划，其中包括 开发实验室调查专业知识、必修课程/研讨会和选修课程；以及 职业发展活动由专职的职业顾问指导。预定的评估将确保 基准包括：1)初始需求评估和指导计划，2)同行评审摘要和 出版物，3)提交个人供资申请，目标是最终独立和 随后提供R01级资金。在NIH资金方面排名很高，BCM处于有利地位，可以培训WRHR 学者在研究，推进他们的学术生涯，并为他们未来的领导做好准备。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT We propose a new WRHR Program at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology that will be directed by Michael Belfort MD, PhD, Chairman with Drs. Kjersti Aagaard, MD, PhD and Chandra Yallampalli, DVM, PhD as Research Co-Directors. Dr. Melissa Suter, PhD will serve as the Program Director. The program's mission is to develop and enhance the academic career of OB/GYN investigators pursuing translational and clinical research while being mentored by experienced reproductive research scientists. The scholars will be able to choose one of 29 dedicated faculty mentors to engage in one of 12 thematic research areas. We have a team of biostatisticians who have pledged to support our scholars with their data analysis needs. The WRHR scholars will not only be engaged in research and career development activities as outlined in the proposal, they will also be trained to be mentors themselves through our National Research Mentoring Network courses and engaging in our programs for enhancing diversity and inclusion in the next generation of scientists. With state-of-the-art core resources, a strong team of mentors covering the breadth and depth of women's health research topics, and support from a strong Internal Advisory Committee, the BCM-TCH WRHR program is ideally poised to achieve this mission. With a highly competitive residency program, and 6 OB/GYN-related fellowship programs, we have a strong internal pool of potential future candidates from which we can recruit highly qualified and promising scholars. Our 29 faculty research mentors, as well as our team of experienced biostatisticians, are a collaborative group of basic & translational scientists. Because of our reputation of rapid expansion and innovation, we are regularly contacted by young colleagues who want to join the department to become academic physician scientists. Furthermore, we will recruit scholar candidates at our various professional societies' national meetings. All applications to the program will be reviewed and selected by the Advisory Committees using defined criteria. Each accepted scholar will have an educational plan that includes development of laboratory investigative expertise, required courses/seminars, and elective courses, and career development activities with a dedicated career advisor. Scheduled evaluations will assure benchmarks that include: 1) initial needs assessment and mentoring plan, 2) peer reviewed abstracts and publications, 3) submission of individual funding applications with the goal of eventual independence and subsequent R01- level funding. Highly ranked in NIH funding, BCM is well positioned to train WRHR Scholars in research, advance their academic careers and prepare them for future leadership.