Academic Teaching and Research Career Development

描述(由申请人提供)：职业发展奖的目标是帮助初级教员在特定感兴趣的领域发展学术、教学和研究专长。目前，乔治城大学的相当数量的教职员工正在加强他们机构在补充和替代医学(CAM)方面的教育和研究能力。作为这个教员队伍中的一员，我被认为是推动将CAM模式整合到乔治敦大学医学院课程中的发起人之一，我已经积极参与实现R-25教育补助金的目标，履行了学术教师和研究人员的双重角色。我的第一个目标是CAM项目的成功实施和学术整合。职业发展奖将极大地促进这一努力，使我能够将致力于这一事业的专业时间从R-25教育补助金规定的30%增加到100%。这将有助于确保我们的医科和研究生达到最高的学术标准。其次，我将与我的导师兼该项目的教育总监Haramati博士密切合作，为设想中的CAM硕士项目制定课程。这一阶段计划在我们的R-25拨款的第三年完成，接受足够的课程建设和学术教学培训将是至关重要的。第三个目标是开发和启动与CAM有关的研究项目，这将成为我们的学生亟需的培训平台，并为该领域带来强有力的循证视角。作为帕帕佐普洛斯博士实验室的基础科学家，我可以利用我的专业知识将常规研究和CAM研究结合在一起，就像我在定义银杏的作用机制及其在压力管理方面的作用时所做的那样。这些研究项目将补充乔治城大学正在进行的CAM研究，并应为将CAM与基础科学相结合的进程增添一个新的视角。这反过来将允许乔治城大学通过为学生提供更多学习研究型计算机辅助教学的机会，为他们提供一个更好的研究环境。因此，该奖项将(1)在实现R-25教育补助金的目标方面发挥协同作用，(2)有助于扩大我在学术教学和研究中的角色，(3)谈判我目前的知识和能力，以帮助充实和丰富目前的CAM谱。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the career development award is to help a junior faculty member develop academic teaching and research expertise in a specific field of interest. Currently, a significant number of Georgetown University faculty members are in the process of enhancing their institution's educational and research capacity in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As a member of this faculty pool who is considered one of the initiators of the drive towards integration of CAM modalities into the Georgetown University Medical School curriculum, I am already actively involved in realizing the goals of the R-25 educational grant, fulfilling a dual role as both academic teacher and researcher. My first goal is the successful implementation and academic integration of the CAM program. The career development award would greatly facilitate this endeavor by allowing me to increase the professional time dedicated to this cause from 30% as set forth by the R-25 educational grant to 100%. This would help assure the highest academic standards for our medical and graduate students. Secondly, I will be working closely with Dr. Haramati, my mentor and the program's educational director, to develop a curriculum for the envisioned CAM Master's program. This phase is scheduled to be completed by the third year of our R-25 grant, and it will be vital to receive adequate training in curriculum building and academic teaching. The third aim is to develop and launch research projects pertaining to CAM, which will constitute a much-needed training platform for our students and bring a strong evidence based perspective to the field. Having worked as a basic scientist in Dr. Papadopoulos' laboratory, I can draw on my expertise to bring together conventional and CAM research, much like I did when defining the mechanism of action of Ginkgo biloba and its role with respect to stress management. These research projects would complement the ongoing CAM research at Georgetown University and should add a new perspective to the process of uniting CAM and basic science. This in turn would allow Georgetown University to offer an improved research environment to the students by affording them additional opportunities in pursuing research-based CAM. The award would therefore (1) play a synergistic role in accomplishing the goals of the R-25 educational grant, (2) help expand my role in academic teaching and research, and (3) parley my current knowledge and abilities to help substantiate and enrich the current spectrum of CAM.