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

项目总结/摘要 我们提出了一个新的WRHR计划在贝勒医学院（马里兰州）的产科 和妇科，将由迈克尔贝尔福特医学博士，博士，主席与博士Kjersti Aagaard，医学博士， 博士和钱德拉Yallampalli，DVM，博士作为研究共同主任。Melissa Suter博士将担任 节目总监。该计划的使命是发展和提高OB/GYN的学术生涯 从事转化和临床研究的研究人员，同时由经验丰富的 生殖研究科学家学者们将能够选择29个专门的教师导师之一 参与12个专题研究领域之一。我们有一个生物统计学家团队， 支持我们的学者与他们的数据分析需求。WHR学者不仅将从事 研究和职业发展活动中概述的建议，他们也将接受培训， 导师通过我们的国家研究导师网络课程，并参与我们的 加强下一代科学家的多样性和包容性的计划。拥有最先进的 核心资源，强大的导师团队，覆盖女性健康研究的广度和深度 主题，并从一个强大的内部咨询委员会的支持，BCM-TCH WRHR计划是理想的 准备完成这个使命。 凭借极具竞争力的住院医师计划和6个OB/GYN相关奖学金计划，我们拥有 一个强大的内部潜在候选人库，我们可以从中招募高素质和有前途的人才 学者我们的29名教师研究导师，以及我们的经验丰富的生物统计学家团队，是一个 基础科学家和转化科学家协作小组。由于我们迅速扩张的声誉， 创新，我们经常接触年轻的同事谁想要加入该部门成为 学术医生科学家此外，我们将在我们的各种专业领域招募学者候选人， 协会的全国会议。该计划的所有申请将由顾问审查和选择 委员会使用确定的标准。每个被录取的学者将有一个教育计划，其中包括 发展实验室调查专业知识，必修课程/研讨会和选修课程，以及 职业发展活动与专门的职业顾问。定期评估将确保 基准包括：1）初步需求评估和指导计划，2）同行评审摘要， 出版物，3）提交个人资金申请，以最终实现独立， 随后的R 01级融资。在美国国立卫生研究院的资助中排名靠前， 研究学者，推进他们的学术生涯，并为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.