Training in Complementary and Alternative Medical Research

补充和替代医学研究培训

• 批准号: 7578313
• 负责人: LEANNA J STANDISH
• 金额: $ 58.11万
• 依托单位: BASTYR UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7578313
• 关键词: Medical Research; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Patient utilization of a broad spectrum of Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) therapies is at the highest level in the recent history of this country and continues to increase. However, there is a lack of adequate research providing accurate information to illuminate and validate the efficacy, economy, and safety of CAM therapies. A successful medical system provides patients and physicians with the ability to choose from the largest possible armamentarium of therapeutic and preventative health care regimens that have been proven to be both medically efficacious and cost effective. To continue to move toward such a system, it is vitally important that the panoply of CAM therapeutic regimens be validated scientifically. This will proceed most quickly and efficiently with an interdisciplinary and collaborative research effort carried out by scientists trained both in both rigorous research methodology and in CAM. Bastyr University, the nation's leading CAM training institution, is submitting this competing continuation application to continue our successful postdoctoral and predoctoral training program for scientists who desire careers as research scholars and clinical investigators in the field of CAM. Over the past 3 years, this training program at Bastyr has resulted in the successful development of multi-disciplinary collaborations among researchers and allied health professionals at CAM and allopathic institutions, and has trained 8 postdoctoral fellows and 18 short-term predoctoral trainees in CAM-related research. We currently propose to extend this successful program for another 5 years to train an additional 8 postdoctoral fellows (4 ND, 2 PhD and 2 MD) for three years each, and thirty predoctoral students in short term summer positions. Training opportunities are available from 19 faculty members, representing four preeminent research and educational institutions in Washington state. We have assembled mentors with acknowledged expertise in their fields, with divergent enough backgrounds to provide a breadth of training experiences, and with a common interest in the efficacy of CAM in the treatment of chronic disease, particularly cancer, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. We believe that the combined expertise and commitment of these individuals, in the context of the superlative research environment in Seattle, creates a unique opportunity to successfully train scientists who will be able to bring traditional research methods to bear upon CAM-related research topics. By centering CAM research training at an institution with a mission of training CAM practitioners and researchers and enhancing collaborations with mainstream biomedical research institutions, this application addresses a critical and strategic need of building resources and infrastructure to allow for cutting-edge research on CAM modalities.

描述（由申请人提供）：患者对广泛的补充和替代医学（CAM）疗法的利用率处于该国近代历史上的最高水平，并继续增加。然而，缺乏足够的研究提供准确的信息来阐明和验证CAM疗法的疗效，经济性和安全性。一个成功的医疗系统为患者和医生提供了从最大可能的医疗和预防保健方案中进行选择的能力，这些方案已被证明是医学上有效的和具有成本效益的。为了继续向这样一个系统迈进，至关重要的是，CAM治疗方案的全套科学验证。这将最迅速，最有效地进行跨学科和合作研究的努力，由科学家进行培训，在严格的研究方法和CAM。巴斯蒂尔大学，全国领先的CAM培训机构，正在提交这一竞争继续申请，继续我们成功的博士后和博士前培训计划的科学家谁希望职业生涯作为研究学者和临床研究人员在CAM领域。在过去的3年里，Bastyr的培训计划成功地发展了CAM和对抗疗法机构的研究人员和专职医疗专业人员之间的多学科合作，并在CAM相关研究中培训了8名博士后研究员和18名短期博士前实习生。我们目前建议将这一成功的项目再延长5年，以培养另外8名博士后研究员（4名ND，2名博士和2名MD），每人三年，以及30名短期暑期实习的博士前学生。培训机会可从19名教员，代表四个卓越的研究和教育机构在华盛顿州。我们汇集了在各自领域具有公认专业知识的导师，他们具有足够的不同背景，可以提供广泛的培训经验，并且对CAM在治疗慢性疾病，特别是癌症，肥胖和2型糖尿病方面的疗效有着共同的兴趣。我们相信，在西雅图最好的研究环境的背景下，这些人的专业知识和承诺相结合，创造了一个独特的机会，成功地培养科学家谁将能够把传统的研究方法承担CAM相关的研究课题。通过将CAM研究培训集中在一个具有培训CAM从业者和研究人员的使命的机构，并加强与主流生物医学研究机构的合作，该应用程序解决了建立资源和基础设施的关键和战略需求，以实现CAM模式的前沿研究。