Moving Alcoholism Treatment Behavioral Therapies from the Lab to the Community

描述(由申请人提供)：康涅狄格大学医学院精神病学系的酒精研究中心正在寻找资源，以招聘一名具有酒精研究经验的临床/翻译调查员。通过ARRA恢复法案有限竞争提供的资源：生物医学研究核心中心以加强研究资源(P30)[RFA-OD-09-005]向国家酒精中毒和酒精滥用研究所提出的拨款申请，我们正在寻求招聘一名全职、终身教职、初级助理教授，以补充和加强该中心在与酒精使用和相关障碍的治疗相关的行为疗法领域的持续研究活动。重点将是招募一些将新的和新颖的行为方法引入酒精中毒治疗研究的人，他们的研究成果可以轻松快速地扩展到社区临床医生和机构治疗服务提供者。康涅狄格州大学酒精研究中心有着深厚的初级教师发展历史，为培养临床研究人员提供了出色的培养环境。我们预计，新的教职员工将与现有的酒精研究中心调查人员和来自大学其他相关部门的调查人员合作，迅速采取行动，开发自己的跨学科独立研究计划。我们正在寻求资金，为这位新教师在他们工作的头两年提供工资支持和启动费用。为了有时间开始他们的研究计划，这个人在他们工作的头两年将有100%的保护时间，在他们的第二个两年有75%的保护时间。医学院已经同意为新招聘的终身教职人员提供机构支持，包括办公室和研究空间，以及在第三和第四年期间任何必要的工资支持。如果获得资金，这项申请将创造三个新的工作岗位[调查员；两个研究助理]。 与公共卫生相关；这位新聘用的教员将开展的工作将直接解决美国最严重的公共卫生问题之一，即与酒精有关的疾病和伤害。行为疗法在大量饮酒者和酒精依赖者的对照实验室研究中被证明是有效的，因为它可以改善治疗的依从性，从而改善治疗结果。重要的是，下一步是通过将这项工作转移到社区治疗机构和社区服务提供者的办公室来证明这些治疗的翻译价值。这些成本相对较低的干预措施可以帮助降低慢性酗酒者的死亡率、发病率和伤害，从而显著节省医疗保健费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Alcohol Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine is seeking resources for the recruitment of a clinical / translational investigator with experience in alcohol research. Through resources to be provided by the ARRA Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources (P30) [RFA-OD-09-005] grant application to the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, we are seeking to recruit a fulltime, tenure track, entry level assistant professor to complement and enhance the Center's ongoing research activities in the area of behavioral therapies related to the treatment of alcohol use and related disorders. The focus will be on recruiting someone who brings newer and novel behavioral approaches to the study of alcoholism treatment and whose research findings can be easily and quickly extended to community clinicians and agency treatment service providers. The UConn Alcohol Research Center has a strong history of junior faculty development and provides an outstanding nurturing environment for developing clinical investigators. We expect that the new faculty member, in collaboration with existing Alcohol Research Center investigators and investigators from other branches of the university with related interests, will move quickly to develop their own interdisciplinary independent research program. We are seeking funds to provide salary support and start-up costs for this new faculty member during their first two years of employment. In order to have time to begin to develop their research program, this individual will have 100% protected time during their first two years of employment and 75% protected time during their second two years. The School of Medicine has agreed to provide institutional support for the newly recruited tenure-track individual, including office and research space and any necessary salary support through years 3&4. If funded this application would create three [investigator; 2 research assistants] new jobs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE; The work to be conducted by this newly hired faculty member will directly address one of the most serious public health problems in the US, alcohol-related illness and injury. Behavioral therapies have been shown to be effective in controlled laboratory studies with both heavy drinkers and persons with alcohol dependence by improving compliance with treatment and therefore treatment outcomes. Importantly, the next step is to demonstrate the translational value of these treatments by moving this work into community treatment agencies and the offices of community service providers. These relatively low cost interventions can help reduce mortality, morbidity and injury among chronic heavy drinkers resulting in significant health care savings.