NEXTGEN: Nurturing next generation of diverse research leaders by providing mentored research experiences

摘要 本补充的目标是提高指导技能，有效地与有才华的医生- 来自不同背景的科学家，支持一个额外的T32受训者谁是少数民族妇女， 在医学中代表性不足，并支持五个指导的研究经验，在与年龄有关的条件。 鉴于全球老年人人数不断增加，老年人的健康相关问题将在2015年占主导地位。 医疗保健景观。物理学家和科学家已经做好准备，进行与 老年人，特别是在了解健康差距，因为他们可以欣赏临床 系统性健康和社会不平等的影响，并有独特的能力，以确定研究领域 可能会对临床护理产生重大影响。密歇根大学（UM）的独特定位是培养 来自不同背景的有前途的医生，科学家在与年龄有关的研究作为UM已作出了优先考虑， 招募和培训在学术界代表性不足的医学科学家。UM拥有强大的计划， 老年科学/衰老生物学、老年医学、临床医学和卫生政策研究，以及创新 促进反种族主义和反歧视努力的办事处。多样性办公室，公平，和 包容性（ODEI）支持整个UM的举措，重点是招聘和保留不同的 教职员工和学生在密歇根医学，健康公平和包容办公室（OHEI） 发展包容性，多样性和教师，学生和工作人员之间的文化敏感性的机制。在 为了实现我们的计划目标，我们已经包括五个指导研究经验，将提高 少数群体的征聘和代表性，包括三名少数群体研究人员的项目， 健康差距。他们的导师代表了从临床前到临床研究的转化医学研究领域。 研究，直到在健康和患病的人类受试者中的研究（即，翻译），公共政策和 人口健康。Mody博士是一名临床介入医生，他与研究人员积极合作， 在医疗保健研究政策中为科学家进行基本的基因组研究。我们的培训计划包括 为每一位学员及其所指导的研究项目提供导师。除了个人的专业知识， 教师，我们的计划也将利用几个成功的计划在UM包括： 密歇根州老年美国人独立中心，密歇根州临床和健康研究所， 衰老生物学，医疗保健政策和研究所，密歇根州心血管衰老生物学和 社会研究所。我们期望，这一补充将推动和支持一个杰出的干部， 训练有素的年轻医生科学家谁将追求尖端的转化研究，在年龄相关的 （a）改善少数群体的健康状况，特别强调少数群体人口之间的健康差距和获得保健的机会， 他们自己也成为这个领域的导师和领导者。

ABSTRACT The goal of this supplement is to enhance mentorship skills in working effectively with talented physician- scientists from a variety of backgrounds, support one additional T32 trainee who is a woman of minority underrepresented in medicine, and support five mentored research experiences in age-related conditions. Given the growing number of older adults globally, the health-related issues of older adults will dominate the health care landscape. Physician-scientists are well poised to conduct translational research relevant to the older population, particularly in understanding health disparities, as they can appreciate the clinical implications of systemic health and social inequities and have a unique ability to identify areas of research likely to have a substantial impact on clinical care. University of Michigan (UM) is uniquely positioned to train promising physician-scientists from diverse backgrounds in age-related research as UM has made a priority to recruit and train physician-scientists underrepresented in academia. UM has robust programs in geroscience/biology of aging, geriatrics, clinical medicine and health policy research, as well as innovative offices advancing anti-racism and anti-discrimination efforts. The UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) supports initiatives throughout the UM focused on the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty, staff, and students. Within Michigan Medicine, the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion (OHEI) develops mechanisms for inclusion, diversity and cultural sensitivity among faculty, students and staff. In order to achieve our program goals, we have included five mentored research experiences that will enhance minority recruitment and representation, including projects of three minority researchers and a focus on health disparities. Their mentors represent the spectrum of translational medical research from preclinical research, through to research in healthy and diseased human subjects (i.e., translational), to public policy and population health. Dr. Mody is a clinical interventionalist who has active collaborations with investigators who conduct basic genomic research to scientists in healthcare research policy. Our training program includes mentors for each of the trainees and their mentored research projects. In addition to the individual expertise of the faculty, our program also will leverage several successful programs at UM including: The University of Michigan Older Americans Independence Center, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, Biology of Aging, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Research, Michigan Biology of Cardiovascular Aging and Institute for Social Research. We expect that this supplement will advance and support a cadre of outstandingly trained young physician-scientists who will pursue cutting-edge translational research in age-related conditions, with particular emphasis in health disparities and access to care among minority populations, and themselves become mentors and leaders in the field.