Innovative translational medical nutrition training for non-physician scientists

描述(由申请人提供)： 为了响应PAR-06-554，我们提出了一种新的方法来对[医生]和具有医疗营养专业的临床研究人员进行[跨学科]培训。[博士生]将有能力[理解所需的临床诊断和治疗的基本原理]，设计并进行肥胖症及其合并症的转化研究。[见习医师将了解指导预防和治疗肥胖症及其并发症的辅助治疗建议的营养科学]。这一培训计划是基于我们的信念，即要成功地进行“从工作台到床边”的翻译研究，一个人需要在“工作台”和“床边”理解并[与专家合作]。 与公共卫生相关：随着[肥胖及其共病患病率的增加，已知可通过饮食和生活方式的改变而改变]，对临床训练有素的医学营养学家[以及接受过营养培训的医生]的需求变得更加迫切。新技术的出现[允许识别出现症状前的疾病易感个体]要求卫生专业人员对饮食和生活方式的改变有更多的认识，这些改变可以改变遗传和表观遗传风险因素。我们的培训计划将培养出一批经过临床准备的博士营养学家，他们有能力将最新的基础研究成果转化为饮食干预措施，并[接受过营养培训的医生有能力将这些信息纳入患者护理]。这些专业人员在预防和控制当前的公共卫生问题，如肥胖、糖尿病、高血压、心血管疾病[和其他并存疾病状态]方面将起到无价的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to PAR-06-554, we propose a novel approach to the [interdisciplinary] training of [physicians] and clinical researchers with a specialty in medical nutrition. [PhD trainees] will be competent to [understand the rationale for clinical diagnosis and treatment required to] devise and conduct translational research in obesity and its comorbidities. [Physician trainees will understand the nutrition science that guides adjuvant therapy recommendations in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities]. This training program is predicated on our belief that to be successful in conducting "bench to bedside" translational research one needs to understand and [work collaboratively with experts] at both the "bench top" and at the "bedside". PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The need for clinically trained medical nutrition scientists [and for physicians with nutrition training] becomes more urgent with the [increasing prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities, known to be modifiable by diet and lifestyle changes]. The advent of new technologies [that allow the identification of pre-symptomatic disease-susceptible individuals mandates that health professionals have a greater awareness of diet and lifestyle changes that can modify genetic and epigenetic risk factors. Our training program will produce a new genre of clinically prepared PhD nutrition scientists competent to translate the latest basic research results into dietary interventions and [nutritionally trained physicians competent to incorporate this information into patient care. These professionals will be invaluable in the prevention and control of] current public health problems such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease [and other comorbid disease states].