The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh -Cardiology, Hematology and Pulmonology Summer Research Internship Program (CHP2-SRIP)

匹兹堡儿童医院--心脏病、血液病和肺病暑期实习 该计划(CHP2-SRIP)将是本科生在儿科心脏研究方面的首要研究经验， 肺和血液/血管系统。新冠肺炎对黑人、拉丁裔和美洲原住民的影响不成比例， 进一步暴露了美国长期存在的健康差距。事实上，代表不足的少数族裔(URM)儿童 严重影响心脏、肺和血液/血管疾病。例如，波多黎各人和非洲人 在美国所有种族中，美国人患哮喘的负担最高，那里的镰状细胞疾病大多是 影响非裔美国儿童。尽管URM医生和科学家更有可能关心或进行 在URM研究中，URM学生在生物医学科学中的比例很低。因此，有一个很大的 未满足的需求是培训多样化的生物医学研究人员，以开发新的有效的治疗方法和治疗方法 心、肺和血液疾病，特别是那些影响URM的疾病。匹兹堡大学附属儿童医院(CHP) 能够很好地指导、培训和激励本科生成为医学博士和博士 科学家们专注于心脏、血液和肺部疾病的研究。此外，还有很大的 未得到满足的需求，以培养下一代多样化的心、肺和血液/血管研究人员 针对无数疾病的新的有效的治疗方法和治疗方法。这个项目将允许学生们表演 作为CHP2-SRIP的一部分，在夏季进行为期10周的研究。URM本科生池将 来自全国和美国地区的多所大学。此计划将被管理 由儿科，包括儿科心脏病学，肺病学和 血液科/肿瘤科、发育生物科、病理科、重症监护科 系和公共卫生学院。培训教员将每周提供一小时的 关于NHLBI主题的教学会议，然后就相关论文和讨论进行30分钟的讨论 关于心脏、肺或血液/血管研究人员的职业选择。此外，我们还将提供研究培训 在世界级NHLBI研究人员的指导下。专门开发了一个多媒体平台 并将作为过去、现在和将来的学生的界面。CHP2-SRIP学生将被 与其中一名培训教员配对进行一项研究项目。鉴于培训人员的广度， 研究兴趣，学生将有机会从事以实验室为基础的项目或以病人为导向的工作 研究项目。在10周结束时，学生将以口头报告的形式报告他们的工作。vt.在.的基础上 完成这个暑期计划，学生们将接触到广泛的基于NHLBI的研究 主题，授予全国受尊敬的临床医生-科学家和博士科学家。考虑到关于一个专业的决定 医学和/或研究的重点往往发生在培训的早期阶段，本计划的目的是增加 最终将成为这些领域的临床科学家或博士科学家的受训人员的数量。

The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh-Cardiology, Hematology and Pulmonology Summer Research Internship Program (CHP2-SRIP) will be the premiere undergraduate research experience in the study of pediatric heart, lung and blood/vasculature. COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Blacks, Latinx, and Native Americans, further exposing longstanding health disparities in the U.S. Indeed, under-represented minority (URM) children are heavily affected with heart, lung, and blood/vascular disorders. For example, Puerto Ricans and African Americans have the highest burden of asthma of all ethnic groups in the U.S., where sickle cell disease mostly affects African American children. Although URM physicians and scientists are more likely to care for or conduct research in URMs, the proportion of URM students in the biomedical sciences is very low. Thus, there is a large unmet need to train the diverse biomedical researchers to develop new and effective treatments and cures for heart, lung and blood diseases, particularly those affecting URMs. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) is well positioned to mentor, train, and motivate undergraduate URM students to become MD and/or PhD scientists focused on research in cardiac, hematological and pulmonary disorders. In addition, there is large unmet need to train the next generation of diverse heart, lung and blood/vascular-based researchers to develop new and effective treatments and cures for the myriad of diseases. This program will allow students to perform research for a 10-week period over the summer as part of the CHP2-SRIP. The pool of URM undergraduates will come from a wide range of Universities around the country and US districts. This program will be administered by the Department of Pediatrics and include faculty from the Pediatric cardiology, pulmonology and hematology/oncology Divisions, Developmental Biology Department, Department of Pathology, Critical Care Department and the School of Public Health. Members of the training faculty will provide a weekly one-hour didactic session on a NHLBI topic followed by a 30-minute discussion on a pertinent paper and a discussion about career options as a heart, lung or blood/vascular researcher. Furthermore, we will provide research training under the mentorship of world-class NHLBI researchers. A multimedia platform has been developed specifically for this program and will act as an interface for past, current and future students. CHP2-SRIP students will be matched with one of the training faculty to pursue a research project. Given the breadth of the training faculty research interests, students will have the opportunity to work on a laboratory-based project or a patient oriented research project. At the end of the 10 weeks, the students will present their work as an oral presentation. Upon completion of this summer program the students will have had exposure to a wide array of NHLBI-based research topics, to nationally respected clinician-scientists and PhD scientists. Given that decisions about a specialty in medicine and/or research focus often happen in early stages of training, the intent of this program is to increase the number of trainees that will eventually become clinician-scientists or PhD scientists in these fields.