UCSD Integrated Cardiovascular Epidemiology Fellowship

摘要/摘要 T32资助的“流行性感冒流行病学和预防综合研究基金”的目标 心血管疾病“是对医生和行为科学家进行流行病学和行为科学方面的严格培训 行为研究方法侧重于预防心血管疾病，通过a)为受训者提供 在心血管疾病预防和/或方面有2年综合、全面和强化的研究培训经验 行为医学，b)将受训者与经验丰富和敬业的导师联系起来，这些导师将监督 研究经验和评估他们的进展，以及c)向这些受训人员提供关于 研究过程的相关组成部分，包括相关的教学课程、保护人权 研究主题、保密要求、适当和不偏不倚的数据分析要素，以及 找到培训后的工作。该项目始于2007年，重点是流行病学和预防。 在第一个供资期间(2007-2012年)，我们了解到，尽管所有受训人员都侧重于预防， 一些人专注于流行病学，而另一些人则对行为医学更感兴趣。为了 适应这些不同的利益，在2012-2017年的供资期间，我们改变了结构 将领导层扩大到两名联席主任，其中一人具有心血管领域的经验 流行病学(Criqui)和另一名有行为医学经验(Marcus)的人，同时保留 副主任(艾莉森)。在该供资期间，职位数目从四个扩大到 5名(2名博士后和3名博士后)。在下一个[当前]周期(2017-2022年)，学员人数 增加到6名(2名博士后和4名博士后)，领导层发生了变化，艾利森博士成为 项目主任和马库斯博士继续担任联席主任，克里基博士成为高级助理 项目总监。在这个资助周期的两年里，马库斯博士离开了加州大学圣地亚哥分校 (加州大学圣迭戈分校)成为布朗大学公共卫生院长。为了应对这一变化，克里基博士成为了 联席董事。对于拟议的资助期(2022-2027年)，由于克里基博士将退休， 艾利森将继续担任项目主任，我们推荐大卫·斯特朗博士，他在以下方面具有具体专长 行为医学，担任项目联席主任。为了培养该项目未来的潜在领导力， 我们还建议增加两名初级教员：Jan Hughes-Austin担任副项目主任，Isac 托马斯担任项目助理主任。两人都完成了我们的T32计划，都有积极的研究 计划，并致力于指导初级实习生。为了实现该计划的目标， 拟议的项目是从医学院和公共卫生学院的各个部门招募的。 圣迭戈州立大学公共卫生研究生院也招聘了教师 (SDSU)，它有流行病学和健康行为方面的教学课程。值得注意的是，UCSD和SDSU 共同赞助与这项提议密切相关的两个联合博士项目：公共卫生和临床心理学。

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The objective of the T32 funded “Integrated Fellowship on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease" is to rigorously train physicians and behavioral scientists in epidemiologic and behavioral research methods focused on preventing cardiovascular diseases by a) providing trainees with an integrated, comprehensive, and intensive 2-year research training experience in CVD prevention and/or behavioral medicine, b) linking trainees with highly experienced and dedicated mentors who will supervise the research experience and evaluate their progress, and c) providing instruction to these trainees on multiple related components of the research process, including relevant didactic coursework, protection of human subjects in research, confidentiality requirements, elements of appropriate and unbiased analysis of data, and finding post-training employment. The program began in 2007 focused on epidemiology and prevention. During that first funding period (2007 – 2012), we learned that, while all trainees are focused on prevention, some had an epidemiologic focus while others were more interested in behavioral medicine. In order to accommodate these different interests, and for the funding period from 2012 – 2017, we changed the structure of the program by expanding the leadership to two Co-Directors; one with experience in cardiovascular epidemiology (Criqui) and the other with experience in behavioral medicine (Marcus), while retaining an Associate Director (Allison). During that funding period, the number of positions was expanded from four to five (2 predocs and 3 postdocs). During the next [current] cycle (2017 – 2022), the number of trainees increased to six (2 predocs and 4 postdocs) and the leadership was changed such that Dr. Allison became the Program Director and Dr. Marcus remained the Co-Director, while Dr. Criqui became the Senior Associate Program Director. Two years into this funding cycle, Dr. Marcus left the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) to become the Dean of Public Health at Brown University. To address this change, Dr. Criqui became the Co-Director. For the proposed funding period (2022 – 2027), and since Dr. Criqui will be retiring, Dr. Allison will remain the Program Director and we propose Dr. David Strong, who has specific expertise in behavioral medicine, to be the program Co-Director. To develop the potential future leadership of the program, we also propose to add two junior faculty: Jan Hughes-Austin as Associate Program Director and Isac Thomas as Assistant Program Director. Both have completed our T32 program, have active research programs and are dedicated to mentorship of junior trainees. To achieve the program objectives, faculty for the proposed program have been recruited from Divisions across the Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Faculty have also been recruited from the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University (SDSU), which has teaching programs in both epidemiology and health behavior. Notably, UCSD and SDSU co-sponsor two joint doctoral programs closely linked to this proposal: Public Health and Clinical Psychology.