GERIATRIC ACADEMIC PROGRAM AWARD

我们提出了一个老年学术计划，其目标是帮助年轻人 老年医学或老年心理学系的获奖者， 最近毕业的研究员， 他们的老年学和相关领域来自几个主要机构 在UCLA联盟（Harbor UCLA Medical Center，VA Medical Centers West 洛杉矶和塞普尔韦达，犹太老人之家，加州大学洛杉矶分校医疗 中心和兰德公司的健康科学计划）;（2） 这些机构的研究及临床资源;及（3） 指导获奖者的跨学科合作结构 研究计划。 我们提出了一个广泛的计划，招聘初级教师，包括 少数民族和妇女作为8个空缺职位的候选人， 甄选获奖者的程序和标准。 我们有 选出了前三名获奖者，从1990年7月1日开始。 他们都是 加州大学洛杉矶分校医学/老年医学助理教授。 Mark H.比尔斯，医学博士 加州大学洛杉矶分校医学中心的药物流行病学家;他的建议 是一种改善疗养院处方的干预措施。 Steven C. 卡塞尔医学博士总部设在退伍军人管理局医疗中心西洛杉矶，是一种传染性 疾病专家;他将研究细胞介导免疫的体外测量 as a function函数of age年龄. S.艾莉森·迈耶-奥克斯医学博士M.P.H.在UCLA 医学中心，是一个健康服务研究员谁将研究一个主要的 旨在改善老年人预防性医疗保健的干预措施。 教学课程工作将要求每个获奖，但主要的 教育方法将在密切的实践研究经验 由一名主要导师和一个由其他导师组成的委员会监督。 我们 已确定监测进展的标准和评估计划 包括主要导师和获奖者之间的项目前合同。 叙述描述了项目主任的资格， 加强与衰老有关的基础科学和临床研究，方法 为了促进各学科研究人员之间的合作， 临床设施可作为研究环境和我们过去的记录 以及目前的研究和研究培训计划。 行政 差距的结构涉及加州大学洛杉矶分校老年医学多校区分部 医学和老年学，GAP执行委员会和外部 咨询委员会。

We propose a Geriatric Academic Program whose objective is to assist junior faculty awardees in geriatics or psychogeriatrics in developing from recently graduated fellows to independent medical investigators during their gerontology and relevant fields drawn from several key institutions in the UCLA consortium (Harbor UCLA Medical Center, VA Medical Centers West Los Angeles and Sepulveda, the Jewish Homes for the Aging, UCLA Medical Center and the RAND Corporation's Health Sciences Program); (2) the vast research and clinical resources of these institutions; and (3) an interdisciplinary collaborative structure for mentoring the awardee's research program. We present a wide ranging plan for recruitment of junior faculty, including minorities and women as candidates for the eight slots available and a process and set of criteria for selection of the awardees. We have selected the first three awardees, to start on July 1, 1990. They are all Assistant Professors of Medicine/Geriatrics at UCLA. Mark H. Beers, M.D. based at the UCLA Medical Center is a pharmacoepidemiologist; his proposal is an intervention to improve prescribing in nursing homes. Steven C. Castle, M.D., based at VA Medical Center West Los Angeles, is an infectious disease expert; he will study in vitro measures of cell-mediated immunity as a function of age. S. Allison Mayer-Oakes, M.D., M.P.H., based at UCLA Medical Center, is a heath services researcher who will study a major intervention designed to improve preventive medical care of older persons. Didactic course-work will be required of each awarded but the predominant educational method will be hands-on research experience under close supervision by a principal mentor and a committee of other mentors. We have defined criteria for monitoring progress and an evaluation plan including a pre-program contract between principal mentor and awardee. The narrative describes the qualifications of the Program Director, the strength of basic-science and clinical research relevant to aging, methods for collaboration between researchers in a variety of disciplines, the clinical facilities available as a milieu for research and our past record and current programs in research and research training. The administrative structure for the GAP involves the UCLA Multicampus Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, a GAP Executive Committee and an external Advisory Committee.