FLORIDA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

我们的总体目标是发展全国公认的心理健康 佛罗里达大学精神病学系的研究人员 （UF）。 为此，我们将执行一项全面和连贯的计划， 改善目前的研究环境。 该计划将 提高临床研究者的数量和质量， 心理健康研究的范围和质量，并提供机制， 为初级研究人员提供研究培训、指导和咨询。 这些成果将提高该部的竞争力， NIMH精神病学系和相关的校外资金。 成功 实施这一发展计划将需要实现以下目标： 扩大我们的教育和培训工作， 成功开展临床研究的关键活动 调查员，招聘和留住初级和高级教师和学员 谁将大大有助于研究环境，扩大我们的 研究访问已被服务的临床人群，并确定 新的特殊临床研究人群;建立研究支持 将提供直接临床、数据服务的部门，以及 为计划和正在进行的研究提供生物分析支持， 开展有可能成为 有竞争力的校外资金，并制定一个多学科的 研究环境，建立与相关 部门和中心，并整合临床和服务研究。 这些活动的临床研究重点将是情绪障碍， 相关条件。 这些研究将涉及大量的 与公共卫生相关的优先事项（健康人2000），并反映了 临床研究的重点与不断增长的服务研究能力。 后一种奋进将强调学术/公共精神病学 接口以及城市和农村服务问题（艾滋病、无家可归者 精神病，早期识别）。 该部的快速增长 包括在过去24个月内积极招聘18名新教师， 建立实验室空间，建立临床研究支持 职位，建立新的临床研究空间， 接触临床人群进行临床和服务研究，以及 建立新的奖学金计划。 这样的进步，加上新 UF脑研究所和卫生政策的新部门， 流行病学以及部门对发布时间的承诺， 设备和支持人员将确保成功实现 本申请的目的。 我们认为， 开始发展一个主要的心理健康研究计划， 精神病学在用友使RISP基金的投资，将产生 在提高心理健康的质量和数量方面的重大红利 研究人员对重要的临床和服务研究 与公共卫生有关的疾病和相关状况。

Our overall objective is to develop nationally recognized mental health researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida (UF). To this end we will implement a comprehensive and coherent plan to improve the current research environment of the Department. The plan will increase the number and quality of clinical investigators, increase the scope and quality of mental health research, and provide mechanisms for research training, mentoring, and consultation for junior investigators. These outcomes will improve the competitiveness of the Department of Psychiatry faculty for NIMH and related extramural funding. Successful implementation of this development plan will require attainment of the following objectives: expand our education and training efforts to include activities critical to the development of successful clinical investigators, recruit and retain junior and senior faculty and trainees who will contribute significantly to the research environment, expand our research access to clinical populations already being served and identify new special clinical populations for study; establish research support sections that will provide direct clinical, data services, and bioanalytical support to planned and ongoing investigations, develop and conduct specific pilot research projects that have the potential to become competitive for extramural funding, and develop a multidisciplinary research environment by establishing critical linkages with relevant departments and centers and integrating clinical and services research. The clinical research focus of these activities will be mood disorders and related conditions. These studies will address a significant number of priorities relevant to public health (Healthy People 2000), and reflect a clinical research focus with a growing capacity for services research. This latter endeavor will emphasize the academic/public psychiatry interface as well as urban and rural services issues (AIDS, homeless mentally ill, early identification). Rapid growth in the Department includes active recruitment of 18 new faculty in the past 24 months, establishment of laboratory space, creation of clinical research support positions, establishment of new clinical research space, establishment of access to clinical populations for clinical and services research, and creation of new fellowship programs. Such progress, coupled with the new UF Brain Institute and the new Department of Health Policy and Epidemiology as well as a Departmental commitment of release time, equipment, and support staff will ensure successful attainment of the objectives of this application. We believe that the initial steps taken to begin the development of a major mental health research program in Psychiatry at UF makes RISP funds an investment that will yield significant dividends in increased quality and number of mental health investigators conducting clinical and services research on important diseases and related conditions of public health relevance.