CLAUDE D PEPPER OLDER AMERICANS INDEPENDENCE CENTER

双机构克劳德D。佩珀老年美国人独立中心 （OAIC）的鲍曼格雷医学院的维克森林大学 (BGSM/WFU）和田纳西-孟菲斯大学（UTM）将建立在一个 这些学术机构的主要研究人员之间的合作传统 医疗中心在预防和管理重大老龄化有关 慢性疾病和综合征，危害功能，以及 老年人的长寿。 行政和协调中心 将设在BGSM/WFU，但以下所有活动将 在这两个机构。 具体项目包括： 1.一项正式的干预研究：膝关节治疗运动 关节炎 2.两项干预发展研究： a.骨质疏松症：药物和非药物干预 B.轻度收缩期高血压非药物干预试验 老年人（TONE） 3.研发核心：支持两名初级专科医师 参与这些干预试验的研究人员和两名 为期一年的干预相关试点研究 4.三大研究资源核心 a.征聘（和征聘研究） b.Biostatistics c.健康生活质量/成本效益 5.示范和传播核心 6.领导/行政核心 这些举措将建立在以下方面的坚定承诺和投资基础之上： 发展老年学和老年医学的研究队伍和项目， 公共卫生科学在这两个机构。 这些证据 承诺和投资包括纳入正式课程， 老年学和老年医学纳入本科医学必修课程 在后勤支助、医疗支助和医疗支助处/西弗吉尼亚大学，需要在内部 医学和家庭医学在BGSM/WFU，认可，订阅量大， 在这两个机构的生产性老年奖学金培训计划， 在BGSM/WFU一个发达的初级教师发展计划。 的 拟议的胡椒OAIC将完全融入这些计划 符合程序开发的哲学基础， 老年学和老年医学在BGSM/WFU：嵌入这些学科， 机构DNA，以确保其质量，稳定性和 中心blog

The bi-institutional Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) of Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University (BGSM/WFU) and the University of Tennessee-Memphis (UTM) will build upon a tradition of collaborative between the lead investigators at these academic medical centers in the prevention and management of major aging-related chronic diseases and syndromes that jeopardize function as well as longevity in older persons. The administrative and coordinating centers will be based at BGSM/WFU but all of the following activities will take place at both institutions. Specific projects include: 1. One formal intervention study: Therapeutic Exercise for Knee Osteoarthritis 2. Two intervention development studies: a. Osteoporosis: Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic interventions b. Trial of Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Mild Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly (TONE) 3. Research development core: supporting two junior faculty physician investigators who will participate in these intervention trials and two one-year intervention-related pilot studies 4. Three Research Resource Cores a.Recruitment (and recruitment research) b.Biostatistics c.Health quality of life/cost effectiveness 5. Demonstration and Dissemination Core 6. Leadership/Administrative Core These initiatives will build upon strong commitments and investments in developing research faculty and programs in gerontology and geriatrics and the public health sciences at both institutions. Evidence of these commitments and investments include incorporation of a formal course in gerontology and geriatrics in the required undergraduate medical curriculum at BGSM/WFU, required rotations in geriatrics in residences in internal medicine and family medicine at BGSM/WFU, accredited, well-subscribed, and productive geriatric fellowship training programs at both institutions, and a well-developed junior faculty development program at BGSM/WFU. The proposed Pepper OAIC will be fully integrated into these programs consistent with the philosophical basis of program development in gerontology and geriatrics at BGSM/WFU: to imbed these disciplines in the institutional DNA, at it were, to assure their quality, stability and longevity.