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，我们将实施一项全面和连贯的计划，以 改善目前学部的研究环境。这项计划将 增加临床研究人员的数量和质量，增加 精神健康研究的范围和质量，并为 为初级调查人员提供研究培训、指导和咨询。 这些成果将提高新闻部的竞争力。 NIMH精神病学学院和相关的校外资金。成功 这一发展计划的实施将需要达到 以下目标：扩大我们的教育和培训努力，以包括 对临床成功发展至关重要的活动 调查人员，招聘和留住初级和高级教职员工和受训人员 谁将对研究环境做出重大贡献，扩大我们的 对已经得到服务的临床人群进行研究并确定 研究新的特殊临床人群；建立研究支持 将提供直接临床、数据服务和 为计划中的和正在进行的研究、开发和 开展有可能成为 竞争校外资金，发展多学科 通过与相关部门建立关键联系来营造研究环境 科室和中心，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和 相关条件。这些研究将涉及大量的 与公共卫生有关的优先事项(2000年健康人)，并反映了 以临床研究为重点，服务研究能力不断增强。 后一项努力将强调学术/公共精神病学 接口以及城乡服务问题(艾滋病、无家可归者 精神疾病，及早识别)。该部门的快速增长 包括在过去24个月中积极招聘18名新教师， 建立实验室空间，创建临床研究支持 岗位，建立新的临床研究空间，建立 接触临床人群进行临床和服务研究，以及 创建新的奖学金计划。这样的进步，加上新的 密歇根大学大脑研究所和新的卫生政策和 流行病学以及部门对释放时间的承诺， 设备和支持人员将确保成功实现 此应用程序的目标。我们认为，最初采取的步骤 开始开发一项主要的心理健康研究计划 UF的精神病学使RISP基金成为一项投资，将产生 提高心理健康的质量和数量方面的显著红利 研究人员在进行重要的临床和服务研究 与公共卫生有关的疾病和相关情况。

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.