International Conference on Eating Disorders

要求提供支持，以加强进食障碍学会(进食障碍学会)国际进食障碍会议的培训职能。计划包括两个组成部分：1)建立初级研究员旅行奖学金计划，为杰出的美国研究生、精神病学住院医生或博士后研究员提供财政支持，以参加2002年国际会议并介绍他们的研究成果；2)建立一个由NIH赞助的研讨会，向会员和旅行研究员通报该领域重要的概念、方法和实证方面的进展。这次研讨会的目的是讨论被美国国立卫生研究院和美国能源开发协会确定为高度优先研究领域的主题。拟议的计划将1)促进饮食失调领域的年轻研究人员的发展；2)促进不同研究领域的“交叉受精”；3)促进将新的基本知识转化为改善饮食失调的临床实践。

Support is requested to enhance the training function of the International Conference on Eating Disorders of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED). Two program components are proposed: 1) establishment of a Junior Investigator Travel Fellowship Program to provide financial support for outstanding United States graduate students, psychiatric residents, or post-doctoral fellows to attend the 2002 International Conference and present their research findings; 2) establishment of an NIH sponsored symposium to inform the membership and the Travel Fellows of important conceptual, methodological, and empirical advances in the field. This symposium will be designed to address topics that have been identified by the NIH and the AED as high priority research areas. The proposed programs will 1) foster the development of young investigators in the field of eating disorders; 2) stimulate "cross-fertilization" of diverse research areas; and 3) foster translation of new basic knowledge into improved clinical practice in eating disorders.