Academic Teaching and Research Career Development

描述（由申请人提供）：职业发展奖的目的是帮助初级教师在特定的兴趣领域发展学术教学和研究专长。目前，乔治城大学的许多教职员工正在提高他们机构在补充和替代医学（CAM）方面的教育和研究能力。作为将CAM模式纳入乔治城大学医学院课程的发起人之一，我已经积极参与实现R-25教育补助金的目标，履行学术教师和研究人员的双重角色。我的第一个目标是CAM项目的成功实施和学术整合。职业发展奖将极大地促进这一努力，使我能够将R-25教育补助金规定的30%的专业时间增加到100%。这将有助于确保我们的医学和研究生的最高学术标准。其次，我将与我的导师和项目的教育主管Haramati博士密切合作，为CAM硕士项目制定课程。这一阶段计划在R-25拨款的第三年完成，在课程建设和学术教学方面接受足够的培训将是至关重要的。第三个目标是开发和启动与CAM相关的研究项目，这将为我们的学生提供一个急需的培训平台，并为该领域带来强有力的基于证据的视角。作为帕帕多普洛斯博士实验室的基础科学家，我可以利用我的专业知识将传统和CAM研究结合起来，就像我在定义银杏叶的作用机制及其在压力管理方面的作用时所做的那样。这些研究项目将补充乔治城大学正在进行的CAM研究，并为将CAM与基础科学结合起来的过程增添新的视角。反过来，这将使乔治城大学为学生提供一个更好的研究环境，为他们提供更多的机会来追求以研究为基础的CAM。因此，该奖项将(1)在完成R-25教育奖助金的目标方面发挥协同作用，(2)帮助扩大我在学术教学和研究中的作用，(3)利用我目前的知识和能力来帮助充实和丰富当前的CAM频谱。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the career development award is to help a junior faculty member develop academic teaching and research expertise in a specific field of interest. Currently, a significant number of Georgetown University faculty members are in the process of enhancing their institution's educational and research capacity in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As a member of this faculty pool who is considered one of the initiators of the drive towards integration of CAM modalities into the Georgetown University Medical School curriculum, I am already actively involved in realizing the goals of the R-25 educational grant, fulfilling a dual role as both academic teacher and researcher. My first goal is the successful implementation and academic integration of the CAM program. The career development award would greatly facilitate this endeavor by allowing me to increase the professional time dedicated to this cause from 30% as set forth by the R-25 educational grant to 100%. This would help assure the highest academic standards for our medical and graduate students. Secondly, I will be working closely with Dr. Haramati, my mentor and the program's educational director, to develop a curriculum for the envisioned CAM Master's program. This phase is scheduled to be completed by the third year of our R-25 grant, and it will be vital to receive adequate training in curriculum building and academic teaching. The third aim is to develop and launch research projects pertaining to CAM, which will constitute a much-needed training platform for our students and bring a strong evidence based perspective to the field. Having worked as a basic scientist in Dr. Papadopoulos' laboratory, I can draw on my expertise to bring together conventional and CAM research, much like I did when defining the mechanism of action of Ginkgo biloba and its role with respect to stress management. These research projects would complement the ongoing CAM research at Georgetown University and should add a new perspective to the process of uniting CAM and basic science. This in turn would allow Georgetown University to offer an improved research environment to the students by affording them additional opportunities in pursuing research-based CAM. The award would therefore (1) play a synergistic role in accomplishing the goals of the R-25 educational grant, (2) help expand my role in academic teaching and research, and (3) parley my current knowledge and abilities to help substantiate and enrich the current spectrum of CAM.