Utah BIRCWH Career Development Program in Women's Health

描述(由申请人提供)：犹他州妇女健康跨学科BIRCWH职业发展计划，以下简称犹他州BIRCWH计划，由犹他州大学健康科学中心(UUHSC)的健康、护理、药学和医学学院合作组成。参加的医学院系包括家庭与预防内科、内科、妇产科、神经科和外科。参与的机构包括埃克尔斯人类遗传学研究所、亨茨曼癌症研究所和医院以及当地的霍华德·休斯医学研究所。犹他州BIRCWH计划的目标是寻找和挑选有能力、学术上致力于跨学科妇女健康研究(IWHR)的学者，并在五年的时间里为他们提供独立妇女健康调查人员所需的一套必要技能。虽然UHSC是20个生殖健康研究(WRHR)项目之一的所在地，但这不是另一个WRHR应用程序。事实上，犹他州BIRCWH项目代表了一个完全不同的概念模型，充满了互不重叠的跨学科导师小组、新的研究轨迹以及新的交付成果(例如，MSPH学位；见下文)。犹他州BIRCWH计划为期两年的入门阶段的重点将是严格掌握科学方法以及获得最基本的基本、翻译和临床调查工具。入门级IWHR学者将获得独特的机会攻读公共卫生科学硕士学位(MSPH)，这是一个专门为满足卫生保健专业人员需求而设计的创新课程。具有重要研究经验(基础、翻译或临床)的申请者可以进入犹他州BIRCWH计划的高级阶段，为期三年。四个主要领域的研究重点将提供给IWHR学者：(1)老年疾病，(2)心血管疾病，(3)认知L神经疾病，和(4)肿瘤疾病。在这些领域中的每一个领域，都仔细地确定并承诺了研究导师。被提名的导师共有17人，号称拥有大约1800万美元的联邦直接资金池。重要的是，还分配了超过80万美元的机构支助。犹他州BIRCWH计划由两位致力于学术的女性健康研究人员Eli Y.Adashi医学博士和Leigh A.Neuymayer医学博士项目主任领导，将为女性健康学科领域坚定研究人员的指导发展提供杰出的智力和教育环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Utah Interdisciplinary BIRCWH Career Development Program in Women's Health, for shod, here after, The Utah BIRCWH Program, constitutes a collaboration of the Colleges of Health, Nursing, Pharmacy and Medicine, all from the University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC). Participating School of Medicine departments include Family & Preventive Medicine, internal Medicine, Obstetrics &Gynecology, Neurology and Surgery. Participating Institutes include the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, The Huntsman Cancer Institute and Hospital and the local Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The goal of the Utah BIRCWH Program is to identify and select able, academically committed Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research (IWHR) Scholars, and to provide them, over the span of five years, with the requisite set of skills expected of independent Women's Health Investigators. Although the UUHSC is home to one of twenty Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Programs, this is NOT another WRHR application. Indeed, the Utah BIRCWH Program represents a fundamentally distinct conceptual model replete with anon-overlapping interdisciplinary group of Mentors, new research tracks, as well as novel deliverables (e.g. an MSPH degree; see below). The focus of the two-year Entry Level Stage of the Utah BIRCWH Program will be the rigorous mastering of the scientific method as well as the acquisition of the most fundamental basic, translational, and clinical investigative tools. Entry level IWHR Scholars will be afforded the unique opportunity to pursue a Masters of Science Degree in Public Health (MSPH), an established innovative program that is especially designed to meet the needs of health care professionals. Applicants with significant prior research experience (basic, translational, or clinical) may enter the Utah BIRCWH Program at the Advanced Level Stage, a three-year commitment. Four principal areas of research emphasis will be offered to IWHR Scholars: (1) Aging Disorders, (2) Cardiovascular Disorders, (3) Cognitive l Neurologic Disorders, and (4) Oncologic Disorders. Within each of these areas, research Mentors have been carefully identified and committed. The proposed mentors, 17 in all, boast a combined, direct, federal funding pool of approximately $18,000,000. Importantly, institutional support, in excess of $800,000, has also been allocated. Led by two academically-committed Women's Health Investigators, Eli Y. Adashi, MD, PI, and Leigh A. Neuymayer, MD, Program Director, the Utah BIRCWH Program will offer an outstanding intellectual and educational environment for the mentored development of committed investigators in the discipline of women's health.