PITTSBURGH NIA ACADEMIC CAREER LEADERSHIP AWARD

这是提交给国家老龄研究所（NIA）的学术生涯领导奖申请（K07）。申请人Richard Schulz博士和支持机构匹兹堡大学（University of Pittsburgh）之前没有获得过NIA领导奖。匹兹堡大学在资助老龄化研究方面有着良好的记录。因此，这项申请的目标是整合和加强现有的老龄化研究和培训项目，并开发两个实质性的新研究领域。大学将致力实现六个具体目标，以增加老化研究的研究潜力和学术能力。要开发的两个新研究领域是：(a)建立一个成果研究和临床服务研究桥梁项目，为匹兹堡大学医学中心健康系统（UPMC-HS）老年临床服务项目的发展和评估提供指导，使学术健康研究人员能够开展最先进的老年健康服务研究；(b)建立我们开展社会、行为、以及临床服务干预研究。项目加强目标包括(a)跨部门和学校边界的多学科研究的协调，(b)建立一个集中的学科招募和跟踪能力，以及一个集中的中心来管理和存档由大学研究项目产生的主要纵向数据库，(c)整合博士前和博士后老龄化研究培训计划，(d)为未来的本科生和研究生培养制定一个全面的集中计划。实现这些目标将需要大学以及UPMC-HS的教师和管理人员的参与和支持。要遵循的方法，将参与此过程的关键教师和管理人员，以及与每个目标相关的具体结果，将在本应用程序的后续部分中描述。

This is an Academic Career Leadership Award application (K07) submitted to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The applicant, Dr. Richard Schulz, and the supporting institution, the University of Pittsburgh, have not been prior recipients of an NIA Leadership award. The University of Pittsburgh has an established track record of funding in research on aging. Thus, the goals of this application are to integrate and enhance existing programs of aging research and training and to develop two substantially new research areas. Six specific aims will be pursued which will increase the research potential and academic capacity for the study of aging within the University. The two new research areas to be developed are to (a) establish an outcomes research and clinical services research bridge program that will provide guidance for the development and evaluation of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System (UPMC-HS) geriatric clinical services programs and enable academic health researchers to carry out state-of-the-art geriatric health services research, and (b) build our capacity to carry out social, behavioral, and clinical services intervention research. Program enhancement goals include (a) the coordination of multidisciplinary research that cuts across departmental and school boundaries, (b) establishing a centralized capacity for subject recruitment and tracking and a centralized center for managing and archiving major longitudinal data bases generated by research programs at the University, (c) integrating pre- and post-doctoral aging research training programs, and (d) developing a comprehensive centralized plan for the future of undergraduate and graduate training. Implementing these aims will require the participation of and support from faculty and administrators from the University as well as the UPMC-HS. Methods to be followed, key faculty and administrators who will participate in this process, and specific outcomes associated with each of these aims are described in subsequent sections of this application.