Patient-oriented research in geriatric palliative care

描述（由申请人提供）：此应用程序支持R。Sean莫里森，医学博士获得NIA的以患者为导向的研究中期职业研究者奖。莫里森博士目前是西奈山医学院老年病学和医学系副教授和赫尔曼梅金姑息治疗教授。他在老龄化的临床研究集中在改善老年人的医疗保健生活与严重和危及生命的疾病。莫里森博士致力于扩大老年姑息治疗领域，并已作出指导初级教师和研究员的职业优先事项。他指导了15名医生和2名医学生，目前担任6名初级教师和2名老年医学研究员的主要导师。在此申请中，莫里森博士建议：1）进一步发展他作为以患者为导向的研究的导师和领导者的技能和能力; 2）增加来自不同学科的研究生研究员和初级教师的机会，以发展以患者为导向的研究所需的知识和技能; 3）建立一个强大的和可持续的研究计划，以病人为导向的研究集中在老年姑息治疗。候选人具体参与了两项研究计划，以改善疼痛的管理，这将为学员提供必要的研究基础设施和机会，以便在这两个较大的资助项目的保护下开发自己的项目。所提出的指导计划确定了来自不同医学专业（例如，一般内科学，肿瘤学，老年病学，肺和重症监护医学），并提供了一个结构化和严格的研究经验，正式和非正式的培训计划，以病人为导向的研究，并在莫里森博士的指导下的职业发展。该应用程序的总体目标是：1）建立一个成功的职业生涯，在老年姑息治疗中进行高质量的以患者为导向的研究; 2）培训和开发新一代的临床研究人员进行这项研究; 3）通过在老年姑息治疗研究中开发严格的定量方法，改善老年人的医疗保健生活与严重和危及生命的疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application supports R. Sean Morrison, M.D. for a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the NIA. Dr. Morrison is currently Associate Professor in the Departments of Geriatrics and Medicine and the Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Care at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His clinical research in aging has focused on improving the medical care of older adults living with serious and life threatening illness. Dr. Morrison is committed to expanding the field of geriatric palliative care and has made mentoring of junior faculty and fellows a career priority. He has mentored a total of 15 physicians and 2 medical students and currently serves as the primary mentor to 6 junior faculty and 2 geriatrics fellows. In this application, Dr. Morrison proposes to: 1) further develop his skills and abilities as a mentor and leader in patient-oriented research; 2) increase the opportunities for post-graduate fellows and junior faculty from different disciplines to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in patient-oriented research; and 3) build a strong and sustainable research program in patient oriented research focused on geriatric palliative care. The candidate is specifically involved in two research initiatives to improve the management of pain that will provide the necessary research infrastructure and opportunities for mentees to develop their own projects under the umbrella of these two larger funded projects. The mentoring plan that is proposed identifies promising junior investigators from different medical specialties (e.g., general internal medicine, oncology, geriatrics, pulmonary and critical care medicine) and provides a structured and rigorous program of research experience, formal and informal training in patient-oriented research, and career development under Dr. Morrison's mentorship. The overall goals of this application are to 1) build a successful career conducting high quality patient-oriented research in geriatric palliative care; 2) train and develop a new generation of clinical investigators to conduct this research; and 3) through the development of rigorous quantitative methods in geriatric palliative care research, improve the medical care of older adults living with serious and life threatening illness.