Midcareer Investigator Award in Geriatric Depression

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请旨在为以患者为中心的研究领域的K24职业奖寻求资金支持。候选人David Steffens博士是杜克大学医学中心精神病学和医学副教授，在那里他担任老年精神病学部门的负责人和老年精神病学培训计划的主任。斯蒂芬斯博士在老年抑郁症领域建立了学术记录，他是两项由NIMH资助的大型基金的首席研究员，一项是专注于纵向老年抑郁症结果的R01，另一项是康奈尔神经科学中心的招聘核心，该中心研究老年抑郁症中的脑血管疾病。他之前是临床老年精神卫生学术奖(K07)的获得者。斯蒂芬斯博士曾指导过各个层次的个人，包括本科生、研究生、医学生、博士后和博士后研究员、精神病学住院医师、老年精神病学研究员和初级教员。这些经历使候选人非常有资格获得这个K24奖。通过这个奖项，候选人将扩大他在预防研究、纵向数据分析、指导以及将研究应用于初级保健环境方面的知识。利用他资助的研究作为教学来源，候选人将很好地指导博士后和博士后研究员以及初级教师。根据该奖项，候选人将花费至少50%的时间进行以患者为导向的研究和指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding for a K24 Career Award in Patient-Oriented Research. The candidate, Dr. David Steffens, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, where he serves as the Head of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Training Program. Dr. Steffens has established a record of scholarship in the area of geriatric depression, and he serves as Principal Investigator on two large NIMH-funded grants, an R01 focusing on longitudinal geriatric depression outcomes, and on the Recruitment Core of a Conte Neuroscience Center studying cerebrovascular disease in late-life depression. He is the previous recipient of a Clinical Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award (K07). Dr. Steffens has mentored individuals at all levels, including undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, pre- and post-doctoral research fellows, psychiatry residents, geriatric psychiatry fellows, and junior faculty. These experiences make the candidate well qualified for this K24 Award. Through this Award, the candidate will expand his knowledge in prevention research, in longitudinal data analysis, in mentorship, and in application of research to primary care settings. Using his funded research as a source for teaching, the candidate will be well positioned to mentor pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows as well as junior faculty. Under the Award, the candidate will spend at least 50 percent of his time conducting patient-oriented research and mentoring.