Research Career Development in Obstetrics and Gynecology

描述（由申请人提供）：西北大学妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心（WRHRCDC）的长期目标是为妇产科医生的职业发展提供一个优秀的研究培训计划，使其成为能够进行高级转化研究并竞争联邦基金的医生科学家。我们在西北大学有一个杰出的导师和生殖研究基础设施。导师的专业知识涵盖胎盘、胎儿、孕妇、妊娠期糖尿病、早产、子宫内膜、着床、子宫内膜异位症、子宫内膜癌、子宫肌层、子宫平滑肌瘤、卵巢生理学、卵巢癌、多囊卵巢综合征、垂体和下丘脑的生殖功能。这些教师在培训MD和博士-科学家在他们的实验室或临床设施保持了良好的跟踪记录，并将提供各种各样的研究机会，WRHRCDC学者。私家侦探是医学博士谢尔曼·埃利亚斯教授和系主任。Ob/Gyn。塞尔达尔布伦，医学博士，教授和生殖生物学研究科科长将与埃利亚斯博士密切合作，并担任theWRHRCDC的项目主任。六处Ob/Gyn在西北大学传统上招募高素质的居民，专科研究员和初级教师，并作为卓越的研究和病人护理中心;因此，我们有一个大型和活跃的候选人库WRHR学者。这些学者将有机会在竞争激烈的实验室或临床团队之间进行选择，这些实验室或临床团队进行与生殖内分泌学-不孕不育，母胎医学，妇科肿瘤学和生殖遗传学相关的研究。WRHR学者将与西北大学现有的P01，U54和SCOR中心赠款和T32生殖科学培训赠款进行互动。作为西北大学的WRHRCDC计划，我们有充分的装备和准备招募高质量的妇产科医生，并培训他们进行研究和竞争联邦拨款，并保留他们，因为他们成为独立的调查员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center (WRHRCDC)at Northwestern University is to provide an outstanding research training program for the career development of obstetrician-gynecologists to become physician scientists who can conduct advanced translational researchand compete for federal funds. We have an outstanding group of mentors and reproductive research infrastructure at Northwestern University. The expertise of mentors spans placenta, fetus, pregnant mother,gestational diabetes, preterm labor, endometrium, implantation, endometriosis, endometrial cancer,myometrium, uterine leiomyomata, ovarian physiology, ovarian cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, andreproductive functions of pituitary and hypothalamus. These faculty members have maintained an excellenttrack record in training MD- and PhD- scientists in their laboratories or clinical facilities and will provide awide variety of research opportunities to the WRHRCDC Scholars. The P.I. will be Sherman Elias, M.D.,Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Ob/Gyn. Serdar Bulun, M.D., Professor and Chief of the Section of Reproductive Biology Research will work closely with Dr. Elias and serve as the Program Director of theWRHRCDC. The Dept. of Ob/Gyn at Northwestern University has traditionally recruited high quality residents, subspecialty fellows and junior faculty and served as a center of excellence for research and patientcare; thus, we have a large and active pool of candidates for WRHR Scholars. These Scholars will have an opportunity to choose between highly competitive laboratories or clinical teams conducting research relatedto Reproductive Endocrinology-Infertility, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Gynecologic Oncology andReproductive Genetics. The WRHR Scholar will interact with the existing P01, U54 and SCOR Center grantsand T32 training grants in reproductive sciences at Northwestern University. As the WRHRCDC Program at Northwestern University, we are fully equipped and prepared to recruit top-quality obstetrician-gynecologists and train them to conduct research and compete for federal grants and retain them, as they become independent investigators.