Cardiovascular Surgery Research Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）： 拟议的心血管外科研究培训计划是多学科的，NIH资助的心胸外科医生，心脏病学家，流行病学家和基础科学家将组成教师。 教师不仅从贝斯以色列女执事医疗中心，而且从其他哈佛医院，哈佛医学院，哈佛公共卫生学院和其他附属机构招募。 教师的选择在很大程度上是基于他们以前的培训研究人员的记录和他们作为学术医生和科学家的声誉。 在血管生理学和分子生物学、心脏生理学和分子及细胞生物学、移植免疫学、组织工程、心脏病理学和临床结果研究等领域的基础和临床研究提供了机会。 该计划由项目主任（博士Sellke）和指导委员会管理，并与积极的临床服务密切相关。 此外，还根据研究员的需要提供正式和非正式的课程和研讨会。 受训人员（每年4名）在外科培训的第三年后开始任命，任期2年。 学员被分配到由教师指导的许多活跃的实验室之一。学员选择实验室和导师的选择，为他们的实验室培训，从项目主任和教师的建议和持续监测的进展。 在完成研究培训后，研究员将完成他们的外科住院医师培训，然后预计将完成心胸外科住院医师培训。 预计这项心血管外科研究培训计划将有助于该专业在财务，临床和教育不确定性的情况下继续培养优秀的学术外科医生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program of training in cardiovascular surgery research is multidisciplinary in that NIH funded cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiologists, epidemiologists and basic scientists will make up the faculty. Faculty were recruited from not only Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, but also from the other Harvard Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and other Affiliated Institutions. The faculty were chosen in large part based on their prior record of training research fellows and their reputation as academic physicians and scientists. Opportunities are available for basic and clinical research in the areas of vascular physiology and molecular biology, cardiac physiology and molecular and cellular biology, transplantation immunology, tissue engineering, cardiac pathology, and clinical outcomes research. The program is administered by the Program Director (Dr Sellke) and the Steering Committee and is carried on in close relationship to active clinical services. In addition, formal and informal course work and seminars are made available, depending on the research fellow needs. Trainees (4 each year) are appointed for a 2 year term beginning after the third year of surgical training. Trainees are assigned to one of many active laboratories directed by the faculty. Trainees select the laboratory and mentor of choice for their laboratory training, with advice from and ongoing monitoring of progress by the Program Director and faculty. Following completion of their research training, fellows will complete their surgical residency, and then be expected to complete a residency in cardiothoracic surgery. It is anticipated that this program in cardiovascular surgery research training will help the specialty continue to train outstanding academic surgeons in times of financial, clinical, and educational uncertainty.