Enhancing Alcohol Science Focus: AMERSA National Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：药物滥用医学教育和研究协会（AMERSA）的年度全国会议是健康专业教育工作者的主要会议，他们教授酒精和其他药物问题。AMERSA的主要使命有两个方面：培养对酒精和其他毒品问题有了解的卫生专业教育工作者和研究人员的骨干，他们能有效地将研究成果转化为实践，并鼓励制定以酒精和其他毒品问题为重点的教育方案。年会为医生，护士，社会工作者和其他卫生专业人员提供了机会，以增加他们对科学进步和新的教育计划的了解，重点是酒精和其他药物问题。该提案建立在AMERSA 26年成功举办年度全国会议的历史基础上。拟议的五年期项目将通过以下方式加强将于2004-2008年举行的国家会议的高质量和多样性：（1）提供费用，吸引在与酒精有关的研究领域杰出的全体会议发言者;（2）向广泛的卫生专业、教育工作者和研究人员交流和传播与酒精有关的研究结果;（3）使这些听众更加意识到可能损害酒精相关研究质量的方法问题;和（4）更积极地接触学术卫生专业教育工作者，研究人员和从业人员，他们与服务不足和高风险人群一起工作，经历与酒精有关的问题，特别是拉丁美洲人，非裔美国人和女性。PI和Co-PI是药物滥用领域公认的领导者，已经进行了几项NIAAA和NIDA资助的研究，因此完全有资格指导这个项目。他们将与一个跨学科的咨询委员会合作，该委员会具有将研究转化为实践的专业知识，为服务不足的人群提供服务，并教授卫生专业人员使临床方法适应不同的患者群体。本项目的其他人员在AMERSA中担任关键角色，具有实施拟议活动所需的组织中心地位。由于年度全国会议吸引了来自各种医疗和其他医疗保健专业的大量参与者，对临床培训和实践的影响将是巨大的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Annual National Conference of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) is the major meeting for health professional educators who teach about alcohol and other drug problems. AMERSA's primary mission is twofold: to develop cadres of health professions educators and researchers knowledgeable about alcohol and other drug issues who are effective in transferring research to practice, and to encourage the development of educational programs focused on alcohol and other drug issues. The annual meeting gives physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals the opportunity to increase their knowledge of scientific advances and new educational programs focused on alcohol and other drug issues. This proposal builds on AMERSA's 26-year history of successful annual national conferences. The proposed 5-year project will strengthen the high quality and diversity of the national meetings, to be held 2004-2008, by (1) providing fees to attract plenary speakers who are preeminent in the area of alcohol-related research, (2) exchanging and disseminating alcohol related research findings to a broad range of health professions educators and researchers; (3) creating greater awareness in this audience of methodological problems that can vitiate the quality of alcohol-related research; and (4) reaching out more actively to involve academic health professions educators, researchers and practitioners who work with underserved and high-risk populations experiencing alcohol-related problems, specifically, Latinos, African Americans, and women. The PI and Co-PI, recognized leaders in the substance abuse field, have conducted several NIAAA and NIDA-funded studies and are thus well qualified to direct this project. They will work with an interdisciplinary Advisory Committee that has expertise in translating research into practice, providing services to underserved populations, and teaching health professionals to adapt clinical methods to diverse patient groups. Other personnel for this project hold key roles in AMERSA with the organizational centrality necessary to implement proposed activities. Since the Annual National Conference draws a large number of participants from a variety of medical and other healthcare professions, the impact on clinical training and practice will be substantial.