UM-SPAHS Endowment Fund Program

描述(由申请人提供)：蒙大拿大学药学和联合健康科学学院有着悠久的历史，致力于招收和培训少数族裔学生(主要是美洲印第安人)，以获得药剂学和理疗学位。最近获得的美洲原住民卓越中心(NACOE)赠款是在HHS-Health Careers Opportunity Program(HCOP)、NIH-Bridges to Baccalaureate Program(Bridges To Baccalaureate Program)和NSF-EPSCoR Program(NSF-EPSCoR Program)获得的资金的基础上建立起来的，旨在为药学(Pharm.D.)、物理疗法(M.S.和D.P.T.)以及最近的研究生教育(M.S.、Ph.D.)等代表性不足的少数族裔提供必要的环境和基础设施。在过去的十年里，该学院药学系的研究基础设施大幅增加，在NIH的85所药学院/学院中，该学院在每名博士生教员的资助中排名第11位。该部门已经建立了两个州批准的研究中心，并提供两个硕士和两个博士项目。捐赠基金计划的主要目标是通过培训和招聘努力增加至少两名终身教职跟踪少数族裔教师，同时保持最近在药学、物理治疗和研究生课程中招募、留住和培训少数族裔学生方面的成功。将继续扩大对少数群体健康差距的研究。这些目标将实现如下：1)为少数族裔教师(最好是美洲印第安人)创建新的终身教职跟踪教师队伍；2)增加获得药学博士或D.P.T.学位的少数族裔学生获得临床相关领域博士后奖学金培训的机会；3)增加少数族裔学生继续进行研究生培训以获得博士学位的机会。4)继续实施强有力的计划，招收和培训本科少数民族学生，5)利用捐赠收入来平衡更多的机构/州和联邦支持，以及6)捐赠主体的渐进增长。捐款收入的优先使用是A)招聘和培训两名少数族裔博士、学生和一名少数族裔药学博士研究生(1-3年级)和B)完成对两名少数族裔教员的培训和/或招聘，优先考虑美洲原住民教员候选人，特别是那些参与健康差距研究的人(3-5年级)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Montana School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences has a long standing history and commitment to the recruitment and training of minority students (principally Native American Indians) for degrees in pharmacy and physical therapy. The recently obtained Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE) grant builds on strength from funding obtained for the HHS-Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), the NIH-Bridges to Baccalaureate Program (BRIDGES), and the NSF-EPSCoR Program to provide both the environment and the infrastructure necessary to offer degree training for under-represented minorities in pharmacy (Pharm.D.), physical therapy (M.S. and D.P.T.), and more recently in graduate education (M.S., Ph.D.). Research infrastructure has dramatically increased in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the past ten years to the point where the School is ranked 1lth of 85 schools/Colleges of Pharmacy in NIH funding per Ph.D. faculty. The Department has created two state-approved research centers and offers two M.S. and two Ph.D. programs. The primary goal of the Endowment Fund Program is to add at least two tenure track minority faculty through training and recruitment efforts, while perpetuating recent success in the recruitment, retention, and training of minority students in Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Graduate programs. Focus on minority health disparities research will continue to be expanded. These goals will be accomplished as follows: 1) creating new tenure track faculty lines for minority faculty (preferably Native American Indians), 2) Enhancing opportunities for minority students who earn the Pharm.D. or D.P.T. degree to obtain postdoctoral fellowship training in clinically relevant areas, 3) Enhancement of opportunities for minority students to pursue graduate training leading to the Ph.D. degree. 4) Perpetuation of a strong program to recruit and train undergraduate minority students, 5) Use of endowment income to leverage additional institutional/state and federal support, and 6) Progressive growth of the endowment corpus. Priorities for use of the endowment income are A) Recruitment and training of two minority PhD, students and one minority post Pharm.D. Fellow (Years 1-3) and B) Complete training and/or recruitment of two minority faculty with priority given to Native American Faculty candidates, particularly those involved in health disparities research (Years 3-5).