Patient-Oriented Research to Improve Geriatric Care-K24

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份为Christopher M. Callahan医学博士申请患者导向研究（K24）职业中期研究者奖的提案。Callahan博士是一名医生科学家，他的研究重点是改善由全科医生提供的老年人临床护理。他的具体研究兴趣是痴呆症、晚年抑郁症、提高慢性病护理质量和老年卫生服务研究。卡拉汉博士拥有老年医学CAQ，他的临床实践侧重于咨询老年医学。卡拉汉博士是印第安纳大学医学院的医学副教授，也是印第安纳大学老龄化研究中心的创始主任。该奖项的目的是允许卡拉汉博士重新调整他的学术努力，允许更多的保护时间投入到面向患者的研究中，并正式支持他作为初级教师和研究员在面向患者的研究中发展职业生涯的导师的角色。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) for Christopher M. Callahan, MD. Dr. Callahan is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on improving the clinical care of older adults as provided by generalist physicians. His specific research interests are in dementia, late life depression, improving quality of care for chronic conditions, and geriatric health services research. Dr. Callahan has a CAQ in Geriatric Medicine and his clinical practice focuses on consultative geriatrics. Dr. Callahan is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the founding Director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. The purpose of this Award is to allow Dr. Callahan to restructure his academic effort to allow more protected time to devote to patient-oriented research and to formalize and support his role as a mentor for junior faculty and fellows developing careers in patient-oriented research. Growth of the Center for Aging Research under Dr. Callahan's leadership has followed a deliberate and sequential developmental process and this proposal represents an important next step in both the candidate's career and the Center's development. Through an Academic Career Award (K07) from the NIA and substantial intramural funding, the candidate has built a viable infrastructure and increased the capacity for patient-oriented aging research at the Indiana University School of Medicine. This proposal seeks to build on those efforts by moving both Dr. Callahan and the Center out of a period of start-up activities and into a phase of steady growth and consolidation. Through this proposal, Dr. Callahan will restructure his academic effort to allow more time for his own program of research and time for a formal program of mentoring patient-oriented researchers. Through this proposal, the candidate will build from a rich environment of ongoing NIH-funded clinical trials to expand the reach of our intervention research into new clinical and patient-centered venues. Through this research, the candidate will provide exciting research opportunities for a new generation of mentored-scientists.