Patient-Oriented Research to Improve Geriatric Care-K24

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个建议，为中期职业生涯研究者奖在以病人为导向的研究（K24）克里斯托弗M。医学博士卡拉汉。卡拉汉博士是一位内科医生兼科学家，他的研究重点是改善由全科医生提供的老年人的临床护理。他的具体研究兴趣是痴呆症，晚年抑郁症，改善慢性病护理质量和老年健康服务研究。卡拉汉博士拥有老年医学CAQ学位，他的临床实践侧重于老年医学咨询。卡拉汉博士是印第安纳州大学医学院的副教授，也是印第安纳州大学老龄化研究中心的创始主任。该奖项的目的是让卡拉汉博士调整他的学术努力，让更多的保护时间投入到以病人为导向的研究，并正式和支持他作为初级教师和研究员在以病人为导向的研究发展事业的导师的作用。 在卡拉汉博士的领导下，老龄化研究中心的发展遵循了一个深思熟虑的、连续的发展过程，这一提议代表了候选人职业生涯和中心发展的重要下一步。通过NIA的学术职业奖（K07）和大量的校内资金，候选人建立了一个可行的基础设施，并提高了印第安纳州大学医学院以患者为导向的老龄化研究的能力。这项建议旨在推动这些努力，使卡拉汉博士和该中心走出开办活动阶段，进入稳步增长和巩固阶段。通过这项提议，卡拉汉博士将调整他的学术努力，以便有更多的时间进行自己的研究计划，并有更多的时间指导以病人为导向的研究人员的正式计划。通过这项提案，候选人将从正在进行的NIH资助的临床试验的丰富环境中建立，以扩大我们的干预研究到新的临床和以患者为中心的场所的范围。通过这项研究，候选人将为新一代的指导科学家提供令人兴奋的研究机会。

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.