Postdoctoral Research Training in Eating Disorders

描述(由申请人提供)：北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校精神病学系申请一项新的为期5年的进食障碍博士后研究培训补助金，以解决NIH确定的进食障碍领域熟练研究人员的严重短缺问题。我们的项目每年将吸引来自医学、心理学、营养学和相关学科的5名合格博士后申请者，在从板凳到社会的饮食失调研究方面提供严格的高级培训。该计划将在独立的道路上培养富有成效的研究人员，他们将为促进饮食失调的病因学、预防和治疗方面的知识进步做出贡献。我们的培训项目包括14名高级研究人员，5名初级研究人员，以及5名来自精神病学、心理学、营养学、社会学、遗传学、流行病学和儿科的临床顾问。这项建议的六个核心目标是为受训者：1)在进食障碍的专业领域获得高水平的研究能力，同时精通进食障碍领域的更广泛的背景；2)在研究设计、方法论和生物统计学方面获得能力；3)理解和尊重与与一般人类参与者和特定进食障碍参与者的研究有关的伦理问题；4)保持对进食障碍患者关键临床问题的认识；5)在培训教师的监督下完成与他们先前的研究培训相称的研究项目；以及，6)为独立调查员的职业生涯做准备。北卡罗来纳大学饮食失调项目和精神病学系在北卡罗来纳大学各部门和学校之间建立了坚实的桥梁。在与我们的跨学科肥胖中心(P20 RR020649：Popkin)的密切合作下，我们非常有能力吸引和发展一支强大的跨学科饮食失调研究队伍，其中包括女性和少数族裔受训人员。一系列系统的内部和外部计划评估，以及明确的半年基准，将促进该计划的持续发展和优化，最终目标是将训练有素、方法严谨、临床胜任的研究人员引入饮食失调领域。我们的受训人员最终将生成高质量的提案，提交给美国国立卫生研究院，以将饮食失调领域的科学复杂性提高到一个新的水平。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill requests a new 5 year post- doctoral research training grant in eating disorders to address the critical shortage identified by NIH for skilled researchers in the eating disorders field. Our program will attract five qualified postdoctoral applicants per year from fields including medicine, psychology, nutrition, and related disciplines to provide rigorous advanced training in aspects of eating disorders research ranging from bench to society. The program will develop productive investigators on the path towards independence who will contribute to the advance of knowledge in the etiology, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders. Our training program includes 14 senior research faculty, 5 junior research faculty, and 5 clinical advisors from psychiatry, psychology, nutrition, sociology, genetics, epidemiology, and pediatrics. The six core aims of this proposal are for trainees: 1) to achieve a high level of research competency in a specialist area within eating disorders while becoming well versed in the broader context of the eating disorders field; 2) to achieve competency in research design, methodology, and biostatistics; 3) to appreciate and respect ethical issues related to research with human participants in general and eating disorders participants in specific; 4) to maintain awareness of key clinical issues with eating disorders patients; 5) to complete a research project of a magnitude commensurate with their prior research training under the supervision of a member of the training faculty; and, 6) to prepare for a career as an independent investigator. The UNC Eating Disorders Program and Department of Psychiatry have built substantial bridges across departments and schools at UNC. In close collaboration with our Interdisciplinary Obesity Center (P20 RR020649: Popkin), we are extremely well- poised to attract and develop a strong research workforce of interdisciplinary eating disorders researchers enriched with female and minority trainees. A systematic series of internal and external program evaluations with clear semiannual benchmarks will facilitate ongoing development and optimization of the program, with the ultimate goal of introducing highly trained, methodologically rigorous, clinically competent researchers to the field of eating disorders. Our trainees will ultimately generate high quality proposals for submission for funding to the NIH in order to move the field of eating disorders to the next level of scientific sophistication.