RECRUITMENT AND EDUCATION CORE

研究阿尔茨海默病（AD）的新药物和诊断方法至关重要，需要大量的患者和正常对照个体。这种“治疗的必要性”是加州大学洛杉矶分校阿尔茨海默病研究中心（ADRC）的主题。招募参与者，在研究项目期间保留受试者，以及确保研究人群能够代表更大的疾病人群是UCLA ADRC招募和教育核心（REC）的目标。REC已投入大量资源，以实现这些目标。REC将采取一系列独特和创新的招聘、留用、社区拓展和教育策略。REC赞助各种教育会议，其中许多是与社区组织合作完成的，如阿尔茨海默氏症协会。在AD研究中，一个明显的需求是增加少数民族的代表性。在上一个资助周期中，REC达到了20,000名教育活动参与者，其中包括1000名临床医生和900多名少数民族

Research investigating new medications and diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical and will require large numbers of patients and normal control individuals. This "therapeutic imperative" is the theme of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) at UCLA. Recruitment of participants, retention of subjects for the duration of research projects, and the assurance of research populations that are representative of the larger disease population are the objectives of the Recruitment and Education Core (REC) at the UCLA ADRC. The REC has been infused with substantial resources to make accomplishment of these objectives realistic. The REC will engage in a wide number of unique and innovative recruitment, retention, community outreach, and educational strategies. The REC sponsors a variety of educational conferences, many of which are done in partnership with community organizations such as the Alzheimer's Association. A clear need in AD research is to increase representation of minorities. In the last grant cycle, REC reached 20,000 educational event attendees, including 1000 clinicians and over 900 minority community members. REC has a robust array of minority-oriented activities for the new grant cycle. New to this proposal, the REC will develop of African American and Hispanic Community Advisory Boards to guide minority recruitment efforts. The REC will also partner with Healthcare Communications Group to increase public awareness of AD research, and with the PriMed Institute to educate primary care physicians on AD management guidelines and the need for increased referrals to research. The REC will continue to work closely with the other Cores of the ADRC. This includes collaborations with the Data Management and Statistics Core to better estimate the number of needed research subjects; with the Clinical Core to ensure the proper collection of data for the Uniform Data Set (UDS); with the Neuropathology Core to conduct the successful ClinicoPathologic Conference (CPC); and with Administrative Core to ensure the maximal functionality of the Center website and other tools to keep subjects, donors, and the general community aware of the Center's activities. All REC activities will be continually evaluated for success. This includes a constant monitoring of the sources of enrolled research subjects. Evaluations will dictate future programs and resource use.