Postdoctoral Research Training in Eating Disorders

描述(由申请人提供)：请求继续支持北卡罗来纳大学进食障碍研究培训计划。该项目包括23名高级研究导师和12名初级研究导师，3名生物统计学家，4名外国附属机构和8名临床顾问。导师遍及医学院、公共卫生学院、社会工作学院、护理学院、新闻与大众传播学院以及艺术与科学学院。学员由导师团队(两名研究人员和一名临床顾问)指导，以实现七个核心目标：1)在专业领域获得高水平的研究专业知识，同时精通饮食失调的更广泛背景；2)在研究设计、方法和生物统计学方面取得卓越成就；3)对与人类参与者和科学伦理行为有关的伦理问题敏感和了解；4)精通动物福利问题；5)了解饮食失调患者的关键临床问题；6)在培训教师的监督下完成与先前培训相称的研究项目；以及，7)遵循个性化的培训路径，建立必要的技能，以有效地获得独立调查员的地位。我们的方法鼓励应用最先进的方法和技术的跨学科协作科学。通过这次更新，我们吸收了新教师的专业知识和该领域的发展，并扩大了我们的跨学科重点。我们将从不同领域招收科学家从业者和科学家 谁可能会或可能不会被认为是饮食失调的研究人员，但他们的研究可能会对饮食失调领域提供关键的信息。除了既往对进食障碍感兴趣的受训者外，我们还将招聘受过研究生培训或对神经科学、动物行为学、行为和分子遗传学、统计遗传学、临床心理学、健康差异和其他学科感兴趣的医学博士、博士和医学博士/博士，以将他们的专业知识和方法应用于进食障碍。吸引来自相关学科的最聪明的学员将为饮食失调科学注入活力，并强调饮食失调研究对我们理解食欲、体重和情绪调节的深远影响。我们将每年招聘三名合格的申请者，并提供严格的高级培训，保持我们对社会的跨学科工作台方法。我们仍然非常有能力吸引优秀的候选人，包括女性和少数族裔受训人员。具有明确基准的一系列系统的双向内部和外部计划评估有助于优化计划，最终目标是培养训练有素、方法严谨、临床胜任或临床知情的研究人员。我们的受训者将继续他们向NIH和其他资助机构提出的成功建议的跟踪记录，成为成熟的独立调查人员，并将饮食失调提升到下一个科学成熟的水平。 公共卫生相关性：这项申请的目的是为了培养一支杰出的跨学科研究队伍，以便在饮食失调的调查和治疗中独立工作。这一需求是基于受饮食失调影响的个人的数量、与他们的护理相关的社会巨大成本、可用治疗的有限有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continuing support is requested for the University of North Carolina Research Training Program in Eating Disorders. This program involves 23 senior and 12 junior research mentors, 3 biostatisticians, 4 foreign affiliates, and 8 clinical advisors. Mentors span the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Social Work, Nursing, Journalism and Mass Communications, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Trainees are guided by a mentorship team (two research faculty and a clinical advisor) to achieve seven core aims: 1) to achieve a high level of research expertise in a specialist area while becoming well-versed in the broader context of eating disorders; 2) to achieve excellence in research design, methodology, and biostatistics; 3) to be sensitive to and aware of ethical issues related to human participants and the ethical conduct of science; 4) to be well-versed in animal welfare issues; 5) to be aware of key clinical issues with eating disorders patients; 6) to complete a research project commensurate with prior training under the supervision of training faculty; and, 7) to follow an individualized training path that builds necessary skills necessary to achieve the status of an independent investigator efficiently. Our approach encourages collaborative science across disciplines applying state-of-the-science approaches and technologies. With this renewal, we incorporate expertise of new faculty and developments in the field, and broaden our interdisciplinary focus. We will recruit scientist-practitioners and scientists from diverse fields who may or may not identify as eating disorders researchers, but whose research could critically inform the eating disorders field. In addition to trainees with pre-existing eating disorders interests, we will recruit MDs, PhDs, and MD/PhDs with graduate training or interest in neuroscience, animal behavior, behavioral and molecular genetics, statistical genetics, clinical psychology, health disparities and other disciplines to bring their expertise and methodologies to bear on eating disorders. Attracting the brightest trainees from relevant neighboring disciplines will invigorate eating disorders science and underscore the far-reaching implications of eating disorders research to our understanding of appetite, weight, and mood regulation. We will recruit three qualified applicants per year and provide rigorous advanced training maintaining our interdisciplinary bench to society approach. We remain extremely well-poised to attract excellent candidates including female and minority trainees. A systematic series of bidirectional internal and external program evaluations with clear benchmarks facilitates optimization of the program, with the ultimate goal of nurturing highly trained, methodologically rigorous, clinically competent or clinically informed researchers. Our trainees will continue their track record of successful proposals to NIH and other funding bodies to become established independent investigators and elevate eating disorders to the next level of scientific sophistication. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application is aimed at preparing an outstanding interdisciplinary cohort of researchers for independent careers in the investigation and treatment of eating disorders. This need is based on the number of individuals affected by eating disorders, the considerable costs to society associated with their care, the limited effectiveness of available treatment.