Advancing Opportunities for Ped. Research and the Role of CC-CHOC within NCATS

描述（由申请人提供）：临床转化科学奖（CTSA）和现在的国家转化科学中心（NCATS）促进了跨多个机构站点的研究和培训的重组。从2006年开始，2006年的NIH再授权法案明确规定儿科研究将被纳入这些努力。2007年，CTSA联盟（CC）成立了儿童健康监督委员会（CHOC），以建立和监督国家儿科研究工作的优先事项。成功的CHOC使命的一个组成部分是在年度儿科学术协会（PAS）会议之前建立NIH支持的年度面对面（FTF）会议，其目标是：1）将主要的儿科CTSA机构研究人员聚集在一起，分享可以在CTSA站点内外使用的专业知识; 2）将这种专业知识的范围扩大到参加PAS会议的更多儿科科学家，其中许多人属于非CTSA机构，对儿童健康研究工作也至关重要;和3）提供一个CTSA儿童健康奖学金计划，旨在研究员和初级教师，促进多地点合作，在明确的研究领域强调在每年的 年度PAS会议。“促进儿科研究的机会和CC-CHOC在NCATS中的作用”将继续实现最初的目标，即在未来三年内与PAS年会一起召开年度FTF会议。CTSA的主要儿童健康研究人员将分享他们的专业知识，以便在CTSA和非CTSA网站之间建立合作。CTSA儿童健康研究奖学金计划针对受训人员和早期研究人员，将促进获得核心技能， 在每年的FTC会议期间进行明确的专题研究。CTSA调查人员将通过互动式研讨会，研讨会和抽象会议在主要突出的年度主题中提供最先进的更新和应用，并留出专门的时间来指导学员和初级教师的演示和认可。组织委员会和科学委员会将审查正在进行的年度计划评估，以确保科学界继续成功参与FTF和PAS会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) and now the National Center for Translational Science (NCATS) has facilitated the restructuring of research and training across the multiple institutional sites. From its start in 2006, the NIH reauthorization act of 2006 explicitly stated that pediatric research was to be included in these efforts. In 2007, the Consortium of CTSAs (CC) established a Child Health Oversight Committee (CHOC) to build and oversee the priorities of the national pediatric research efforts. An integral part of the successful CHOC mission has been the establishment of an NIH-supported annual Face to Face (FTF) meeting preceding the annual Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting whose goals have been: 1) to bring lead pediatric CTSA institutional researchers together to share expertise that can be utilized at and across CTSA sites; 2) to expand the reach of this expertise to a larger group of pediatric scientists attending the PAS meeting, many of whom belong to non-CTSA institutions and are also critical to child health research efforts; and 3) to provide a CTSA child health fellowship program aimed at fellows and junior faculty, that promotes multi-site collaboration in the explicit areas of research highlighted during each year of the annual PAS conference. "Advancing Opportunities for Pediatric Research and the Role of CC-CHOC within NCATS" will continue with the original objectives to convene an annual FTF meeting that will occur in conjunction with the PAS annual meeting over the next three years. Lead child health CTSA researchers will share their expertise in order to build collaborations across both CTSA and non-CTSA sites. A CTSA child health research fellowship program aimed at trainees and early stage investigators, will promote the acquisition of core skills in the explicit thematic research during each year of the FTC meeting. The CTSA investigators will provide state of the art updates and applications in the major highlighted annual themes via an interactive workshop, symposia, and abstract session, with dedicated time set aside for mentoring the presentations and recognition of trainees and junior faculty. An ongoing annual program evaluation will be reviewed by the Organizing and Scientific Committees in order to assure a continued successful engagement of the scientific community attending the FTF and PAS meetings.