Postdoctoral Research Training in Eating Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳大学饮食失调研究培训项目需要持续支持。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名国外分支机构和8名临床顾问。导师来自医学院、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（两名研究教员和一名临床顾问）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)敏感并意识到与人类参与者和科学伦理行为相关的伦理问题；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；（六）在培训教师的指导下，完成与前期培训相适应的研究项目；并且，7)遵循个性化的培训路径，建立必要的技能，有效地实现独立调查员的地位。我们的方法鼓励跨学科的科学合作，应用最先进的科学方法和技术。通过这次更新，我们结合了新教师的专业知识和该领域的发展，拓宽了我们的跨学科重点。我们将招收不同领域的科学从业人员和科学家

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.