Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：此竞争性续期申请要求额外五年的支持，以继续和扩大“老年心理健康高级研究所（ARI）”的努力。ARI是一个国家计划，职业中期和高级研究人员共同努力，通过帮助他们获得独立的研究资金来促进新研究人员的职业发展，其长期目标是扩大该领域的能力，以解决快速增长的老年人口中与精神疾病相关的重大但复杂的问题。老年心理健康高级研究所的目标旨在促进老年心理健康的使命，以减少晚年精神障碍的负担。具体而言，ARI的目标是通过增加以下数量来提高老年心理健康研究领域进行创新和重大研究的能力：1。独立科学家（例如，R 01级调查员）进行翻译，干预，并在与晚年心理健康领域的服务研究; 2。高级领导人通过帮助培养独立的调查人员和承担其他学术公民的责任，对该领域的长期增长和发展负责;迄今为止，结果表明，ARI在实现这些目标方面是有效的，证明了：1。新调查员获得R级供资的可能性增加一倍（通过几个指数）; 2.职业发展奖和R级资金之间一年或更长时间差距的可能性减少了两倍; 3.在指导和领导活动中，增加了该领域的职业中期研究人员的参与和技能发展。我们通过实施一项提供重点指导和咨询的教育计划取得了这些成果。该计划每年支持16名ARI新研究员（称为学者）;每位学者的正式参与时间长达两年。在这次更新申请中，我们提出了一些计划上的变化，以便将教育活动集中在那些影响最大的组件上，包括：1。持续辅导的程序教师的成员; 2。个性化指导和咨询的结构化机会包括：由学者，导师，方法学家和项目官员参加的为期3天的强化年度ARI春季务虚会;小组，基于网络的工作进展研讨会;以及与NIH项目官员的咨询; 3.就实质性和方法问题与高级专家进行有针对性的磋商;导师培训。“老年心理健康高级研究所（ARI）”是一个国家计划，在该计划中，职业中期和高级研究人员共同努力，促进新研究人员的职业发展。该方案的目的是增加从事老年心理健康研究的独立科学家的数量，其长期目标是减轻老年人精神障碍的负担。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competitive renewal application requests five additional years of support to continue and extend the efforts of the "Advanced Research Institute (ARI) in Geriatric Mental Health". ARI is a national program in which mid-career and senior investigators work together to promote the career advancement of new investigators through helping them achieve independent research funding, with the longer term goal of expanding the field's capacity to address the significant, but complex, problems related to mental illness in the fast growing elderly population. The goals of the Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Mental Health are designed to contribute to Geriatric Mental Health's mission to reduce the burden of mental disorders in late life. Specifically, the ARI's goals are to increase the capacity of the field of Geriatric Mental Health research to conduct innovative and significant research by increasing the number of: 1. Independent scientists (e.g., R01-level investigators) conducting translational, intervention, and services research in areas related to late-life mental health; 2. Senior leaders taking responsibility for the long term growth and development of the field through helping to develop independent investigators and assuming other responsibilities of academic citizenship; Outcomes, to date, suggest that ARI has been effective in meeting these aims, as evidenced by: 1. Two-fold increases (through several indices) in the likelihood of new investigators achieving R-level funding; 2. Two-fold decrease in the likelihood of a year or more gap between career development award and R-level funding; and 3. Increased involvement and skill development of the field's midcareer researchers in mentoring and leadership activities. We have achieved these results by implementing an educational program that provides focused mentoring and consultation. The program supports 16 ARI new investigators (called Scholars) annually; each Scholar's formal involvement lasts up to two years. In this renewal application we propose some programmatic changes in order to focus the educational activities on those components having the greatest impact, including: 1. Sustained mentoring by a member of the program faculty; 2. Structured opportunities for individualized mentoring and consultation including: an intensive annual 3-day ARI Spring Retreat attended by Scholars, mentors, methodologists, and program officers; small group, web-based works-in-progress seminars; and consultation with NIH program officers; 3. Targeted consultation on substantive and methodological issues from senior experts; 4. Mentor training. "Advanced Research Institute (ARI) in Geriatric Mental Health" is a national program in which mid-career and senior investigators work together to promote the career advancement of new investigators. The aim of the program is to increase the number of independent scientists conducting research in geriatric mental health, with the long range goal of reducing the burden of mental disorders in late life.