Clinical (C-COHR)

口腔健康研究中心（C-COHR）的临床核心来自一个强大的社区基础， 倡议和巩固前临床核心和生物统计核心，两者都是由 COBRE融资的第一阶段。通过巩固和进一步促进过去几年发展起来的专门知识， 口腔健康研究所需的临床和生物统计方法十年活动 满足了建立和不断增长的MUSC调查员骨干的迫切需要， 口腔健康的组成部分纳入其转化和临床研究。定制的口腔健康专业知识 确保C-COHR在MUSC研究机构中的独特地位，更广泛地说，在南 卡罗莱纳，支持调查口腔健康和系统性疾病之间关系的项目; 评估新的口腔诊断和干预方法;以及积极的社区干预措施 旨在减少我们州的口腔健康差距，特别是在服务不足的Gullah人群中 同时开发出可以广泛应用的模型。 C-COHR的目标是优化学术界和社区参与的临床研究过程 合作伙伴在临床研究的发展，这将使MUSC研究团队有效地 将他们的牙科和教育专业知识带到古拉和/或其他少数民族社区。人权官员常设委员 已经建立了基础设施，以吸引南卡罗来纳州的差异人口，并正在 课程走向成为独立的社区为基础的，临床和生物统计调查。 通过与其他项目的进一步协同作用，我们独特的口腔健康项目将加强生物医学， 临床和行为口腔健康研究能力在校园和解决，否则未得到满足的需求 研究人员追求口腔健康的临床和社区为基础的研究假设;并从事我们的 一个独特的族群，非裔美国人古拉人。因此，我们希望减少口腔健康差距 通过发现和发展知识和干预措施。

The Clinical Core of the Center for Oral Health Research (C-COHR) emerged from a strong community-based initiative and consolidation of the former Clinical Core and Biostatistics Core, both initiated with the first phase of COBRE funding. By consolidating and further fostering the expertise developed over the last decade of activities in clinical and biostatistical methods needed specifically for oral health research, CCOHR meets a critical need for the established and growing cadre of MUSC investigators incorporating oral health components into their translational and clinical research. The tailored oral health expertise ensures the unique position of C-COHR among research facilities at MUSC and, more broadly, in South Carolina, supporting projects investigating the relationships between oral health and systemic disorders; evaluating new oral diagnostic and intervention methods; and that are active community interventions aiming to decrease oral health disparities in our state, especially among the underserved Gullah population and at the same time developing models that can be widely applied. The objective of C-COHR is to optimize the clinical research process engaging academic and community partners in the development of clinical research that will enable the MUSC research team to effectively bring their dental and educational expertise into the Gullah and/or other minority communities. The CCOHR has established the infrastructure to engage disparity populations in South Carolina and is on course towards becoming independent with community-based, clinical and biostatistical investigators. Through further synergy with other programs, our unique oral health program will strengthen biomedical, clinical and behavioral oral health research capacity on campus and address the otherwise unmet needs of investigators pursuing oral health clinical and community-based research hypotheses; and of engaging our unique population, the Gullah African Americans. As a result, we expect to reduce oral health disparities through discovery, and development of knowledge and interventions.