Mayo Clinic Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：梅奥诊所跨学科妇女健康研究（IWHR）项目旨在高度响应“建立妇女健康跨学科职业”RFA-OD-09-006。在我们的方案设计中嵌入了RFA的每个总体主题，包括妇女健康的跨学科研究，性别/性别差异的遗传，激素和环境决定因素，以及在整个生命周期中不成比例地影响妇女的健康状况。梅奥诊所的一个特殊优势是我们的临床、教育和研究活动的合作和跨学科性质，这构成了我们以患者为中心的机构的核心。因此，我们IWHR项目的主题是跨学科研究。研究课题和导师的多样性体现了这一主题，其中许多人已经与其他IWHR教师和跨学科和部门建立了合作关系。我们计划的范围包括以预防和治疗妇女特有疾病为中心的基础科学和临床科学的研究培训；2)不成比例地影响妇女；或者3)女性与男性的表达方式不同。在这个范围内，我们的研究重点是：自身免疫，心血管疾病，内分泌/代谢，胃肠道，神经/肌肉骨骼，生殖/妇科疾病，疼痛管理/生活质量/结果。入选IWHR项目教师的原因是他们在梅奥医院内外的现有合作研究项目，他们的项目对促进妇女健康的卓越和重要性，以及他们作为跨学科研究导师/教育者的兴趣和成功记录。IWHR学者将受益于一个结构化的，有指导的研究培训经验，包括适合他们的背景和职业目标的教学计划。我们的IWHR项目的广泛范围和跨学科性质反映了梅奥的内部和跨学科机会，并扩展了妇女健康研究，超出了目前在其他BIRCWH资助项目中所代表的研究。因此，梅奥诊所IWHR项目将有助于维持全国妇女健康研究的多样性和深度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mayo Clinic Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research (IWHR) Program is designed to be highly responsive to the "Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health" RFA-OD-09-006. Embedded in the design of our program are each of the Overarching Themes of the RFA, including interdisciplinary research in women's health, genetic, hormonal and environmental determinants of sex/gender differences, and health conditions disproportionately affecting women across their lifespan. A special strength of Mayo Clinic is the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of our clinical, educational and research activities which form the core of our patient-centered institution. Thus, the theme of our IWHR program is Interdisciplinary Research. This theme is exemplified by the diversity of research topics and mentors, many of whom have established collaborations with other IWHR faculty and cross disciplines and departments. The scope of our program includes research training in basic and clinical sciences centered on the prevention and treatment of conditions or diseases 1) unique to women; 2) disproportionately impacting women; or 3) expressed differently in women compared to men. Within this scope lie our specific areas of research focus: autoimmunity, cardiovascular diseases, endocrine/metabolic, gastrointestinal, neuro/musculoskeletal, reproductive/gynecologic disorders, and pain management/quality of life/outcomes. Members of IWHR Program Faculty were selected for their existing collaborative research programs both within and outside of Mayo, the excellence and significance of their programs to advancing women's health, and their interest and success record as a mentor/educator in interdisciplinary research. IWHR scholars will benefit from a structured, mentored research training experience including a didactic program appropriate to their background and career goals. The broad scope and interdisciplinary nature of our IWHR program reflects the intra- and inter-disciplinary opportunities at Mayo and extends research in women's health beyond that which is currently represented at the other funded BIRCWH programs. Thus, the Mayo Clinic IWHR Program will help to sustain diversity and depth in women's health research for the Nation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Not provided by the applicant