Clinical Research and Epidemiology in Diabetes and Endocrinology

描述（由申请人提供）：约翰霍普金斯大学糖尿病和内分泌学临床研究和流行病学培训项目在完成9.5年的资助后，正在申请第二次竞争性更新。2002年。Christopher Saudek和Frederick Brancati在约翰霍普金斯大学建立了一个培训项目，致力于糖尿病和内分泌学的临床和流行病学研究。10年过去了，它仍然是美国唯一一家此类餐厅。迄今为止，我们已成功培养了16名青年学者（6名博士，10名博士后），发表了61篇同行评议的科学论文，并在全国各地担任研究职务。在上一个筹资周期，我们培训了3名代表性不足的少数民族（2名多样性补充人员）和12名妇女。我们的项目包括3个博士预科和3个博士后，都是在过去的5年里填补的。索戴克医生英年早逝后，布兰卡蒂博士与接受过流行病学交叉培训的内分泌学家谢丽塔·戈尔登（Sherita Golden）博士一起担任了培训项目的负责人。这个新的领导团队在执行和咨询委员会的支持下，提出了第三轮资助，具体目标如下：(1)从约翰霍普金斯大学吸引的全国人才中招募内分泌学（博士后）和流行病学（博士）领域的各种顶尖年轻学员；(2)招收他们到约翰霍普金斯大学布隆伯格公共卫生学院攻读严格的、有论文的流行病学和临床研究硕士和博士课程；(3)在韦尔奇预防、流行病学和临床研究中心（约翰霍普金斯大学临床研究培训的主要教育基地），让他们接触到强大的团队导向、多学科的临床和流行病学研究文化；(4)指导每位受训者找到一位经验丰富的NIH资助导师，该导师将负责成功完成一项重要的论文项目。为了实现这些目标，我们的项目汇集了来自成人和儿童内分泌学和普通内科（医学院）、流行病学（公共卫生学院）、韦尔奇预防、流行病学和临床研究中心以及护理学院的教师和学员。16位导师将作为主要教师，并因其专业知识，卓越的指导和积极的NIH资助而被选中。在临床试验、健康差异、行为科学和以社区为基础的干预措施方面具有专门知识的新导师已经加入。如果我们的提议成功了，那么约翰霍普金斯大学将继续在培养糖尿病和内分泌学的下一代以患者和人群为导向的研究人员方面发挥重要的国家作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Clinical Research and Epidemiology in Diabetes and Endocrinology Training Program at Johns Hopkins University is applying for its second competitive renewal after completing 9.5 years of funding. In 2002 Drs. Christopher Saudek and Frederick Brancati established a training program at Johns Hopkins devoted to clinical and epidemiologic research in diabetes and endocrinology. Ten years later, it remains the only one of its kind in the US. Thus far, we have successfully trained 16 young scholars (6 pre-docs and 10 post docs) who have produced 61 peer-reviewed scientific papers and who hold research positions across the country. During the last funding cycle, we trained 3 under-represented minorities (2 on diversity supplements) and 12 women. Our program includes 3 pre-doctoral and 3 post-doctoral slots, all of which were filled during each of the past 5 years. Following Dr. Saudek's untimely death, Dr. Brancati assumed leadership of the training program, together with Dr. Sherita Golden, an endocrinologist cross-trained in epidemiology. This new leadership team, supported by an Executive and Advisory Committee, proposes a third cycle of funding with the following specific aims: (1) to recruit a diverse group of top-notch young trainees in endocrinology (post-docs) and epidemiology (pre-docs) from a national pool of talent attracted to Johns Hopkins; (2) to enroll them in rigorous, thesis-bearing Masters' and PhD programs in Epidemiology and Clinical Investigation in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; (3) to expose them to a strong team-oriented, multi-disciplinary clinical and epidemiologic research culture in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research-the premier educational home for clinical research training at Johns Hopkins; (4) to guide each trainee to an experienced, NIH- funded mentor who will take responsibility for the successful completion of a significant thesis project. To accomplish these goals, our program brings together faculty and trainees from the Divisions of Adult and Pediatric Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine (School of Medicine), the Department of Epidemiology (School of Public Health), the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and the School of Nursing. Sixteen mentors will serve as primary faculty and were selected for their expertise, excellence in mentoring, and active NIH funding. New mentors have been added with expertise in clinical trials, health disparities, behavioral science, and community-based interventions. If our proposal is successful, then Johns Hopkins will continue to play a major national role in training the next generation of patient- and population-oriented researchers in diabetes and endocrinology.