Mayo Clinic Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：马约诊所跨学科妇女健康研究（IWHR）计划旨在高度响应"建立妇女健康跨学科职业" RFA-OD-09 - 006。嵌入在我们的程序的设计是RFA的每个overeignthemes，包括在妇女的健康，遗传，激素和性/性别差异的环境决定因素的跨学科研究，以及健康状况不成比例地影响妇女在其整个生命周期。马约诊所的一个特殊优势是我们的临床，教育和研究活动的协作和跨学科性质，这些活动构成了我们以患者为中心的机构的核心。因此，我们的IWHR计划的主题是跨学科研究。这一主题体现了研究课题和导师的多样性，其中许多人已经建立了与其他IWHR教师和跨学科和部门的合作。我们计划的范围包括基础和临床科学的研究培训，重点是预防和治疗1）女性特有的疾病或病症; 2）不成比例地影响女性;或3）与男性相比，女性表现不同。在此范围内，我们的研究重点是特定领域：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/妇科疾病和疼痛管理/生活质量/结果。国际妇女健康研究所方案教师的成员被选为他们现有的合作研究方案内外的马约，其方案的卓越性和重要性，以促进妇女的健康，以及他们的兴趣和成功的记录作为一个导师/教育工作者在跨学科研究。IWHR学者将受益于结构化，指导性的研究培训经验，包括适合他们的背景和职业目标的教学计划。我们的IWHR计划的广泛范围和跨学科性质反映了马约的学科内和学科间的机会，并将妇女健康研究扩展到目前在其他资助的BIRCWH计划中所代表的范围之外。因此，马约诊所妇女健康研究方案将有助于保持国家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.