Mentoring in Patient-Oriented Addiction Research

简介(由申请人提供)：我是一名有执照的临床心理学家和麻省总医院(MGH)成瘾康复管理处(ARMS)主任，麻省总医院-哈佛康复研究所的创始人和主任，成瘾医学中心(CAM)的副主任。我也是哈佛医学院(HMS)精神病学副教授，美国心理协会成瘾问题分会(第50分会)候任主席，以及美国心理学会会员。自1995年以来，我一直参与NIAAA赞助的以患者为导向的成瘾研究(POAR)，并自2006年以来一直作为首席研究员由NIAAA资助。2006年，我被邀请帮助指导MGH CAM，并开始建立一个蓬勃发展的临床研究计划，并花费大量时间进行指导。我的研究重点是了解酒精使用障碍(AUD)患者的治疗反应、长期结果和一生中行为变化的机制。我目前担任一项NIAAA R01和一项R21奖励的首席研究员(PI)。我指导着越来越多的初级调查员。我们正在努力提高AUD患者的治疗效果和康复结果，以开发具有成本效益的方法，并减轻相关的健康、经济和社会负担。我在一个丰富的临床研究环境中工作，这是培训初级POA教师的理想选择。然而，我没有得到任何机构对指导的支持，并将被要求削减指导 从2013年初开始努力承担重大的临床责任。K24奖项将保护原本被用于临床和行政责任的时间，使我能够继续为初级研究人员提供密集的指导，并吸引研究人员来到POAR。我的长期职业目标是：1)通过开发、实施和评估新型的治疗和康复支持服务干预措施，改善AUD患者的预后；2)提高我们对哪些患者在哪个恢复期需要哪种类型的治疗和康复支持组合的知识；3)了解可能阻碍或促进有效恢复策略的形成、实施和维持的系统和政策因素；4)为POAR中的早期职业研究者提供有指导的研究机会。获奖期间要实现的具体目标是：1)发展治疗和康复政策方面的具体内容专门知识，以及治疗和康复支助服务组合的设计、实施和评估；2)保护初级调查人员实质性指导的时间，这通常是在资助研究的背景下进行的，以便更密集的指导将提高正在进行的POAR的质量和产出；以及3)继续和扩大对POAR的参与。K24将帮助我延长我的POAR，节省时间，促进与受训者在资助项目、辅助研究、二次分析以及论文和赠款方面的工作，这些将为正在进行的POAR增加价值。我将把30%的时间用于指导，20%用于培训，45%用于资助POAR。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS), founder and director of the MGH-Harvard Recovery Research Institute, and Associate Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine (CAM). I am also an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), President Elect of the American Psychological Association Division on Addiction (Division 50), and a fellow of APA. I have collaborated in NIAAA-sponsored patient-oriented addiction research (POAR) since 1995 and have been continuously funded as a Principal Investigator by NIAAA since 2006. In 2006, I was asked to help direct the MGH CAM and began building a thriving clinical research program and spending significant time mentoring. My research has focused on understanding treatment response, long-term outcomes, and mechanisms of behavior change across the lifespan for individuals suffering from alcohol use disorder (AUD). I currently serve as principal investigator (PI) for one NIAAA R01 and one R21 grant award. I mentor a growing group of junior investigators. We are working to enhance treatment effectiveness and recovery outcomes for individuals treated for AUD to develop cost-efficient approaches and lessen the related health, economic, and social burden. I work in a rich environment for clinical research, which is ideal for training junior faculty in POA. However, I receive no institutional support for mentoring and will be required to curtail mentoring efforts to assume significant clinical responsibilities beginning early 2013. The K24 award will protect time that would otherwise be diverted to clinical and administrative responsibilities to allow me to continue to provide intensive mentorship to junior investigators and attract researchers to POAR. My long term career objectives are: 1) To improve outcomes for individuals with AUD by developing, implementing, and evaluating novel treatment and recovery support service interventions; 2) To improve our knowledge about which types of treatment and recovery support combinations are needed for which patients during which recovery phases; 3) To understand systems and policy factors that may impede or facilitate the formation, implementation, and maintenance of effective recovery strategies; 4) To provide mentored research opportunities for early career investigators in POAR. The specific aims to be accomplished during the period of the award are to 1) Develop specific content expertise in treatment and recovery policy, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of treatment and recovery support service combinations; 2) Protect time for substantive mentoring of junior investigators in POAR, which will often take place within the context of funded research, such that more intensive mentorship will increase quality and output from ongoing POAR; and 3) Continue and extend involvement in POAR. The K24 will help me extend my POAR by protecting time that will facilitate work with mentees on funded projects, ancillary studies, secondary analyses, and papers and grants that will add value to ongoing POAR. I will devote 30% time to mentoring, 20% time to training, and 45% time to funded POAR.