Transforming Kidney Care through Skill and Workforce Development: the North Carolina Kidney Technology Incubator (NC-KTI)

摘要 这个R-25研究教育计划的中心目标是创造一条创新和人才的管道 能够(A)确定肾病患者未得到满足的临床需求的问题解决者，包括 肾脏护理当前和未来的挑战、机遇和差距(B)创建以患者为中心的创新 肾脏疾病患者的解决方案(诊断、治疗、以患者为中心的工具)(C)了解 肾脏疾病创新的整体、多学科方法的重要性 构思和投资、实验和临床数据、监管和报销途径(在 同时解决肾脏护理方面的固有差异)和(D)利用当前的肾脏创新 开发真正到达患者手中的解决方案，使肾脏疾病患者不再有 看着其他疾病的各种治疗方法，我想知道“如果不是我，那是谁，如果不是现在，那么…是什么时候？” 我们计划通过以下方式实现这些目标：(A)建立一个多样化、多学科和有才华的问题渠道 解决方案(B)制定夏季肾脏浸泡方案(技能发展)(C)形成多学科 解决问题的团队(由多学科导师指导)完成研究项目以解决未满足的问题 临床需求和(D)培养校友和留任方案，以建立网络和提供职业机会 分别进行了分析。 总而言之，我们将创建一种全面的、以患者为中心的、多学科的、基于团队的方法来解决问题 在肾脏技术领域，利用年轻、创新和有创造力的受训人员的强大渠道解决问题。多数 重要的是，我们计划投资于导师和专业发展，这将有望留住这些学员 在肾脏技术创新领域；通过这样做，我们将改变照顾患者的方式 未来的肾脏疾病。

ABSTRACT The central goal of this R-25 Research Education Program is the creation of a pipeline of innovative and talented problem solvers who can (a) identify the unmet clinical needs of patients suffering from kidney disease, including current and future challenges, opportunities and gaps in kidney care (b) create innovative patient centered solutions (diagnostics, therapeutics, patient centered tools) for kidney disease patients (c) understand the importance of a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to kidney disease innovation that goes all the way from ideation and investment, to experimental and clinical data, to regulation and reimbursement pathways (while at the same time addressing the inherent disparities in kidney care) and (d) leverage the current kidney innovation landscape to develop solutions that actually get to patients so that kidney disease patients will no longer have to look at the parade of therapies for other diseases and wonder “if not me then who and if not now then when…” We plan to achieve these goals by (a) creating a pipeline of diverse, multidisciplinary and talented problem solvers (b) developing a summer kidney immersion program (skills development) (c) forming multi-disciplinary problem-solving teams (coached by multi-disciplinary mentors) that do research projects to address unmet clinical needs and (d) nurturing an alumni and retention program for networking and career opportunities respectively. In summary, we will create a holistic, patient centered, multi-disciplinary, team-based approach to problem solving in the kidney technology area, using a robust pipeline of young, innovative and creative trainees. Most importantly, we plan to invest in mentorship and professional development, that will hopefully keep these trainees in the kidney technology innovation area; and by doing so transform the way that we will care for patients with kidney disease in the future.