Center of Excellence for Diabetes in Americans of Mexican Descent

拟议中的墨西哥裔美国人糖尿病卓越中心旨在开展 研究墨西哥裔美国人糖尿病及其并发症的生理进展， 制定糖尿病预防策略，测试有效干预的创新方法， 2型糖尿病患者中的少数群体。该中心提出了一个行政核心， 研究核心，包括三个研究项目和两个试点研究，一个培训核心和一个社区 参与核心。 行政核心的目的是监督向这4个机构中的每一个机构分配支助和资源。 卓越中心（COE）核心，并协调它们的相互作用，以便它们以最大的效率运行 协同作用和尽量减少工作重复。德克萨斯大学商学院布朗斯维尔校区 公共卫生是这项申请的主要机构，合作机构是地理上的 毗邻德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔/德克萨斯州最南端学院（UTB/TSC）。教师从姐姐 休斯顿德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院的校园也参与了这一活动。 应用程序.这些组织目前都是现有的促进发展卓越伙伴关系的伙伴。 3月资助的社区外展和关于健康和培训差距的研究（出口）赠款 2003. Dr. Colom和Dr. McCormick是现有EXPORT的共同主要研究者（Co-Pis） 授予并将在此应用程序中继续这些角色。教务长和校长的支持信 UTB见附录1。来自德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院的支持信 官员也在附录1中找到。 行政核心将负责分配和监督中心的所有资源， 促进COE组件之间的通信。COE的方向将在 执行委员会由PI（也是中心主任）和主要研究者组成， COE核心和UTB/TSC合作伙伴的PI。行政核心将建立科学的 咨询委员会（SAC）将每年举行会议，审查该计划的进展和内容。它将 由该应用程序的关键学科的区域专家组成，行政核心也将是 沿着社区参与核心，负责维护当前的社区关系， 以及管理社区咨询委员会的职能，该委员会目前正在为该项目充分发挥作用 导出.行政核心将负责与其他研究中心建立研究关系。 国家排雷中心网络的卓越中心。执行委员会与SAC将 为核心中心教师和少数民族健康的选择提供监督和支持 在中心内进行差异研究。行政核心将与SAC合作， 根据EXPORT的试点和数据，规划和支持新的研究应用 从这个探索性的COE中产生。最后，行政核心将负责维护 卓越中心的现有网站。

The proposed Center of Excellence on Diabetes in Americans of Mexican Descent aims to conduct research on the physiologic progression to diabetes and its complications among Mexican Americans, and to develop diabetes prevention strategies and test innovative approaches to effective interventions in a minority population severely affected by type 2 diabetes. This Center proposes an administrative core, a research core including three research projects and two pilot studies, a training core and a community engagement core. The purpose of the administrative core is to oversee the allocation of support and resources to each of the 4 Center of Excellence (COE) cores and to coordinate their interaction so that they operate with maximum synergy and minimum duplication of effort. The Brownsville Campus of the University of Texas School of Public Health is the primary institution for this application, and the partner institution is the geographically adjacent University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC). Faculty from the sister campus of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston are also participating in this application. These organizations are all currently partners in the existing Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach and Research on Disparities in Health and Training (EXPORT) grant funded in March 2003. Dr. Colom and Dr. McCormick are the Co-Principal Investigators (Co-Pis) of the existing EXPORT grant and will continue those roles in this application. Letters of support from the Provost and President of UTB are in appendix 1. Letters of support from appropriate University of Texas School of Public Health officials are also found in Appendix 1. The administrative core will be responsible for the allocation and oversight of all Center resources and facilitate communication between the COE components. The direction of the COE will be under the Executive Committee consisting of the PI who is also the Center Director, and the principal investigators of the COE cores and the PI of the UTB/TSC partner. The administrative core will establish a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) that will meet annually to review the progress and content of the program. It will consist of regional experts in the key disciplines of this application The administrative core will also be responsible, along with the Community Engagement Core, for maintaining current community relationships, and for administering the functions of the Community Advisory Board, currently fully functional for the Project EXPORT. The Administrative Core will be responsible for establishing research relationships with the other Centers of Excellence in the NCMHD network. The Executive Committee in conjunction with the SAC will provide oversight and support for the selection of the core center faculty and the minority health disparities research to be conducted within the center. The Administrative Core will work with the SAC to plan and support new applications for research based on the pilots from EXPORT and from data generated from this exploratory COE. Finally the Administrative Core will be responsible for maintaining the existing website for the Center of Excellence.