CHOP Pediatric Scholars Program

描述（由申请人提供）：费城儿童医院（CHOP）建议继续我们的NICHD赞助的儿童健康研究职业发展奖（CHRCDA）K12培训计划。我们的目标是通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教师成为成功的医生-科学家，并鼓励这些人解决对儿童健康和疾病至关重要的问题，来增加经过严格培训和良好发展的分子技术技能的专科儿科医生的数量和有效性。我们计划的候选人将是CHOP初级教师，他们要么是从我们优秀的子专业奖学金学员中任命的，这些学员又是通过全国搜索确定的，以确定最好和最聪明的，要么是从广泛的招聘策略确定的候选人中任命的。我们将支持每年3名学者谁是儿科专科奖学金计划的毕业生，并支持每个学者平均两年。每位候选人将从44名导师中选择一名未来的导师，其中39名来自CHOP（儿科，病理学和外科），5名来自宾夕法尼亚大学（Penn）。这些CHRCDA导师是通过以下标准选择的：严格的科学和生产力领域密切相关的儿科，成功的指导与合作研究互动的良好记录，校外资金的良好记录，和计划的平衡。儿科学者将按照他们的正式研究申请进行研究。他们将随时可以使用各种研究核心实验室，并有充分机会在正式和非正式场合与高级和其他初级调查人员交流意见。在过去的20年里，我们已经非常成功地催化生产的物理学家，科学家能够进行基础，独立的研究。我们已经培训了54名儿科学者，来自广泛的子专业，这些学者在出版物，资助支持，学术职位和领导职位方面都非常成功。我们的多样性招聘官领导一个计划，招聘，保留，指导和激励来自代表性不足的少数民族，残疾人或其他弱势群体的医生科学家，他们将在儿科医学研究中发挥重要作用。除了主要研究者/项目总监，培训总监和多元化招聘官，我们有内部顾问和外部咨询委员会，有以下职责：1）征求和选择申请人; 2）监测CHRCDA儿科学者的进展;和3）评估CHRCDA作为职业发展计划的整体有效性。这笔赠款利用了CHOP作为学术儿科机构的巨大优势，拥有优秀的专科研究员，大量经验丰富的导师和尖端的研究项目。CHOP和Penn提供了一个非常全面，支持良好和资源密集的环境，以及培训基础和翻译学术研究人员成为独立的医生科学家的良好记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) proposes to continue our NICHD-sponsored Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) K12 Training Program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with rigorous training and well developed skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists, and by encouraging these individuals to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be CHOP junior faculty either appointed from our outstanding pool of subspecialty fellowship trainees, who in turn are identified through national searches to identify the best and the brightest, or from candidates identified by broad recruitment strategies. We will support 3 Scholars per year who are graduates of Pediatric Subspecialty Fellowship Programs, and support each Scholar for an average of two years. Each candidate will choose a prospective mentor from a group of 44 mentors, 39 from CHOP (Pediatrics, Pathology, and Surgery) and five from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). These CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science and productivity in areas germane to pediatrics, a strong record of successful mentoring with collaborative research interactions, a strong record of extramural funding, and programmatic balance. Pediatric Scholars will conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive array of research core laboratories, and they will have ample opportunity to exchange ideas in both formal and informal settings with senior and other junior investigators. In the past 20 years, we have been highly successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental, independent research. We have trained 54 Pediatric Scholars from a wide range of subspecialties, and these Scholars have been highly successful in terms of publications, grant support, academic positions, and positions of leadership. Our Diversity Recruitment Officer leads a plan to recruit, retain, mentor, and inspire physician-scientists from underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, or other disadvantaged persons who will assume prominent roles in pediatric medical research. Besides the Principal Investigator/Program Director, Training Director and Diversity Recruitment Officer, we have Internal Advisors and an External Advisory Committee that have the following responsibilities: 1) solicit and select applicants; 2) monitor the progress of CHRCDA Pediatric Scholars; and 3) assess the overall effectiveness of the CHRCDA as a career development program. This grant takes advantage of the tremendous strengths of CHOP as an academic pediatric institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, a large number of experienced mentors, and cutting edge research programs. CHOP and Penn provide a very comprehensive, well-supported and resource-intense environment, as well as a proven track record of training basic and translational academic investigators to become independent physician-scientists.