Mentoring in Patient Oriented Research on Asthma and the Indoor Environment

描述（由申请人提供）：该候选人目前是约翰霍普金斯的儿科副教授，也是儿科过敏症专家/免疫学家、流行病学家和环境卫生科学家，其广泛的职业目标是了解环境对哮喘的影响，从而采取可行和可操作的公共卫生干预措施来预防哮喘并降低哮喘发病率。由于微生物、过敏原和污染物之间的复杂相互作用必须加以理解，以便在预防和治疗过敏性疾病的环境控制策略方面取得重大进展，本项目的一个主要目的是扩展她的研究计划，研究环境微生物暴露对哮喘的影响。此外，候选人在以患者为导向的研究（POR）中指导学员的良好记录，并建议通过教学和指导学习的结合来发展高级指导技能。因此，本建议的第二个目的是保护她的辅导时间和进一步发展辅导技能。指导技能和研究开发将部分发生在拟议研究项目的背景下，该项目旨在检验环境暴露于SE+ S的假设。金黄色葡萄球菌以SE特异性IgE依赖方式引起城市儿童哮喘发病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The candidate is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and a pediatric allergist/immunologist, epidemiologist, and environmental health scientist whose broad career goal is to develop an understanding of the effects of the environment on asthma that results in feasible and actionable public health interventions to prevent asthma and reduce asthma morbidity. As the complex interplay between microbes, allergens, and pollutants must be understood in order to make significant progress in environmental control strategies for prevention and treatment of allergic disease, one major aim of this project is to extend her research program to study the effects of environmental microbial exposures on asthma. In addition, the candidate has a strong track record of mentoring trainees in patient-oriented research (POR) and proposes to develop advanced mentorship skills with a combination of didactic and mentored learning. Thus, the second aim of this proposal is to protect her time for mentorship and further development of mentoring skills. The mentorship skills and research development will occur, in part, in the context of the proposed research project, which aims to test the hypothesis that environmental exposure to SE+ S. aureus causes asthma morbidity in urban children in a SE-specific IgE dependent manner.