Research Core

研究核心

• 批准号: 7685225
• 负责人: ROBERT A LEVINE
• 金额: $ 21.2万
• 依托单位: MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7685225
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1. Support the growth and development of a Risk Factor Research program at MMC with a focus on elimination of health disparities. Meharry Medical College has had a long history of conducting basic science and clinical research, but because of the faculty make-up (basic scientists and clinicians) it has smaller cadre of faculty interested in health services research. The research infrastructure was not sufficient to support population-based, social/.behavioral, outcomes or health services research. Funding of the Meharry EXPORT Center has enabled MMC to recruit senior core faculty, develop the infrastructure to support population-based, social/behavioral, outcomes, and health services research. This was accomplished by creating institutional support for health services research and breaking down departmental barriers to collaboration. Recruitment and hiring of senior health services research scientists, identifying new partners for collaboration at Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University, and securing a common space and funds to remodel and refurbish the area were achievements of the leadership of the Center. In August 2004, Dr. Juarez became the program director of the EXPORT Center. At that time, the Center had just received funding. The Center did not have senior health services research investigators at Meharry. There was not an epidemiologist or statistician and the only research oriented behavioral scientist had just accepted a position at another institution. Dr. Juarez met with the Dean/Pi and together, they developed a plan to recruit new faculty. The Dean pulled all of the institutional research centers together and found out that many of the Centers had part time positions for social and behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, and statisticians in their budgets, including EXPORT, but were unable to fill the positions. The Dean was able to get Center directors to pool support of these part-time positions so that recruit fulltime faculty could occur. Dr. Juarez chaired a national search committee to recruit a senior epidemiologist, statistician, and social/behavioral scientist. At the conclusion of the search, Drs. Maureen Sanderson and Vincent Agboto were hired. In addition, Dr. Juarez was able to attract Dr. Robert Levine, a very experienced public health investigator, back to Meharry. While we were unsuccessful in attracting a senior social/behavioral scientist, we were able to recruit two junior social/behavioral faculty members: Marino Bruce, PhD, Sociologist and Vanessa Elliott, PhD, Psychologist. Dr. Bruce was successful in obtaining funding for a K-award on his first attempt. Another national search for a senior social behavioral scientist in the next few months will be underway. In a very short time, we have recruited an exceptional strong nucleus of senior and junior social/behavioral and health service researchers who are poised to lead us to the next level. 2. Strengthen collaborations between MMC and VU. In the original application, we were partnered with the Center for Health Services Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). While the relationship did lead to pairing of junior investigators at MMC with senior research mentors at VUMC, the relationship did little to increase scholarly productivity. Over the four years, there were only a small number of publications and grants that came out of the formal collaboration and none that acknowledged the EXPORT Center. During this period, Dr. Juarez began working with social and behavioral scientists at both Vanderbilt University, mostly outside of the Medical Center as well as with investigators at TSU. These relationships have turned out to be very productive and mutually beneficial in generating collaborative research, publications, and research training activities. So while, the initial intent of developing a collaborative relationship with the Center for Health Services Research at VUMC did not pan out, we have developed strong collaborative relationships with a group of both junior and senior investigators at both Vanderbilt University and at Tennessee State University, across a broad spectrum of disciplines, who we will work with in this new application. The willingness of the large group of investigators at both TSU and VU who want to work with our "EXPORT" faculty, and are willing to do so without compensation, is a testament to the strength of the collaborative relationships we have established. 3. Strengthen the research infrastructure at MMC. We have strengthened the research infrastructure tremendously at MMC over the past four years in a number of ways, evidenced by the increase in scholarly productivity. The infrastructure has been strengthened through the hiring of new faculty who we have been able to recruit and through the collaborative relationships we have established with investigators at both TSU and Vanderbilt University. In addition to having a core nucleus of senior investigators, we also now have a defined space and identification for continuing the work of the EXPORT Center under this new initiative. During the initial funding period, the EXPORT Center has helped the institution strengthen its research infrastructure in way that supports health services research at MMC. We purchased the initial institutional site licenses for both SPSS and SAS, which the institution now fully supports because of the demand by faculty and graduate students that were generated when the EXPORT Center no longer supported the institutional licenses. In addition, we have worked closely with our College's Office of Information Technology (OIT) to support growth in institutional capacity to store, manage, and analyze large data sets. The OIT has recently (April 2008) hired a fulltime, mid-level, data manager to work with researchers. The inclusion of secondary data analysis in this new application will allow for the strengthening of capacity for managing, storing, and analyzing large secondary data sets. This is critical in supporting our work in health disparities, but also for training of junior investigators. Secondary data sets offer junior investigators opportunities for carrying out research and getting published quickly and in peer reviewed journals. This is particularly important for our clinical faculty who often do not have the level of protected time needed to conduct prospective studies. A faculty level person trained in informatics has been recruited. This will add tremendously to the capacity, which is necessary. The Office of Faculty Development and Affairs has also become increasingly involved in supporting the EXPORT Center. The Associate VP for Faculty Affairs and Development now regularly conducts faculty development sessions on health services research topics and supports faculty in going to professional conferences and training seminars to enhance their skills. 4. Increase scholarly productivity. Changes in the level of scholarly and core activities are identified in Figure 1. Scholarly activities are defined as numbers of research and other grants funded, number of papers published in peer reviewed journals, number of abstracts published, professional presentations given, training activities provided, and community education and outreach activities conducted. Only activities of nine core faculty supported by the EXPORT Center are included. A detailed list of all categories is included in the attached CD.

1。支持MMC的风险因素研究计划的增长和发展 专注于消除健康差异。梅哈里医学院的历史悠久 进行基础科学和临床研究，但由于教师的化妆（基本 科学家和临床医生）它拥有对卫生服务研究感兴趣的教师干部。 研究基础设施不足以支持基于人群的社会/行为， 成果或健康服务研究。 Meharry出口中心的资金使MMC能够招募高级核心教师 开发基础设施以支持基于人群，社会/行为，结果和健康 服务研究。这是通过为卫生服务创建机构支持来实现的 研究并打破了协作的部门障碍。招募和招聘 高级卫生服务研究科学家，确定田纳西州合作的新合作伙伴 州立大学和范德比尔特大学，并获得共同空间和资金进行改造 翻新该地区是该中心领导的成就。 2004年8月，Juarez博士成为出口中心的计划主任。在那 时间，中心刚收到资金。该中心没有高级卫生服务 Meharry的研究调查员。没有流行病学家或统计学家，也没有 以研究为导向的行为科学家刚刚接受了另一家机构的职位。博士 Juarez会见了Dean/Pi，他们共同制定了一项招募新教师的计划。这 迪恩将所有机构研究中心汇总在一起，发现许多 中心在社会和行为科学家，流行病学家以及 包括出口在内的预算中的统计学家，但无法填补职位。院长 能够让中心董事汇总这些兼职职位的支持，以便全职招募 可能会发生教师。 Juarez博士主持了一个国家搜索委员会，招募了高级 流行病学家，统计学家和社会/行为科学家。在搜索结束时，博士。 雇用了莫琳·桑德森和文森特·阿伯托。此外，Juarez博士能够吸引 经验丰富的公共卫生调查员罗伯特·莱文（Robert Levine）博士回到梅哈里（Meharry）。当我们 在吸引高级社会/行为科学家方面没有成功，我们能够招募两个 初级社会/行为教师：社会学家Marino Bruce博士和Vanessa Elliott， Phd，心理学家。布鲁斯博士在第一次获得了K-award的资金成功 试图。在接下来的几个月中，另一个国家寻找高级社会行为科学家 将在进行中。在很短的时间内，我们招募了一个特殊的强核 准备带我们去的高级和初级社会/行为和卫生服务研究人员 下一个级别。 2。加强MMC和VU之间的合作。在原始应用中，我们是 与范德比尔特大学医学中心的卫生服务研究中心合作 （VUMC）。虽然这种关系确实导致了MMC的初级调查员与高级调查员配对 VUMC的研究导师，这种关系对提高学术生产力的影响很小。超过 这四年，只有少量的出版物和赠款来自 正式的合作，没有一个能够承认出口中心的。 在此期间，Juarez博士开始与两者的社会和行为科学家合作 范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt University），主要是在医疗中心外以及TSU的调查人员。 事实证明，这些关系非常有生产力和互惠互利 协作研究，出版物和研究培训活动。因此，最初的意图 与与卫生服务研究中心建立协作关系 VUMC没有淘汰，我们与一群 范德比尔特大学和田纳西州的初级和高级调查员 大学，跨越各种各样的学科，我们将在这个新的学科中与他合作 应用。 TSU和VU的大量调查人员的意愿 与我们的“出口”教师合作，并愿意在不赔偿的情况下这样做，这是一个 证明了我们建立的协作关系的力量。 3。加强MMC的研究基础设施。我们加强了研究 在过去四年中，基础设施在MMC上以多种方式证明了 学术生产力的提高。基础设施已通过 雇用我们能够招募并通过合作的新教师 我们与TSU和范德比尔特大学的调查人员建立了关系。在 除了拥有高级研究人员的核心核心外，我们现在还拥有一个定义的空间和 根据这项新倡议继续出口中心的工作的标识。 在最初的资金期间，出口中心帮助该机构加强了 支持MMC卫生服务研究的方式研究基础设施。我们购买了 SPSS和SAS的初始机构网站许可证，该机构现在完全支持该机构 由于出口时产生的教师和研究生的需求 中心不再支持机构许可证。此外，我们与 我们学院的信息技术办公室（OIT）支持机构能力的增长 存储，管理和分析大型数据集。 OIT最近（2008年4月）雇用了全职 中层，数据经理与研究人员合作。 在此新应用程序中包含辅助数据分析将允许 加强管理，存储和分析大型次要数据集的能力。这是 支持我们在健康差异方面的工作至关重要，而且对于初级研究人员的培训至关重要。 辅助数据集为初级调查人员提供了进行研究和获取研究的机会 快速发表并在同行评审的期刊上发表。这对我们的临床特别重要 通常没有进行前瞻性研究所需的保护时间水平的教师。 已招募了接受信息学培训的教职人员。这将极大地增加 能力，这是必要的。 教师发展和事务办公室也越来越参与 支持出口中心。现在是教师事务和发展的副副总裁 定期进行有关卫生服务研究主题和支持的教师发展课程 教师参加专业会议和培训研讨会以提高他们的技能。 4。提高学术生产力。学术和核心活动水平的变化 在图1中确定。学术活动定义为研究数量和其他 资助的赠款，在同行评审期刊上发表的论文数量，摘要数量 发表的专业演讲，提供的培训活动和社区 进行的教育和外展活动。只有九个核心教师的活动 包括出口中心。所有类别的详细列表包含在附件中 光盘。