Integrative and Multidisciplinary Pain and Aging Research Training

综合性多学科疼痛和衰老研究培训

• 批准号: 9143042
• 负责人: Roger B Fillingim
• 金额: $ 26.03万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9143042
• 关键词: Aging; Pain; Research Training; multidisciplinary; Aging; Pain; Research Training; multidisciplinary

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As detailed in a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, chronic pain represents a major public health concern, affecting 100 million U.S. adults and costing more than $500 billion annually. Aging confers increased risk for chronic pain, with half of older adults reporting persistent or recurring pain, and aging is associated with greater pain-related loss of physical and psychosocial function. Current knowledge regarding pain and aging is surprisingly limited, and future progress in the field hinges on the availability of well-trained scientists who have an appreciation for preclinical and clinical research approaches to the study of both aging and pain. At present, there are no existing NIH-funded T32 programs devoted to training in pain and aging. To address this unmet need, we propose to develop a new postdoctoral training program: the Integrative and Multidisciplinary Pain and Aging Research Training (IMPART) Program. The overall goal of the IMPART program is to develop outstanding independent investigators capable of sustaining productive clinical and translational research careers addressing the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying age-related changes in the experience of pain and/or designing clinical interventions to ameliorate acute and chronic pain among older adults. In order to accomplish this overarching goal, the specific aims of this new postdoctoral training program in pain and aging research are to: 1) Recruit and train promising junior investigators to conduct mechanistically-based and clinically relevant translational research in pain and aging; 2) Implement an integrated didactic and experiential training program, which will equip trainees with new research skills and the knowledge and expertise to apply these skills to address important and unanswered questions regarding pain and aging; and 3) Create a culture of research excellence in order to ensure that trainees aspire to the high standards of scientific integrity and quality, which will set the tone for their future careers in pain and aging research. IMPART leverages two excellent and collaborative research programs at the University of Florida - the aging research community represented by the Institute on Aging (IOA), and the pain research community, organized under the Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE). Each member of the training faculty boasts an excellent track record of both research funding and mentoring experience. The proposed program requests support for four postdoctoral trainees from a variety of training backgrounds, each of whom will work with their multidisciplinary mentoring team to create and implement a tailored independent development plan as the blueprint for their training. Trainees will achieve their research and career development objectives through a combination of didactic, research, and professional development activities, and program evaluation will be ongoing and multimodal. The IMPART Program is committed to promoting diversity among our trainees, and the program will provide a training experience that emphasizes excellence in research integrity and ethics.

 描述（由适用提供）：如最近一份医学研究所（IOM）报告所述，慢性疼痛代表了一个主要的公共卫生问题，影响了1亿美国成年人，每年耗资超过5亿美元。衰老的贡献增加了慢性疼痛的风险，一半的老年人报告持续或反复出现的疼痛，并且衰老与身体和心理社会功能的疼痛丧失更大有关。当前关于疼痛和衰老的知识令人惊讶地受到限制，并且该领域的未来进步取决于训练有素的科学家的可用性，他们对临床前和临床研究方法对衰老和疼痛的研究表示赞赏。目前，没有现有的NIH资助的T32计划，专门用于疼痛和衰老的培训。为了满足这一未满足的需求，我们建议制定新的博士后培训计划：综合和多学科疼痛和老化研究培训（IMPART）计划。该计划的总体目标是开发能够维持生产性临床和翻译研究事业的杰出独立研究人员，以解决与年龄相关的生物心理社会机制的疼痛和/或设计临床干预经历，以改善老年人的急性和慢性疼痛。为了实现这一总体目标，这项新的疼痛和衰老研究博士后培训计划的具体目的是：1）招募和培训承诺的初级研究人员，以机械的基于机械的疼痛和衰老方面的基于机械的和临床相关的转化研究； 2）实施一项综合的教学和专家培训计划，该计划将为受训者提供新的研究技能以及知识和专家，以应用这些技能来解决有关疼痛和衰老的重要问题； 3）创造一种卓越的研究文化，以确保受训者渴望符合高标准的科学完整性和质量，这将为他们的未来树立基调 疼痛和衰老研究的职业。授予佛罗里达大学的两个出色和协作研究计划 - 老化研究所（IOA）（IOA）和疼痛研究社区的老龄化研究社区，以及在痛苦研究和卓越干预中心（Price）下组织的疼痛研究社区。培训教师的每个成员都拥有研究资金和心理经验的出色记录。拟议的计划要求支持来自各种培训背景的四名博士后学员，他们每个人都将与他们的多学科指导团队合作，以创建和实施量身定制的独立开发计划，作为其培训的蓝图。学员将通过教学，研究和专业发展活动的结合来实现他们的研究和职业发展目标，并且计划评估将持续和多模式。 Impart计划致力于促进我们的培训之间的多样性，该计划将提供培训经验，强调研究完整性和道德方面的卓越性。