Transcript MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IN THE …

University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
Selection of the Scholars
Wishwa N. Kapoor, M.D., M.P.H.
Director,
Institute for Clinical Research Education
Multidisciplinary Clinical
Research Scholars Program
 Objective:
 Stimulate multidisciplinary clinical research
training and education
 Enhance career development of early
investigators from multiple disciplines, specialties
and subspecialties
 Establish a critical mass of national Programs
devoted to developing an integrated,
multidisciplinary and diverse workforce
Training Future
Leaders in Clinical Research
 Elements
 Didactic: study design, statistics, informatics,
ethics, grant writing, team leaderships and
management, grant writing
 Research: innovative ways of using multiple
disciplines to study an important health problem
• Use the expertise of multiple disciplines
• Team mentoring by multiple disciplines
 Shared Clinical Research Support Facility
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Based in the Schools of the Health Science
 Medicine, GSPH, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Rehab
 Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee
 Senior investigators from all of the Schools
 Training
 CRTP, additional new courses
 Multidisciplinary Research based in Centers and Institutes
 Team Mentoring
 Shared Clinical Research Support Facility developed by
CRHC
 Evaluation
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 MAC—Senior investigators from all of the Schools
 Representatives from all of the Schools of the Health Sciences, GCRC,
Center for Minority Health, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies;
represents 20 disciplines
 Meets monthly and guides direction, focus and components:
• Select Scholars
• Review, monitor and recommend changes in curriculum
• Approve the individually customized training program for Scholars
• Monitoring and evaluation of each Scholar
• Monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness of the program
 Participate in biannual review of each Scholar’s progress report and
their plans
 Executive Committee
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Training: CRTP, additional new courses
 CRTP is well established and provides an MS in Clinical
Research
 Additional courses:
• Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills
• Best Practices in Clinical Research
• Leadership, Team Building and Innovation Seminars
 Individualized advanced educational program: availability
of other MS/MPH degrees, PhD degrees and courses in
Schools of the Health Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Research based in Centers and Institutes
 Provide a 5 year proposal with sections similar to the
NIH guidelines
 Provide details of what would be accomplished during
2 years and how it will be used to develop further
grants
 Provide details of K application or other grant
proposals to continue research
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Team mentoring
 2 or more disciplines, specialties and subspecialties
 Integrated joint mentoring
 Project should demonstrate the importance of input from multiple
disciplines
• Projects require the skill sets of mentors from different disciplines
• Mentors meet together with sufficient frequency to make
important contributions to the mentee’s research
• Mentors communicate regularly with the mentee and each other
 Letters must show strong evidence of team approach and integration
of the disciplines in research
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Support
 Scholar salary: 75-100% support for 2 years
 Research Project: up to $25 K per year
 Shared Clinical Research Core: epi, biostat, data
management expertise
 Travel, tuition, fees and books
 Support development of grants
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Scholars Program
 Applications will be reviewed in terms of
 Background and clinical training
 Have the ‘fire in the belly’ for clinical research
 The proposed research training program will help them develop
into an independent investigators
 Evidence is provided that team mentoring will work
 Have been able to describe a research plan that is interesting,
innovative and feasible and involves multiple disciplines to make
it happen
 There is a strong research environment and strong commitment to
the candidate