This program announcement has been out since last fall, but in light
of recent concern with patient safety and medical error, I thought I
would bring it to your attention:
MIDCAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH (K24)
Release Date: October 8, 1999
PA NUMBER: PA-00-005
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Eye Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Center for Research Resources
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented
Research (K24) is to provide support for clinicians to allow them
protected time to devote to patient-oriented research and to act as
mentors for beginning clinical investigators. The target candidates
are outstanding clinical scientists who are actively engaged in
patient-oriented research. Candidates are generally within 15 years
of their specialty training. Candidates must be able to demonstrate
the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of
enhancing their clinical research careers and must be committed to
mentoring the next generation of patient-oriented researchers. The
award is intended to further both the research and mentoring
endeavors of outstanding patient-oriented investigators, to enable
them to expand their potential for significant contributions to their
field, and to act as mentors for beginning clinician researchers.
For the purposes of this award, patient-oriented research is defined
as research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human
origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which
an investigator directly interacts with human subjects. This area of
research includes 1) mechanisms of human disease; 2) therapeutic
interventions; 3) clinical trials, and; 4) the development of new
technologies.
The NIH is especially interested in increasing the number of
scientists trained to conduct high-quality clinical research.
Accordingly, this award forms an important part of the NIH initiative
to attract and retain talented individuals to the challenges of
patient-oriented research. With a view towards stabilizing clinical
research settings and preventing an interruption in trainee
mentoring, the NIH has chosen to establish the MIDCAREER INVESTIGATOR
AWARD IN PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH. This award is intended to
relieve clinical investigators from patient care duties and
administrative responsibilities, thereby increasing the opportunities
for clinicians in midcareer to be well grounded in patient-oriented
research. This initiative is consistent with the recommendations of
the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research
(http://www.nih.gov/news/crp/index.html) and the recommendations from
the Institute of Medicine Committee on Addressing Career Paths for
Clinical Research.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT THE SITE AT:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/PA-files/PA-00-005.html
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Isabelle Melese-d'Hospital, Ph.D.
Research Specialist
Emergency Medical Services for Children National Resource Center
111 Michigan Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20010-2970
phone: (301) 650-8059 fax: (301) 650-8045
email: [log in to unmask] website: www.ems-c.org
For more information, send mail to [log in to unmask] with the message: info PED-EM-L
The URL for the PED-EM-L Web Page is:
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Emergency_Medicine/ped-em-l.html
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