Research Career Development Core
Core Director | Terri R. Fried, M.D. |
Core Co-Director | Denise Acampora, M.P.H. |
Phone | 203-688-9423 |
The overall goal of the Research Career Development Core (RCDC) is to identify and train a cadre of clinical investigators who will be future leaders in aging research, with the skills necessary to design and conduct epidemiologic and intervention studies of multifactorial geriatric health conditions.
The specific goals of the core are:
- To promote career development and acquisition of research skills of selected junior faculty through the provision of salary, infrastructural/technical, and other career development support.
- To provide and facilitate priority access by junior faculty to the resource cores' expertise and services for the design, conduct, and analysis of studies addressing multifactorial geriatric health conditions.
- To promote the development of skills for translational research(basic->clinical->basic; clinical->practice) that addresses our focus on multifactorial geriatric health conditions.
- To identify and foster opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
- To sponsor junior faculty retreats to provide intensive training and support in research career development.
- To provide and facilitate access to educational activities in aging research locally and nationally.
- To enhance access to other career development resources, such as protocol development and staff training, geriatric instrument catalog, grant and questionnaire resource libraries, information on funding sources, assistance with identifying study populations, and assistance with identifying mentors and collaborators.
- To advance education and career development for Yale Pepper Center staff across all cores.
