Due to funding constraints, changes in NIH policy, program transitions, and a large number of continuing K12 Clinical Scholars, we cannot accept new applications in 2007 (for the July 2008 start date). However, we are optimistic that we can resume the application process in September of 2008.

K12 Clinical Research Career Development Program

Overview

The explosion of biological knowledge and technology contrasts with inefficient and sometimes ineffective health care delivery. Translating scientific advances into better health requires more and better research at several steps leading from bench to practitioner office and to health systems and communities.

We are offering a Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program at the University of Washington, funded through the National Institutes of Health K12 initiative. Doctoral level Scholars are welcome from all health professions. Intensively mentored research experience will be the centerpiece of the program, and the UW offers an extraordinary range of research cores, centers, and mentors to support this work. Scholars will pursue research in one of three program divisions: Translational Research, Clinical Trials, or Outcomes/Clinical Epidemiology/ Health Services Research. Most will complete an MS degree from the School of Public Health or Pharmacy, in a Clinical Research Track.

We will train investigators who will acquire depth in a specific area of research, but also breadth of knowledge about the full spectrum of clinical investigation. We will provide them with methodological knowledge and practical skills for conducting high quality integrative clinical research, and create an environment that infuses them with the excitement of clinical research, and nurtures their early career development. We believe that our graduates will become research leaders prepared to conduct multidisciplinary clinical research using the highest ethical standards and capitalizing on new technologic and informatics tools.

The program will involve faculty from the UW Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Community Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, and Social Work, as well as prominent affiliated programs such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, VA Puget Sound, and the Group Health Center for Health Studies.