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The future of basic and translational research in healthcare depends on the ability of large, complex health science centers to educate, discover new answers to complex problems and operate in the service of the public good. So what ingredients are required for successful research in academic health science centers? This volume presents a number of compelling, international stories about personal and professional investments in research activities as well as the challenges, opportunities and satisfactions.
List of contents
Preface. About the authors. What's the story? A composite narrative of success in science in academic health science centers. Challenges and ingredients for success in the health science enterprise: a view from two corner offices. Breaking out of the silos in the heartland: making a clinical and translational science award program sing in Indiana. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what supports translation of research into health care? Answers from the group health experience. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what promotes discovery? Experience and insights from a medical school in China. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: how the seeds were sown and grown at a summer camp for young clinicians. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: cultivating 'research mind' - reason, dreams, and discovery. The relationship-centered care research network: its birth, life-cycle, and lessons learned along the way. Successful aging in research.
About the author
Thomas S. Inui ScM, MD, MACP and Richard M. Frankel PhD respectively Director of Research, IU Center for Global Health, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, Senior Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Associate Director, Center for Implementing Evidence Based Practice, Richard L. Roudebush Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Indianapolis, USA.
Summary
This book presents a number of compelling, international stories about personal and professional investments in research activities and the challenges, opportunities, satisfactions and joys.
