Mentorship
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Vitoux Seminars
The Vitoux Program on Clinical Research for Equitable Health hosts a monthly research seminar series, entitled “Nuts and Bolts in Clinical Research—Funding, Operations, and Discoveries.” We invite clinical research scientists, clinicians, and administrators at UIC and other institutions to share their success stories and lessons learned in their field of study. Speakers are encouraged to incorporate one or more of the following topics into their presentations:
- How I got my clinical research study funded? (e.g., funding agency, funding mechanism, grant writing process and tips)
- What factors made my grant proposal successful? (e.g., major strengths identified by reviewers)
- What is my clinical research study about? (e.g., scope, specific aims, and methods)
- How is my clinical research operated? What are the challenges and opportunities? (e.g., setting, population, data collection and management, safety monitoring)
- What are the findings and implications from my clinical research study? (e.g., results and “so what?” regarding practice and policy implications and future research)
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T32 Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) Postdoctoral Training Program
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) are one of the nation’s most dynamic, diverse, and progressive enterprises of higher education and health affairs. The PREMIER training program for postdoctoral fellows at UIC harnesses the University’s vibrant academic environment, highly diverse faculty and student bodies, and substantial synergistic programs, infrastructure and resources, to maximize its fellows’ ability to succeed in their paths towards independent lifestyle medicine researchers of the future.
Precision lifestyle medicine, which integrates behavioral science with mechanistic investigation and modern technology, affords the promise of providing precise, proactive, and personalized care for individuals with or at risk of multiple chronic conditions. At the same time, research on health behavior and behavior change that spans the spectrum of translation to humans (T1), to patients (T2), to practice (T3), and to population health (T4) is pivotal to achieve ultimate public health impact.