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Specific Aims The Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan's (CEHNM) Career Development Program willprovide financial support, mentoring and training for a highly selective group of six junior faculty members,primarily physician-scientists, whose current research interests complement the Center's themes and diseasefocus areas. We seek to foster their development as independent investigators in environmental healthscience, while furthering the overall mission of the Center and the NIEHS. The CEHNM has an establishedtradition of recruiting and developing young faculty members and nurturing them to become independentinvestigators. The CEHNM is delighted with the opportunity afforded by the current P30 Center RFAtoapportion $100,000/year of funding that is specifically targeted toward career development, with an emphasison the development of physician-scientists who will conduct clinical and/or public health research programs.Mentoring relationships in an interdisciplinary environment are strained by or do not take place within anincreasingly complex and competitive research arena confronted with pressing and large-scale healthchallenges. The successful transfer of knowledge and skills requires structure and monitoring in a carefullydesigned training program. A key element of our proposed Career Development Program is that it is structuredaround long-term, effective mentoring that provides a framework for the day-to-day integration of teaching andlearning in an interdisciplinary environment. From beginning to end, the mentoring process will be guided byvariety of relationships that will be formal, situational and informal.
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