The overall goals of the Field Core (FC) are to provide the methods, staff, resources, and expertisenecessary to ensure the efficient and successful completion of projects examining multifactorial geriatrichealth conditions.
The specific aims are: 1) to provide centralized participant recruitment, enrollment,assessment and surveillance services to Yale OAIC studies, including a system to carefully monitoringrecruitment and retention of minority elders in OAIC projects; 2) to provide assistance to junior faculty, withspecial attention to translational researchers, in the development of research protocols involving older adulthuman subjects and their implementation in the field; 3) to train Field Core staff in uniform and reliable,interview and assessment methods; 4) to collaborate with the Data Management and Informatics Core(DMIC) to ensure uniformity of methods and measurement when appropriate among OAIC studies and toprotect the confidentiality of data;5) to collaborate with the Biostatistics Core by identifying real worldchallenges which impact study design and sample estimation; 6) to create and advance, throughdevelopment projects, innovative strategies to overcoming obstacles encountered in studies of multifactorialgeriatric health conditions; 7) to provide assistance to externally funded investigators who wish to increasethe participation of older adult participants in their research studies; and 8) to monitor adherence toguidelines and regulations governing involvement of human subjects in OAIC projects.The FC provides essential research tools and strategies to address common challenges confronted instudies of multifactorial geriatric health conditions. The FC's mission is to offer and to improve uponmethods of recruiting, retaining, assessing and intervening safely and effectively on target populations ofolder adults. Access to a pool of well-trained Clinical Nurse Researchers and Research Associates and wellestablished professional and community relationships facilitate the efficient start-up of projects.Over the next cycle of the Yale OAIC, we will build upon established strengths of the FC, which hasevolved over the years from a focus on large observational studies to smaller intervention and pilot projects,with special attention to translational research. This latter aim was facilitated when Yale received a Clinicaland Translational Award (CTSA) from the NIH. Barbara Gulanski, MD MPH, who is Director for ClinicalServices for the CTSA, is now OAIC Co-director of translational research and also co-leader of the FieldCore. A key goal of the Field Core will be ensuring collaboration and sharing of expertise and resourcesbetween the Yale OAIC and CTSA to encourage and facilitate translational research addressingmultifactorial geriatric health conditions.
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