PROVIDENCE – The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a $2.4 million, five-year grant to fund the new Cardiopulmonary Research Training Program at Rhode Island Hospital, which will take four to eight M.D. and/or Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows each year.
The program will be co-directed by Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Rhode Island Hospital and professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, and Dr. Sharon Rounds, professor of medicine and chief of the medical service at the Providence VA Medical Center.
The Cardiopulmonary Research Training Program will train physicians and scientists in basic science and its application to the understanding of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, as well as the outcomes of prevention and treatment of these diseases.
Trainees can participate in one of three tracks: cardiovascular molecular pathobiology; pulmonary molecular pathobiology; or cardiopulmonary health services and outcomes research. The fellowship program will include classroom sessions at Brown, a mentored research experience and career development training.
“This grant is the first for our center and the Division of Cardiology to focus on training the next generation of physician-scientists,” Koren said in a news release. “It differs from most fellowship programs that focus on training clinicians to directly care for patients. Through this grant, we will position ourselves to become a premier training center in the country.”
Rounds noted that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the nation, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death, adding: “We need more researchers who can work to find the cures for these diseases. We also must train professors who will teach tomorrow’s medical students in this world of evolving technology. Having that link between clinic, classroom and lab is crucial.”
The program is based at the Coro Center in the Jewelry District. It involves 40 faculty trainers from Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, the Providence VA Medical Center, Women and Infants Hospital and Brown University. It is also multidisciplinary, with faculty from 11 academic departments at Brown, ranging from engineering and computational biology to family medicine and community health.
Trainees are now being recruited. For more information, contact
MaryAnn Machado.
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute plans, conducts and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. For more information, go to www.nhlbi.nih.gov
Rhode Island Hospital is a private, nonprofit hospital and the largest teaching hospital of The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. For more information, go to www.rhodeislandhospital.org.
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