This program provides opportunities for trainees to acquire essential knowledge and research skills needed to be successful in an academic career in the field of perinatal lung disease. On completion of the program, the trainees will be expected to have mastered basic analytical and laboratory tools and to have progressed to the state of developing their own independent research ideas and projects.

This multidisciplinary program for physician-scientists is designed to provide in-depth background and experience in research in lung biology. This track is divided into the following programs to allow trainees to acquire the skills needed to become independent investigators within a specific area.

The initial development of research skills is best accomplished by a two or three year period of intensive research experience with one of the faculty preceptors comprising this program. Basic science laboratories and teaching hospital facilities are available for basic and clinical research, respectively each of the preceptors and laboratories provides a research program that is directly relevant to a major area of current neonatal pulmonary medicine research. In addition formal course work and informal basic science and clinical teaching conferences that enhance the trainee’s exposure to fundamental knowledge in lung biology. Masters and PhD. programs are available to the trainee willing to make the commitment.

 

Sponsor

Neonatal Perinatal Research Institute

Supervisors

Brigid L.M. Hogan Ph.D., Richard L. Auten, M.D., and Claude A Piantadosi, M.D., Jonathan Stamler, M.D., Jo Rae Wright, Ph.D.

Additional Neonatal Pulmonary Medicine Didactic Curriculum

Physiology/Cell Biology Lecture Series
Faculty conducts a weekly one to two-hour didactic teaching program for all trainees. Both gas exchange physiology and pumonary related cell biology are taught.

Division Research Seminar
Each week a research seminar is held for research related faculty and treinees. Faculty and fellows rotate in presenting their current work, seeking constructive and critical review by their colleagues.

Research Triangle Visiting Pulmonary Scholar Program
This joint program coordinated by the Division of Pulmonary Medicine includes participation by Duke University (Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Division of Respiratory Medicine), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Clinical Research Branch and Pulmonary Toxicology Branch), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Laboratory of Pulmonary Pathobiology), North Carolina State University Vetirinary School, Glaxo-Wellcome; and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.

Six speakers are invited each academic year. The format of the Visisting Pumonary Scholar Program folllows. The visiting scholar gives two lectures during the visit. The first lecture is followed by a reception at Duke University, which includes two 30-minute research presentatios, by trainees from participation institutions.