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KL2 Clinical Research Career Development Program
Overview
The explosion of biological knowledge and technology contrasts with inefficient
and sometimes ineffective health care delivery. Translating scientific advances
into better health requires more and better research at several steps leading from
bench to practitioner office and to health systems and communities.
We are offering the KL2 Clinical Research Career Development Program to foster multidisciplinary
clinical research. Doctoral level Scholars are welcome from all health professions.
Intensively mentored research experience is a centerpiece of the program,
and the UW offers an extraordinary range of research cores, centers, and mentors
to support this work. Scholars pursue research in one of three program divisions:
Translational Research, Clinical Trials, or Outcomes/Clinical Epidemiology/ Health
Services Research. Most will complete an MS degree from the School of Public Health
or Pharmacy, in a Clinical Research Track.
We train investigators who will acquire depth in a specific area of research,
but also breadth of knowledge about the full spectrum of clinical investigation.
We provide them with methodological knowledge and practical skills for conducting
high quality integrative clinical research, and create an environment that infuses
them with the excitement of clinical research, and nurtures their early career development.
We believe that our graduates will become research leaders prepared to conduct multidisciplinary
clinical research using the highest ethical standards and capitalizing on new technologic
and informatics tools.
Our program involves faculty from the UW Schools of Medicine, Public Health
and Community Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, and Social Work, as well as
prominent affiliated programs such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
VA Puget Sound, and the Group Health Center for Health Studies.
UW KL2 | Contact Information
Mailing address:
UW NIH Roadmap Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Training Program
Health Sciences Building, Room J 286
1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 357183
Seattle, WA 98195-7183
Telephone: 206.221.4272
E-mail: uwk12@u.washington.edu