The Indiana Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (I-STARR) program, housed at the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), has been awarded a $290,881 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The 5-year program aims to train up to 12 resident-physicians from primary care residencies in research methods focused on understanding and reducing health disparities in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Key activities include enrolling residents in research methods didactics, providing career development experiences and a grant writing curriculum, and matching resident-investigators with research preceptors for 12+ months of mentored research. Applying a health disparities lens, the program will enable early-career clinicians to develop the skills needed to become clinician-investigators and devise more effective interventions to improve population health, especially for disadvantaged communities.
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