# Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Training

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2022 · $357,497

## Abstract

This is a resubmission application for the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Training grant
(HL07560), continuously funded since 1983. The purposes of our program are to provide advanced training in
cardiovascular behavioral medicine research methods and knowledge to postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows.
Specifically, our training program for the postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees is designed to foster proficiency
in four distinct areas:
  Principles of behavior and behavior change, through which the theoretical underpinnings of behavioral
 risk factors are understood and interventions designed.
  Research methods and statistics, whereby the skills necessary for designing and conducting research
 and for drawing valid inferences from empirical data are developed, with exposure to analytic
 approaches to complex longitudinal data.
  Cardiovascular physiology and psychophysiology, through which an understanding is established of the
 cardiovascular and metabolic functioning in the healthy human.
  Cardiovascular diseases, including disparities among populations and principles of pathophysiology as
 related to disorders of the heart and vasculature and state of the art approaches to assessing
 biomarkers of risk and imaging subclinical and clinical cardiovascular diseases.
 Based on these foundations, our program facilitates the development of independent clinical research
scientists who take a multidisciplinary approach within the following three primary areas of concentration:
mechanistic pathways, determinants and consequences of health behaviors; and behavioral interventions to
reduce cardiovascular risk. These areas and program goals align themselves closely with the NHLBI special
programmatic emphases for training and the NHLBI Strategic vision for research in the next 5 to 10 years, and
fill an important niche in the NHLBI T32 portfolio.
 Our training program benefits from the participation of enthusiastic and committed faculty who mentor our
trainees from the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Medicine, Health and Physical Activity, and
Epidemiology and newly appointed training faculty who are physician scientists. The diverse faculty provide
collaborative and innovative research training in the above three primary areas. Our program also benefits
from the availability of appropriate course offerings; the history of multidisciplinary research and training efforts
by the above departments; and training resources at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine,
including the Clinical and Translational Science Research Institute, and Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.
Support is requested to continue the program at the level of 4 postdoctoral and 4 predoctoral trainees.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10461985
- **Project number:** 5T32HL007560-40
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** Peter J Gianaros
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $357,497
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1988-07-01 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10461985

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10461985, Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Training (5T32HL007560-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10461985. Licensed CC0.

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