# Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2020 · $517,647

## Abstract

Abstract/Project Summary:
This application is a competitive renewal of 5T32 MH18951-23, a postdoctoral clinical research clinical and
translational research training program in child mental health. Support is requested annually for 2 post-
residency child psychiatrists, 4 post-doctoral child psychologists or other doctorally-prepared professionals,
and four medical students for summer research electives. The postdoctoral training program, 2-3 years in
duration, aims to develop scientists who can formulate original and significant research on the pathogenesis,
course, treatment and prevention, and dissemination of effective treatments for child mental disorders. A multi-
disciplinary faculty group with a long and successful history of research and research training provides
mentorship to trainees. Most importantly, the T32 program pairs the trainee with an academically successful
mentor and co-mentor committed to research training. The mentors and trainee develop a career development
plan with targeted goals for acquisition of skills, presentations, publications, gathering pilot data, and
preparation of proposals for external funding, usually a career development (K) award; this plan is reviewed
every 6 months with the mentors, trainee, Program Director and selected Training Faculty in order to ensure
forward progress. An individually tailored course of didactic study will be developed for each trainee to insure
the acquisition of core knowledge in research design, statistics, and content areas relevant to research.
Trainees also participate in ongoing seminars on “Career and Research Development,” dealing with
formulation of scientific questions, grant writing, and project management, as well required didactic and
interactive training on the responsible conduct of research. There is high institutional commitment to this T32,
with salary and benefit supplementation by the Department, a formal K-award review process to aid trainees in
grant preparation, and resources from the CTSI to support every aspect of project development and
management. Of the 28 postdoctoral trainees who left the program since 2008, 89% completed the program,
79% have faculty appointments, including 11% at Associate Professor or higher, and 54% had external funding
(including 12 K awards), and 17% were from under-represented minorities. The program is highly competitive,
with 39 applications for 18 positions during this program period. In the summer research program, medical
students work with a research mentor from the training faculty on a project leading to a publishable product in
order to stimulate interest in child psychiatry research. Since 2008, 44% of the students who have graduated
entered psychiatry, 44% entered a pediatric or family or internal medicine residency with an interest in child
MH, and 74% published at least one peer-reviewed paper.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9914331
- **Project number:** 5T32MH018951-30
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** TINA R GOLDSTEIN
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $517,647
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1990-08-01 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9914331

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9914331, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research (5T32MH018951-30). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9914331. Licensed CC0.

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