Chancellor's Letter 

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Chancellor CollinsThe Clinical & Population Health Research (CPHR) Doctoral program is the newest doctoral training track in our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. We are extremely proud to have developed one of the first programs in the country to specifically train the next generation of graduate students in clinical and translational research methods.  

Along with the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative, UMMS has recognized that medical science faces a new era.  Discoveries from the human genome project, stem cell research, nanotechnology, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics among others, have set the stage for entirely new ways to identify, prevent, and treat disease.  At the same time we face new ethical challenges, and the need to include vulnerable populations, both here and abroad, in the best health science discoveries. 

Our program emphasizes the linking of basic science discoveries to clinical care, and clinical care advances to improving overall population health.  UMMS and its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) are poised to become one of the leading centers for the development of translational clinical research in the country.  We fully embrace the challenges inherent in transforming our research and clinical delivery systems to achieve the full continuum of translational science, from bench to bedside.  The new PhD Program in Clinical and Population Health Research addresses the national need to move health research from laboratory to bedside and from individual patients and health care sites to systems of care. 

Our CPHR doctoral track was designed specifically to prepare students to: 

  • translate new health sciences discoveries into clinical applications; 
  • understand the biology-behavior-environment interactions that affect human health; 
  • address fundamental questions of efficacy and access; and 
  • develop the skills required to make significant contributions to delivery of health care in the future. 

I believe you will find UMMS, and the Clinical & Population Health Research doctoral program, are growing, dynamic and exciting places to pursue your studies. 

Michael F. Collins, MD 
Chancellor 

 

 

 

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