Training and Career Development: Clinical Care, Treatment & Disease Management – T16B
The T16B panel is a recurring Special Emphasis Panel that reviews Career Development Award (K Mechanism) applications. These career development award applications focus on the management and treatment of acute and chronic diseases or conditions using behavioral, psychological, pharmacological, and clinical approaches and interventions. Research involves a wide spectrum of disease conditions and emphasizes a wide range of biological, psychological, cultural, and social conditions and traits that affect clinical management and treatment of physical and cognitive health disorders. Approaches include those designed to improve clinical management or specialized/complex care provided to patients in varied clinical, community, and institutional settings.
Review Dates
Topics
- Cancer care management, survivorship, palliative care, cancer pain management, and survivor health behaviors
- Management and treatment of weight-loss, weight management, weight-loss maintenance strategies and food intake including obesity pharmacotherapy.
- Diabetes, lifestyle strategies, nutrition, diet, and food insecurity care management
- Post-stroke rehabilitation, caregiver support, and cardiovascular disease care management
- Patient- navigation and caregiver interventions for older adults, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
- Maternal, prenatal, perinatal, and infant health care management
