Recruiting, Retaining, and Maintaining Racial and Ethnic Minority Investigators: Why We Should Bother, Why We Should Care
Victoria A. Cargill, MD, MSCE
Victoria A. Cargill is with the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Victoria A. Cargill, MD, MSCE, Director of Minority Research and Clinical Studies, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Suite 4000, Bethesda, MD 20892 (e-mail: vc52x@nih.gov).
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INTRODUCTION
This supplement of the Journal captures a series of conversationstransformed into analytical essays by racial and ethnic minorityacademic researchers at every level. From junior faculty tosenior investigator, these individuals have provided a uniquevantage point into the challenges and opportunities that facethose who seek to achieve the ultimate badge of honor in academicwork, to become the respected "triple threat": to teach, toconduct research, and to publish peer-reviewed papers on theoutcomes of this research. These candid insights into the lifeof a minority faculty member striving to become an academicinvestigator demonstrate that to . . . [Full Text]
