Enrichment Program

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM The WU NORC Enrichment Program will be directed by Dr. Brian DeBosch. The purpose of the Enrichment Program is to promote education, collaboration, growth and success within the NORC membership and attract qualified faculty to become NORC members. The Enrichment Program provides research seminars at WUSM, specifically a weekly NORC Metabolism, Obesity, Nutrition and Diabetes Seminar, a weekly NORC Work-in-Progress Research Seminar that allows critical peer feedback among NORC investigators, a monthly Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Interest Group that includes investigators from St. Louis University, an annual didactic course provided by the Clinical Science , and (in conjunction with the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core) an annual graduate-level course in Dissemination and Implementation Science that is available free-of-charge (without credit) to NORC members. The NORC Administrative Core supports the Enrichment Program by organizing and scheduling the speakers for the weekly NORC Research Seminar and the weekly Work-in-Progress Research Seminar, responding to requests for lectures on nutrition and obesity topics throughout the medical center and arranging for an appropriate speaker, disseminating announcements, and arranging logistics for NORC visiting professors.