b'NPCRC IMPACT REPORTWEVE CREATED A NEW GENERATIONOF SCIENTIFIC LEADERS.There has historically beenand there currently remainsa national shortage of qualified investigators conducting research in palliative care. According to the Institute of Medicine, the lack of trained investigatorsis a major impediment to the growth of our field. When NPCRC was created in 2005, most of the existing 51 fellowship training programs in the U.S. had only one or two fellows, and the programs followed an apprenticeship model of education, offering zeroto limited research training. Starting in 2009following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelinespalliative care fellowship programs began to be designed as one-year clinical training programsbut to this day they continue to lack support for research training. Those interested in pursuing research careers must seek increased training support; for this they turn to philanthropic dollars, institutional intramural funding, or related training grants in other fields, such as oncology, geriatrics, or heart disease. In the absence of largewell-funded palliative care research centers/departments, junior faculty are typically supported under the auspices of a senior investigatorsgrant funding. Given the small number of established senior investigators and the limited research dollars available even to them, the ability of the field to sustain and grow itself has been limited.The annual Kathleen M. FoleyResearch Retreat brings together NPCRCs grants have strongly contributed to addressing both the workforce the brightest palliative care and evidence gaps in palliative care research. We are best known for two researchers in the country. signature programs that have supported investigator development: the It creates community, nurturesPilot/Exploratory Support Grants and the Kornfeld Scholars Program ideas, and grows the field. (formerly known as the NPCRC Career Development Awards).6'