Jobs
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Dementia & Brain Health Research
Posted 26 Sep 2023
Employer
San Francisco VA Health Care System
Contact
To apply, please email the following to Tina Hoang (research manager), tina.hoang@va.gov.
1. Letter of interest detailing your research experience, interests, career goals, and proposed faculty mentor(s) from list above.
2. CV.
3. Three letters of recommendation The application deadline is November 15, 2023. Applications submitted after that date may be considered until the position is filled.
Description
Kristine Yaffe and the Center for Population Brain Health are recruiting for a two-year postdoctoral advanced fellowship program in mental health research and treatment with a focus on dementia, cognitive health, and geriatric neuropsychiatry. This fellowship is associated with the Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (MIRECC; VISN 21) and affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The primary goal of the fellowship is to train MDs in psychiatry, neurology, geriatrics or related fields; psychologists/neuropsychologists; or other allied health professionals to become leading clinical researchers in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, cognitive aging, brain health, and geriatric neuropsychiatry.
Over the course of the two-year program, fellows are trained in clinical research and clinical care service delivery devoting 75 percent time to research and educational activities including didactics and career development seminars and 25 percent to clinical training. Fellows will be responsible for driving innovative research projects while also gaining clinical and translational research experience/skills and training to become an independent investigator.
The candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with SFVA/UCSF investigators and participate in didactic sessions. Under the mentorship of Dr. Kristine Yaffe, the scholar will design and execute dementia and cognitive aging research studies, write manuscripts for peer reviewed publications, develop, presentations for conferences and meetings, and contribute to grant development. Potential projects may be focused on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in dementia; social determinants of brain health; and relationships with risk factors of cognitive aging including traumatic brain injury, PTSD, depression, cardiovascular risk factors, and sleep. Ideal applicants would have particular interest in expanding expertise in population-based brain health.