Postdoc Research Fellow Psychiatry

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Job Summary

Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Hybrid)

The Mass General Brigham (MGB) Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) has served as a hub for interdisciplinary research with a focus on behavioral intervention development and testing since 2021. CHOIR has been quite successful in securing federal funding and is led by Dr. Ana-Maria Vranceanu, a clinical psychologist. Many of the current funded projects focus on critical care, caregiving, aging, and chronic pain. In addition to a large research portfolio, CHOIR houses an APA-approved predoctoral internship program (3 interns), an NIA-funded T32 fellowship, and an NIA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, as well as a site for local predoctoral practicum students in clinical psychology. The environment is highly supportive of early career faculty, including a “K club” for investigators who are in various stages of developing or executing career development projects, and a weekly research seminar with MGH based and national investigators from various disciplines interested in interdisciplinary collaborations.

CHOIR is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our team. The fellow will work under the primary mentorship of Dr. Alexander Presciutti and contribute to a growing critical care survivorship team within CHOIR. The fellow will primarily serve as an interventionist on an NIA R01-funded trial comparing the efficacy of two telehealth-delivered interventions for emotional distress in family caregivers of patients with coma (severe acute brain injury). The fellow will also deliver behavioral interventions for emotional distress in cardiac arrest survivors and their family caregivers. This is an exciting opportunity to gain applied experience in clinical research focused on critical care survivorship, caregiver interventions, and dyadic interventions. Clinical psychology trainees will have ample opportunities for supervised clinical services to gain licensure.

We are a dynamic team committed to fostering a collaborative and intellectually curious environment. As mentioned, mentoring is fundamental to our center and something that is taken very seriously. As a result, our trainees have been quite successful in securing funding to start their independent research careers and many stay within our center. We welcome applicants who are motivated, eager to learn, and excited to be part of a team working to produce research that has a meaningful impact in the lives of those with critical illness and their family caregivers.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Assisting with study operations

Delivery of clinical interventions

Supervising predoctoral interns and predoctoral practicum trainees in clinical psychology

Analyzing data to present at national/international meetings

Building an active research and publication record

Requirements:

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology or a related field.

Strong background in research and clinical skills in CBT and ACT

Experience in critical care, caregiving, and/or serious illness

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team

Most importantly, the candidate should have genuine interest in the topic area and motivation to grow clinical research in critical care survivorship.

We’re excited to learn more about you! To apply for this position, please email your CV and cover letter directly to Lina Hussein at lhussein@mgh.harvard.edu Please do not apply through this link.

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