Post Doc - Open Rank: Suicide Prevention
About The Position
Jumpstart your professional career in suicide prevention working with national innovators at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School’s Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide (CAPES). Fellows will primarily work with Edwin Boudreaux, PhD. Opportunities with other UMass Chan faculty, including Rachel Davis-Martin, PhD, Lourah Kelly, PhD, and Dan Mullin, PsyD, MPH, are also available based on the career aspirations of the fellow. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health, is a thriving academic health care system located in Worcester MA. The environment provides a highly supportive home for fellows, with opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers and engage in meaningful clinical work.
Requirements
- A doctoral degree is required in psychology, public health, epidemiology, or related fields particularly related to mental health and behavioral health.
- Strong methodological, statistical, and quantitative experience are desirable.
Responsibilities
- This 2-year post-doctoral fellowship focuses on suicide prevention across a range of settings, including the emergency department, inpatient medical settings, primary care, and outpatient mental health.
- Developing, studying, and integrating into practice cutting-edge e-health and mhealth technologies, with a strong focus on suicide prevention and substance abuse treatment.
- Working on existing NIH-funded clinical and implementation studies and helping with grant submissions.
- Actively mentored to develop their own line of independent research, apply for mentored grants (e.g., F32 or K99 to NIH, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention postdoctoral fellowship or early career awards, or other postdoctoral level awards) and have opportunity for publications and presentations.
- Engaging in working with healthcare systems on improving their suicide care pathways.
- Providing training and education across a range of settings, including within the medical school, graduate school of nursing, and residency programs both at UMass Chan and with other Universities.
- Accruing supervised clinical hours to qualify for licensure.
- Identifying intervention approaches they would like to receive training in and further developing those skills in the care of diverse patients.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
