Fellowship Title:

Interdisciplinary Training in Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Fellowship Description:

The training program is jointly sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The faculty members all have appointments in either of these two departments and have an established record of collaborative interaction. The research interests of the core faculty represent the major sub-disciplines of the neurosciences and biological psychiatry, including molecular and cellular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology, systems neurobiology, behavioral biology, neuroimaging, psychiatric genetics and neuropsychiatry. The primary vehicle for training is supervised research in a laboratory of one of the core faculty members combined with an organized didactic program in relevant aspects of neuroscience and psychiatric research methodology. The training program provides a unique opportunity for M.D.s and Ph.D.s to obtain training at the postdoctoral level in basic neuroscience research oriented toward clinical psychiatry.

URL Address:

E-mail:

caross@jhu.edu

Contact:

Christopher Ross, M.D., Ph.D.
Room 618
Ross Research Building
Johns Hopkins University
720 Rutland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21205
410-614-0011
410-614-0013 (fax)

Fellowship Title:

Psychology and Medicine: An Integrative Research Approach

Fellowship Description:

This postdoctoral research training program provides training in theory-based research on psychological and behavioral factors in the etiology and management of health problems. Fellows will specialize either in cognitive appraisal theories of responses to stressful situations or in cognitive-behavioral models of risk behavior. In both areas fellows will examine the processes by which these factors affect health and disease, and the implication for developing effective interventions. Fellows in both specializations will share core seminars and least one course in the other specialization area.

URL Address:

www.ucsf.edu/psych/theory.htm

E-mail:

nadler@itsa.ucsf.edu

Contact:

Nancy E. Adler, Ph.D.
UCSF - Health Psychology
3333 California St., Suite 465, Box 0848
San Francisco, CA 94143-0848
415-476-7407
415-476-7744 (fax)

Fellowship Title:

Research Fellowship in Psychiatry

Fellowship Description:

Training in research methodology design and implementation of clinical studies with direct mentoring by an expert in the area selected. Direct hands-on participation in clinical research with assignment to a specific project. Opportunities exist to take course work in laboratory sciences, statistics, etc., elsewhere in the university.

URL Address:

E-Mail:

gsimpson@hsc.usc.edu

Contact:

George M. Simpson, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
Graduate Hall, Room 240
1937 Hospital Place
Los Angeles, CA 90033
323-226-5365
323-226-6499 (fax)

Fellowship Title:

Prevention Research

Fellowship Description:

This program is designed to train prevention researchers at the postdoctoral level. It is aimed at increasing the number of university faculty and research staff who can develop, implement, evaluate, and teach prevention research in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, human development, and sociology. Opportunities for independent research within the context of the Johns Hopkins Prevention Center and participation in the center's ongoing research foster a collegial environment for flexibly pursuing various training objectives and career goals.

URL Address:

http://commprojects.jhsph.edu/academics/Program.cfm?Grant=T32%20MH18834

E-mail:

nialongo@jhsph.edu

Contact:

Nicholas S. Ialongo, Ph.D.
Department of Mental Hygiene
624 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
410-550-3441
410-550-3461 (fax)

Fellowship Title:

Reader's Digest Research Fellowship in Psychiatry

Fellowship Description:

The Department of Psychiatry offers a research fellowship for one to two years to applicants with a strong commitment to academic psychiatry or mental health research. The area of study is limited only by the availability of an appropriate mentor. Recent fellows have been involved in research in neuroimaging, services delivery, psychopharmacology and affective disorders, among other areas. The program is available to psychiatrists and psychologists who have completed clinical training, as well as to specialists in other related fields. Applicants are expected to have a well-designed research plan at the time that the application is submitted. Two to three new positions are available each year for a one-year term. Fellowships are renewable for a second year pending substantial progress. The fellowships are research in nature; no clinical service is required.

URL Address:

E-mail:

ibernard@med.cornell.edu

Contact:

Iris Bernard, Prog. Coordinator
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical Center
21 Bloomingdale Road
White Plains, NY 10605
914-997-5863
914-997-8664 (fax)

Fellowship Title:

Research Training Fellowships

Fellowship Description:

The department has major research groups in neurochemistry, psychopharmacology, epidemiology, and psychotherapy. There are currently 32 residents, 19 graduate students and 3 postdoctoral fellows in the department. Major areas of research interest include mechanisms of action and metabolism of antidepressants, antipsychotics and anxiolytics; prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Edmonton, including studies on patterns of comorbidity; epidemiology of parasuicide; use of imaging techniques to study effects of medications on brain chemistry; neurochemistry and psychopharmacology of panic disorder, PTSD and PMDD, and effectiveness of time-limited, short-term individual psychotherapy.

E-mail:

glen.baker@ualberta.ca

Contact:

G.B. Baker, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, Mackenzie Centre
University of Alberta, Neurochemical Research Unit
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2B7, CANADA
780-492-6591
780-492-6841 (fax)