Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Sleep Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
This is a 2-year fellowship position starting in July 1, 2014. The fellowship is primarily oriented to research training, but may have up to 20% training and practical experience with Behavioral Sleep Medicine interventions in general and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in specific. The primary goals of the fellowship are to provide the time and opportunity for additional training so that the fellow is positioned to initiate an independent program of research in their chosen content area.
This training opportunity would be affiliated with the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, which includes Dr. Michael Perlis (Director), Dr. Philip Gehrman, Dr. Michael Grandner, and Dr. James Findley. This fellowship is part of a larger training program (NIH-funded T32 grant) through the Penn Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, directed by Dr. Allan Pack. Collaborative opportunities would be available with associated sleep programs, including those at the Perelman School of Medicine, the Penn School of Nursing, the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and others.
Primary mentors for this fellowship will be Dr. Perlis and/or Dr. Grandner. Fellows will be expected to (within the context of an apprenticeship model) develop an independent project in their chosen area, apply for grant funding within the first year of fellowship, generate and contribute to the drafting of scientific manuscripts, participate in peer reviews, and to engage in other training activities including available seminars and courses. Clinical training for licensure in Clinical Psychology would be available. Specific areas of interest for Dr. Perlis include the etiology and pathophysiology of insomnia, the natural history of insomnia, mediators of the incidence of insomnia and night-to-night variability, sensory and information processing in insomnia, sleep and psychopathology and insomnia as a risk factor for suicide. Specific areas of interest for Dr. Grandner include sleep as a domain of health behavior, adverse cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive, behavioral and other outcomes of insufficient sleep, social and behavioral determinants of sleep, social ecological models of sleep, and sleep and health disparties.
More information about the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program can be found on the program website (http://www.med.upenn.edu/bsm) and website for CBT-I training activities (http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbti). More information about the Penn Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology can be found on the Center's website (http://www.med.upenn.edu/sleepctr).
Requirements and Application process: Each applicant must be a graduate of an APA-accredited doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology, have completed an APA-accredited internship and received the doctoral degree, and be a U.S. citizen. If interested, by January 1, 2014, send a letter detailing your research interests and career goals, your CV, 3 letters of recommendation, and any representative reprints, manuscripts, or grant applications to Michael Perlis PhD at mperlis@upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer; we are committed to ensuring a range of diversity among our training classes, and we strive to select candidates representing different kinds of programs and theoretical orientations, geographic areas, ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, disabilities, and life experiences.
A bit of Information about Philadelphia (http://www.med.upenn.edu/bsm/philly.html)
Michael Perlis PhD
Penn Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3535 Market Street, Suite 670
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309
215-746-3577