VA MIRECC Advanced Fellowship Program in

Mental Illness Research and Treatment

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Co-Directors:  Michael F. Green, PhD and Robert S. Kern, PhD

 

 

Overview:  The MIRECC at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center is recruiting psychologists (or other associated health fellows) for a two-year fellowship program.  The primary goal of the program is to train psychologists to become leading clinical researchers in psychotic disorders.   The fellowship combines individual mentored research and clinical training with state-of-the-art educational experiences.  A special emphasis of the fellowship program is to train fellows to conduct translational research that brings basic science to clinical practice.

 

Program Description:  The opportunities for training will reside in the research, clinical, and educational programs at the West Los Angeles Division of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, the units of the MIRECC, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.  The MIRECC research programs are internationally recognized in a broad range of research areas including cognitive neuroscience, electrophysiology, neuropsychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychosocial interventions, cognitive remediation, psychiatric rehabilitation, clinical psychopharmacology, health services, and implementation science.   The Co-Directors and the MIRECC faculty have a strong commitment to translational research that links basic science to clinical research and clinical research to services research. 

 

Faculty:  MIRECC faculty members (and their research interests) include:  Michael F. Green, Ph.D. (cognitive neuroscience, functional outcome); William P. Horan, Ph.D. (social cognition, emotion processing, negative symptom assessment); Robert S. Kern, Ph.D. (neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation, psychiatric rehabilitation, social cognition); Shirley Glynn, Ph.D.(cognitive behavioral therapy, family interventions, psychosocial treatment research); Stephen R. Marder, M.D. (clinical psychopharmacology,  pharmacological and psychosocial interventions); Alexander S. Young, M.D., M.S.H.S. (health services, quality of care, implementation science); Amy N. Cohen, Ph.D. (health services, family interventions).

Eligibility Requirements:  Eligible psychologists (or associated clinicians) must be U.S. citizens. They must have graduated from an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology (or an equivalent program in another discipline). Completion of an APA accredited internship in clinical or counseling psychology is also required.

How to Apply:  Interested psychologists (or associated clinicians) who meet the eligibility requirements should send a cover letter and curriculum vita to Robert Kern, Ph.D. (e-mail:  rkern@ucla.edu).  The cover letter should specify the reasons for your interest in this particular fellowship training program, a brief overview of your previous clinical and research experiences, and how you see this program promoting your professional and career goals. 

Other Information:  Our fellowship is an equal opportunity training program.  Hence, we strive to create a diverse training group and consider minority status to be a beneficial factor in achieving this goal.  Thus, we give weight to minority status in our selection rankings.  Our fellowship program has applied for APA accreditation which is currently under review.  Applications are currently being accepted for the postdoctoral fellowship position beginning in September 2016.