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Job Description

Details of Research Project:

The 2-year postdoctoral fellowship position is within Mount Sinai’s Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Program in Brain Injury and Rehabilitation, which is housed within the Brain Injury Research Center of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The fellowship aims to build capacity to conduct high-impact, clinically relevant, methodologically rigorous rehabilitation research to improve health and function for individuals living with TBI.

Qualifications

Experience Required:

Candidates will demonstrate potential for independent research (e.g., completed a quantitative dissertation, strong independent data analytic skills, peer-reviewed publications, multiple conference presentations, and/or at least 2 years of research experience). All candidates must have strong foundational skills in data analysis, and interest and commitment to rehabilitation research must be evident in prior experience, personal statement and/or letters of reference.

**Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project:** Fellows will produce scientific publications, presentations, and grant proposal(s).

Responsibilities

Technical Duties:

Your anticipated duties will include using multimodal data from the Late Effects of TBI study to investigate clinical signatures and biological markers of post-traumatic neurodegeneration and late effects of TBI. You will use existing and newly collected data from the TBI Model System of Care national database and local studies, in addition to newly collected data from the ENRICH Brain Health study, to investigate long-term outcomes of TBI. National and international data resources will be identified to further support individual research interests. You may also participate in new data collection in areas that align with ongoing research projects within the Brain Injury Research Center. You will pursue one or more independent research projects in an area of research aligned with your interest and career goals, and contribute to independent and/or collaborative grant writing to pursue that line of research. Independent projects may explore implications of brain injury in the autistic population You will also participate in community engagement and outreach activities, and core didactics in rehabilitation research methods, brain injury rehabilitation, health disparities, implementation science, public policy, and knowledge translation.

Fellows will spend at least 80% of their time on research including Mount Sinai ARRT-specific activities, and remaining time on activities related to their IDP and career development goals. Fellows will complete an individualized development plan and articulate their training and career goals, receive mentorship from mentors selected based on beneficial matches on interest, expertise and work style. Fellows will receive training in mentorship and gain experience providing mentorship to others. They will participate in collaborative research, collaborating on one or more studies across collaborating mentors’ labs and receive protected time to conduct independent research. They will receive hands on training in implementation science, knowledge translation, and participate in community and stakeholder engagement. Fellows will also complete training on scientific writing and development, professional and career development, and grant writing.

Educational and other Requirements for the position: Completed a doctoral or equivalent degree in a clinical or quantitative field.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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Compensation Statement

Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72500 - $80000 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.