Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Laura Simons

Important Info

Faculty Sponsor (Last, First Name):

Simons, Laura

Other Mentor(s) if Applicable:

Nima Aghaeepour, Suzan Carmichael, Brice Gaudillire, Cornelius Groenewald, Trevor Hastie, Vinod Menon, Patrick Purdon, Jennifer Rabbitts, Chiara Sabatti, Pervez Sultan, Virginia Winn

Stanford Departments and Centers:

Anesthes, Periop & Pain Med

Postdoc Appointment Term:

2-3 Years

Appointment Start Date:

Applications reviewed on rolling basis. Review process begins December 1st, 2024.

Group or Departmental Website:

https://med.stanford.edu/anesthesia/research/training-grants/stanford-heal-t90-r...

How to Submit Application Materials:

Submit your application here: https://redcap.stanford.edu/surveys/?s=C4NC3KNR8EJYPANK

Does this position pay above the required minimum?:

No. The expected base pay for this position is the Stanford University required minimum for all postdoctoral scholars appointed through the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. The FY25 minimum is $73,800.

Pediatric and Maternal Pain Research Fellowship

Stanford HEAL PAIN Cohort Program | T90/R90 Research Fellowship

This program is a T90/R90 institutional postdoctoral training program in clinical pain research, with a focus on maternal and childhood pain and bioinformatics, at Stanford University. Our overall goal is to train diverse, successful clinical pain scientists in child and maternal pain.

The program design is a collaborative, interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program to bolster the clinical pain research workforce as outlined through the NIH HEAL Initiative Partnership to Advance Interdisciplinary (PAIN) Training in Clinical Pain Research. We venture to join with other T90/R90 postdoctoral training programs in clinical pain research to foster a diverse cohort experience through the HEAL PURPOSE network.

This T90/R90 resides within the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine and be in partnership with the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, the Department of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University School of Medicine.

This program will provide mentorship to diverse trainees to launch and maintain productive careers in the clinical pain research workforce. We train five fellows per year who will spend 2-3 years cumulative time in research. Research opportunities are offered by NIH-funded faculty mentors with proven records of success in the training of postdoctoral fellows, with diverse research programs ranging from data science, translational, clinical, and health services research.

Core faculty research leaders will help match trainees to mentors within the HEAL clinical pain research content areas of:

1) pain across the lifespan, specifically child and maternal pain
2) bioinformatics
3) nonpharmacological (behavioral) interventions for pain
4) prevention of the transition from acute to chronic pain and
5) advancing health equity in the field of pain

Program mentors will provide training in clinical pain research, neuroscience, biomedical data science, behavioral health, epidemiology, maternal health, and health in children and adolescents.

The training will (1) integrate the biopsychosocial model of pain, (2) use a team science approach through partnerships with psychiatry, pediatrics, gynecology/obstetrics, and biomedical data science, (3) center on whole person health to reduce stigma and bias, (4) incorporate patient participatory research methods to ensure lived experiences of pain inform the clinical research outputs, (5) provide advanced statistics and research methods, (6) involve grantsmanship skills, and (7) prepare for applying for and securing academic positions in clinical pain research.

Lastly, the program will coordinate monthly webinars related to HEAL priority areas to be shared on the PURPOSE website, an annual Maternal and Child Pain and Bioinformatics Retreat open to all T90/R90 cohort participants, and a robust didactic program to provide career development skills with seminars in stated training areas. Trainee progress will be monitored by the Assessment and Evaluation Team. The long-term goal of this T90/R90 is to train the next generation of interdisciplinary and diverse scientific leaders in maternal and/or child pain.

To learn more about the national program, visit the T90/R90 HEAL PAIN Researcher Cohort Program website.

Required Qualifications:

The T90/R90 will provide support to postdoctoral fellows actively engaged in research-training and education activities. Candidates must have received, as of the beginning date of the appointment to the program, a doctoral-level degree (e.g., Ph.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., M.D.,), or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution.
T90 Trainees must be a citizen or a noncitizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment. Within the full-time training period, T90 Trainees who are training as clinicians must devote their time to the proposed research training and must confine clinical duties to those that are an integral part of the research training experience.
R90 participants are individuals who have valid health professional degrees from an accredited domestic or foreign institution, who do not meet the T90 NRSA eligibility criteria, and are pursuing independent clinical pain research careers (i.e., trainees at U.S. institutions who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents).
Candidates must have interests in developing academic careers relevant to child pain and/or maternal pain.

Required Application Materials:

In your application, you will be asked to answer a series of questions and upload a Curriculum Vitae and a 1-page Letter of Research Intent.