JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) / Neurorehabilitation Fellowship
The JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) offers a one-year fellowship opportunity for a board-eligible/board-certified physiatrist interested in traumatic brain injury (TBI) / neurorehabilitation. The fellowship is offered at the Center for Head Injuries in Edison, New Jersey, and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. These facilities are centrally located in the NY/NJ metropolitan area.
The Center for Head Injuries at JRI actively participates in numerous TBI research projects. The Center recently gained national exposure as the featured facility in the HBO special, "COMA" (September 2007). This two-hour special tracks four patients over a one-year period, detailing each patient’s medical progress and the impact of injury and treatment on the patients and their families. In addition, a collaborative study on a patient from our program with TBI and the use of Deep Brain Stimulation was published in Nature (Aug 2007;448:600-603).
These specific projects, with exposure to state-of-the-art intervention, are examples of ongoing research and advances being made at JRI's Center for Head Injuries. Participation in other current research and pursuit of research topics of personal interest in the advancement of brain injury rehabilitation are welcome.
Fellowship Description
The TBI / neurorehabilitation fellowship will provide the selected candidate with exposure to the continuum of care offered at a Model System TBI program. The experiences and challenges of this Model System TBI program will prepare the candidate to medically manage the TBI patient population and ultimately direct and manage a Brain Injury Unit.
Fellowship Objectives
Upon completion of the program, the Fellow will demonstrate the ability to:
- Manage spasticity through various means including serial casting, medications, motor point and nerve blocks, botulinum toxin injections, and intrathecal baclofen pumps
- Clinically manage the medical, pharmacological, and rehabilitative needs of persons with traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury
- Competently perform mental status and neurological exams as well as interpretation and application of neuroimaging studies and neurophysiological testing
- Develop and implement specialized treatment regimes including behavioral modification programs and coma management
- Function as the leader of the rehabilitation team, designing and implementing comprehensive rehabilitation programs in the brain injury setting
- Demonstrate an understanding of the management principles and practices related to the brain injury population
- Develop an understanding of clinical medical research through topics in statistics, basic measurements, IRB approvals, and clinical design
Curriculum
- Inpatient acute brain injury
- Subacute inpatient brain injury
- Outpatient cognitive rehab
- Spasticity clinic
- Baclofen clinic
Electives may be available based on the Fellow’s and the Department’s needs and interests.
Research
Fellows are encouraged to complete at least one research project during their training. Submitting case reports for poster presentations and/or publications is strongly encouraged.
Project suggestions and assistance may be obtained from the Director of Residency Research and/or other faculty members.
Application Process
Applications can be submitted any time after July 1 for the next academic year. Interviews are conducted from October through December.
Interested candidates may forward their CV and two letters of reference via
e-mail to rrich@solarishs.org or fax to (732) 744-5846.
For further information on this fellowship in central New Jersey or the application process, please contact Dr. Eduardo Lopez, Fellowship Program Director, at edlopez@solarishs.org.
Certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs Hospital (Adults)
Employment Services: Comprehensive Vocational Evaluation Services
- For candidates interested in meeting some of our staff, we will be available at the AAPM&R meeting scheduled for October 22-25, 2009 in Austin Texas.
This ad was placed June 24, 2009.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Two-year fellowship available within the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), for research training in cognitive (neuro)science and (neuro)rehabilitation. MRRI scientists, and their fellows, conduct federally funded research in three main areas: (1) treatments and outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI), (2) cognitive neuroscience of action in healthy and stroke participants, and (3) language and aphasia.
TBI research includes recovery from minimally conscious/vegetative states and treatments for behavioral, emotional, and cognitive regulation. Action research includes motor planning/motor learning, spatial representation, and selection of objects for action. Language research includes normal and impaired (aphasic) speech production and comprehension, with particular emphasis on semantic and syntactic aspects of processing. MRRI research also examines mechanisms of cognitive impairment after stroke and TBI and the behavioral and neural impact of training and drug-based treatment.
Available research mentors include John Whyte, Tessa Hart, Laurel Buxbaum, Steve Jax, Myrna Schwartz, and Dan Mirman. Collaborations at Penn allow training in neural imaging, voxelwise lesion-symptom mapping, and TMS. Candidates should have a doctorate in neuropsychology/neuroscience, experimental psychology, rehabilitation psychology, rehabilitation sciences, rehabilitation medicine or related field, and must be interested in developing an independent research career. MRRI/Penn are recognized by a Rehabilitation Research Infrastructure grant from NIH (www.ncrrn.org). Send CV and letter detailing research interests and goals to Kevin Whelihan, Research Administrator, MossRehab Research Institute, 60 E. Township Line Rd., Elkins Park, PA 19027, FAX 215-663-6113 or email whelihank@einstein.edu
This ad was placed March 17, 2009.
Funded RMSTP Research Fellowships for Junior Faculty – Applications due September 1, 2009
Many entry level academic faculty are seeking ways to enhance their research career development, and it is difficult for department chairs to support protected research time in the absence of extramural funding. The Rehabilit
ation Medicine Scientist Training Program (RMSTP), funded by a K12 grant from the NIH, can be an important resource in faculty development.
In the past, the RMSTP has targeted its recruitment primarily to residents to give sufficient planning time to enter a productive fellowship immediately after residency. However, physiatrists are eligible to apply for RMSTP funding up to 5 years after completing their residency or clinical fellowship. Thus, junior faculty within this time frame can be funded by the RMSTP to enhance their research training under the guidance of a productive mentor.
We plan to continue our efforts to recruit PGY2 and PGY3 level residents into the program, but will simultaneously increase our efforts to recruit junior faculty. We begin this process by requesting applications for fellowship slots available as of 7/1/09. Interested applicants should contact Mary Czerniak, coordinator of the RMSTP, for application materials and information (meczerni@einstein.edu; 215-663-6592).
Applications must be submitted by 9/1/09 for funding beginning spring-summer 2010.
Who Should Apply
- Physiatrists interested in a career substantially devoted to extramurally funded research (typically 50%+)
- Physiatrists within 5 years of completion of their residency or subsequent fellowship, as of the planned start of their research training
Benefits to the Faculty Member and their Department
- Salary support of $75,000 for 75% effort for up to 3 years to conduct research in an appropriate mentor’s laboratory
- $10,000 annually in research and educational expenses
- Additional career mentorship from the directors of the RMSTP (Drs. Boninger & Whyte), and through the RMSTP network of trainees and mentors
Resources Required of the Department and Institution
The availability of a suitable mentor in the immediate geographic area (suitability generally being indicated by extensive research experience in a scientific domain relevant to the trainee’s interests, a successful extramural funding record, and evidence of success in prior mentoring experiences)
A commitment to limit the trainee’s non-research work to 25% effort
This ad was placed January 14, 2009.
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