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Title:​Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow

Salary: 75K

Department: Medicine/Gastroenterology; Psychiatry (Secondary)

Physical work location: (must be proper street address) CAM Building; 17 E. 102 nd St. 5 th Floor, New York NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor: (include phone and email) Laurie Keefer, PhD, laurie.keefer@mssm.edu , c. 312-343-8509

Web link to Lab:

Web link to Department: https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/ibd-center

Administrative Contact: (phone and email) Jeanne Kircher, jeanne.kircher@mssm.edu c. (201) 745-6675

Qualifications

Technical Duties: (include any protocols)

The post-doctoral fellow will assist PI Dr Keefer in all aspects of trial execution including the development of manual of operations and database set up, formalizing of study treatment manuals and fidelity protocols, training of study personnel at both sites (Sinai Main and Sinai West) on behavioral intervention designs, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation and providing oversight of the research coordinators and other team members. She will also work on ancillary projects related to this project in the IBD Center, including better understanding the role of resilience, sleep and pain in the self-management of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative. She will assist Dr Keefer in the administrative components of the Gaining Resilience through Transitions clinical team, comprised of clinical pharmacists, dietitians, social workers, care managers and nurses as part of training in integrated IBD care. She will attend and occasionally co-lead Dr Keefer’s lab meetings, student dissertation projects and other research responsibilities.

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in clinical or health psychology

Experience Required: 5+ years of research experience with clinical populations, statistical

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project:

The ultimate impact of CATHARSIS will be to provide the definitive evidence necessary to ensure that psychosocial care, particularly brain-gut coping strategies training, is no longer a “luxury,” but rather part of value-based CD care. This project will address unmet needs in caring for patients with CD that are in line with strategic priorities of the Helmsley Foundation (Funder):1) preventing the development of psychiatric comorbidity in CD, which is critical as depression and anxiety are most commonly diagnosed in the first five years after diagnosis4, and 2) ensuring a holistic approach to patient care that recognizes psychological wellness and emotional healing as key therapeutic targets5. The outcome of the postdoc will be an independent scientist focused on integrated IBD care and psychosocial research for chronic illness more broadly.

Compensation Statement

The 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 this role is $72,500.00 - $80,000.00 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.

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EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

Responsibilities

Details of Research Project: Combination Therapy of Resilience Intervention With Biologics in Crohn's Disease [CATHARSIS Trial]

Our overall project goal is to demonstrate the efficacy of combination psychological care with biologic therapy compared to standard therapy (biologic therapy plus sham) on well-being and clinical outcomes in adult patients with CD. Specifically, we will evaluate this approach among 170 adult patients with CD, who were a) diagnosed within the past 5 years, b) present with active disease and c) starting a new anti-tumor necrosis factor biologic (anti-TNF). The strategy to achieve this goal is to conduct the first ever randomized, controlled clinical trial that compares, head-to-head, two approaches to CD care:1) “Combination Therapy” - an anti-TNF plus a validated coping strategies training program, or 2) "Standard Therapy” - anti-TNF plus non-specific emotional support (time and attention control). The desired outcomes of this project are to demonstrate the superiority of Combination Therapy over Standard Therapy with respect to 1) global well-being (primary outcome at week 24), psychological distress and disease self-management skills; 2) clinical symptoms (primary at Week 24) and endoscopic outcomes over time, and health care utilization (at week 52). We will also demonstrate, with the use of a sham psychological control condition instead of treatment as usual, that it was the adoption of new brain-gut coping strategies that drove the clinical and endoscopic outcomes.

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• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

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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 43,000 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 approximately 7,400 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 and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, 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. 14 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.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

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.