Lurie Children's Primary Care Fellowship

20 Oct 2023    

The Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellowship. This is a fully funded 2-year opportunity within the Primary Collaborative Care program. The fellow will have an opportunity to gain clinical hours and quickly integrate into ongoing research opportunities.

Clinical opportunities:

• Conduct evaluations as part of a multi-disciplinary team for children and adolescents (6-17) with ADHD, ODD, anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, and comorbid mental health concerns.

• Provide brief evidenced-based treatments for some evaluated patients with a focus on Cognitive Behavioral Interventions.

• Engage in training and consultation with primary care providers throughout the health system and community therapists.

• Provide programmatic support and consultation within integrated general pediatrics primary care clinics.

Research opportunities:

• Engage in and contribute to the primary collaborative care research team at Lurie and collaborate across researchers through Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.

• Contribute to existing research projects in the primary care space, including an active PCORI funded anxiety trial.

• Initiate new research, potentially related to primary care diagnostic decision making or primary care delivered behavioral health interventions, including digital health interventions.

Enhance program development through Q/I and prospective research on the collaborative and integrated care models. Ample supervision is provided to align with licensure in clinical psychology. Multiple professional development opportunities exist including but not limited to participation in 1) a monthly Postdoctoral Professional Development Seminar with all department psychology fellows and 2) a year-long supervision training with the potential to engage more junior trainees. Fellows also have access to a variety of multidisciplinary educational offerings through the department, Lurie Children’s, and Northwestern University.

Qualified applicants will have a PhD/PsyD in psychology from an APA- or CPA-approved graduate program and completion of an APA-accredited doctoral internship. Preference is given to applicants from APA-accredited clinical and school programs who have training in research and clinical areas of child psychology.

Mood, Anxiety, ADHD Collaborative Care (MAACC) Program

The Mood, Anxiety, ADHD Collaborative Care (MAACC) Program was created to develop behavioral health capacity in community pediatric primary care practices. MAACC is a hub-spoke CoCM model that serves patients aged 6-18 referred from medical providers that are seeking additional consultative and treatment support. MAACC is a multidisciplinary team that leverages care coordination, psychology, psychiatry, and social work to provide treatment recommendations for referred families and, in some case, provide brief intervention.

To support physicians in their ability to identify and treat behavioral health concerns the MAACC team is continually developing educational content and providing training across the community and hospital system. This includes training for collaborative/integrated behavioral care teams within academic general pediatric training clinics. Recently, the MAACC team has been actively involved in suicide prevention efforts in primary care.

The MAACC model has supported behavioral health research in primary care, including large randomized controlled trials.

The Institution

Our training program is located within Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, a 350+ bed pediatric tertiary care hospital on Northwestern University’s downtown campus. It is the pediatric training facility for the Feinberg School of Medicine and as a major teaching and treatment center it attracts a diverse patient population from all socioeconomic classes in Chicago, its suburbs, and surrounding states. The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences offers comprehensive mental health care to children and families through Outpatient Services, the Consult Service, the Partial Hospitalization Program, the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, and a range of specialized programs in pediatric, clinical child, and community mental health services. We are a growing multidisciplinary department of psychiatry, social work and over 40 psychologists. Considerable staff time and facilities are invested throughout the institution in the training of students from many disciplines.

General information about the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago can be found on the website: www.luriechildrens.org. For a complete list of our faculty, clinical interests, and educational backgrounds please click here. For additional information on faculty research interests and publications, please click here.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Lurie Children’s recognizes the impact of systemic, cultural, social, and economic factors on children and families, and values the diverse identities that build and enrich our hospital and the broader Chicago community. We are committed to welcoming colleagues from varied backgrounds because we believe that diversity strengthens the collective fabric of our medical center and fulfills our commitment to address the structural health disparities in the medical care of children. We seek colleagues who share this perspective, consider it important to their professional identity, and are representative of the families and children we serve.

Application Process

Applications will be reviewed as received and are requested by no later than November 30 for full consideration. The position will remain open until filled. Applicants should submit 1) a cover letter detailing relevant training, research, and your postdoctoral professional development goals, 2) an updated curriculum vitae, and 3) two letters of recommendation. The letters of recommendation may be sent with the application or separately by the letter writer. Please email all application materials to the Director of Training, Kelly Walker Lowry, Ph.D. at klowry@luriechildrens.org with the subject: “Collaborative Care Postdoctoral Fellowship Application: (your name)”.

For questions regarding the Fellowship Program, please contact the Psychology Training Program Coordinator, Lymaries Velez by email at lvelez@luriechildrens.org or by telephone at 312-227-3410.