Brooks Rehabilitation Faculty Fellowship Opportunity



CoHSTAR is offering a new part time, faculty fellowship opportunity (18-24 months) at Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, Florida. The selected faculty fellow will retain current faculty appointments, while utilizing CoHSTAR support to maximize protected time to engage in research activities as a Brooks Visiting Scientist. The fellow will be paired with a CoHSTAR faculty mentor and a Brooks Rehabilitation mentoring team.

Focus:

This fellowship provides opportunity work with data, administrators, researchers, and clinicians from a post-acute system of care that provides services for over 55,000 individuals per year. The focus will be on patients with complex conditions that use multiple levels of post-acute care and community based programs as part of their short and long-term recovery.  At least three broad project ideas are anticipated.

The first is using existing and new clinical and operational data to evaluate factors influencing functional outcomes during an episode of care.

The second is analysis of data from Brooks’ participation in the Medicare Bundled Payment Program pilot to disseminate results from this pilot and identify opportunities for efficiencies and innovations in practice.

The third, and more long-term project, would be to develop a method of collecting and analyzing outcomes data from patients who have completed an episode of care. In particular, an analysis of outcomes sustainability and long-term, post-discharge needs would be of value.

Fellows are also encouraged to develop other areas of investigation that are aligned with personal interests and the mission of Brooks Rehabilitation.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Full time faculty member and physical therapist
  • Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD) or research experience equivalent
  • Strong record of scholarly productivity as evidenced by peer reviewed publications, grants and other activities (not necessarily in the area of health services research)
  • Interest in research questions related to predictors of functional outcome across post-acute rehabilitation care settings and long-term outcomes following an episode of care
  • In keeping with Foundation requirements, viable candidates must be citizens, or noncitizen nationals, of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment

Benefits:

  • Brooks Rehabilitation provides a post-acute system of care serving over 55,000 unique patients per year across inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, and outpatient settings along with a wide range of life-long community benefit programming for people living with a physical disability.
  • Access to the Brooks Rehabilitation Clinical Research Center and Data Solutions department, including access to historical and current clinical and operational databases
  • Ongoing projects that can be joined rapidly to build research momentum
  • Access to consultation with highly experienced researchers and methodologists

What Commitment is Required?:

  • The faculty fellow must devote the bulk of their protected fellowship time to Brooks Rehabilitation based research activities
  • Faculty fellows are expected to participate in Brooks Rehabilitation activities and visit Brooks, as needed, to conduct their research

Application Process:

Qualified candidates are invited to apply. Initial applications will be screened and the most promising candidates will be selected for an interview, which may take place at Brooks Rehabilitation.

During the in-person interview day, candidates will meet with CoHSTAR faculty and pertinent mentors and will present their research.

Screening for open positions will continue until appropriate candidates have been identified or the search is closed.

CoHSTAR is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic global community and considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, gender, race, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

 

Application Instructions: 

Phase 1
For the preliminary review, applicants should submit the following:

  1. A short essay (1000 to 2000 words) describing their career trajectory to date and their career goals in the area of health services research.
  2. Proposed budget (this may include salary and travel).  No indirect costs allowed.
  3. A curriculum vitae.
  4. Two current letters of reference.
  5. A letter of support from the applicant’s departmental chairperson stating that at least 50% of the faculty member’s time will be protected for research during the fellowship period. Department contributions of in-kind release time for teaching or other tangible support (such as provision of a research assistant) are encouraged.

Phase 2
Applicants should submit a proposed plan of activities for the Faculty Fellowship/Visiting Scientist experience (2 pages maximum).

  1. Proposal
    1. Objectives
    2. Plan of activities with timeline
    3. Proposed deliverables
    4. Brief statement explaining the significance and impact of their fellowship activities
    5. Proposed potential primary mentor and mentoring site
      1. A mentoring plan describing how the applicant would engage with the faculty mentor
  2. A letter of support from the proposed potential faculty mentor is required.

 

Please submit application materials to: Margarite_Whitten@Brown.edu

Subject line: CoHSTAR Faculty Fellowship Application (NAME)
For more information please email Margarite_Whitten@Brown.edu, or call 1-401-863-7435