Postdoctoral Fellowship, Central Arkansas Veterans’ Healthcare System

The Central Arkansas Veterans’ Healthcare System at Little Rock, Arkansas, invites applications for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in mental health research and treatment. The fellowship with take place from August 2025 to September 2027. This fellowship is associated with the South Central VA Mental Illness Research, and Education Center and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The training program is designed to prepare associated health professionals (e.g., social workers, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists) for future leadership roles in research, education, and clinical services, particularly in academic and medical care settings such as the Veterans Health Administration.

Fellows will have opportunities for collaboration and mentoring with national leaders to develop a research career in a wide variety of research topics, including implementation science, telehealth, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, suicide prevention, primary care mental health integration, and health services research on access and quality of mental health care. Individualized mentored research is combined with a state-of-the-art curriculum including statistics, epidemiology, mental health systems, and innovative research strategies and methods. Fellows will spend 25% of their time developing advanced clinical skills and 75% of their time in research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

Applications should be submitted by December 15.

For questions, please contact Ms. Kristin Ward at kristin.ward2@va.gov.

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