| Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program The US healthcare system currently faces many challenges and health services research plays a critical role in informing the health care policymaking process, developing improvements in clinical practice, reducing healthcare disparities, and shaping the manner in which health care will be delivered and paid for in the future. The Institute for Healthcare Studies at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University offers two-year post-doctoral research fellowships in health services research, funded by a National Research T32 Service Award (NRSA). This program is integrated with a National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) post-doctoral institutional training grant, and both a PhD and MD post-doctoral program in health services research sponsored by the Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research (MCHSPR), Hines VA Hospital (http://www.cmc3.research.va.gov). The purpose of the Northwestern University Health Services Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship is to help ensure that adequate numbers of highly trained individuals are available to carry out the Nation's health services research agenda in order to improve quality and safety of health care, enhance access and healthcare equity, and appraise the effectiveness of healthcare expenditures.
|  | Allen W. Heinemann, PhD
Professor of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University |  | Jane L. Holl, MD MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
and Preventitive Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University | | | | | |
The program is designed for professionals with a Medical Degree (MD) or Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) who wish to gain expertise in health services research while pursuing research funding through grants and publishing their research findings. A large part of this experience is achieved through mentor relationships between fellows and distinguished faculty mentors. The fellowship currently requires completion of six core courses and two elective courses. Fellows may choose to expand the scope of formal coursework in order to complete either a Masters in Public Health (MPH), a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI), a Masters in Healthcare Quality and Safety at Northwestern University Graduate School, or a Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB). While Fellows are based at the Institute for Healthcare Studies, located on the Feinberg School of Medicine campus in downtown Chicago, they collaborate with core research faculty and staff throughout the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University including the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Behavioral Medicine and with faculty and staff in many other Schools, Institutes, and Centers at Northwestern University. In addition, fellows collaborate with faculty and staff at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR, http://www.ric.org/research/centers/cror/index.aspx ) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the Center for Outcomes, Research, and Education (CORE, http://www.enh.org/researchandacademics/research/centers/core/ ), the Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3) http://www.cmc3.research.va.gov/
After completing the fellowship, fellows will have acquired the necessary skills and knowledge
to be competitive for academic positions in healthcare institutions, or leadership positions in governmental and policy agencies and organizations. Recent fellows have obtained the following research faculty positions: - Assistant Professor of Health Administration and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Research Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Director of Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John H. Stroger Jr., Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor of Communications at SUNY- Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel
Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association for Homes and Services for the Aging, Washington D.C.
Several Fellows have recently been awarded the following career development awards: |
