Robert L Kane Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Aging, Dementia, and

Robert L Kane Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Aging, Dementia, and Long-Term Care will nurture scholars with strong substantive expertise/interests in long-term care, healthcare systems and delivery, prevention and management of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs), intervention design/development, systems innovation, health equity, and/or quality of care/quality of life among older adults and their family/professional caregivers. Methodological skills in one or more of the following areas are preferred: (1) intervention research; (2) quantitative/longitudinal methods; (3) qualitative or mixed-methods; (4) community-engaged research methodologies; (5) program or policy evaluation; and/or (6) implementation and dissemination.

Ample opportunities exist to develop an independent program of research in one or more of the areas above in collaboration with the Director, Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD (the Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care & Aging and Professor in the School of Public Health) and the Associate Director, Tetyana Pylypiv Shippee, PhD (Associate Professor, School of Public Health). Fellows will have the opportunity to join and seek mentorship from a diverse and vibrant group of research programs including:

• Dr. Gaugler's Families and LTC Projects , whose mission is to generate and disseminate relevant, useful scientific knowledge about families who care for persons with memory loss;
• Dr. Shippee's EQuaLS Projects , whose mission is to assess measures of person-centered quality for users of long-term services and supports and develop system-level solutions to address health equity;
• Dr. Timothy Beebe's K12 program in learning health systems;
• The Implementation Core of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory ;
• The School of Public Health's Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation and the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving ;
• The School of Nursing's Center for Aging Science and
  Clinical Innovation (CASCI) ;
• Dr. Phyllis Moen's Life Course Center ;
• Dr. James Pacala's Minnesota Northstar Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program ; and
• A wealth of other opportunities afforded by the University's Clinical and Translational Science, the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health; and many others.

Two Robert L. Kane Postdoctoral Fellows will be selected and will begin in Fall, 2022. Start date of postdoctoral appointment is negotiable.

Requirements:

Required qualifications include: a) an earned doctorate; b) evidence of productivity in a defined area of research and scholarship; c) excellent written and oral communication skills; and d) strong interpersonal and organizational abilities.

Preferred qualifications include: a) recognition in an area of scholarship; b) strong potential for external research funding; and c) a substantive research publication record.