NYU Grossman School of Medicine offers a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship within the organizational skills training program of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders Service and the Selective Mutism Service. These services are located at the Manhattan and New Jersey campuses of the Child Study Center, part of Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone.

Our postdoctoral fellowship, offered through NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is intended for psychologists who have successfully completed an American Psychological Association–approved internship and wish to emphasize the delivery of innovative and empirically supported treatments started and enhanced at the Child Study Center.

Postdoctoral fellows report to Richard Gallagher, PhD, director of the organizational skills training program and co-director of the Selective Mutism Service, and Rachel A. Kupferberg, PsyD, co-director of the Selective Mutism Service.

The site director for the Child Study Center’s Manhattan campus is Lori K. Evans, PhD, and the site director of the New Jersey campus is Justin R. Misurell, PhD.

Fellowship Training

As a postdoctoral fellow in the Innovations in Treatment Delivery of Empirically Supported Treatments Fellowship, you emphasize the delivery of clinical services with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related disorders, and children with anxiety disorders that impact social interaction and verbal communication. You work with program directors to create wider distribution of well-developed treatments pertaining to the protocols that have been created and enhanced at the Child Study Center and emphasize organizational skills and executive function treatments for ADHD and related disorders and multi-modal treatment of selective mutism.

As a fellow, you conduct individualized assessments and provide behavioral and cognitive therapies and consultations for individuals, families, and groups based upon empirically supported methods. You also learn about specialized assessment and treatment methods including individual therapy, parent and family therapy, and intensive group meetings held monthly and for a four-day summer day camp pertaining to the treatment of selective mutism. You collaborate with psycho-pharmacologists, learning specialists, and other multidisciplinary team members at the Child Study Center and in school settings.

In addition to these clinical responsibilities, a portion of your time is committed to research efforts. You have access to data gathered in several completed randomized controlled trials that have investigated the treatment of executive function deficits in elementary school children with ADHD and related disorders. Recent studies focus on the impact of treatment on home and school functioning and resting state brain. Support and encouragement for presenting at conferences and developing manuscripts is a component of this activity. The archived data from two randomized controlled trials on the in-person and virtual delivery of organizational skills training for elementary school children will be the source of research activity. Single-subject case studies on selective mutism for presentations and posters will be conducted to determine what innovations are needed to make the quickest advances.

Fellows help conduct webinars, media appearances, and workshops, seminars, and professional development events in New York City schools and other environments. It is expected that you be involved in providing educational programming for parents and school professionals.

You also have opportunities to train and teach junior-level psychology trainees and psychiatry residents.

How to Apply

We accept postdoctoral fellowship applications on a rolling basis.

Interested candidates should submit a CV, cover letter, three letters of recommendation, and a de-identified evaluation report for a child or adolescent you treated for ADHD or a disruptive behavior disorder to CSC-PsychTraining@NYULangone.org. Please specify which training experience you are applying to in the subject of your application email. All submissions receive a receipt of confirmation within three to five business days. If you do not receive a confirmation, kindly resubmit.

Salary Statement

The salary for this position is $70,000.