This Dean’s Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellowship program pairs a postdoctoral fellow with an experienced faculty mentor who has active national research funding, shares a research interest and can supervise the fellow's research training. In addition to conducting supervised research, postdoctoral training will involve auditing advanced coursework at UT Austin and active participation in a UT Austin interdisciplinary center related to the fellow's research area.
The possible duration of the fellowship is two years. Successful candidates must identify and work with a School of Nursing mentor.
Focus Areas
Faculty expertise focus areas include:
Health Innovation – Advancing approaches using ideas, processes, products, procedures or interventions and health system changes to benefit the health of individuals, groups and populations. Study in clinical innovation focuses on patient-centered care and artificial intelligence (AI), mHealth, eHealth, wearable technology, health games, robotics and other emerging technologies.
Population Health – Improving health outcomes of a group of individuals, families and/or communities, reducing health disparities within groups with chronic illness, co-morbidity and mortality, including racial and ethnic minority groups, and rural residents among others.
Aims
The Postdoctoral Fellow program aims are to:
- Expand the cadre of nurse and other healthcare scientists with the advanced training necessary to build the science of chronic illness management, promotion of health in vulnerable populations, and improvement of care systems via testing of clinical innovation models.
- Deepen conceptual and methodological expertise.
- Extend interdisciplinary research linkages and collaborations across The University of Texas Austin to support postdoctoral training.
- Increase ability to disseminate their research and secure funding for their research by working with experienced faculty investigators.
Potential Faculty Mentors
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Shelli Kesler, PhD
Professor
Kavita Radhakrishnan, PhD, MSEE, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Alexa Stuifbergen, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
Bo Xie, PhD, FGSA
Professor
Hyekyun Rhee, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor
Cara Young, PhD, RN, FNP-C, FAANP, FAAN
Associate Professor
Ashley Henneghan, PhD, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Heather Cuevas, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FCNS
Assistant Professor
Jung Kwak, PhD, MSW, FGSA
Associate Professor
Alexandra Garcia, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
Karen Johnson, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FAAN
Associate Professor
Julie Zuniga, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Kavita Radhakrishnan, PhD, MSEE, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research
kradhakrishnan@mail.nur.utexas.edu