Postdoctoral Fellowships

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The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Division of Epidemiology is pleased to announce up to two post-doctoral positions through an NIH-funded T32 program.  The program pairs fellows with two mentors in a 2-year long research fellowship focused on skin cancer in the group of Dr. Lee Wheless, MD, PhD.  All applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. 

This program pairs qualified fellows with IEC mentors in a yearlong research fellowship focused on atopic dermatitis (AD).  Though sites are currently Canada-based, international candidates are welcome to apply.  This fellowship will most benefit Canadian students.

This postdoctoral research opportunity will be focused primarily on skin cancer prevention, interventions, and social media research tools.The post-doc will have the opportunity to collaborate with a variety of epidemiologists, clinician-scientists, biostatisticians, and social scientists at Stanford University as well as other institutions.

The Post-doctoral fellow will be responsible for epidemiological studies of skin cancer as well as other dermatological diseases. He/she will lead literature review, data collection or extraction, statistical analysis, and manuscript preparation for multiple related projects.

Fellows will participate in a variety of clinical and translational research projects. Dr. Maverakis' expertise is immune mediated skin diseases including scleroderma, autoimmune blistering diseases and psoriasis. Fellows will assist in managing the ongoing

pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials in the Dermatology Clinical Trials Unit.

The focus will be on the role of inflammatory skin disease in aging, patterns and predictors of long-term inflammatory skin disease activity, and the genetic epidemiology of atopic dermatitis. Research will be performed under the mentorship of Katrina Abuabara, MD, MA, MSCE.

Dermatology Research and Education Foundation™ seeks a medical student dermatology research volunteer for 12 months  under the direction of Jashin J. Wu, M.D. 

The research student will have the opportunity to work on retrospective cohort studies and review articles as first author.  It is a major priority that the research student will author at least 10 publications, which each of the prior or current 26 research students have accomplished.  For more information click below. 

Research in epidemiology and related areas of cutaneous malignancies and dysplasias (melanoma, keratinocyte carcinomas (BCC and SCC), cutaneous lymphomas, dysplastic nevi, actinic keratosis, etc), and teledermatology for multiple related projects.

This clinical research fellowship program provides a unique opportunity  to experience different aspects of dermatology clinical research, including dermatoepidemiology, outcomes research, and clinical trials. Our projects are primarily focused on inflammatory skin diseases including psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and hidradenitis suppurativa.