Education
T32 Fellowship Training
Our Division and Institute are strongly committed to training the next generation of research leaders and we are fortunate to offer tremendous breadth and depth of opportunity for our trainees. Our division routinely ranks among the top 3 research programs in child mental health in the US, based upon federal government support, as well as additional programs of our Institute colleagues in child health services research and other community-based projects. As one of the larger research divisions of child psychiatry, we are able to provide multi-disciplinary and translational research training across a wide range of research areas. Specific areas of strength include treatment research, as well as research in anxiety, OCD, autism, depression and suicide, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anxiety, traumatic brain injury, traumatic stress, eating disorders, fetal alcohol syndrome, neurocognition, biological markers, assessment, and brain imaging.
The Division’s T32 training grant from NIMH entitled “Research Training: The Science of Child Mental Health Treatment” (2022 – 2027) offers 1-2 years of fellowship training for psychiatry residents and incoming or graduating child fellows, child psychologists, and pediatricians. Over the 16 years of this training program, our postdoctoral trainees have maintained a very high success rate in securing NIH “K” awards, foundation grants, federal funding, and further faculty and research positions. Graduates have gone on to award winning research careers and positions of leadership nationwide.
Our T32 research training takes full advantage of the extraordinary rich and collaborative research environment at UCLA. This includes multiple Semel Institute seminars and training programs, and, being located on the UCLA college campus, enjoying full access to other Departments and programs such as UCLA CTSI Translational Research Program (www.CTSI.ucla.edu), and the Fielding School of Public Health.
We are happy to discuss these options with you and to help you determine the “best fit” with your career goals and interests. For more information, contact James T. McCracken, M.D. (jmccracken@mednet.ucla.edu) or John C. Piacentini, Ph.D., (jpiacentini@mednet.ucla.edu).