Inslicht Lab: Stress and Trauma Research

05/24/2024

Seeking Veterans with insomnia and PTSD to participate in our clinical trial.

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Participants needed

12/20/2023

We'd like to find out if a sleep medication used in civilians improves sleep and reduces posttraumatic stress in veterans

05/20/2023

Do you want to join a team dedicated to advance science and improve the lives of Veterans? We are hiring research staff to assist with a clinical trial to improve PTSD and insomnia symptoms.

San Francisco VA Medical Center

11/06/2020

Participate in a clinical trial to improve sleep

We'd like to find out if a sleep medication used in civilians improves sleep and reduces posttraumatic stress in veterans

10/08/2020

Postdoctoral Fellowship
UCSF/San Francisco VA

The Stress, Trauma and Resilience Lab is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a research team focused on factors related to stress, health, and resilience in Veteran and Civilian trauma survivors. This research fellowship focuses on training clinician scientists for a research career within an academic medical center. The position is focused on data processing, analysis, and publication with opportunities to formulate research questions of interest using extant datasets in a dynamic research environment.

Essential Functions:
• Interest in psychophysiological research techniques, including cardiovascular measures of stress reactivity, sleep, fear conditioning, and stress-related blood biomarkers (neuroendocrine function, immune function, metabolomics)
• Interest in stress and/or PTSD, s*x differences research and/or factors affecting women’s health
• Taking the lead on study ideas using existing datasets
• Data analysis, including familiarity with psychophysiological and sleep measurement pre-processing.
• Familiarity with and/or willingness to learn data analysis tools
• Reporting findings, including writing journal articles and presenting at professional conferences.
• A portion of the fellowship will involve provision of clinical service

Qualifications:
• PhD in clinical psychology or allied mental health field
• Experience with psychophysiological and/or sleep measure data processing techniques
• Experience conducting experimental and/or clinical trial studies
• Strong interpersonal and clinical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
For more information, please contact: Dr. Sabra Inslicht at sabra.inslicht@ucsf.edu

10/11/2019

Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women’s Health
The San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) / University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is seeking candidates for a two-year advanced postdoctoral fellowship in women’s health.

Our faculty consists of a team of researchers from diverse disciplines aiming to understand the unique challenges facing women veterans. Ongoing research projects in our department include the following: s*x differences in the neurobiology of PTSD; physiological, endocrine, and immune responses associated with trauma and PTSD; metabolomics; sleep; human fear conditioning and extinction; infertility, ovarian aging, and menopause; eating and nutrition; pain; cardiovascular disease risk, and breast cancer. Collectively, our research focuses on improving the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychological and physical health issues in women veterans.

For More information:
Contact Sabra Inslicht, Ph.D.: sabra.inslicht@ucsf.edu
UCSF Website: https://psych.ucsf.edu/research/fellowships/women
VA Advanced Fellowships in Women’s Health: https://afwh.wisc.edu/sites/san-francisco-main

Requirements
Applicants must have a Medical Degree (MD) or Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD). MD applicants must have completed an approved residency. For psychology Ph.D. applicants, an APA accredited doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology and APA accredited internship is required. All requirements for the doctoral degree must be completed prior to the start of the fellowship year. US citizenship is required.
Deadline: December 16, 2019
To apply: A VA-based faculty mentor or co-mentor must be identified. Applicants should provide:
1. Letter of interest, including a brief summary of educational, research, and clinical experiences relevant to the fellowship, a summary of your training needs and goals, identification of potential mentors, and a statement of your career goals.
2. A curriculum vita
3. Three letters of recommendation from current or recent research mentors
Please include #1 and #2 in a combined PDF. Letters should be emailed directly by recommenders.

05/14/2019

Overview:
Researchers from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE) are conducting an investigator-initiated multi-site research study to test a medication for the treatment of insomnia in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The incumbent will serve as the Clinical Trial Coordinator for the project and will provide day-to-day management including trial start-up, conduct, and closeout activities, and coordination with the other study site. Opportunities to assist with data analysis, manuscripts. The lab is seeking at least a 2-year commitment for this position.

Responsibilities:
• Coordinate all aspects of the research protocol & manage the daily study operations
• Develop and manage clinical study protocol, Informed Consent Form, Case Report Forms and Standard Operating Procedures
• Develop and oversee systems for tracking / monitoring study progress to ensure adherence to timelines, SOPs, and applicable regulations
• Maintain essential research study documentation
• Conduct telephone screening interviews on psychiatric and medical symptomatology with participants to pre-assess for study eligibility
• Work closely with study recruiters to ensure adherence to the enrollment goals of the study
• Provide and document Informed Consent of participants
• Schedule all assessment study visits and study procedures
• Administer experimental psychophysiology testing
• Coordinate with the multidisciplinary study team (e.g., clinical interviewer, nurse practitioners, research assistants, clinical laboratory) in determining study eligibility, coordinating study procedures, and ensuring adherence to study protocol
• Coordinate all aspects of data management, including entry, verification and analysis
• Maintain rapport with each participant and assist with all study procedures
• Plan and track budget; purchase equipment and supplies, and track study expenditures
• Manage shipment of biological samples to offsite laboratory, sample tracking, correspondence with laboratories
• Work closely with data management team to ensure study data is shared among study sites
• Assist in hiring and training the study staff research associates and psychological technicians
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
• Minimum of 2 years clinical trial management experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, nursing or related field required
• MA/MS degree in psychology, nursing or related fields preferred
• A thorough understanding of FDA, ICH, and GCP regulations, guidelines, policies and practices for conducting clinical investigations
• Computer literacy with emphasis on Windows operating systems and software applications
• Prior experience in psychophysiology measurement experience using Biopac or similar equipment is preferred
• Prior experience with experimental software applications (e.g., AcqKnowledge, Inquisit, SuperLab, Qualtrics) is preferred
• Prior experience collecting, organizing, and shipping biological samples is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, written/oral communication and organizational skills
• Ability to manage research staff, as well as multiple projects, tasks and priorities to achieve desired goals
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
Supervision Received: PI: Dr. Sabra Inslicht at the San Francisco VA Health Care System/UCSF; collaboration with the Stress and Health Research Program at the SFVAHCS
Supervision Exercised: Supervision of research assistants
Background Check: As a federal employee the following background checks are required: License and educational verification, prior employment verification, s*x offender registry check, criminal history, US citizenship verification, and fingerprinting.
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01/12/2019

Researchers (from the San Francisco VA Medical Center; Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE)) are conducting an investigator-initiated research study to test a novel drug for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This study is being conducted in coordinati...