Current Fellowship Opportunities
Design Your Own Postdoctoral Adventure
ETSU Institute for Integrated Behavioral Health
We are accepting applications for up to three design your own adventure Postdoctoral Fellowships at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine for 2024-2025!
The fellowships are part of the Institute for Integrated Behavioral Health, the model program for integrated behavioral health in the region. We seek ambitious candidates who plan to be healthcare innovators and leaders - at ETSU, in Northeast Tennessee, anywhere! Fellows function as junior faculty and Behavioral Health Consultants using the Primary Care Behavioral Health model. In addition to clinical practice, fellows provide training to on-site medical residents and other interprofessional learners.
4 Primary Tracks:
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Pediatrics
Grow as a pediatric focused clinician: Advance your BHC skills by serving children, adolescents, and their families at one or more pediatric locations: pediatric primary care (with option for rural focus), endocrinology, neurology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, and/or inpatient consult liaison services at Niswonger Children’s Hospital. Clinics are affiliated with ETSU and prioritize training the next generation of healthcare providers in state of the science practices.
Grow as an educator: Train residents, medical students, and other interprofessional learners. Learn key “microteaching” skills to establish yourself as an effective clinical preceptor. Option to participate in ETSU’s nationally recognized interprofessional education program.
Grow as a leader: Engage in leadership, advocacy and program development activities in the ETSU Department of Pediatrics with mentorship tailored to your needs and goals. Work in clinics where BHCs are well established or grow your program development skills implementing integrated care in clinics newer to PCBH.
Work in a warm and supportive environment where psychology is valued, and your training goals are prioritized. Opportunities for advanced training in behavioral, acceptance and commitment therapy, and cognitive behavioral approaches. Postdocs are matched to specific clinics based on interest and clinic need.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Faculty, Dr. Matthew Tolliver; tolliverr@etsu.edu.
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Internal Medicine
Effect primary care practice transformation and build systems to better support patients’ and health care teams’ management of mental health and lifestyle/behavioral factors contributing to poor health in an older, medically complex population. Collaborate with primary care, subspecialty (currently, Rheumatology and Endocrinology), and embedded psychiatric providers with potential opportunities for expansion to one or more divisions within the Department, including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Oncology, Nephrology, etc.
Learn and apply the principles and pillars of Lifestyle Medicine to disease prevention and chronic disease self-management to grow or round out a robust health psychology/behavioral medicine skill set.
Work in tandem with our integrated psychiatric prescribers to provide a cutting-edge, personalized medicine approach to disease through pharmacogenetic testing and via our Collaborative Care Model that sits atop of our well-integrated Primary Care Behavioral Health service delivery model.
Grow your supervision, research/implementation science, and interprofessional educator portfolio with a diverse group of junior level learners (e.g., MSW students, PMHNP students, Phd/PsyD candidates), clinical projects of interest to you, and by developing/leading dynamic Academic Half Day and Behavioral Medicine Rounds lectures to residents and medical colleagues.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Faculty, Dr. Laura Maphis; maphis@etsu.edu.
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Family Medicine
Bristol Family Medicine serves a rural, high needs, and medically complex patient population. Given the Family Medicine setting, BHCs gain experience training as true generalists working with a wide range of patient demographics ranging from infant to older adult, and a diverse array of presenting concerns, including traditional mental health symptoms, chronic health management, substance use treatment, smoking cessation, and health behavior change.
The BHC will gain experience working with a range of interprofessional health care professionals, including medical residents, nurses, clinical pharmacists, and social work team members. They will develop and hone their communication skills and collaborate with other professionals through routine patient care, and will have opportunities to participate in focused treatment clinics, such as hospital follow-up visits, complex pharmacy consultation visits, and substance use treatment appointments.
Opportunities to engage in quality improvement and program evaluation efforts within the clinic and department with opportunities for scholarly project development.
Train residents, medical students, and other interprofessional learners, participate in teaching behavioral health didactics and contribute to behavioral health education through clinical practice alongside team members.
Engage in leadership and development activities in the ETSU Department of Family Medicine.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Faculty, Dr. Alex Melkonian; melkonian@etsu.edu.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Provide generalist BHC services to one of two general OB/GYN clinics including low and high-risk obstetrics, general gynecology, hormone therapy for gender affirming treatment, and in-house MAT obstetrics clinic.
Provide training for medical students, residents, and other interprofessional learners including opportunities for research activities.
Engage in leadership and development activities including supporting the wellbeing of the interprofessional team in the ETSU Department of OB/GYN.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Faculty, Dr. Jessica Turner; turnerjh@etsu.edu.
6 Minor Tracks:
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Sports Medicine
- Help develop this new and rapidly growing program serving students in ETSU’s athletics program.
- Provide BHC services in the context of an interprofessional athletics clinic.
- Deliver performance enhancing programming to teams within ETSU athletics.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Faculty, Dr. Samantha Lyon; lyonsd1@etsu.edu.
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Community Mental Health
- Conduct comprehensive evaluations including forensic evaluations as part of a regional center.
- Develop and evaluate integrated care programming using community health providers.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Faculty, Dr. Jodi Polaha; polaha@etsu.edu.
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Research & Advocacy
- Conduct locally impactful research in coordination with several ongoing projects evaluating the PCBH model of integrated care.
- Facilitate research with interprofessional teams in one of our major track offerings.
- Learn how to use data and stories to advocate for healthcare/integrated care to local and state government.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Director of Research, Dr. Aubrey Dueweke; dueweke@etsu.edu.
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Responsive Assessment Clinic
- Conduct brief and focused assessments designed to be responsive to patient needs in primary care.
- Assist with the ongoing development and business model of this growing clinic.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Institute Affiliate, Dr. Bess Lewis; bslewis16@gmail.com.
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Addicition Medicine
Expand your expertise while extending services to patients with Substance Use Disorder and Behavioral Addictions by engaging with those in need (read: everybody) of BHC services in the Addiction Medicine Clinic, housed in the ETSU Department of Family Medicine Johnson City Clinic.
Reap the benefits of working in an evidence-based, compassionate, energized and integrated environment with Board Certified Addictionologists, addiction medicine fellows, nurses, licensed social workers, and Certified Peer Recovery Specialists.
Facilitate in person and virtual groups, individual therapy, couples’ counseling, and family counseling.
Train residents, fellows, and other interprofessional learners in this innovative model of care. Option to participate in ETSU’s nationally recognized interprofessional education program.
Engage in leadership and development activities within the Fellowship and in coordination with the Addiction Science Center.
Direct questions to Track Supervisor and Fellowship Director: Dr. Joyce Troxler; troxler@etsu.edu.
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Prenatal Substance Exposure / Baby Steps Clinic
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of professionals caring for infants and children who have been exposed to drugs before birth.
- Participate in interprofessional team assessments and warm handoffs to provide best care and outcomes for children and families affected by substance use.
- Provide behavioral health and management education and counseling to the complex and vulnerable population of prenatally drug exposed children and their families.
- Partner with parents in recovery to link them to appropriate mental health services in the community.
More information: Baby Steps Clinic
Why ETSU?
We provide an evolved experience that focuses on developing skills in leadership, community engagement, and working in a policy/advocacy role. We don’t fit you to our needs – we fit our opportunities to your needs and you can mix and match the training tracks to design the adventure that will launch your career.
Institute Faculty include research, policy, and health system innovators with strong track records in publishing, implementation and sustainment of novel programming, and local advocacy. Our team has a servant-leader orientation, lives our values around work-life balance, and prioritizes a work culture of connection and support.