Sally Provence Fellowship in Clinical Research

Award Description

The Clinical Research Fellowship provides recent college graduates with the opportunity to spend two years engaged in cutting-edge clinical research and to learn various assessment measures commonly used for clinical and diagnostic characterization of autism and related disabilities. Clinical fellows will learn assessments across a variety of domains including cognitive/development, social-behavioral, language, and adaptive functioning. Additionally, they will learn to interpret the commonly used instruments as well as writing up the results for families into a clinical report.

Fellows are directly mentored by clinicians and program directors and involved in a highly active and productive community of interdisciplinary research scientists who study ASD. This fellowship aims to serve as a stepping stone for doctoral programs in clinical psychology and PsyD or MD programs.

Sponsor Institution

Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Emory University School of Medicine

Program Directors

Ami Klin, Warren Jones, Cheryl Klaiman

For more information on the Faculty at the Marcus Autism Center, visit our website.

Award Amount

$35,000 in first-year, $37,000 in second-year (with full healthcare coverage)

Term of Award

2 years

Submission Deadline

11:59 pm on January 6, 2023

Eligibility Requirements

College graduates who will have received a bachelor's degree by July 2023 are eligible to apply.

For the Clinical Research Fellowship, previous experience with infants and toddlers; coursework and/or research in cognitive science, experimental, clinical, or developmental psychology; or work with young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will be favorably reviewed. Some experience administering psychological assessments, whether they be standardized or experimental, is preferred. However, we prize a diversity of interests, skills, and backgrounds in our group, and alternate routes into clinical research with children with ASD will not be seen as a detractor.

Please note that this fellowship is not offered concurrently with graduate studies. However, for fellows leaving the program, we do hope that the fellowship will serve as an important stepping-stone towards future graduate studies or careers in computer science.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please refer to the FAQ page for questions regarding this fellowship and application.

Research at the Marcus Autism Center

Marcus Autism Center is the largest center for clinical care of children with ASD and their families in the US, seeing more than 5,000 patients per year. The center also works in partnership with Emory National Primate Research Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Georgia Institute of Technology. These partnerships enable a multidisciplinary and translational approach to ASD research, spanning projects in behavioral neuroscience, neuroimaging, molecular and population genetics, and treatment.

The directors of the fellowship program lead the social neuroscience, spoken communication, and neuroimaging research cores within Marcus Autism Center. These research cores use eye-tracking technology, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral neuroscience methods to better understand the causes and developmental mechanisms underlying ASD and to develop new tools to improve early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of ASD.

Application Requirements

A complete application requires the following:

1. A resume or CV, highlighting relevant experience
2. A two-page personal statement containing biographic material, relevant experience, and career goals (single- or double-spaced)
3. Two letters of recommendation that speak directly to your potential
4. Transcripts for each post-secondary institution you have attended, present school included

All materials must be submitted by January 7, 2023.

Application Instructions

All applications must be submitted electronically. The online application portal will open in December 2022. To complete your online application, you will need a resume/CV, a statement of purpose, and one or more scanned transcript(s). You can upload .pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .jpg, and .tif files.

Transcripts

Your transcripts must be issued by the registrar’s office, but unofficial copies issued to you are acceptable. If you wish to upload an electronic transcript issued by your registrar's office, please be sure we can open that document without passwords or other security information. Please do not mail paper transcripts with your application. If you are admitted to the fellowship program and accept, then you will need to submit official copies (sealed or sent to us directly from a university registrar). Transcripts must be in English, or be accompanied by notarized translations.

Letters of Recommendation

Contact your recommenders well ahead of time to make sure they are aware of and can meet your application deadline. Your application is not complete until the letters have been submitted. You will request the letters as part of the online application process, and recommenders can submit them online. You can send requests for letters of recommendations before you submit the final application.

For additional questions, please contact the Marcus Fellowship Committee at marcus.predoc-fellowships@emory.edu or (404) 785-9554.