Post-Doctoral Trainee

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Posting Open Date: 10/07/2025

Final date to receive applications: 01/15/2026

Position Type: Postdoctoral Scholar – Post-Doctoral Trainee

Vacancy : PDS
004668

Full-time/Part-time: Full-Time Temporary

Hours Per Week: 40

Work Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Proposed

Start Date:

07/01/2026

Estimated Duration Of Appointment: 12 Months

UNC-Chapel Hill offers postdocs comprehensive medical and vision coverage, paid leave, and benefits and services that support professional development and a healthy work/life balance. Chapel Hill regularly ranks as one of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, a reputation guided by the diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.

• Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
• Education: We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.
• Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Program on Integrative Medicine (PIM) within the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is seeking qualified candidates for a Postdoctoral fellowship. The goal of this T32 training program is to cultivate diverse, well‑trained, independent researchers at the postdoctoral level for leadership in investigating efficacy, effectiveness, mechanisms of action, and implementation strategies for clinical integration of effective CIH therapies into healthcare practice.

• Receive rigorous training that emphasizes the development and implementation of clinical trials, including feasibility testing, mechanism evaluations, advanced quantitative and qualitative methods, systematic reviews/meta‑analysis, and implementation science methods.
• Receive a firm grounding in CIH concepts and research issues.
• Participate in the ongoing research of strong mentors.
• Develop and conduct significant studies that will provide a foundation for future funded research.
• Participate in the development of innovative research tools and measures to better examine CIH approaches to care.

• Participation in a primary research project with Drs. Gaylord, Giscombe, Faurot, and potentially another approved UNC faculty mentor. Please see our website for details of mentors committed to the program: UNC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program on Integrative Medicine.
• Dr. Gaylord studies mindfulness interventions for pain conditions, anxiety, and risk of depression.
• Dr. Giscombe studies biopsychosocial research, including biomarkers associated with mindfulness and Superwoman Schema for Black/African American women and healing professionals.
• Dr. Faurot studies nutrition interventions for chronic pain conditions, dietary supplement safety, and mindfulness interventions for caregivers of persons living with dementia.
• Other researchers with whom we are affiliated have expertise in implementation science.

• Development of an original research area that aligns with ongoing research projects at the Program on Integrative Medicine or other UNC collaborators.
• Attendance at the Responsible Conduct of Research courses offered by the NC TraCS Institute. Attendance at the fall…