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Roles & Responsibilities:

This PostDoc position is available with Dr. Rosalind Wright’s research group at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City (NYC). This is an exciting opportunity to join a mature transdisciplinary team science environment embedded in a vibrant exposomic ecosystem in our Institute for Exposomic Research. Funding is guaranteed for 2 years with potential for further support. Dr. Wright’s research program leverages ongoing pregnancy cohort studies investigating the impact of prenatal and early childhood exposures (both chemical and non-chemical) on child developmental outcomes including growth and obesity, respiratory disorders including asthma and lung development, neurocognition and behavioral development, emerging psychological dysfunction including internalizing/ externalizing problems and sleep disorders in preschool and early school-aged children. Chemical exposures include toxic metals and their mixtures, ambient air pollution and their mixtures, and organic chemicals with an extensive biorepository to facilitate expanded exposure assessment. Given an overarching interest in elucidating underpinnings of health inequities, the program also studies interactions among these chemical exposures and social determinants (e.g., psychosocial stress including trauma, racism and discrimination more broadly at the individual and community level). Consideration of modifying effects of nutrition is a major developing interest among the group. We have substantial infrastructure facilitating geocoding and linkage with administrative databases to consider community factors such as crime/violence, access to healthy foods, green space, etc. A particular focus is on developing a platform to allow multi-omic approaches to interrogating these complex associations and their biologic underpinnings including available data on extracellular vesicle-related microRNAs and long noncoding RNAs, as well as proteomic, mitochondriomic, metablomic, epigenomic dataMetabolomics and microbiome are also of interest. This program is funded through multiple R01 studies and are part of the NIH funded national ECHO (Environmental Influences on Children’s Health Outcomes) program. Other notable support includes a NIEHS-funded K12 program, NCATS funded KL2/Tl1 training programs, and a NIEHS P30 Center Grant all of which provide opportunities for pilot funding available to postdocs throughout training. These programs provide significant support for the postdoctoral candidates to submit a NIH funded Career Development Award or other grant mechanism to facilitate transition to independence. The successful postdoc will lead epidemiology and computational investigations incorporating exposomic approaches leveraging this reach ecosystem.

Examples of active projects include:

1. Prenatal metal-stress mixtures and transdiagnostic pathways to preadolescent internalizing disorders: Role of placental molecular signaling

2. Prenatal metal mixtures and neurodevelopment: Role of placental extracellular microRNAs

3. ECHO consortium on Perinatal Programming of Neurodevelopment

4. Maternal traumatic stress, oxidative stress, antioxidant exposures, and child asthma and lung function

5. Prenatal metals-stress mixtures and sleep disruption in preschoolers

Requirements:

Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in Environmental and/or Molecular Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Nutritional Epidemiology, Developmental Psychology, or in other relevant disciplines, such as Statistics/Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, or Bioinformatics, with relevant previous work and interest in environmental health. Strong quantitative skills relevant to this broad program such as practical experience working with complex epidemiology data, familiarity with the R statistical software packages and excellent oral communication and scientific writing are desirable. Experience with high dimensional molecular data such as metabolomics, mitochondriomics, Illumina BeadChip methylation (450K, 850K or EPIC) and RNA-seq data is a strength.

Interested individuals should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two sample publications, and the names/phone numbers of three people who could provide letters of reference by email to Ms. Suzy Allen, Administrative Manager: Suzy.Allen@mssm.edu.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong, and are able to professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

Who We Are

Over 42,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status.

EOE including Veterans and Disabled

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 2775852