The Berger Fellowship is a two-year endowed, postdoctoral research fellowship designed to support the career development of professionals who want to become independent investigators in the field of child maltreatment or child welfare. This fellowship was created in 1999 through the generosity of Mr. Wayne Berger who endowed the support through The Kempe Foundation.
Current Kempe Center research opportunities include a randomized-controlled trial of an intervention for preadolescent youth in foster care, policy research studies, and an expanding focus on abuse prevention. Recent major research activities include developing clinical trials of mental health interventions, conducting developmental risk research, and studying the impact of major child welfare policies on the health, mental health, and development of youth in foster care and kinship care. A focus of the fellowship is to prepare the individual to obtain external funding. There are also opportunities to collaborate with our multidisciplinary, multi-university developmental psychobiology research consortium and our health outcomes research group. Supervised clinical experiences are also available if needed to complement the research training.
Past Berger Fellows who have established successful academic careers have included:
| Years |
Fellow |
Where they are now - |
|---|
| 2007-2009 |
Tali Raviv, PhD |
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine |
| 2005-2006 |
Kimberly Shipman, PhD |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
The Kempe Center |
| 2002-2004 |
Patrick Nickoletti, PhD |
Associate Professor Human Development and Family Studies
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT |
| 2000-2001 |
Anne M Libby, PhD |
Associate Professor Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Director Clinical Faculty Scholars Program | Comparative
Effectiveness Research Scholars Program (K12) | Colorado
Mentoring Training Program (CO-Mentor) |
For more information on the Berger Fellowship, please contact:
Desmond K. Runyan, MD, DrPH
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Section Head, Child Abuse and Neglect and
Jack and Viki Thompson Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado
Executive Director, Kempe Center
National Program Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars®
The Children’s Hospital
13123 E. 16th Avenue, B-390
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 303-864-5363 Fax: 303-864-5367
E-mail: Des.Runyan@ucdenver.edu