Pre-doctoral Training
The Center is able to provide pre-doctoral research and/or clinical training to a limited number of trainees through its Pre-doctoral Training Program. These are usually one-year fellowships and are normally supported by grant agencies external to the Center.
The first of these fellows was Catherine Forneris, who subsequently completed her PhD in clinical psychology and is now on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Another pre-doctoral fellow was Neeta Venepalli, a third year medical student when she completed a Doris Duke Fellowship that was mentored by Dr. William Whitehead. Her research involved all stages of completing a clinical research study -- literature review and proposal preparation, recruitment and interviewing of research subjects, analysis of the data, and writing the manuscript. Her topic was families of children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). She has now completed her MD degree and accepted an internship and residency training at the University of Illinois. She plans to continue her research interest in psychological factors that influence the development of functional bowel disorders.
The Center is able to provide pre-doctoral research and/or clinical training to a limited number of trainees through its Pre-doctoral Training Program. These are usually one-year fellowships and are normally supported by grant agencies external to the Center.
The first of these fellows was Catherine Forneris, who subsequently completed her PhD in clinical psychology and is now on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Another pre-doctoral fellow was Neeta Venepalli, a third year medical student when she completed a Doris Duke Fellowship that was mentored by Dr. William Whitehead. Her research involved all stages of completing a clinical research study -- literature review and proposal preparation, recruitment and interviewing of research subjects, analysis of the data, and writing the manuscript. Her topic was families of children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). She has now completed her MD degree and accepted an internship and residency training at the University of Illinois. She plans to continue her research interest in psychological factors that influence the development of functional bowel disorders.
