**Job Description** **Job Description Template** Title: Postdoctoral fellow Salary: The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $73588 - $80000 Annually. Department: Medicine Physical work location: 11 E 26th St #13, New York, NY 10010, USA Name PI or Supervisor: Ankit Parekh; Email: ankit.parekh@mssm.edu ; Phone: (212) 870-9803 Web link to Lab: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/medicine/pulmonary/research/sleep-analysis-group Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/medicine Administrative Contact: Daniel Bunger (212-241-6500) **Qualifications** Educational and other Requirements for the position: + PhD degree + Advance knowledge of sleep medicine Experience Required: + Experience in sleep research + Experience in clinical studies + Experience in data cleansing, statistical analysis, manuscript writing. Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: The goal of this research is to deepen our understanding of how sleep disorders interact with various clinical comorbidities, including cardiovascular disorders, mortality, dementia, and others. The outcomes of this research will include the dissemination of findings to the scientific community, which may pave the way for novel approaches to disease intervention and therapy. **Compensation Statement** The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $73,588.00 - $80,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits. SPOC-UAW Local 4100 at Icahn School of Medicine (Post Docs), 034 - Pulmonary MSH - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans** 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.” **Responsibilities** Details of Research Project: The postdoctoral fellow will embark on a comprehensive research initiative aimed at exploring the relationships between sleep disorders and health outcomes. This project will leverage a rich dataset that includes both clinical and sleep-related information, providing a robust foundation for analysis. The primary focus of this research will be to investigate how sleep disorders impact clinical comorbidities, which are co-existing health conditions that may complicate patient management and outcomes. By examining these connections, the postdoctoral fellow will seek to uncover potential patterns and mechanisms through which sleep disorders contribute to or exacerbate other health issues. Technical Duties: (include any protocols) + Designs and executes scientific experiments. + Regular presentation of data in lab meetings, seminars, and national/international meetings + Provides data for grant submissions and progress reports for NIH and foundations. + Analyzes and interprets research results and the scientific literature in connection with writing or editing high-quality grant fellowship applications, manuscripts, etc. + Helps other researchers translate data results into a manuscript format and propel them to publication. **About Us** **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. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. 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** **Compensation Statement** Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72500 - $80000 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.