Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Bay Pines VA Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Residency Program

Bay Pines VAHCS
Bay Pines, Florida

Starts on Monday, August 10, 2026

Applications due Friday, December 5, 2025

Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

The Bay Pines 2-year neuropsychology postdoctoral residency program is a member of APPCN and is accredited by the APA CoA. It is designed to promote clinical specialization in the field of neuropsychology through advanced training that is consistent with the American Psychological Association, Division 40 Houston Conference Guidelines and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). The program is in the process of obtaining additional funding to increase the cohort size by two additional residents. The resident’s duties would be centered in clinics at the Bay Pines VAHCS. Structurally, the neuropsychology postdoctoral training program will consist of four core rotations providing training across 3 areas of traditional neuropsychology practice - traditional inpatient/outpatient neuropsychology assessment, neurorehabilitation, and geropsychology/geriatrics. Rotation clinic options include the Neuropsychology Clinic, PM&R Polytrauma TBI Clinic, PM&R, Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program, Community Living Center, Inpatient Medical Geropsychiatry Consultant/Liaison and the Neurology Clinic. With the anticipated addition of 2 additional residency positions, the structure of the 2-year training program will allow for a total of four full time residents to alternate between the offered core rotations during year 1 and year 2. These duties involve activities in both core mental health settings and medical care clinics/team settings. Residents will also complete a full time 6 week neurology clerkship at the end of year 1. Residents can expect to spend 70% of their time engaged in direct patient care and 30% in structured learning activities that promote clinical competencies and prepare them for licensure and eventual board certification (i.e., seminars, didactics, journal club), teaching, research and professional development/administrative activities. Our program supports an interprofessional training component, such that residents work regularly with the attending neurologists, physiatrists and psychiatrists when rotating within different clinics.

Neuropsychology residents are provided with VHA equipment and are assigned private offices to conduct in-person and telehealth appointments.

https://https://www.va.gov/bay-pines-health-care/work-with-us/internships-and-fellowships/

Additional Information

Agency Type: VA Medical Center
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: Yes
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Neuropsychology
Emphasis or focus area: Neuropsychology
Other Emphasis: Neurorehabilitation
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Zoe Proctor-Weber, PhD, ABPP-CN and Katya Naman, PsyD
Contact Email: zoe.proctor-weber@va.gov; Katya.Naman@va.gov
Contact Phone: 727-398-6661 x14678
Virtual Interviews: Virtual Only
Duration in Months: 24
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 14
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 36
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $53334
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Exempt Neuro specialty APPCN Match
Estimated offer date: Thursday, February 19 2026
Fringe Benefits: Under the federal sick leave/annual leave program, residents accrue 4 hours of paid sick leave and 4 hours of paid annual leave (vacation) every 2-week pay period. This equates to approximately 13 days of sick leave and 13 days of annual leave over the course of each postdoctoral year. With the approval of the primary supervisor and the Training Director, each resident may be allocated up to 64 hours of authorized absence (AA) for professional development activities (e.g. conferences, research presentations, job interviews). Residents also enjoy 11 federal holidays per year. Residents are eligible for health benefits, vision and dental.
Research opportunities: It has been our experience that residents value and benefit from a scientist practitioner-based training program which encourages skillful use of the empirical literature and opportunities for collaborative or self-directed research. The research requirement for the neuropsychology postdoctoral resident would allow for a minimum of 10% (equivalent to 4 hours per week) of dedicated/protected time in addition to additional research activities (i.e., journal club seminar participation and research supervision/ research collective lab meetings). To meet the research requirement, residents will have the opportunity to collaborate with staff and trainees from other disciplines on a program improvement/quality systems project, assist in ongoing research, and/or design and implement an independent research project under the mentoring of one staff member. Individual research projects At the beginning of the year I, neuropsychology residents will participate in a research kick off meeting where they will have the opportunity to learn about the current research projects, meet the pool of available research supervisors and share information about their research interests and experience. Within the two weeks following the kick-off, trainees will connect with the research supervisor(s) whose interests and skill set align with the trainees research goals. Residents may select a research supervisor and communicate their selection to the training director or be matched to a research supervisor. Once matched, the neuropsychology resident will immediately meet with their research supervisor to develop a research plan including timeline with clearly identified, measurable objectives/goals and to set up regularly scheduled research supervision. Research training goals are individually tailored, based on a resident’s level of interest, academic training, and professional goals. Residents will have access to research resources (ex. PSPP and SPSS software, reference books on conducting analysis in Excel and SAS, contact information for R&D IRB Coordinator). The BPVHCS neuropsychology residents will have two options regarding their research projects over the course of their residency. These options are designed to give the resident some degree of flexibility when designing their research questions and the manner in which they choose to answer these questions. Option 1: The resident can choose to engage in expedited or exempted research by utilizing existing databases to produce a minimum of one (1) manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal in one of their residency years and one (1) presentation (paper or poster) presented at a national conference (e.g., AACN, INS, NAN, APA) one of their residency years. This would give the resident a minimum of 1 manuscript competitive for submission in a peer reviewed journal and 1 national professional association presentation. A resident may opt to produce a second empirical manuscript, PI/QS project, Case Study or Content Article for publication; however, this would be considered additional to the minimum requirement and not in lieu of. Of note, to gain access to existing database, the resident will be required to code a minimum of 25 cases into the database. Option 2: The resident can choose to engage in human subject’s research by designing their own project through IRB that would encompass all aspects of research design, including a full IRB proposal and subject selection/recruitment. The expectation for the resident choosing option 2 is that the IRB and subject recruitment portion of the project would encompass year 1 while the data analysis, preparation of one (1) presentation (paper or poster) presented at a national conference (e.g., AACN, INS, NAN, APA) and one (1) manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal would encompass year 2. The resident can, if they wish, produce more than one manuscript based upon their project; however, this would be considered additional to the minimum requirement and not in lieu of. This would give the resident a minimum of 1 manuscript competitive for submission in a peer reviewed journal and 1 national professional association presentation, as well as experience navigating the IRB process. Regardless of whether the resident chooses option 1 (pre-existing database or exempted project) or option 2 (IRB original data collection project), the resident is required to present their research project in a poster or symposium format at a national level conference (i.e., NAN, INS, APA, FPA) for a minimum of (1) of their training years. Additionally, residents may present/disseminate their completed research project as a poster, presentation, symposium at the annual MH&BSS grand rounds, trainee research fair, community outreach, or state level conference. During the course of each year, the resident will be evaluated on their ability to successfully design viable projects, navigate IRB and developing the time management, planning and organization skills required to conduct clinical research in a busy medical center. The pass/fail status of the peer review projects will be based on ability to prepare and submit product on time to their supervisor and will not be contingent on acceptance of the manuscript in a journal. Research supervision and neuropsychology research collective lab meetings The resident will meet with the neuropsychology supervisors at the beginning of the residency year 1 for selection/assignment of primary research supervisor. The resident and the primary research supervisor will work together to develop a research question within the previously listed research options. The resident and the research supervisor will develop a weekly supervision schedule dedicated to the resident’s research project. In addition to these individual research meetings, there will be a monthly research collective meeting on the first Tuesday of the month from 3:00-4:00. Residents must meet all designated MLA for research competencies on their neuropsychology postdoctoral residency competency evaluation form.
Additional Comments: n/a
Application Instructions: APPLICATION DUE DATE: Midnight DECEMBER 5, 2025. How to apply: We anticipate using the APPA CAS postdoc online application system. Required materials will include: • A letter of interest (cover letter). • Curriculum Vitae that includes detailed descriptions of training, experience, research and other relevant activities • Three letters of recommendation • All doctoral level academic transcripts (these can be unofficial) • A letter (or APPCN form) from the chair of your dissertation committee that details the status of your dissertation (including anticipated completion date). Your doctoral degree must be completed before the start date of your postdoctoral training. The materials must be received by application due date. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Training Directors directly with any questions or to discuss any issue of relevance. Please contact Zoe Proctor-Weber, PhD at Zoe.Proctor-Weber@va.gov (Program Manager of Psychology Training Programs) or by phone at (727) 398-6661 x14678, or Katya Naman, PsyD at Katya.Naman@va.gov (Training Director) x10208. If you have any specific questions related to eligibility requirements for federal employment, please contact Human Resources at 727-398-6661 x 15663 SELECTION PROCEDURES: Applications will be reviewed by the neuropsychology training staff and current residents. Selected candidates will be invited to interview with (2) neuropsychology staff members. Invitations for interviews will be made by the Training Director or designee. The residency program will also notify applicants when a decision is made that we are unable to extend an interview offer. Until the residency program notifies an applicant of an interview offer or informs them that an offer will not be forthcoming, applicants should consider their candidacy to be active. For the 2026-28 academic training period, we plan to conduct interviews virtually using video conferencing. We will offer a virtual Open House and interview day for invited candidates on January 5, 2026 from 9:00-4:00 p.m. EST. In the morning we will provide a program overview with the TDs, followed by neuropsychology staff introductions and rotation presentations and Q&A with our training staff, a slide show of our larger Tampa Bay community, medical campus, resident offices and clinical program areas, and a meet and greet Q&A with our current postdoctoral cohort. In the afternoon, candidates will be interviewed by a (2) person panel of staff neuropsychologists. For candidates who are unable to interview during our open house event, virtual interviews can be arranged for an alternate date/time based on candidate and staff availability/preference. If a candidate would like an in-person tour of the facility, or to interview on campus, this can be arranged (but it is NOT required or expected and will not be a factor in selection). Please reach out to the Program Manager of Psychology Training, and/or the Training Director if you need any accommodations due to an ADA defined disability to participate in the virtual open house and/or panel interview. We would be pleased to assist you. Following interviews, the selection committee will rank order applicants. We plan to participate in the APPCN Resident Matching Program. This residency site agrees to abide by the APPCN Match Policy that no person at this facility will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant. Details of the National Match can be found at https://www.natmatch.com/appcnmat/appllanding.html

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