[JOB OPP] Research Positions at the Massachusetts General Hospital Involving

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:37:01 -0400
From: James Michaelson PhD 
To: "Michaelson, James S" 
Subject: Research Positions at the Massachusetts General Hospital Involving Data
      Analysis, Math, & Computer Science Applications in Medicine

Several full time research positions are available at the
Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard affiliated teaching
hospital, for graduating seniors interested in spending a year or two
before continuing their education in medical or graduate school, as
well as for individuals with somewhat more experience, including
students with Masters Degrees. Previous holders of this type of
position have had the opportunity to work on research projects and to
publish scientific papers on their work, and many individuals have
published first-authored papers on their work. For students with an
interest in medicine, exposure to clinical medicine is encouraged. The
work of our group has concerned: the assembly of data, and the
development of improved mathematical methods, for predicting the
outcome for cancer patients; the identification of screening schedules
for reaching the maximal possible reduction in cancer death achievable
by cancer screening; the application of modern computer speech and
telephony for developing scheduling/reminder systems for increasing
the use of preventative medical interventions such as mammography and
influenza immunization. The program is a collaborative project between
individuals at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT,
and is located in an MGH facility next to MIT in Cambridge.

These positions are available in June.

The first position concerns the analysis of the systems that hospitals
use to make medical appointments, and the assembly and analysis of
data on how patients are processed through the system, with the aim of
improving utilization of preventive service such as cancer screening.
This position also concerns managing preventive health interventions
that use these systems.

The second position concerns the refinement, implementation, and
testing of a system that sends computer generated telephone reminder
messages for increasing the use of breast cancer screening. Knowledge
of, or ability to learn, ASP, ASP.net, AJAX, C#, HTML, MS SQL Server,
Windows Server 2003 security, and general database and server
administration is required. Skill with VXML and computer speech would
also be desirable.

The third position the the assembly and analysis of data on cancer and
its outcome, and development of improved mathematical methods for
predicting cancer outcome. Related work concerns the development and
implementation of novel mathematical methods for Web-based calculators
that physicians can use for predicting the risk of cancer recurrence,
as well as the development of computer simulation models of cancer
progression.

Please reply by email with CV or resume to:

James S. Michaelson Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
&
Departments of Pathology and Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Email: JamesMichaelsonPhD@gmail.com
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