[JOB OPP] [jamesmichaelsonphd@gmail.com: Research Positions at the

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:00 -0500
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 Massachusetts General Hospital Involving Data Analysis, Math, & Computer
 Science Applications in Medicine, Preventive Health, and Health
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:45:05 -0500
From: James Michaelson PhD 
To: james.michaelson@gmail.com
Subject: Research Positions at the Massachusetts General Hospital Involving
	Data Analysis, Math, & Computer Science Applications in Medicine,
	Preventive Health, and Health Communications

   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, although we have several openings
   available now. Opportunities for graduating seniors wishing to work part
   time in the spring semester are also available.

   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, designing and testing the user interfaces of the systems we are
   buildings; creating and market testing the telephone messages our systems
   launch; analyzing how health systems actually manage patient recruitment
   and scheduling for preventive health, and measuring the impact of our
   systems on preventive health use and health outcome. Individuals with
   interests in health, human factors engineering, systems engineering,
   operations research, cognitive psychology, persuasion psychology, and in
   advertising, are encouraged to apply to these positions.

   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
   a**

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Tia Newhall                     Computer Science Department 
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