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

Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 07:00:44 -0400
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 Science Applications in Medicine, Preventive Health, and Health
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:40:32 -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,
	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 now.

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 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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