On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:31:57PM -0500, James Michaelson PhD wrote: >> Several full time research positions will be 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. >> >> The first position concerns 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. >> >> The second position concerns the analysis of medical usage and cost among >> cancer patients. >> >> The third 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 fourth position concerns the refinement, implementation, and testing >> of a system that sends computer generated telephone reminder messages for >> increasing the use of mammographic cancer screening. Knowledge of, or >> ability to learn, ASP, ASP.net, AJAX, C#, HTML, MS SQL Server, Windows >> Server 2008 security, and general database and server administration is >> required. Skill with VXML and computer speech would also be desirable. >> >> These positions are available in June. For those graduating seniors who >> are interested, the opportunity to work part time during this semester is >> also available. >> >> Please reply by email with CV or resume to: >> >> James S. Michaelson Ph.D. >> Director >> Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine >> http://www.lifemath.net/ >> Massachusetts General Hospital >> >> Department of Pathology >> Harvard Medical School >> & >> Departments of Pathology and Surgery >> Massachusetts General Hospital >> Email: JamesMichaelsonPhD at gmail.com