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