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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:27:11 -0400
From: James Michaelson PhD <jamesmichaelsonphd at gmail.com>
To: "james.michaelson at live.com" <james.michaelson at live.com>
Subject: Research Positions For Graduating Seniors at the Massachusetts General
	Hospital Involving Quantitative Approaches to Medicine, Including
	Preventive Health, Medical Redesign, Medical Economics, Math, and
	Computer Science. .

   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; and the development of advanced
   methods for imaging cancer specimens. 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. This position would be suitable for a student interested
   in health economics, as it is based on one of the largest and most
   fine-scaled patient cost datasets available.

   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 2003 security, and general database and server administration is
   required. Skill with VXML and computer speech would also be desirable.

   The fifth position concerns the development of improved cancer specimen
   imaging technologies, including micro x-ray tomography.

   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

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