On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:44:48PM -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 assembly of data, and the development of >>improved mathematical methods, for understanding and assessing the growth >>of fetus and children; 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 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 mammographic cancer screening. Knowledge of, or >>ability to learn, ASP, ASP.net, AJAX, C#, HTML, MS SQL Server, Windows >>Server security, Azure, and general database and server administration is >>required. Skill with VXML and computer speech would also be desirable. >> >>The third position concerns the development of improved cancer specimen >>imaging technologies, including micro x-ray tomography. >> >>The fourth position concerns the mathematical analysis of growth. >> >>The target date for employment is June 2015, but there are also >>opportunities for individuals who wish to being now, or participate part >>time now in a trial capacity, or carry out research projects this semester. >> >>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