Postdoctoral position in Epidemiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a leading academic affiliate of Harvard Medical School and has been consistently recognized as one of America’s best hospitals by US News and World Report.
A Post Doctoral position is available to work with Dr. Alexander Turchin in the Division of Endocrinology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. The focus of the group is on using cutting edge information technology tools to study quality of care of chronic endocrine conditions (diabetes, hypertension). We leverage the resources of multi-million patient database at Partners HealthCare (an integrated healthcare delivery system founded by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital) to combine traditional administrative and clinical data from electronic medical records with novel data elements computationally extracted from narrative electronic documents.
Principal duties and essential functions:
The position will involve epidemiologic analysis of large datasets, writing up of manuscripts for publication and preparation of grant proposals. First authorship on manuscripts is encouraged.
Job Requirements:
The successful candidate will have recently completed graduate studies in a Ph.D. program with a strong research record in health services research, health policy, health economics and / or related field. Experience in statistical programming and data management is highly desirable. Excellent technical, analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills and an ability to work independently are necessary.
Salary: The position is compensated according to the NIH post-doctoral stipend scale. This position is until October 2011.
Applicants should submit:
• A letter describing areas of research interest
• A curriculum vitae with bibliography
• Copies of 1 or 2 recent publications
• Contact information for 3 individuals serving as references
Please send all inquiries to Alexander Turchin at aturchin@partners.org
Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/
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- March 21st
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