[Physics opps] Positions at MGH (Fwd)

[8-opps@mit.edu]

Several full time research positions are available at the  
Massachusetts General
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 first position concerns the assembly and analysis of data on  
cancer and its
outcome. An interest in medicine, and a familiarity with the use of  
Excel and
Access would be desirable, but the candidate need not have a strong  
background
in mathematics or computer science.


The second position concerns the analysis of the systems that  
hospitals use to
make medical appointments, with the aim of improving utilization of  
preventive
service such as cancer screening.


The third position concerns the refinement, implementation, and  
testing of a
system that sends computer generated telephone reminder messages for  
increasing
the use of breast 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 fourth position concerns the 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 sixth position concerns the creation of telephone reminder  
scripts, which
our systems will launch to recruit patients to schedule appointments  
for cancer
screening.  This position would be suitable for a person with  
interests in
advertising, copywriting, English, marketing, social marketing,  
persuasion
psychology, health communication and public health.



These positions will be available June 1.  In addition, student with  
an interest
in working part time this semester. or duirng their January break, to  
"try out"
the work are encouraged.





Reply by email to:



James S. Michaelson Ph.D.

Department of Pathology

Harvard Medical School

&

Departments of Pathology and Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Email: michaelj at helix.mgh.harvard.edu