Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD)
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Location: Houston, TX
- Job Number: 7111736 (Ref #: 13203-en_US)
- Posting Date: Sep 27, 2022
- Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
The Li lab within the Section of Hematology and Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for a postdoctoral research position to work on epidemiology and outcomes research in cancer associated thrombosis. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work primarily with Dr. Li, a hematology/oncology physician scientist and CPRIT scholar who specializes in thrombosis research and cancer epidemiology. The lab will train fellow specialized skills to incorporate novel data science tools in large-scale collaborative epidemiology studies using electronic health records and to become successful, cross-trained cancer and thrombosis epidemiologists and health services researcher.
Job Duties
- Designs cohort, case control, and cross-sectional studies using institutional and national claims and EHR databases.
- Designs and gathers primary and secondary data using REDCap.
- Analyzes data and prepares manuscripts and presentations at local, national, and international conferences.
- Writes career development grants for future promotion.
- Contributes as needed to the training of laboratory personnel, research technicians, clinical fellows, and graduate/medical students.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education Required: Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
- No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD epidemiology or health services research, or MD with MS/MPH in epidemiology or health services research.
- A strong record of first or senior-position peer-reviewed publications.
- Excellent writing skills in English.
- Proficiency in R or Stata.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Matlab/Perl/Python.
Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
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