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Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD)

Employer
Baylor College of Medicine
Location
Houston, Texas
Closing date
Aug 31, 2022

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Discipline
Health Sciences, Medicine
Position Type
Full Time
Job Type
Postdoc Fellowship
Organization Type
Academia
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 gather primary and secondary data using REDCap.
  • Works on research projects that involve computable phenotype characterization, incidence estimation, risk assessment model derivation/validation, propensity score weighted analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, longitudinal trend analysis, and difference-in-differences analysis.
  • 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

  • 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 can be considered with extensive prior research experience and publication.
  • 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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