Job Summary

Responsible for conducting research under the supervision of a research faculty member and functions as a technical or intellectual resource to the assigned work group. May assume responsibility for a specific topic within the faculty member’s research program.

Job Duties

• Develops and leads research projects within the defined scope of the supervising faculty member’s research program.
• Responsible for gathering preliminary data for grant applications, completion of objectives of funded external grants, and preparation of completed work for publication.
• Contributes to writing grant applications and manuscripts.
• May submit authored grants with permission of the supervisor.
• Performs literature searches to gather information pertaining to research projects or procedures in order to develop new protocols, projects or grants applications for assigned work group.
• Responsible for determining experimental design, collecting data, performing calculations, and analyzing results.
• Responsible for reviewing research or data controls and determining that the research results are valid.
• Maintains and completes appropriate records of the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from each research project.
• May oversee the work of support personnel in the work group at the discretion of the supervising faculty member.
• Participates in research meetings and formal seminars to present, explain, and discuss research conducted by the work group.
• May deliver presentations to extramural audiences at national meetings and academic institutions.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Position Details

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience with statistical analyses from large biobank cohorts
• Experience with exome or genome sequencing data and bioinformatic analyses, e.g. GWAS or PheWAS
• Understanding of heritable cardiomyopathy a plus
• Proficient programming knowledge in MATLAB, R, or similar
• Familiarity with Git for version control
• Experience with human subjects research
• Experience with image and/or signal processing techniques
• Experience with medical image analysis, including image segmentation (manual or automated), and 3D mesh generation
• Knowledge of cardiac anatomy and function
• Understanding of and experience with myocardial structure and function measurements, including volumes, myocardial tissue properties, and strain
• Experience with MRI optimization methods and pulse sequence design a plus

Education

Doctoral Degree- (Required), Doctoral Degree-Behavioral Science (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 3 years-Related work experience (Required)

Skills

Research Analysis; Research And Development Function; Research Documents; Research Methodologies; Reference Content

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.