Assistant Professor
The Emory Department of Surgery seeks a full-time epidemiologist or health services researcher at the rank of Assistant Professor to join a robust team centered on improving surgical health outcomes through innovative and rigorous scientific research. The incumbent will be associated with the Health Services Research Center within the School of Medicine. Candidates should possess a strong interest in the field of health services research and have specific methodological expertise in at least one of the following areas: qualitative research methods, quality measurement and metrics, clinical decisions science, behavioral sciences, comparative effectiveness research, and/or dissemination & implementation research, with a developed emphasis in surgery health services and outcomes research.
Post Doctoral Fellow
The Health Services Research Center is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship position. This position is grant-funded and renewable on an annual basis depending on performance. The fellowship provides formal and informal training in epidemiologic methods, health surveillance data collection, analysis, and dissemination, and practical experience working with community partners across the nation to support a mission to improve access to healthcare.
Biostatistician
The biostatistician will be responsible for assisting research projects in the Emory Health Services Research Center, and would work closely with the director of the HSR Center, who has active funding in the area of health services research in kidney disease and transplantation, including the expansion of a national registry for early steps in transplant access and several large-scale pragmatic trials to reduce inequities in access to treatment for this patient population. The biostatistician would also work on other research by faculty throughout the departments of surgery and medicine related to health services research.
Assistant Epidemiologist
The assistant epidemiologist will be responsible for assisting with the program management and epidemiologic aspects of the NIH-funded Reducing Disparities in Access to KidNey Transplantation (RaDIANT) Studies with a focus on clinical epidemiology, social determinants of health, and health services research methods. The candidate will work closely with the director of the Emory Health Services Research (HSR) Center, who has active funding in the area of health services research in kidney disease and transplantation, and also assist on research by faculty throughout the departments of surgery and medicine related to health services research. Project areas will likely include leading novel data collection, analyzing data and presenting findings, collaboration with internal team members and external collaborators to implement study aims, and developing novel health care quality metrics.