Introduction:
There is an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow with experience in fMRI who is interested in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The project is in support of the National Capital Neuroimaging Consortium's TBI Neuroimaging Core project in Washington, DC. The NCNC has access to a large population of military personnel returning from areas of conflict. This is an especially timely and urgent research area since approximately 20% of returning veterans have sustained some level of TBI, and we know relatively little about causation, diagnosis, or treatment in this population. Incumbent will be responsible for performing in-depth analysis of existing fMRI data, for developing advanced new fMRI acquisition and analysis techniques, and for coordinating fMRI paradigms with parallel MEG experiments.
Facilities:
The NCNC is a consortium between the major military medical institutions in the Washington, DC region. This newly funded center includes facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the National Naval Medical Center, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, and the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences. The consortium’s primary task is the development and application of advanced neuroimaging techniques for the military population, with an initial focus on TBI and PTSD. Within the Consortium institutions there are five 1.5T GE MRI systems, two new 3.0T GE 750 system, two PET-CTs, a new MEG system, and multiple SPECT cameras. We also enjoy collaborations with several research groups at the NIH, located across the street from NICOE.
Responsibilities:
1. The main focus of this position is on data acquisition and analysis for fMRI, including implementation of real-time cognitive feedback paradigms.
2. This position will develop protocols that can be used on both fMRI and MEG.
3. Other duties include optimizing protocols, monitoring quality control, and participating in the grant and research report authorship.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Expertise in fMRI. Experience in image processing, along with expertise in one of the following areas: real-time cognitive feedback, MEG, and/or quantitative (morphological) MRI. Experience with statistical analysis using a common analysis package (AFNI, FSL or SPM) required. Expertise in a scientific programming language required (e.g. IDL, Matlab, python). Must be a U.S. citizen.
Minimum Education/Training Requirements:
MD or PhD in physics, bioengineering, psychology, statistics, or related scientific discipline.
Application Instructions:
This position is administered through the Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF). Please look for job posting 205870 on their website (http://www.hjf.org/) or go directly to the job posting:
https://online.hjf.org/psc/eapp/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=205870&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
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