Sensory Research Technician - Veear Projects Inc
Bethesda, MD
About the Job
Deliverables:
- Work products and documents related to conducting somatosensory and pain-related quantitative sensory testing; autonomic testing of patients and healthy volunteers; pain-related neuroimaging studies of patients and healthy volunteers. - Weekly
- Attend recurring and ad hoc PRC and NCCIH clinical research meetings. - Weekly
- Work products and documents related to collaborating on designing sensory, autonomic, and imaging testing procedures to best characterize pain conditions associated with individual conditions, treatments, and diseases. - Weekly Work products and documents related to participating in the writing of clinical protocols to study pain mechanisms; writing of scientific papers; performing data analysis of sensory, autonomic, and neuroimaging data. - Weekly
- Meet with lab members to present updates - Weekly
- Clean Equipment - Ad-Hoc
- Run Validation - Ad-Hoc
- Inspect Equipment - Ad-Hoc
- Conduct somatosensory and pain-related quantitative sensory testing. 1
- Conduct autonomic testing of patients and healthy volunteers. 2
- Conduct pain-related neuroimaging studies of patients and healthy volunteers. 3
- Work with investigators from multiple NIH institutes and center to design sensory, autonomic, and imaging testing procedures to best characterize pain conditions associated with individual conditions, treatments, and diseases. 4
- Participate in the writing of clinical protocols to study pain mechanisms. 5
- Supports clinical staff develop, implement and maintain clinical research data files and materials.
- Perform data analysis of sensory, autonomic, and neuroimaging data.
- Collects research data and prepares information for inputs and analysis.
- Verify study participant information and collect data and results of testing.
- Perform accurate and timely data analysis, report results and findings and respond to sponsor queries.
- Set up, format and enter data into spreadsheets to analyze information and create reports.
- Enter data into research databases, systems and applications for ongoing studies.
- Supports the development of forms and questionnaires.
- Assist researchers develop, maintain and complete study data collection forms and source documents.
- Assist staff writing and editing clinical research protocols and informed consent forms (ICFs) based upon templates.
- Review draft protocols, case report forms, and manuals of operations for clarity, and completeness.
- Work with staff on the design, development and preparation of documents such as spreadsheets, letters, rosters, agendas, presentations and meeting minutes/summaries.
- Assist researchers design patient Case Report Forms (CRFs).
- Supports the collection of data from patient charts, medical records, interviews, questionnaires, and diagnostic tests.
- Retrieve research related information from medical records, hospital information system and laboratory information system and create spreadsheets and other reports for use in study analysis.
- Monitors subject's progress and reports adverse events.
- Assist staff writing progress reports and contributions to peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts.
- Supports assembly, development and review of new research projects.
- Assist researchers develop and maintain current and new research protocols.
- Supports the creation and management of clinical websites and web-based tools.
- Participate in the writing of scientific papers.
- Bachelor's
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Miscellaneous Biology
- Biology
- MS Office Suite
- Required experience in analytical and statistical software program(s), e.g., SPSS, R, FSL, SPM, AFNI, MATLAB.
- Demonstrated proficiency in writing protocols and scientific manuscripts.
- Demonstrated proficiency in statistical analyses in relevant area, e.g., neuroimaging, behavioral, pychophysical, autonomic, clinical data.
- Previous experience performing at least one of the following techniques: MRI/fMRI, fNIRS, EEG, PET, TMS, psychophysical or autonomic testing.
- Previous experience in clinical research or a related field, direct patient contact preferred.
- Experience with data management.
Source : Veear Projects Inc