The primary purpose of the Lab Manager is to provide oversight of the Tworoger Lab and its staff members, working conjointly with Dr. Shelley Tworoger on research projects as assigned, with a focus on women’s health and cancer. This individual will support oversight of the design of research studies, procedures, and day-to-day operations supporting research goals and grant commitments of the Tworoger Lab, including ensuring regulatory compliance. Monitors results, responds to outcomes, and develops and implements modifications to address any technical or design issues. With expert knowledge of research practices, directs and teaches others the methodology/Standard Operating Procedures....

- Animal care and procedures:  health checks, tumor measurements, injections, necropsy, genotyping - Maintenance of mouse colonies - Assist investigators with scheduling, organization, chart reviews, consenting patients, obtaining tissue and blood and processing, cell culture, flow cytometry. - Collecting data and simple data analysis and quantification. - Routine laboratory housekeeping tasks, ordering of supplies, and...

- Animal experimentation: Work with researchers in managing the animal colony, taking measurements, harvesting tissues for experimentation, animal surgeries and necropsies. - Wet lab duties: Assist researchers with processing animal and human tissues/blood, labelling, organizing materials for experiment days. Basic to advanced cellular and molecular techniques. Basic to advanced immunologic methodologies with tissue specimens, tissue culture and relevant assays. Use of aseptic techniques and statistical applications (Prism/GraphPad). -

The successful candidate will work as Project Leader on a variety of projects under the direction of Andrew W McHill, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Sleep, Chronobiology, and Health Laboratory within the OHSU School of Nursing. The Postdoctoral fellow will work on research that is aimed at understanding the effects of disturbed sleep and circadian rhythms on physiology and pathophysiology in humans. In particular, we are investigating the adverse health effects of short and disrupted sleeping patterns, food choice, shift work, and the mechanisms underlying the adverse health of performing activities during the night. These studies will lead to interventions designed to improve the health,...

- Develop in vivo preclinical models for hypothesis testing based on immune-based regulatory mechanisms. - Acquire and analyze microscopy images using dark field, confocal, fluorescence and multi-spectral microscopy. - Develop multiplex fluorescence immunohistochemistry and multi-parameter molecular imaging of cells and tissues. - Investigate signaling pathways using in vivo and tissue culture cell-based assays and single cell technologies to determine if signaling, and tumorigenic potential, can be modulated by exposure to targeted and/or immunologic anticancer agents. - Independently design, perform and interpret...

Clinical Activities (not related to teaching or research) - This position requires an OR FNP license. Licensure as an FNP in the state of Oregon requires clinical practice as an FNP. - This faculty’s clinical practice may be separate from the OHSU FTE or may be incorporated into the overall OHSU FTE; this is part of the position negotiation. Scholarly Activities (research/writing, abstracts,...

The Program Director must administer and maintain an educational environment conducive to educating the residents in each of the ACGME competency areas. The Program Director must: - oversee and ensure the quality of didactic and clinical education in all sites that participate in the program; - approve a local director at each participating site who is accountable for resident education; - approve the selection of program faculty as appropriate; - evaluate program faculty and approve the continued participation of program faculty based on evaluation; - monitor resident supervision at all participating sites; - oversee development and execution of a comprehensive curriculum that meets the specialty requirements for...

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher with a background in computer, information, or data science, with an interest in stream processing. This will focus on development of algorithms to process data in near-real time as it streams to servers from research participants. This position is anticipated to last 1.5-3 years to allow adequate time for the researcher to integrate with the team, understand the current platform infrastructure and data streams, and contribute to the research.  Position may be hybrid with possibility of becoming remote, with workspace available at OHSU’s main campus in Portland, OR.  Some...

The Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Center in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University seeks a post-doctoral researcher.   This position will support an ongoing NIA-funded R01 (Kevin Duff: PI) that is examining short-term practice effects on cognitive tests and measures of daily functioning in older adults with intact and impaired cognition. This position will also assist with analyses of previously completed projects and ongoing center projects, dissemination of...

- Primary Research (including planning, granting, execution, analysis, publication) - a. Maintain laboratory compliance documentation for human, animal, biological and radiological work.   b. Be familiar with lab safety infrastructure and ensure compliance with all safety regulations. c. Interact with biosafety, chemical safety, and safety officers on behalf of the Principal Investigator. - a. Generate data and research analysis for investigator's use in preparation of technical reports and publications.

- Preforming laboratory research; Conducting experiments; Collecting, analyzing, and quantifying data; Assisting in planning and designing standard research operations, training and mentoring lab members. - Preparation and/or review of reports, manuscripts and peer reviewed journals for publication. Submit applications for grant funding in support of the labs research mission. - Attending and presenting research at lab meetings, seminars and conferences.

The Estes Laboratory combines cutting-edge multi-omics platforms with traditional immunohistochemistry techniques to understand how local and systemic inflammation promote tissue pathology as well as disease progression. We utilize several non-human primate models of highly relevant human diseases, including HIV and inflammatory bowel disease, to additionally test therapeutics designed to modulate the inflammatory landscape, restore immune homeostasis, and reduce viral reservoirs.     This...

- Room set up (positioning of bed, partner with surgical team and RN to plan patient positioning) and testing of all Stereotactic Equipment (Stealth, O-arm, Rosa, Brainlab, Autoguide Robot) - Making sure equipment is maintained: set-up for day, cleaned and stored at end of day - Prior to Surgery: verify imaging of patients; ensure equipment set to correct procedure; verify instrumentation - Supervise / assist resident surgeons and specially trained nurses in registering the image datasets intra-operatively to assure accurate surgical navigation.

- Assist pharmacist through performance of the following technical support activities:  - Computer order entry of inpatient and outpatient orders. - Filling unit dose medication orders. - Select ordered medications from inventory to fill new orders or to provide 24-hours medication for distribution to patient's room.  - Answering telephone, filing, billing / crediting and medication profile...

Become a member of a vibrant research team under the joint-direct supervision of Principal Investigators Drs. Melissa Wong, a stem cell biologist and cancer researcher in the OHSU Department of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, and Alison Skalet, an ocular surgeon and cancer researcher at the Casey Eye Institute at OHSU. Participate in ongoing efforts to understand tumor behavior and phenotypes at the molecular and cellular level. Participate in a collaborative research project between the two investigators that focuses on uveal melanoma and a novel population of circulating cells. We will work with murine cancer models, human clinical samples and collaborate with a host of specialized laboratories...

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.   This position reports to (supervisor): Dr. Helmi Lutsep, MD, Interim Chair, Department of Neurology  

Assigned tasks include, but are not limited to: - Performing daily rounding of spaces, emptying trash and recycle bins, wiping down and sanitizing desk surfaces, pushing in chairs, cord management, etc - inventorying chairs and equipment to ensure no items are missing - assisting users with archibus booking module, potentially booking spaces for users as needed - providing wayfinding support to wayward patients/employees as needed, inside and outside of flex use space - making updates to user materials as...

All private care activities shall be conducted through the institute faculty private practice plan. This position requires undivided effort at the specific FTE. The general pattern of working hours will be set by the Director of the Dotter Institute, but deviations from general patterns may be necessary to meet position responsibilities. On average there will be 3 procedural days, 1 outpatient clinic day, and 1 academic day. Duration of this appointment and indicated salary may be changed or eliminate if a gift, grant, or contract fund supporting this position becomes unavailable. This is a fulltime appointment at 1.0 FTE. The faculty member will join and remain a member of the departmental practice plan and the faculty practice corporation for the duration of the...

- Practicing medicine as an employee of OHSU at OHSU Hospitals and Clinics (collectively, “Hospital” and, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph 7 of the “Clinician Employment Agreement,” not otherwise), OHSU-affiliates, the Portland VA Medical Center, and community sites - Maintaining licensure to practice medicine in the state of Oregon and any other jurisdiction where licensure is necessary for a Clinician to perform the professional services contemplated hereunder and to maintain medical staff privileges at the Hospital - Participating in site-specific tumor boards and multidisciplinary clinics - Contributing to departmental quality meetings, i.e. chart rounds, M&M, and others - Educating medical...

PROVIDES A SAFE THERAPEUTIC ENVIRONMENT - Ensures the safety and welfare of patients and fellow employees - Utilizes proper posture, sound body mechanics and principles for safe patient handling - Considers the needs of patients, employees, medical staff, volunteers, vendors and members of the community in an informative, courteous and compassionate manner - Maintains general good physical and mental health and self-care in order not to jeopardize the health and safety of self and others in the hospital / clinical setting