The one-year Men's Health and Fertility Urology Fellowship is located in the Department of Urology. The appointee shall provide services in the Department of Urology as assigned by the fellowship director. This will include ambulatory clinical practice and surgical practice in any of the OHSU or partner operating rooms. The fellow will develop a thorough understanding of the evaluation and management of Men's Health and Fertility-related urologic conditions. Fellows will spend their time with different faculty performing men’s health and fertility-related care. How this exposure is balanced will depend on fellow interest, previous exposure in prior training, surgical skill, as well as clinical demand. Exposure to other urologic surgeries is important for a well-rounded training experience and to gain greater insight and knowledge about men’s health and fertility principles. An average of 2-3 days per week will be spent in an outpatient clinical setting/research/administrative time. As this field is very collaborative with other specialties, fellows will have extensive exposure to other disciplines. Fellows will be expected to attend all meetings of the OHSU Urology department for faculty. Fellows will attend and be expected to present research and clinical teaching presentations at national and international meetings. Fellows may be asked to give teaching presentations within OHSU and locally, as well. Fellows will act as a point of contact for residents in the residents' management of patient care. This may include rounding on weekends at times.   As board-eligible and licensed urologists, Fellows will take call as OHSU faculty at a frequency consistent with other OHSU Urology faculty and be responsible for clinical care as a result of those duties. Fellows may also be called upon to periodically staff patient consults seen and worked-up by the residents. This is important in developing autonomy needed for future practice, as well as financial support of the fellowship position.   Outstanding level of professional performance expected. Professional performance is delivered in a manner that is compliant with the regulation and guidelines of all relevant regulating bodies (i.e. DNV, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, OHSU IRB, NIH and all other state, federal, and institutional regulatory guidelines.) Treats all patients, research subjects, trainees and co-workers with dignity and respect.   Academics: Fellow may be involved in teaching support staff in their area of professional expertise. Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees, guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility. Must be knowledgeable of and compliant with all applicable regulating bodies (e.g. ACGME competencies for clinical faculty, NIH guidelines for research faculty).   Research: May maintain a program of scholarly research activity directed toward improved understanding for the causes, detection, and treatment of diseases. May engage in public service through consultative activities with OHSU and non-University groups as approved by the Chair. Must have satisfactory record of accomplishments in scholarship and service.

Clinical: Practice will include Men’s Health and Fertility patients. May include weekly time at the Portland VA Medical Center. Outstanding level of professional performance expected (e.g. quality of clinical care for clinical faculty). Professional performance is delivered in a manner that is compliant with the regulation and guidelines of all relevant regulating bodies (i.e. DNV, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, OHSU IRB, NIH and all other state, federal, and institutional regulatory guidelines.) Treats all patients, research subjects, trainees and co-workers with dignity and respect. Academics: Teaches support staff in their area of professional expertise. Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees, guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility. Takes a leadership role in education, through the residency or graduate student selection process, evaluation committee, or education/curriculum committee. Must have a satisfactory record of accomplishment in teaching and be knowledgeable of and compliant with all applicable regulating bodies (e.g. ACGME competencies for clinical faculty, NIH guidelines for research faculty).   Research: May maintain a program of scholarly research activity directed toward improved understanding for the causes, detection, and treatment of diseases. May engage in public service through consultative activities with OHSU and non-University groups as approved by the Chair. Must have satisfactory record of accomplishments in scholarship and service.

Clinical Responsibilities: - Provide medical and advanced practice management independently and/or in conjunction with attending physicians. Works in conjunction with attending physicians to provide continued clinical care in the inpatient and outpatient settings. - Communicate with attending physicians, patients and families regarding patients’ conditions, treatment plans, and urgent medical needs. - Assure appropriate setting of care (inpatient, critical care, acute care) - Document subjective and objective findings, assessment and plan clearly and accurately in daily progress notes. - Identify discharge needs early and communicate plan to patients, families, nurse case manager, and other healthcare team members. - Work with nurses, social workers, nutrition services, pharmacy and others as needed to assure optimum patient care. - Make appropriate referrals to specialty care service within OHSU and outside of OHSU. - Consult with specialty care providers when appropriate. - Maintain communication with external providers and other individuals and agencies (e.g. skilled nursing facilities) as appropriate. - Perform clinical procedures as indicated (e.g. central venous access, chest drains, intubation) - Adheres to best practice protocols and policies - Respond to and manage adverse infusion reactions and other emergencies, and - Review patient labs and physical conditions in order to override treatment parameters as appropriate. - Ordering as needed (PRN) medications. - Review urgent EKG’s, imaging, laboratory studies and other ancillary tests prior to start of treatment. - Review investigational study EKG’s, imaging, labs and other ancillary tests prior to start of treatment. - Provide consultation to OTU nurses. - Consult with pharmacists on treatment changes and PRN medications. Education: - Support OHSU’s academic missions by participating in the design, development and assessment of program curricula for professional specialty area; including course objectives, instructional methods, learning outcomes, projects and assessment measures. - Assist in meeting the educational needs of staff, residents, fellows, students, patients, family members, and others as appropriate. - Collaborate with OHSU team members to establish or revise clinical pathways and patient education materials. - Attends and participates in Grand Rounds, trauma conferences, fellow lectures, national conferences and other learning opportunities as available. Quality and Research: - Work with clinic and hospital staff to optimize order sets, patient instructions, and other infrastructure that supports patient care. - Identify and engage in opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of care provided to trauma patients. - Promote use of appropriate research findings in practice to exceed the standards of care. - Work with the physician leadership, nurse managers, nursing staff and social workers to prevent and/or respond to patient complaints. - Effectively manage resources. - Participate as coinvestigator in clinical research studies.

Clinical: - You will work as a generalist within Division with opportunities in the areas of Diabetes. You will be expected to perform a total of 2-3 ambulatory clinic sessions per week; a session is defined as a ½ day.  You will also be expected to attend on the inpatient endocrine consult service 2-4 weeks per year and take your fair share of night and weekend call, as assigned, with other faculty on nights, weekends, and holidays through the shared coverage of OHSU’s consult line, which provides telephone access to OHSU faculty by practitioners throughout Oregon and the surrounding area. Research: - The Position will have 20% protected time to assume current Division ‘s research grant projects and potential additional percentage of protected time for continue research that  have been transferred or time secure grant funding within 24 months of hire date. Education: - OHSU is a teaching facility and you will be expected to teach medical students and residents in the clinical setting, as part of your Clinical duties above, as well as through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year. You may receive teaching assignments from the Division Head, Department or School of Medicine. Administrative and other duties may be assigned based on department needs and your areas of expertise and interest.  There will be opportunities to participate in departmental management and to serve on institutional committees.

Clinical: - You will work as a generalist within Division with opportunities in the areas of Endocrinology. You will be expected to perform a total of seven ambulatory clinic sessions per week; a session is defined as a ½ day.  You will also be expected to attend on the inpatient endocrine consult service 4 weeks per year and take your fair share of night and weekend call, as assigned, with other faculty on nights, weekends, and holidays through the shared coverage of OHSU’s consult line, which provides telephone access to OHSU faculty by practitioners throughout Oregon and the surrounding area. Education: - OHSU is a teaching facility and you will be expected to teach medical students and residents in the clinical setting, as part of your Clinical duties above, as well as through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year. You may receive teaching assignments from the Division Head, Department or School of Medicine. Leadership, administrative and other duties may be assigned based on department needs and your areas of expertise and interest.  There will be opportunities to participate in departmental management and to serve on institutional committees.

- Provides research coordination and project management for multi-year research projects, and assists in planning design, procedures, and executing research studies. - Responsible for training, mentoring, and supervising research assistants,    students, and junior staff. - Preparation of written reports, documents, correspondence, and peer-reviewed publications.

- 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 maintenance. - Load and refill medications into automated dispensing cabinet stations.  - Prioritize labels from new orders to assure that product is delivered to label location at least one hour prior to label due time. - Organize and restock work areas during and prior to end of shift, and remove expired medication.  - Round to nursing locations; deliver items and remove excess and discontinued oral dosage and injectable dosage units from patients’ bins and refrigerators and return to pharmacy for action. - Perform Unit Dose functions including: - Tube medications from pharmacy to hospital and clinic areas. - Repackage medications for unit dose dispensing; maintain and replenish stock for emergency trays and kits. - Return medications to stock and perform credits. - Record refrigerator temperature daily. - Process narcotics for removal from pharmacy inventory and order replacements as needed. - Maintain barcode medication integrity by ensuring medications are barcoded before leaving the pharmacy. - Maintain manufacturing logs and documents to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies.      - Perform other technician duties as assigned based on operational needs.

- Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population. - Interprets and evaluates prescriber's orders and for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Documents activities of clinical decision or medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of practice, require follow-up, or continued monitoring/evaluation. Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the pharmacy. - Assists in the reconciliation of medications, education of patients regarding their home medication regimens, and coordination of the discharge medication plan with the interdisciplinary team. Documents activities in the patient medical record. - Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy.  Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified and documents activies in the patient medical record. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors. - Responds accurately to requests for drug information from prescribers, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations. - Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnosis. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program. - Influences standards of therapy by forming peer level relationships with prescribers and is recognized as the authority on mediations in their practice area by prescribers, nurses and pharmacists. - Participates in both intra and interdepartmental education programs; participates in the development of peers. - Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by technicians, students, interns, and residents and monitors and evaluates their performance.     

This Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) position will be part of the Knight Clinical Research Prostate Program. This position will involve implementing and conducting complex phase 1-3 trials on an oncology research team with a portfolio of both Industry Sponsored and Investigator Initiated Trials (IITs). The CRC will coordinate all aspects of clinical trial protocols, including management of study subjects, with a primary focus on subject safety. Longer term, they will also be working with the Early Phase Unit, the clinic and infusion units, and outside collaborators, including Nuclear Medicine, the Veterans Administration, Urology, and Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute.   The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Clinical Research Coordinator is responsible for implementation and overall management of oncology clinical trials.   These responsibilities include coordination of all aspects of a study as specifically outlined in the protocol. Primary focus will be subject safety and compliance with the prescribed protocol and Good Clinical Practice. The CRC will work collaboratively with physician, nursing, and ancillary staff in the scheduling and management of subject research activities. The CRC will maintain accurate, complete and timely records on all research subjects including preparation of source documentation and clinical research data/case report forms.  .  The CRC will have direct patient contact, process biological samples and perform other non invasive testing such as ECGs and vitals.   Given the complexities of oncology research and the challenges of working with a terminally ill population, strong customer service, organizational, and interpersonal skills are required.  Ability to clearly organize and/or adapt to multiple priorities and deadlines at one time is necessary.  Attention to detail, service orientation, delegation and project management skills, and above average critical judgment skills are essential.   Key Responsibilities: - Study Coordination - Dissemination of Clinical Research Information to Program - Institutional Review Board (IRB) Compliance - Data collection - Education

Duties and responsibilities include providing post-award support for all SoD sponsored project activity including tracking expenditures, reporting, analysis, and projections/forecasting, as well as ensuring compliance with sponsor, university, federal, and Center requirements, managing subaward agreements and invoicing, and providing budgeting assistance. This position communicates and resolves issues with Principal Investigators, prepares quarterly reports on all grant activities for the Director, Finance & Research, Associate Dean, Research, Associate Dean, Finance & Admin, and senior-level Principal Investigators, and adjusts as needed. This position maintains Labor Distribution (LD) for all SoD faculty, researchers, and staff and works with the SoD's financial analyst to ensure full coverage for all faculty and staff across all funding sources while ensuring that FTE paid appropriately reflects effort spent. This position provides continual evaluation of actual effort versus proposed and reviews all effort certification statements. 

- Providing detailed recommendations to primary inpatient teams to optimize care of frail, medically complex hospitalized older adults. - Promoting an integrated and interprofessional approach to patient care. - Assuring effective and efficient patient flow. - Bedside and didactic teaching of fellows, residents, students, and other learners regarding optimal care of hospitalized older adults. - Assisting in the ongoing development and expansion of the Inpatient Geriatrics Program. - Partnering with case managers & social workers regarding discharge planning. - Educating patients and families throughout the stay and upon discharge. - Communicating with primary care and facility providers to optimize transitions across care settings.    - Using best practice clinical protocols and guidelines to achieve optimal patient outcomes. - Participating in scholarly & systems improvement work associated with the Inpatient Geriatrics Program

- Transports supplies and equipment needed to support the health and wellbeing of laboratory animals. Changes cages and accessory equipment as needed as well as on a predetermined schedule.  Feed, water species including but not limited to fish, amphibians, birds and a wide range of rodent and non-rodent mammalian species as required by the departmental, USDA and NIH standards. Exercises USDA maintained species as required by regulation or as directed by departmental veterinary staff.  (20%) - Observes animals for health and wellbeing. Reports physical or behavioral abnormalities promptly in writing. Records observations in the clinical record. Administers medications and treatments to animals as instructed by the veterinary staff. Monitors the environment in animal areas for changes or potential hazards to animals and experimental protocol.  Reports any changes to supervisor. (25%) - Maintains and sanitizes animal rooms and support areas. Includes sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, washing and disinfecting floors, walls ceilings, sinks and other equipment. Handle feed and bedding appropriately.  Rotates oldest material to be used first.  Maintains clean supply of feed and bedding in animal room containers and label appropriately. 20% - Maintains records as required by DCM standard operating procedure and federal regulation or guidelines. Keeps accurate census records for billing purposes. (10%) - Prepares for arrival of new animals. Uncrates and houses animals according to standard operating procedures. Inspects shipment to ensure the specifications of the order have been met. Reports any problems with the shipment or the condition of the animals to the Supervisor.  Identifies the animals and initiates records. Observes animals closely post-arrival to assure adjustment to the new environment. (5%) - Performs humane euthanasia as instructed according to standard operating procedure and the guidelines of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Panel on Euthanasia. (5%) - Handles and cares for animals in specialized colonies. This may include specific pathogen free, transgenic, or barrier-reared animals. Follows standard operating protocols, follows a clean-to-dirty work flow, minimizes cross contamination of potential pathogens and complies with special procedures. (5%) - Handles and cares for animals that have been experimentally exposed to chemicals, pathogens or radioactive materials.  Must follow detailed safety instructions for personal protection as well as for the protection of other animals and people in the area. (5%) - Other work-related duties as assigned by manager. (5%)

- Bioinformatics tool Development (50%) - Collaborative omics analysis (40%) - Dissemination and Outreach (10%)

Managed Care Coordination and Patient referrals: - Process all referral work queues for the scheduling of consultations, procedures while assessing the patient’s needs based on diagnosis, insurance coverage and medical records. - Maintains current information on managed care insurance plans and serves as a liaison and information resources for physicians, nursing support staff, and coworkers, referring physician offices, OHSU Health Plan Office, patients, and insurance companies on authorization requirements per diagnosis and service. - Works closely with managed care team to coordinate authorization for all consultations, procedures, office visits, and care arrangements by scheduling appointments and contacting other ancillary and clinical services as needed. - Applies problem solving and negotiating skills in resolving patient concerns and managed care related problems. - Gathers and/or verifies patient information including demographics, insurance coverage, and financial status. Confirms patient eligibility for health care coverage and clarifies any managed care arrangements. - Make updates via Epic when necessary. - Accurately create new medical records for a new OHSU patient if they are not currently in Epic. Create an Epic referral for processing as well as to document insurance information per standard work expectations. Document any subsequent interactions with insurance company or others involved in the process of processing new patient referral. - Clearly and thoroughly document any and all actions taken on a referral based situation following all OHSU Ambulatory standard work protocols - Based on financial status of patient and if they are insured, determine if they are eligible to have an appointment scheduled or if they first need to go through financial screening. Customer Service and Scheduling - Greets patients and confirms appointments. Inspects insurance cards and/or authorization notices. Identifies and collects deductible payments, co-payments, and deposits on services; provides receipts and completes necessary accounting procedures including reconciliation and deposit of funds. Explains and satisfies any necessary patient signature requirements. - Provides high quality customer service to both external customers (patient, referring providers, and insurance carriers) and internal customers (OHSU health care providers and staff) that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry. - This duty includes prompt and professional communication efforts, face-to-face customer contact skills, crisis management, facility with available information, technology, standard complaint processing, flexible coverage of internal service needs, and the continuous application of process improvement methods and skills.  - Schedules new patient appointments on line, and manually if necessary. Obtains prior medical records and studies if appropriate. - Arranges stretchers, wheelchairs, and interpreters when necessary, and accommodates other special needs whenever possible. Mails information packets. Provides personal reminders to patients about upcoming appointments. Obtains and prepares OHSU medical records before scheduled appointments. Triages and documents accurately telephone calls from patients including requests for medication refills, complaints, general information inquiries, and urgent health care concerns. Delivers such information or requests promptly to the appropriate providers or their designees. - Receive incoming phone calls via the Automated Call Distributor (ACD). - Creates and sends new patient packets for scheduled appointments - Escalate all concerns or complaints to manager or supervisor, utilizing established chain of command  - Demonstrate courteous and professional behavior when dealing with patients/staff at all times - Monitor daily outlook inbox’s if you’re assigned as a daily task; Monitor personal outlook email communications daily; Monitor personal Epic Inbasket daily - Uses the wait list to ensure provider appointment slots are full daily for consultations, office visits and procedures - Consistently answer telephones in a timely manner and within defined standards  - Triage phone calls and transfer to appropriate practice using the defined standards  - Proactively perform outbound call work: this includes but not limited to calling patients to inform them a referral has been received in our system. Process & schedule using departmental resources & tools while following standard work. Calling patients to explain insurance authorization complications for scheduled appointments - Manages a positive patient expeience at all times  - This position is a key contributor to patient satisfaction initiatives with the OHSU Ambulatory clinics. This position has a direct effect on patient experience metrics re: access and appointment scheduling. - Resolve patient inquiries or escalate to higher levels for solution - Escalate all complaints to manager or supervisor, utilizing established chain of command.

As a member of the Knight Cardiovascular Institute, you will report to the Program Director and the Dept. Chief and be responsible for duties in the areas outlined below: - Education: OHSU is a teaching facility and you will be expected to teach medical students and residents in the clinical setting as well as through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year. You will receive your teaching assignments from the Program Director &/or the Chairman. - Clinical: The Program Director will assign your clinical schedule. You will work as an instructor within the department. The clinical schedule will be determined based on the resident/medical student schedules and the specific procedures and assignments taking place therein. - Administration: Administrative and other duties may be assigned based on department needs and your area of expertise and interest.

Customer Service: - Provide the highest level of customer service to both external customers (patients and their families, referring providers, insurance carriers, etc.) and internal customers (OHSU health care providers and staff) that meet or exceed the service standards of the health care industry. This duty includes prompt and professional communication efforts, face-to-face customer contact skills, crisis management, facility with available information technology, standard complaint processing, flexible coverage of internal service needs and the continuous application of process improvement methods and skills. Call Processing: - Responsible for connecting the patient with the appropriate individual to progress their care in the clinic; Transfers calls to schedulers as needed, creates telephone encounters, contacts nursing coordinators, and pages providers and staff as needed per circumstance; Scheduling and managing of patient access to Oncology services at CHH2. Create telephone calls from patients in Epic which will include accurate documentation of requests for medication refills, complaints, general informatin inquiries and urgent health care concerns; Triage calls to the appropriate staff for patient care /needs assessment; Process call (answering, screening, routing, paging etc.) in a timely, polite, professional manner; Route calls to appropriate conclusion; Provide information to callers, including directions, addresses and hours of operation; Use schedules and departmental procedures to locate appropriate on-call person for internal and external callers; Understand and process calls per departmental policy for each encounter type (ie refill, telephone, documentation, etc); Expected to take 20% of incoming volume of clinic calls. 60-80 calls per day. Scheduling: - Coordinate patient care appointments and managed care as directed by physician and/or nurse staff; Serves as a liaison and information resource for physicians, and nursing support staff; Return phone messages; Prepare and mail patient information packets; Direct patients to appropriate providers for other health care issues; Complete and route direct referrals to other clinical services; Enter patient information accurately into the electronic medical record when necessary. Maintains a service-based working knowledge of oncology practice. Check-in/Checkout: - Checks out clinic, procedure, and infusion appointments. This includes, but is not limited to careful review of insurance benefits, demographic information, confirming insurance eligibility, and /or authorization. Checks patient account numbers and corrects any problems, seeking advice from Central Registration as required. Ensures that all appointment comment information is accurate and completed. Identifies and updates deductible payments, co- payments, and prepayment requirements. Proper use of OHSU forms and documentation required for all patients.

The Research Associate will be responsible for most of the planning, implementation, and data interpretation associated with their own research. Additionally, the successful candidate is expected to interact with graduate students and research assistants/technicians and be actively involved in their scientific supervision and in the general research directions of the lab (both technically and intellectually).   A critical aspect of this position is to establish and maintain collaborations by taking full advantage of the terrific network of labs offered within OHSU, including the Brenden Colson Center for Pancreatic Care, the Sears Lab, the Dept. of Surgery, as well as the Knight Cancer Institute. Duties include:   - Planning, implementation, and data interpretations associated with their research and grant writing - Animal experiments – small animals - Laboratory assays and data analysis - Scientific supervision of graduate students - Preparation of grants and manuscripts - Establishment and maintenance of new and existing collaborations within OHSU and at other institutes - Attendance at Department/Division/Lab applicable meetings 

Personnel Coordination: - Assists supervisor with interviewing and hiring PAS Specialists and PAS Resource Specialists. - Orients, conducts, and makes arrangements for training for new employees. Monitors for timely completion of training requirements and demonstration of core competencies. - Assists employees with problem identification and resolution. - Assist in daily coordination of PAS/PASR personnel work schedules and time-away to arrange coverage for absent personnel when necessary. Quality & Clinical Operations Monitoring: - Reviews for accuracy clinic no-show and appointment cancellation report - Investigates PAS/PASR-related performance problems, and prepares the standard PAS/PASR standard work and processes. - Works conjointly with supervisor to coach employees, develop and implement work plans. - Assists when requested by Supervisor, in the communication of performance expectations and PAS/PASR policies and procedures. - Participates in quality improvement initiatives within the team and program wide. Scheduling: - As part of program structure, provides back up of scheduling activities including call processing when assigned. - Will operate as float PASR for all disease team scheduling needs when necessary based on coverage needed, EPIC scheduling queue levels and call volumes. Customer Service: - Provides high quality customer service to both external customers (patient, referring providers, and insurance carriers) and internal customers (OHSU health care providers and staff) that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry. This duty includes prompt and professional communication efforts, face-to-face customer contact skills, crisis management, facility with available information, technology, standard complaint processing, flexible coverage of internal service needs, and the continuous application of process improvement methods and skills.

- Project management:  - manage expectations, timelines, and deliverables through facilitation and coordination of steps; - track and report milestones; - participate in budgeting and cost tracking; - prepare team meeting agendas and minutes; - conduct training for new team members - Reporting:  - present project status reports to Center leadership; - assist with grant applications and donor reports; - assist with producing program retreats wherein ongoing research is presented to the OHSU community; - provide recommendations and process/tools development to support objectives - Outreach:  - assist with producing program retreats wherein ongoing research is presented to the OHSU community; - participate in professional conferences and community events; - in collaboration with the COE team, evaluate, monitor and improve recruitment plans; actively engage with patient advocates; - assist with development and dissemination of outreach materials and media

As a Research Associate, this individual will be responsible for independently contributing to and participating in ongoing research projects in the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy. This includes assisting in developing and evaluation of novel gene and cell therapy approaches. The primary focus of this position will be investigating and optimizing delivery of gene editing constructs in vivo in mice into specific brain regions using molecular and cellular approaches, as well as sample collection, processing and analysis. The candidate will participate in mouse colony maintenance, in vitro and in vivo experiments, mouse surgical and neurosurgical procedures, histology procedures, immunocytochemistry, cell culture, and molecular assays. Participate in purchasing of equipment and supplies and communicating with scientific and support staff.  Perform a variety of duties, which require flexibility, judgment, and unique experience in the field of cell therapy. Contribute to written reports, abstracts, project proposals and scientific presentations. Appointee will participate in the on-call schedule including intermittent evening, weekend, and holiday coverage.