The SCS will partner with Contacting Services staff and its assigned areas of responsibilities to fulfill those department's needs for entering into agreements in the best interest of OHSU.
The SCS will be a strategic partner that administers procurements/contracts. This includes but is not limited to, providing professional consultation, advice, and direction to OHSU and contractor staff, and administrators regarding contracting issues and methods.
Areas of responsibility include but are not limited to contracting, cost savings, process improvement, developing partnerships and other duties as assigned.
Customer Care:
- Provides high quality customer service to both external and internal customers that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry.
- Promptly greet all patient and visitors in a warm professional manner over the phone.
- Determine customer needs proactively and direct inquires to appropriate resources.
- Answer multi-line telephone inquiries. This includes determining caller needs and assist callers efficiently and appropriately.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively, timely, and respectfully at all times, especially in a high stress environment.
- Demonstrates respect and cooperation in all staff relationships, with a genuine willingness to prevent or resolve inter-personal conflicts.
Patient Registration
- Completes Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Disability (REALD) questionnaire with patient and updates REALD Smart Form as required by law. Serves as liaison for patients and families with questions.
- Provide financial screening for low income or non-sponsored patients and refer patients to apply for Oregon or Washington Medicaid or OHSU Financial Assistance when appropriate.
- Follow and complete daily task list as assigned by management.
- Correctly identifies patient service type to establish an accurate and billable account.
- Corrects patient identity inaccuracies, as identified.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed demographic information and any applicable forms. Complete registration from patient work queues, email, or in basket as assigned.
Insurance Verification/ Financial Clearance
- Maintain knowledge of current insurance plans along with the Epic plan distinction, and current eligibility verification process.
- Maintain access to all insurance website by signing in one time per month, at minimum.
- Complete insurance verification on each patient’s insurance using electronic verification in RTE, payer portals, or other required methods. The PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist staff will also re-verify the eligibility insurance information if the insurance was not verified in the current month.
- Creates new and maintains existing insurance coverages/guarantors for a patient based on their insurances and the care being provided.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed insurance coverage and financial status with each patient
Training:
- Take personal responsibility to work autonomously, perform optimally each day, and ensure all performance standards are met.
- Completes all required update modules. Maintains core competencies, and demonstrates continuous application of these skills throughout the period of employment.
- Sustains working knowledge of PAS Specialist and PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workflows for applicable areas.
- Integrate changes to the EPIC Prelude system, the third-party guidelines and changes to internal processes and procedures into individual registration routines to ensure that current processes are being used consistently.
- Gives instruction to other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel pertaining to PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist processes and procedures as well as performance. Provides on the job training, orientation, guidance and coaching for new PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel in the service area as assigned. May be required to provide informational assessment of other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workers’ performance to the PAS Coordinator/Supervisor and/or the employment supervisor.
- Be self-directed in assessing strengths and weaknesses and in identifying performance enhancement and career development opportunities.
- Required to maintain Individual Performance Standards which includes:
- Production Standard: 60 registration per day on average
- Error Rate Standard: Maintain an accuracy rate of 97%.
- Phone standard: 35% or less not ready time
- Customer Service: 2 or fewer validated customer service complaints in any rolling one - year period. Must follow the OHSU Model of Communication in 100% of customer interactions and consistently demonstrate exemplary internal and external customer contact skills
Telecommunications:
- Utilize an Automated Call distributor (ACD) to answering incoming registration calls.
- Staff in and out of ACD and use not ready work as per department guidelines.
- Remain available to accept incoming calls at all times.
- Adhere to department schedule for break and lunch periods.
- Refer general information inquiries and urgent health concerns to the appropriate area.
- Answer and explain all registration questions asked by patients or other employees.
- Note that Registration Services participates in customer service evaluations via call monitoring and/or recording.
Greet guests, answer telephone calls, assist members with applicable questions/concerns, membership intake and processing; access cards or payroll deduction (OHSU employees), and data entry. Stop, start, update, merge, etc. individual memberships and process appropriate paperwork.
Use computer system to check students, residents, fellows, members, and guests into the facility. Take facility reservations. Monitor and provide technical support to the media room. Assist with organizing and preparing new baskets and bike lockers. Assist with restocking inventory and pricing merchandise in Campus Store as needed. Launder, dry, fold and organize towels as well as lost and found items.
Clean and organize the front desk, workroom, laundry room, lounge space, and media room spaces including dusting, mopping, vacuuming, and wiping down tables, café area, microwaves, and sinks. Ensure cleanliness and disposal of all trash and recycling. Maintain stock of magazines, brochures, and flyers and maintain bulletin boards as needed. Monitor and enforce facility policies.
Maintain building security and guarantee the proper opening and closing of the facility. Assist with special cleaning projects, as needed.
Test pool and hot tub chemistry, and maintain accurate records as required by state law. Maintain surveillance of natatorium, swimming pool, and hot tub areas. Report mechanical concerns to supervisor and/or pool operator position.
Assist with the intramural sports programs including set-up, tear-down, and scorekeeping/timekeeping. Ensure proper first aid is given for emergency situations and report to management.
Assist with special projects/events including but not limited to set-up and clean-up, creating brochures and flyers, and assisting at student events.
Other duties as assigned.
Customer Care:
- Provides high quality customer service to both external and internal customers that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry.
- Promptly greet all patient and visitors in a warm professional manner over the phone.
- Determine customer needs proactively and direct inquires to appropriate resources.
- Answer multi-line telephone inquiries. This includes determining caller needs and assist callers efficiently and appropriately.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively, timely, and respectfully at all times, especially in a high stress environment.
- Demonstrates respect and cooperation in all staff relationships, with a genuine willingness to prevent or resolve inter-personal conflicts.
Patient Registration
- Completes Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Disability (REALD) questionnaire with patient and updates REALD Smart Form as required by law. Serves as liaison for patients and families with questions.
- Provide financial screening for low income or non-sponsored patients and refer patients to apply for Oregon or Washington Medicaid or OHSU Financial Assistance when appropriate.
- Follow and complete daily task list as assigned by management.
- Correctly identifies patient service type to establish an accurate and billable account.
- Corrects patient identity inaccuracies, as identified.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed demographic information and any applicable forms. Complete registration from patient work queues, email, or in basket as assigned.
Insurance Verification/ Financial Clearance
- Maintain knowledge of current insurance plans along with the Epic plan distinction, and current eligibility verification process.
- Maintain access to all insurance website by signing in one time per month, at minimum.
- Complete insurance verification on each patient’s insurance using electronic verification in RTE, payer portals, or other required methods. The PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist staff will also re-verify the eligibility insurance information if the insurance was not verified in the current month.
- Creates new and maintains existing insurance coverages/guarantors for a patient based on their insurances and the care being provided.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed insurance coverage and financial status with each patient
Training:
- Take personal responsibility to work autonomously, perform optimally each day, and ensure all performance standards are met.
- Completes all required update modules. Maintains core competencies, and demonstrates continuous application of these skills throughout the period of employment.
- Sustains working knowledge of PAS Specialist and PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workflows for applicable areas.
- Integrate changes to the EPIC Prelude system, the third-party guidelines and changes to internal processes and procedures into individual registration routines to ensure that current processes are being used consistently.
- Gives instruction to other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel pertaining to PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist processes and procedures as well as performance. Provides on the job training, orientation, guidance and coaching for new PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel in the service area as assigned. May be required to provide informational assessment of other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workers’ performance to the PAS Coordinator/Supervisor and/or the employment supervisor.
- Be self-directed in assessing strengths and weaknesses and in identifying performance enhancement and career development opportunities.
- Required to maintain Individual Performance Standards which includes:
- Production Standard: 60 registration per day on average
- Error Rate Standard: Maintain an accuracy rate of 97%.
- Phone standard: 35% or less not ready time
- Customer Service: 2 or fewer validated customer service complaints in any rolling one - year period. Must follow the OHSU Model of Communication in 100% of customer interactions and consistently demonstrate exemplary internal and external customer contact skills
Telecommunications:
- Utilize an Automated Call distributor (ACD) to answering incoming registration calls.
- Staff in and out of ACD and use not ready work as per department guidelines.
- Remain available to accept incoming calls at all times.
- Adhere to department schedule for break and lunch periods.
- Refer general information inquiries and urgent health concerns to the appropriate area.
- Answer and explain all registration questions asked by patients or other employees.
- Note that Registration Services participates in customer service evaluations via call monitoring and/or recording.
Oregon Health & Science University is always looking for qualified postdoctoral scholars to fulfill its mission of conducting leading edge research into new cures, new standards of care, and a better understanding of the basic science that drives biomedical discovery.
The postdoctoral experience provides individuals who have recently completed a doctoral degree with a full-time program of advanced academic preparation and research training under the guidance of a supervising faculty mentor. Postdoctoral appointments are temporary by nature and are designed to develop the postdoctoral scholar as an independent scientist and to enhance their professional skills for academic and non-academic careers.
A Postdoctoral Fellowship position is available for funded research into the immunology of malaria infection, protective immunity and vaccines. The lab focuses on host-parasite interactions in malaria using limited in vitro culture, traditional rodent models, humanized liver mouse models and non-human primates. Preferred technical skills include cell culture, standard molecular biology techniques (RNA/DNA isolation and analysis), standard immunolgical techniques (ELISA, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry) and microbiology techniques with a preference for previous work in malaria. Candidates must be well organized, technically proficient, critically minded and able to work independently as well as collaboratively.
The lab is located at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) in Beaverton, OR. VGTI houses a multidisciplinary team of scientists that span the continuum between basic and clinical research. VGTI offers access to state-of-the-art equipment and Core facilities as well as easy access to the Oregon wilderness.
The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) serving as the Vascular Surgery provider is a faculty member credentialed and privileged to serve as a licensed independent practitioner, and is a member of the OHSU Professional Staff practicing in accordance with the respective bylaws.
The Vascular surgery APP has the responsibility to be scheduled and/or allocated to Vascular Surgery for medical management of their acute care patients. Additionally, the Vascular Surgery APP is responsible to partner with the patient and family and nurse case manager to impact timely and effective discharges and patient flow; impact patient and family experience through communication and education; mentor residents, clinical nurses and others; promote an interdisciplinary approach to care; and support new processes to improve patient outcomes.
In addition to key job responsibilities, qualifications and other job requirements listed below, the Vascular Surgery APP is expected to comply with scope of practice, other laws, regulations, OHSU policy, and other applicable professional standards of practice.
This position is part of the management team, requiring knowledge of international, federal, state and local rules, regulations, and guidelines. A doctorate degree or doctorate of veterinary medicine degree and the ability to understand a wide variety of research protocols in sufficient detail to provide oversight/training of staff is required. This position will conduct surgeries/procedures and write detailed descriptions/records in support of the project to the principal investigator. The incumbent has a diverse range of responsibilities, which includes the following: Support the Head of the IDR with developing and coordinating nonhuman primate (NHP) infectious disease study plans; formulating budgets for NHP studies; and preparing and maintaining Institutional Animal Care and Use and Institutional Biosafety protocols for NHP studies. Additionally, the staff scientist will prepare Animal Resources and Research Support (ARRS) Animal Planning and Animal Assignment forms; coordinate/support NHP research protocols hosted by the Infectious Disease Resource (IDR); supervise technical staff; provide training for IDR technical staff; and provide technical expertise for surgical procedures and necropsies as appropriate for the individuals’ training.
- Responsibilities include ensuring that all licensing and credentialing is in place. The program administrator will be responsible for ensuring that all personnel are oriented to OHSU and integrated into their respective departments including surgery, anesthesia, emergency department, ICU and EMS. The program administrator will be responsible for producing reports on a regular basis describing the activities of all Army personnel and answering all questions related to the activity of these individuals including operations performed, patients managed and procedures performed also known as Knowledge Sills Assessments or KSAs. The program administrator will address all problems that arise during the conduct of the program and work with the Director of the AMCT3 to resolve these problems. The program administrator will attend all meetings that are necessary to conduct the program in collaboration with the Army. The program administrator will be responsible for collecting data for research related to the program.
- The Program administrator will work with the SMART NCO IC in advance of the rotation to plan, design and coordinate the training event with the respective OHSU clinical units. This work includes a variety of administrative tasks to ensure the collection of appropriate medical and training information to ensure compliance with hospital requirements and completion of logistics to include badging, parking and other arrangements.
- The program administrator will provide daily oversight and management of Army personnel for the duration of the training rotation to ensure the training plan is implemented as designed and training objectives are met. They will be an advocate for Army personnel and intervene should changes in the schedule or training plan need to be made. Also to serve as resource for Army personnel throughout the rotation for any issues or concerns relating to OHSU.
- Clinical precepting: The program administrator will assist the soldier in meeting specific military readiness requirements for their particular medical specialty. The program administrator will precept the soldiers in the Emergency Department (ED) and the Trauma Surgical Intensive Care Unit (TSICU) by validating skills daily using a checklist provided by the AMEDD Medical Skills Sustainment Program Office. Preceptors will maintain responsibility and oversight for all direct patient care/treatment while working with Army personnel.
- The program administrator will educate additional clinical preceptors about the SMART program goals and objectives and their preceptor role and responsibilities. They will share the soldier's biography and scope of practice in advance of the rotation along with their ICTs. They will make arrangements for preceptor (s) to meet with SMART participants as part of an introductory orientation prior to the start of the rotation, if possible.
The OHSU Digestive Health Center (DHC) is a multi-disciplinary center offering services in the ambulatory setting for specialty surgical services, gastroenterology, hepatology, bariatrics and nutrition. The programs work in a close team that includes MD, RN, MA, and schedulers that work together to provide excellent quality care for complex patients. The patient experience with the program begins with their initial appointment and can include clinic visits, procedures, surgery, and follow-up care.
The Resource RN Patient Care Coordinator (RN) will provide care coordination, assessment and triage, medication management and clinical support to the teams in the ambulatory setting. The nurse will perform medical record review, follow developed protocols, determine appropriate patient scheduling, assist with monitoring diagnostic results and patient care progress/processes as requested by providers, and participate in quality reviews. The nurse will work alongside a team of RN care coordinators within the DHC.
The OHSU Clinical registered nurse (RN) provides compassionate, evidence-based, and efficient care to individuals, families, communities and patient populations. The Clinical RN's care delivery is consistent with the Oregon Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, and the ANA Code of Ethics. The Clinical RN demonstrates the professional role obligations of scientist, leader, and knowledge transferor [Onsomble Model of the Professional Role™]. Professional accountability enriches the Clinical RN's engagement as a leader in promoting an inter-professional culture of collaborative decision-making, innovation, life-long learning, and teamwork. The Clinical RN exemplifies the principles of a Culture of Safety by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.
- Customer Service: The Hospital Dental Services (HDS) Patient Access Service (PAS) Specialist 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 at the Hatfield clinic as part of the Hospital Dental Services. 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.
- Enrollment & Authorization: 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. Educates patients of pre-pay amounts, monitors provider’s schedules and other managed care duties as assigned. Fills out patient financial responsibility forms when necessary. Enters all information accurately into OHSU databases or into the medical record when necessary.
- Arranged Care: Schedules New and return patient appointments and coordinates any ancillary appointments. Cross-coverage of other GS Scheduler positions that would require facilitating medical review and scheduling new patients for other GS specialties. Obtains prior medical records and studies when appropriate. Creates a medical record if needed. Monitors provider’s schedulers to fill cancellations, no-shows and records needed for each provider. Arranges stretchers, wheelchairs, and interpreters when necessary, and accommodates other special needs whenever possible. Mails information packets to patients.
- File Uploading and Document Scanning: Use Media Manager software in Epic to upload documents into patient’s charts for current medical care or referral purposes. Document Scanning via Point of Care. Requires an extremely high level of attention to detail ensuring the correct records go into the patient’s chart.
- Telecommunications and Administrative Duties: The HDS PAS Specialist works in a high public contact area Triaging and documenting 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. Other administrative duties as assigned.
- Continued Professional Development: Participate in appropriate educational activities that enhance general knowledge or ability to do assigned work; Attend staff meetings and other informational sessions; Read vendor documentation, trade publications, or other appropriate publications; interact with peers and other employees to receive and disseminate information. The HDS PAS Specialist must be flexible and be able to complete work with considerable independence on a daily basis.
Customer Care:
- Provides high quality customer service to both external and internal customers that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry.
- Promptly greet all patient and visitors in a warm professional manner over the phone.
- Determine customer needs proactively and direct inquires to appropriate resources.
- Answer multi-line telephone inquiries. This includes determining caller needs and assist callers efficiently and appropriately.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively, timely, and respectfully at all times, especially in a high stress environment.
- Demonstrates respect and cooperation in all staff relationships, with a genuine willingness to prevent or resolve inter-personal conflicts.
Patient Registration
- Completes Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Disability (REALD) questionnaire with patient and updates REALD Smart Form as required by law. Serves as liaison for patients and families with questions.
- Provide financial screening for low income or non-sponsored patients and refer patients to apply for Oregon or Washington Medicaid or OHSU Financial Assistance when appropriate.
- Follow and complete daily task list as assigned by management.
- Correctly identifies patient service type to establish an accurate and billable account.
- Corrects patient identity inaccuracies, as identified.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed demographic information and any applicable forms. Complete registration from patient work queues, email, or in basket as assigned.
Insurance Verification/ Financial Clearance
- Maintain knowledge of current insurance plans along with the Epic plan distinction, and current eligibility verification process.
- Maintain access to all insurance website by signing in one time per month, at minimum.
- Complete insurance verification on each patient’s insurance using electronic verification in RTE, payer portals, or other required methods. The PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist staff will also re-verify the eligibility insurance information if the insurance was not verified in the current month.
- Creates new and maintains existing insurance coverages/guarantors for a patient based on their insurances and the care being provided.
- Gathers, adds, updates, and/or verifies detailed insurance coverage and financial status with each patient
Training:
- Take personal responsibility to work autonomously, perform optimally each day, and ensure all performance standards are met.
- Completes all required update modules. Maintains core competencies, and demonstrates continuous application of these skills throughout the period of employment.
- Sustains working knowledge of PAS Specialist and PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workflows for applicable areas.
- Integrate changes to the EPIC Prelude system, the third-party guidelines and changes to internal processes and procedures into individual registration routines to ensure that current processes are being used consistently.
- Gives instruction to other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel pertaining to PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist processes and procedures as well as performance. Provides on the job training, orientation, guidance and coaching for new PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist personnel in the service area as assigned. May be required to provide informational assessment of other PAS Revenue Cycle Specialist workers’ performance to the PAS Coordinator/Supervisor and/or the employment supervisor.
- Be self-directed in assessing strengths and weaknesses and in identifying performance enhancement and career development opportunities.
- Required to maintain Individual Performance Standards which includes:
- Production Standard: 60 registration per day on average
- Error Rate Standard: Maintain an accuracy rate of 97%.
- Phone standard: 35% or less not ready time
- Customer Service: 2 or fewer validated customer service complaints in any rolling one - year period. Must follow the OHSU Model of Communication in 100% of customer interactions and consistently demonstrate exemplary internal and external customer contact skills
Telecommunications:
- Utilize an Automated Call distributor (ACD) to answering incoming registration calls.
- Staff in and out of ACD and use not ready work as per department guidelines.
- Remain available to accept incoming calls at all times.
- Adhere to department schedule for break and lunch periods.
- Refer general information inquiries and urgent health concerns to the appropriate area.
- Answer and explain all registration questions asked by patients or other employees.
- Note that Registration Services participates in customer service evaluations via call monitoring and/or recording.
- Assist in the creation, management, and integration of systematic automated data feeds from disparate clinical, operational, and administrative data sources via SQL or similar relational database management languages.
- Develop automated data management pipelines, including data extraction, cleaning, quality control, and construction of derivative features based on raw data. This responsibility may include the development of methods or distributable packages.
- Identify, define, direct, and perform project issue analysis to resolve challenges, including analysis of technical and economic feasibility of proposed data solution.
- Communicate highly technical information to numerous audiences, including Principal Investigator(s), research collaborators, and less-experienced staff.
The Associate Director (AD) of Population Sciences serves to develop and shape population science relevant to the mission of the Knight Cancer Institute. The AD is part of the Knight senior leadership team of esteemed scientists and oversees the strategic vision of the Knight’s population science research programs. This comprehensive vision for population-based research in cancer builds on the Knight’s existing strengths and advances the overall mission of the Knight. Exciting research areas rich for collaboration include cancer and aging, cancer and the microbiome, cancer symptom science, digital technology, and eHealth. Areas of potential growth include adding faculty with expertise in epidemiology, genetics, behavioral science, implementation science, and community-engaged research. Research with underserved populations, particularly Hispanic/Latino or American Indian/Alaska Native, is also a focused development area.
The AD will promote securing multi-investigator grants and identify and develop resources to advance cancer prevention and control research. To achieve this vision, the AD will partner closely with the co-leaders of the Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program and the AD for Community, Outreach, and Engagement (COE).
Established scientists or physician-scientists engaged in cancer prevention and control research, including epidemiology, behavioral science, survivorship, health outcomes research, health disparities, and implementation science, are encouraged to apply.
Ideal candidates will possess exceptional leadership skills, the ability to secure national cancer research grants, and a track record of developing successful multidisciplinary teams. A strong appreciation for team science and experience fostering research across basic, clinical, and population research programs is highly desirable.
Goals and expectations:
The AD of Population Sciences will:
- Bring a deep commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts already underway and contribute to furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across CPS.
- Serve as subject matter expert on population sciences in the Knight Cancer Institute workplace
- Represent the Knight’s population sciences efforts when working with entities at OHSU and with community leaders across the state of Oregon.
- Serve on the Knight Senior Leadership Team as a leader, advocate, and liaison for cancer prevention and control research members.
- Maintain extramural funding as PI on a population science-focused program of research
Duties & Responsibilities
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of OHSU’s population sciences programs and approaches, and ensure the Knight’s work is in support/alignment with the broader institution.
- To ensure the Knight meets research, personnel, and population science objectives, provide strategic direction to key stakeholders.
- Advise Senior Leadership Team on best practices for talent management, recruitment, hiring, and onboarding team members in population sciences.
- Annually review and evaluate the Knight Cancer Institute’s population science initiatives in conjunction with the Knight Director and Operations team to address Knight’s stated population science goals.
- In collaboration with the Knight’s Communications team, provide recommendations for internal and external messaging supporting population science principles.
- Cultivate relationships with relevant organizations and agencies with which the Knight might engage in research initiatives.
- As requested, contribute to evaluating and revising the Knight’s policies and procedures.
- Lead population science program development and management, including comprehensive analysis and reporting of key metrics and outcomes.
- Serve as an expert on NCI P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Guidelines and institutional policies pertaining to population sciences.
- Contribute to the annual progress report for CCSG renewals in non-competing years. Every five years, actively engage in preparation for the CCSG competitive renewal written application, participate in developing the CCSG budget, and participate in oral and/or poster presentations.
In addition to primary responsibilities, there are shared responsibilities as a member of the Knight leadership team as outlined below:
- Attend Knight Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) meetings, Program Leaders meetings, retreats, and other key Knight meetings as appropriate for a senior cancer institute leader;
- Work with the Knight Director and other Knight leaders in periodic review and updating of the Knight’s mission, vision, and values;
- Work with the Knight Director and other Knight leaders in periodic review, updating, and aligning of the Knight’s strategic initiatives and goals;
- Work with the Knight Director and other Knight leaders to recruit key faculty members to OHSU and the Knight;
- Work with the Knight Director and others on program development;
- Participate in CCSG renewals, other significant P30 grant requests, and accreditation activities; and,
- Personally represent or delegate representation of the Knight at various OHSU meetings and in external settings as assigned by the Knight Director and within the AD’s available capacity.
A senior research assistant is open in a non-human primate systems neuroscience laboratory with a focus on computational modeling of complex learning and decision making and how it relates to the activity of motivational neural circuits. The senior research technician will work closely with the Principal Investigator and function as a laboratory manager. The technician will be expected to work autonomously and oversee daily behavioral testing and training of animals, husbandry as necessary, assist with stereotaxic surgeries and neurophysiological recording procedures, training and supervising of graduate students and junior research technicians, preparation of reagents, and the preparation of written reports and when necessary regulatory documentation.
The Assistant Staff Scientist will work on ongoing studies in non-hormonal contraception development and female fertility.
Qualified candidates will hold a PhD in biology, physiology or equivalent, have a minimum of 3 years relevant post-doctoral work experience and possess a comprehensive understanding of molecular biology, immunology or microbiology. A strong background in reproduction or female reproductive tract, next generational sequencing methods is highly desirable. Competency in cell culture, flow cytometry or molecular biology techniques is essential. Applicants will be expected to develop skills related to RNA sequencing, high throughput screening and primate reproductive tract studies, working directly with NHPs for sedation and clinical monitoring, behavioral observations, biological and post-mortem sample collection. Applicants should be able to work in a team dynamic, carry out research unsupervised, keep up-to-date on relevant literature in the field, provide meaningful data reports for presentation at scientific meetings, prepare manuscripts, and assist with grant writing and laboratory management.
- Provide executive support to the Chief, Primary Care and Population Health Officer, Director of Primary Care Integration and Director of Primary Care and Population Health. Manage complex scheduling priorities and coordinate day-to-day activities for executives.
- Advises executives of time commitments, obligations and schedule conflicts.
- Arrange group and individual meetings with SOM, hospital and university officials; OHSU affiliates and partners; other education, healthcare and research stakeholders and consultants.
- Coordinate travel arrangements, including air, hotel, and ground transportation. This also involves managing changes to the calendar and coordinating travel plans with other parties involved with the travel.
- Manage incoming and outgoing correspondence and inquiries in a timely and accurate manner. This involves routing an inquiry to the correct contact(s) and providing specific information responding to their request.
- Compose, edit and proof written material such as correspondence, presentations, organizational charts, reports, proposals, agreements, contracts and personnel documents
- Process Pcard reconciliations and reimbursements. This includes preparing for approval, the appropriate obligating documents in compliance with OHSU policies and procedures. As needed, clarifying OHSU policies and procedures related to payables and reimbursements.
- Manage retention of active and archived files and records, triaging phone calls, greeting visitors, and distributing incoming mail.
- Planning and coordinating virtual or in-person events as needed. Involves identifying location, invitations, calendar appointments and coordinating day-of activities like room set-up, catering, and AV support. Serve as back-up to other administrative team members as needed.
- Committee Administrative Support
- Responsibilities include coordinating meeting agendas, notices, follow-up action items and meeting minutes; set-up of A/V equipment, presentations and materials for distribution; and catering. Some of these meetings require start times as early as 6:30 am and end times as late as 5:15pm.
- Administrative Team contribution: contributes as a member of the Office of the Dean Administrative Team with other administrative assignments as deemed necessary. This involves providing back-up support to other executive staff, front desk coverage, managing files and records, and other administrative duties as needed.
- Work independently on projects using molecular biology, biochemistry, cell culture techniques. Duties include molecular biology (gene cloning, sequencing); biochemistry (protein expression & purification, biochemical assays, Western blotting); cell culture (maintenance & passage of tissue culture cell lines).
- Ordering materials and supplies as needed, inventory and record keeping
- Contribute to manuscript preparation, participate in lab and research group meetings.
The duties of this position include:
- Serving as an attending physician at OHSU, Portland VAMC, Beaverton Knight Cancer Institute and our community sites.
- Teaching of medical students, house staff, and fellows
- Attending departmental quality meetings, i.e. chart rounds, M&M, and others
- Attending appropriate site-specific tumor boards and multidisciplinary clinics
- Actively engaging in clinical practice 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)
- Complying with the bylaws, resolutions, policies and standards of OHSU and the SoM in effect and as may be amended from time to time, including without limitation:
- any compliance program or policy,
- the OHSU Patient Care policy,
- the OHSU Code of Conduct policy,
- the OHSU Conflict of Interest policies,
- all policies and requirements regarding the preparation and maintenance of medical records and the billing for patient services, and
- OHSU Policy No. 03-30-060
- Maintaining a good standing license to practice medicine in the state of Oregon and any other jurisdiction where licensure is necessary in order for a Clinician to perform the professional services contemplated hereunder and to maintain medical staff privileges at the Hospital
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 is under the supervision of the Chair of the Department of Surgery and the Head of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery. The trauma, critical care and acute care surgeon shall be expected to perform clinical and basic science research. Duties will also include resident, fellow, student and staff teaching. This position requires undivided effort at the specified FTE. The general pattern of working hours will be set by the Head of the Division, but deviations from general patterns may be necessary to meet projected requirements. The ideal candidate would have the potential to achieve independent federal research funding.
- Bioinformatics tool development
- Collaborative omics analysis
- Dissemination and outreach