Provide administrative support to the BME faculty. Administrative support duties for faculty include: - Manage calendars, meetings, conferences and travel. Coordinate meetings around budget and financial issues; personnel issues; communication issues. Maintain confidentiality of all personnel and research matters. - Arrange travel arrangements, itineraries, agendas, and compile documents for travel-related meetings. Once trip is completed follow up with travel reimbursement submissions and track all travel related expenses. Ensure that travel and appointment calendars are fully coordinated at all times. This requires close coordination with the external colleague’s staff. - Coordinate department reviews, faculty annual reviews, conferences, and other senior-level meetings. Provide outreach and event support: - Draft announcements and memorandums for signature - Assist in developing materials and interact with internal and external stakeholders to deliver OHSU messages to target audiences, including producing content for print and web, including brochures and newsletters - Coordinate seminars, exchanges, workshops, conferences and meetings as assigned. Assist with agenda development for routine and non-routine meetings and take meeting minutes as assigned. - Coordinate retreats and symposia - Work with the Chair and Department Administrator on special projects, as assigned. Process daily financial transactions including, but not limited to: - Purchase orders through Oracle requisitioning process. Disbursement and travel reimbursement requests for faculty and staff through Oracle iExpense process, including review/audit of supporting documentation to ensure spending compliance. Disbursement and travel reimbursement requests for students and seminar guest speakers through the AP process, including review/audit of supporting documentation to ensure spending compliance. - Payment of invoices against purchase orders through Oracle & A/P processes - Set-up of professional service contracts through Contracts Office processes - Departmental P-Card purchases, reallocation, and reconciliation through Oracle iExpense. - Investigate departmental expenditure issues as needed and resolve any problems.  - Maintain the PURCHASING section of the OneDrive Perform routine department administrative functions, to include: - Process key requests - Order office supplies - Track capital equipment purchases and maintain asset inventory, including inventory reporting, asset relinquishment, and handling surplus. - Serve as general lab contact for purposes of safety compliance and equipment maintenance and lab set-up for new faculty - Organize and schedule catering for departmental events - Create and maintain a desk manual/job aids for the position. - Other tasks as assigned

Hiring Bonus and Relocation Package Available   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. 

Faculty and Lab Purchasing Support: - Maintain purchasing-card receipts and documentation and perform monthly P-Card reconciliations for approximately two dozen cardholders. Prepare disbursement requests and purchase requisitions for laboratory and office supplies, communicate with labs re: order statuses, and resolve problems with orders and invoices. Prepare reimbursements for travel expenses. Work with Institute and collaborative staff (RAPP, Admin, Finance, and Operations) to ensure expenses are appropriate to the grant or account being charged. Faculty and Lab Administrative Support: - Provide administrative support for 10 to 13 assigned faculty and their post-doctoral fellows and lab staff. Assist with travel arrangements as needed. Provide support for CVs, abstracts, and manuscripts. Work with faculty and the Office of Visitors & Volunteers for hosting visitors.  Outreach Team & Event Support: - Provide calendaring, procurement, and P-Card reconciliation support to the Institute’s Outreach Team. Provide administrative support for our Summer Institute and support our spring and fall educational symposia. This may include arranging venues and catering, arranging A/V support, assisting with onsite registration, submitting honoraria requests and travel reimbursements for speakers, etc. Committee Support/Other Tasks: - Provide support to faculty-led committees, such as the education committee and OHWC EAC, including scheduling meetings and taking minutes. Provide administrative support to the Partners’ Luncheon. Serve as the Institute’s backup timekeeper. Perform other duties as assigned by faculty and senior Institute Administrator. Seminar Support: - Provide backup administrative support as needed, in collaboration with the faculty lead, Administrative Assistant, and CUSA2, for our Wednesday seminar series and for special event seminars. This may include monitoring Webex and assisting with in-person IT and A/V support.

$5,000 Hiring Bonus -Must start by July 1, 2024 to qualify   - Float to different departments within OHSU that need additional CNA support - Assist with the admitting and discharge - Obtain accurate vital signs and weight - Complete all unit specific CNA documentation in the patient’s medical record related to: admissions, daily care, vital signs, weight, intake and output, discharge, etc. - Assist the patient with any and all basic hygiene, lifting, transport, dietary support, and other personal needs and medical necessities - Support patient and family centered care - Report potential compliance problems as outlined in the Code of Conduct - Model ethical and appropriate behavior, professional standards, compliance, and personal integrity - Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without accommodation

$10K Hiring Bonus if candidate starts in this position by July 1, 2024 and candidate is eligible. Relocation Assistance also available.   Strategic Planning: - Partners with others to develop a department strategic plan that aligns with the division strategic plan and nursing’s vision. - Collaboratively formulates department objectives, goals and specific strategies related to initiatives. - Develops short and long-term goals that identify the target conditions. - Coordinates the implementation of interventions to meet department-level goals. - Communicates, implements, and evaluates the unit strategic plan. Operational Leadership - Partners with others to enhance healthcare and, ultimately patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, management, technological development, or research opportunities. - Applies systems theory with an understanding that how parts of a system relate to the overall system. - Maintains knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of care team members (e.g. charge nurse, code team, RRT) - Evaluates staff’s competency and intervenes to optimize performance and ensure safe, quality, effective and efficient patient care. Leads and practices patient/family advocacy and promotes patient-centered decisions and outcomes. - Maintains visibility and open communication with the staff and department leadership - Communicates plans and decisions to department staff and other stakeholders. Financial Management - Achieves financial targets: Manages productive, non-productive and premium pay to optimize performance goals. - Collaborates with the Professional Practice Leader to prioritize and allocate resources for department/division level education & practice priorities. - Develops innovative solutions and applies strategies to obtain appropriate resources for nursing initiatives. - Promotes activities that inform others about cost, risks, and benefits or care, or of the plan and solution. Human Resources - Uses evidence-based leadership to promote desired behaviors - Develops a high-functioning workforce in collaboration with the department leadership - Recognizes and rewards exemplary professional practice - Mentors and coaches staff in an ongoing and progressive manner - Monitors and evaluates the application of practice standards - Collaborates with department leadership to facilitate behaviors that impact safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. - Collaborates with the PPL to Identify individual practice issues, develops improvement strategies, and evaluates performance for all nursing staff on assigned units. Performance Improvement - Develops the department/division quality plan in collaboration with the unit’s formal and informal leaders. - Utilizes data to identify areas for improvement based on assessment and current states. - Monitors and uses data to determine patient care quality improvement objectives. - Evaluates the practice environment and designs and implements quality improvement strategies to ensure nursing sensitive outcomes meets or exceeds established goals. - Engages staff in department initiatives. - Evaluates the impact/benefits of organizational, nursing, and department initiatives. - Identifies areas of risk and makes suggestions for reducing risk and improving outcomes. - Trends and investigates concerns and errors to understand the root cause of occurrences of errors or adverse events and success. - Communicates learning to disseminate best practices. - Supports workflow processes that builds a culture of safety. - Uses current research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues. Professionalism - Evaluates practice in relation to the professional practice standards and existing evidence. - Promotes clinical nurses’ translation of theory, scope & standards into practice to exercise autonomy and decision-making authority - Advances practice excellence by communicating a clear and consistent message about the ownership of role and standards -based professional practice. - Engages in informal and formal processes of giving and seeking feedback regarding role performance from individuals, professional colleagues, representatives, administrators, and others. - Mentors and supports others to access resources for their professional development.

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.   To access the RN Role Description and Department Specific Requirement Addendums go to the TTP Program webpage: https://www.ohsu.edu/nursing-careers/transition-practice-ttp-program   Additional information on OHSU's TTP programs can be found on this webpage.

Primary Role: Clinical trial coordinator (TI Clinical Research Assistant 2) involved in scheduling visits, screening, consenting, blood draws, biometric measurements, recording but not reading EKG (if trained), administering cognitive tests and interviews, processing participant blood and urine samples, entering data into RedCAP, assisting with regulatory documentation.   **Please include a cover letter with your application.

- Receive and rapidly triage and prioritize emergency and non-emergency telephone and radio calls for law enforcement and Facilities in a dynamic environment to determine appropriate action(s) to be taken. - Maintain and monitor status of law enforcement field units and assign requests for emergency and non-emergency services to the appropriate unit(s) utilizing a computer-aided dispatch terminal and radio system. - Effectively communicate with a variety of people with various educational, ethnic, sociocultural backgrounds, and identities. - Maintain and thoroughly document accurate records of all events, written logs, and actions taken. - Effectively communicate with and maintain positive customer service with callers, users, co-workers, PSAPs, and other Police, Fire and EMS partners.

We’re Oregon Health & Science University’s Digital Strategy team. We’re the developers, web and security engineers, analysts, user experience and customer support experts who manage OHSU’s digital presence. We design, implement, optimize and maintain a collection of Drupal content management systems (CMS), custom applications, and 3rd-party integrations for OHSU's public website and intranet.   All of our work supports OHSU’s academic, business, healthcare, and research initiatives. Our best work reflects all five of our strategic priorities: - Building a culture of audience-centric, data-informed decision making - Extending OHSU’s digital reach - Creating thoughtful, useful digital experiences - Providing adaptable, scalable applications and infrastructure - Making OHSU more productive and efficient The Web Development and Engineering Supervisor is responsible for collaborating with the team’s manager, Drupal product owner, web developers, web engineers, and quality assurance specialist to ensure the efficient delivery of value-driven outcomes. This is a pivotal role in guiding and assisting the team throughout the entire development lifecycle, facilitating effective communication, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Additionally, the Web Development and Engineering Supervisor leads the technical strategy for the Digital Strategy team, providing direction in development and engineering approaches, solution planning, and technical decision-making.   The Web Development and Engineering Supervisor will: - Provide direct supervision, guidance and assistance to the development and engineering team to help them navigate the development process efficiently. - Serve as the technical lead on web initiatives, translating business and user needs into functional requirements, blueprints, prototypes, and other working models that define technical architecture and product specifications. - Assist in maintaining focus on desired outcomes and facilitating the completion of tasks to reach milestones. - Manage blockers effectively to ensure uninterrupted progress and adherence to development schedules and deadlines. - Assume responsibility for identifying blockers that are outside the team’s direct influence and openly communicate them to the Manager of Digital Strategy; Collaborate with the manager to address blockers and explore opportunities for improvement. - Actively participate in sprint planning and sprint reviews, ensuring that value is clearly being described and direction set. - Facilitate productive sprint retrospectives to derive actionable outcomes for continuous improvement. - Assist in troubleshooting and resolving coding or design issues as they arise. - Contribute to final product testing to ensure functionality and compliance with requirements and quality of team deliverables. - Consult with Digital Strategy support team members on reported bugs and issues. - Monitor metrics for measuring web development and engineering team effectiveness and provide reports to the manager.   As a member of the Digital Strategy leadership, you will work with, or on behalf of, a diverse set of OHSU stakeholders, including healthcare, faculty, staff and OHSU leadership to develop professional, quality websites in OHSU’s enterprise environments. This role requires a highly analytical mindset with the ability to see both the big picture and details. You must be an adaptable problem-solver, coach, facilitator, and creative thinker, with strong skills in time management, organization, and documentation.

This position as Senior EpicCare Application Analyst will design applications or workflow specifications for some of the most complex and critical OHSU systems and applications. Specifically, the Sr. Analyst will (1) perform EpicCare system build and maintenance (2) Assume project management responsibilities for medium to large projects or sub-projects as assigned (3) Respond to issues and change requests submitted by Epic end users and OHSU leadership, making recommendations on options to meet present and future system and customer needs (4) mentor and provide training to less senior and experienced team members, and acts as a lead to other analysts on certain projects to ensure that deliverables and objectives are met.

Summary of responsibilities: The Research Nurse is responsible for the clinical research activities for cancer clinical research studies conducted at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. The Research Nurse works collaboratively with other staff and provides services, as assigned by the supervisor, in furtherance of the university’s mission and goals. The primary objectives of this position are to educate, recruit, screen, monitor and document the subjects’ responses to treatment. The Research Nurse provides monitoring and clinical expertise to ensure protocol adherence and accurate data collection. In addition to direct research responsibilities, the individual is this position is responsible for mentoring OHSU or affiliate site staff members, and identifying opportunities for and implementing process improvement.   OHSU Research Classification: Sr Research Associate-RN   Qualities of a successful candidate: This position requires a highly experienced nurse, capable of working both independently and collaboratively with all levels of providers and non-medical research staff, adroitly balancing patient safety and research data advancement in the most ethical manner.

The Veterinary Research/Health Technician 1 assists in providing research support, health care and animal husbandry for animals maintained at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. The primary function of this position is to perform the manual and technical tasks directly related to the care of, and research support for the use of, laboratory animals.  The area of work assignment and specific tasks will vary, depending on animal populations and care requirements, service requirements, and staffing needs, during regular and non-regular working hours, including weekends, holidays, or on an overtime basis. Duties must be performed in a professional manner and will require contact with investigative staff. This classification is distinguished by the increased responsibility and accountability related to animal care protocols, and accountabilities related to support of research protocols. May require working an ABSL3 environment.    Research oriented duties: Assist with, and coordinate and complete, a large volume of tasks involving animal research to meet investigator requests. Follow various complex research protocols and perform technical skills in a variety of investigative procedures, as determined by research protocols. Technical duties: Assist with and safely perform, under supervision (and using proper techniques), standard research support procedures on animals, including but not limited to venipuncture, medication dose calculations; administration of medications via intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and oral routes; collection of body fluids; perform animal health management procedures such as weighing, TB testing, and blood collections; capture, restraint, identification, and sexing of all common varieties of laboratory animals, and transportation of animals for various reasons; clinical, research support and housing needs. Observe animals in all housing configurations, recognize abnormalities in physical condition or behavior, and report and record observations to the clinical veterinarian or research staff. Animal husbandry procedures, including but not limited to: routine feeding and cleaning of animal enclosures;  perform routine sanitization tasks related to animal primary housing, shelters, equipment and facilities; sweep, mop, scrub, wash, and disinfect floors, walls, ceilings, sinks, and other equipment; operate equipment, including but not limited to cage washers, floor scrubbers, autoclaves, pressure washers, scales and veterinary care instruments; complete and submit data processing forms; use computer keyboards to access and/or input information from computerized animal record files; complete inventory and supply request forms; assist with facility maintenance, including but not limited to replacing drinking water valves, simple surface preparation, replace lighting tubes or bulbs, etc.; recognize and report problems with facilities, such as inappropriate room temperatures, leaking or broken water pipes, plugged drains, damaged surfaces, etc.; unload and store animal feed (feed bags weight 25-50 lbs each);  assist with group-housed animal capture ("roundup") and processing.

The Veterinary Research/Health Technician 1 assists in providing research support, health care and animal husbandry for animals maintained at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. The primary function of this position is to perform the manual and technical tasks directly related to the care of, and research support for the use of, laboratory animals.  The area of work assignment and specific tasks will vary, depending on animal populations and care requirements, service requirements, and staffing needs, during regular and non-regular working hours, including weekends, holidays, or on an overtime basis. Duties must be performed in a professional manner and will require contact with investigative staff. This classification is distinguished by the increased responsibility and accountability related to animal care protocols, and accountabilities related to support of research protocols. May require working an ABSL3 environment.    Research oriented duties: Assist with, and coordinate and complete, a large volume of tasks involving animal research to meet investigator requests. Follow various complex research protocols and perform technical skills in a variety of investigative procedures, as determined by research protocols. Technical duties: Assist with and safely perform, under supervision (and using proper techniques), standard research support procedures on animals, including but not limited to venipuncture, medication dose calculations; administration of medications via intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and oral routes; collection of body fluids; perform animal health management procedures such as weighing, TB testing, and blood collections; capture, restraint, identification, and sexing of all common varieties of laboratory animals, and transportation of animals for various reasons; clinical, research support and housing needs. Observe animals in all housing configurations, recognize abnormalities in physical condition or behavior, and report and record observations to the clinical veterinarian or research staff. Animal husbandry procedures, including but not limited to: routine feeding and cleaning of animal enclosures;  perform routine sanitization tasks related to animal primary housing, shelters, equipment and facilities; sweep, mop, scrub, wash, and disinfect floors, walls, ceilings, sinks, and other equipment; operate equipment, including but not limited to cage washers, floor scrubbers, autoclaves, pressure washers, scales and veterinary care instruments; complete and submit data processing forms; use computer keyboards to access and/or input information from computerized animal record files; complete inventory and supply request forms; assist with facility maintenance, including but not limited to replacing drinking water valves, simple surface preparation, replace lighting tubes or bulbs, etc.; recognize and report problems with facilities, such as inappropriate room temperatures, leaking or broken water pipes, plugged drains, damaged surfaces, etc.; unload and store animal feed (feed bags weight 25-50 lbs each);  assist with group-housed animal capture ("roundup") and processing.

Simulation Technician: (9 months - Academic Year) - Collaborate with the Simulation Coordinator, Specialists, Leadership, and inter-professional groups to:  Assist in the design, planning Public Relations - Meets and greet college administrators, faculty and students daily and maintains a cordial and welcoming environment. - Responds daily to phone calls and email from the public, host campus and OHSU community pertaining to SCLC and campus responding with a professional level of proficiency and integrity. - Responds daily to priority request, re-adjusts workload as needed and keeps the SCLC faculty and/or manager appropriately informed. - Participated in committee meetings, sets agendas, assists with meeting arrangements, and takes minutes for the campus and SCLC as assigned. - Prepared and composes correspondence, reports memos, or other program documents for SCLS routinely. - Provides daily general administrative support to the SCLC and the SON Service Excellence Responsibilities - Provides back-up as need to support the work of the La Grande SCLC in order to meet all of the learner, faculty, and team needs. - Fulfill responsibility to the organization through performance that promotes the service excellence philosophy. - Performs other duties as required.

Clinical Activities (not related to teaching or research):  - Plans and supervises student lab and/or clinical experiences or practice based on teaching assignments.    Scholarly Activities (research/writing, abstracts, grant-supported work, presentations, etc.):  - Participates in scholarly activities based on faculty rank.  - At the Assistant Professor rank or higher, faculty in the practice mission, demonstrates competence in an area of clinical expertise and engages in inquiry and scholarship that contributes to the practice of clinical practice.  - At the Assistant Professor rank or higher, faculty in the research mission advance a program of research, prepares grants and seek funding, and engage with other missions to foster inquiry within the SON.    Education Activities (include types of teaching and types of students taught):  - Provides effective didactic instruction based on teaching assignments using appropriate instructional technologies to ensure that course outcomes are met.  - Participates collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum.  - Mentors and advises students.  - Faculty in the doctoral program supervise students in dissertation and/or clinical inquiry projects.    Service Activities  - These activities could include faculty meetings, committee membership, professional activities, and other responsibilities as assigned by the Program or Academic Director.  - Participates in faculty governance; additional engagement based on rank.     Administrative Activities  - As negotiated.     Other Activities  - 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.   

Leadership and Administration - Provides leadership in recruiting qualified faculty for identified programs by serving on search committees and assisting with recruitment functions. - Engages with community partners across the state and region as needed to establish educational and clinical learning collaborations. - Develops and establishes program operations that are standardized according to accreditation, APRN program, and School of Nursing practice. - Leads evaluation and improvement efforts to ensure curricular requirements result in exemplary program and student outcomes. - Leads faculty collaboration in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. - Participates in the budgeting process and policy and procedure development. - Uses course and program evaluation results for continuous and systematic program improvement. - Provides ongoing development, engagement, and regular evaluation of program faculty. - Manages program administration, including faculty workload assignments and course scheduling in consultation with other program directors and Assistant Dean for APRN DNP programs. - Engages faculty in activities related to recruitment, admission, retention, and progression of students. - Engages external and internal stakeholders in a manner to expand the program reach, advance the school’s reputation, secure funding, and meet emerging clinical needs. Curriculum Advancement - Engages collaboratively in the development, implementation, evaluation, and refinement of curriculum from a foundation of core graduate courses scaffolded with increasing depth and breadth of clinical functioning. - Ensures, through practice engagement, that current, emerging, and evidence-based knowledge and clinical practices are presented in curriculum. - Ensures quality and rigor of program outcomes and DNP scholarly projects. - Provides effective didactic and clinical instruction using appropriate instructional technologies to ensure course and program outcomes are met. - Guides and monitors overall student learning (didactic and clinical) experiences, assessment, and engagement based on program needs. - Ensures professional formation occurs among program students. - Oversees student advising in accordance with SON academic policies. - Ensures and is involved in annual student review of the program. Academic and Community Service - Maintains a network of national, regional, and local professional contacts that informs the direction and functioning of the program. - Engages in professional activities, inquiry, and scholarship related to interest and expertise that contributes to clinical practice. - Seeks consultative and scholarly opportunities to advance and disseminate knowledge in specialty area and enhances the program’s reputation. - Engages with the learning community by involvement in faculty governance, faculty meetings, SON committee membership. - Provides leadership in SON, University, local, state, or national organizations. - Advances self through the APT process to the maximum area of personal and professional development.  

To further our goal of advancing a culture of inclusion and innovation, the Knight Cancer Institute has an outstanding opportunity for an Associate Director (AD) of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to oversee these efforts across our healthcare, academic, and research missions. This faculty leader will bring a deep commitment and experience to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism efforts already underway and will guide the development of innovative policies and programs to further diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism across missions. - As a leader in enhancing academic programs, the AD of DEI will partner closely with educational leaders across the cancer institute, the School of Medicine Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Office, and OHSU institutional leaders to build and sustain diverse, inclusive, and equitable educational programs and to train the next generation of cancer researchers and providers to embrace diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism principles throughout their professional career. - As a leader in enhancing research activities, the AD of DEI will partner closely with basic, clinical, and translational researchers to improve understanding of unique disparities present in our population and guide researchers in utilizing culturally appropriate strategies for community engagement and participation in all facets of our research. - As a leader supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce, the AD of DEI will partner closely with cancer institute leadership and human resources to recruit, hire, retain, develop and advance a diverse, culturally competent learning community and workforce. - As a leader in our community, the AD of DEI will build and enhance community, academic, and business partnerships to engage diverse communities in the achievement of the Knight Strategic Plan and the Knight Guiding Principles. Goals & Expectations: - Enhance participation of women, minorities, and individuals from groups nationally under-represented in the research workforce, center leadership, and advisory boards; - Use special opportunities, if available, within the center’s catchment area to enhance the diversity of the research workforce and center leadership of CCSG-supported components (Senior Leadership, Research Programs, Shared Resources, Community Outreach, and Engagement, etc.); - Support career-enhancing research opportunities for junior, early- and mid-career researchers, including those from diverse backgrounds, to prepare them for center leadership; - Establish infrastructure and utilize institutional resources to expand the pipeline of members of diverse backgrounds through training or mentoring opportunities to encourage the participation of students, postdoctoral researchers, and co-investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those groups shown to be nationally underrepresented in the research workforce; - Leverage institutional commitment and infrastructure to enhance the diversity of the center’s membership and leadership; and, - Establish criteria for monitoring and evaluating the progress of diversity. Duties & Responsibilities: - The AD of DEI will bring a deep commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts already underway and will guide the development of innovative policies and programs to further diversity, equity, and inclusion across missions; - Attend Knight retreats, and other key Knight meetings as appropriate for a senior cancer institute leader. Serve as subject matter resource on DEI in the workplace for Knight Cancer Institute and with a seat at the table of the Knight Senior Leadership Team. This position will ensure the team applies a DEI and anti-racism lens to decision-making activities. This position will take an active role in evaluating and executing the Knight Cancer Institute's Diversity Action Plan in alignment with the University and School of Medicine Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism Plan, managing comprehensive analysis and reporting of key DEI metrics and outcomes; - Represent the Knight Cancer Institute's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts when working with entities at OHSU, including employee resource groups, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, the SOM Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Office; - Attend meetings and work with SOM Assistant Dean for DEI for guidance, support, and partnership. Represent the Knight Cancer Institute at SOM DEI meetings; - In collaboration with the OHSU and Knight Communications teams, provide recommendations for internal and external messaging supporting DEI principles; - Work with the Director, Co-Deputy Directors, and other Knight leaders to recruit key faculty members to OHSU and the Knight Cancer Institute. Provides guidance and advice and participates in setting priorities regarding diversity recruitment opportunities. Participates on search committees, interviews candidates reviews curriculum vitae, and provides recommendations. Cultivates relationships with relevant organizations and agencies from which Knight Cancer might recruit; - Represent or delegate representation of the Knight Cancer Institute at various OHSU meetings and external settings as assigned by the Director and within the Associate Director's available capacity. Participates in fundraising activities, as assigned; - Work with the Director and other Knight leaders in periodic review and updating of the cancer institute's mission, vision, and values; - Work with the Director and other Knight leaders in periodic review, updating, and aligning of the cancer institute's strategic initiatives and goals; - Serve as an expert on NCI P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Guidelines, as well as institutional policies as they pertain to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; - Provide an annual DEI progress report for CCSG renewals in non-competing years. Every five years actively engages in the preparations for the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) competitive renewal written application and participates in oral and/or poster presentations, as needed. Participates in national conferences and working groups related to NCI designation as appropriate; - Promotes professional conduct and behavior of the highest integrity, exhibiting utmost respect for all members of the OHSU community; demonstrates consistency of action and purpose with unquestionable forthrightness.

We are developing an exciting new type of cancer diagnostic test that combines microfluidic and microarray technology to pull cancer-derived nanoparticles straight from plasma. Our long-term goal is to bring nanoparticle-based diagnostics to the clinic for the first time. We are currently hiring for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Research Assistant 2 or Senior Research Assistant.   We are looking for applicants with expertise in Engineering or Biology to work in some of the following general areas: - Development of biological particle separation techniques using dielectrophoresis technology – Using microelectrode array chips to recover cancer-derived nanoparticles from circulation (Gustafson, et al. 2021). This novel work will focus on the development and characterization of new nanoparticle recovery techniques using dielectrophoretic forces. These forces are created by microelectrode array devices that act on the unique dielectric properties of different particles (Ibsen et al. 2017). This work includes increasing particle collection efficiency, understanding the types of particles that are collected and how they can be separated, and developing an internal standard appropriate for different particle types. This position will utilize the high-end specialized dielectrophoresis equipment located here at OHSU. This will also involve quantitative fluorescent microscopy imaging, TEM imaging, immunostaining, and particle characterization. - System automation– continuing development and finalization of an automated system to conduct the dielectrophoresis work. The goal is to automate the dielectrophoresis collection protocol to increase sample analysis throughput. This will involve basic robotics and automation programming in LabView. - Cancer biomarker panel development– Evaluate the nanoparticle associated biomarkers that are collected for their ability to detect pancreatic cancer from plasma samples. Here the goal is to use the developed dielectrophoresis techniques to collect cancer-derived nanoparticles and evaluate their biomarkers for the ability to detect pancreatic cancer. References: - Luna, Ramona; Heineck, Daniel; Hinestrosa, Juan Pablo; Dobrovolskaia, Irina; Hamilton, Sean; Malakian, Anna; Gustafson, Kyle T.; Huynh, Katherine T.; Kim, Sejung; Ware, Jason; Stimson, Ella; Ross, Christian; Schutt, Carolyn E.; Ibsen, Stuart. “Enhancement of Dielectrophoresis-Based Particle Collection from High Conducting Fluids Due to Partial Electrode Insulation.” Electrophoresis, In Press (2023) - Hamilton, Sean; Shea, Delaney; Ibsen, Stuart*, Brasino, Michael*. "On‐chip dielectrophoretic recovery and detection of a lactate sensing probiotic from model human saliva." Electrophoresis, Volume 44, Issue 3-4: pp. 442-449. (2023) *Co-corresponding authors - Luna, Ramona; Heineck, Daniel P.; Bucher, Elmar; Heiser, Laura; Ibsen, Stuart. "Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Negative Dielectrophoresis Induced Particle Trajectories." Electrophoresis, Volume 43, Issue 12: pp. 1366-77 (2022) (Cover) - Gustafson, Kyle; Huynh, Katherine; Heineck, Daniel; Bueno, Jesus; Modestino, Augusta; Kim, Sejung; Gower, Austin; Armstrong, Randall; Schutt, Carolyn; Ibsen, Stuart. “Automated Fluorescence Quantification of Extracellular Vesicles Collected from Blood Plasma using Dielectrophoresis.” Lab on a Chip, Volume 21, Issue 7: pp. 1318-1332. (2021) (Back Cover) - Sarno, Benjamin; Heineck, Daniel; Heller Michael J.; Ibsen, Stuart. “Dielectrophoresis: Developments and Applications from 2010 to 2020.” Electrophoresis, Volume 42, Number 5, pp. 539-564 (2021). (Cover) - Ibsen, Stuart; Wright, Jennifer; Lewis, Jean; Kim, Sejung; Ko, Seo-Yeon; Ong, Jiye; Manouchehri, Sareh; Vyas, Ankit; Akers, Johnny; Chen, Clark; Carter, Bob; Esener, Sadik; Heller, Michael."Rapid isolation and detection of exosomes and associated biomarkers from plasma." ACS Nano, Volume 11, Issue 7, pp. 6641-6651 (2017).

We are looking for a Research Assistant 2 to join the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, Neuroscience Section. Our research focuses on the effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and sleep on the developing brain. We use imaging (MRI) and different sleep measurements to understand how waste is eliminated from the brain in normal individuals, and in those who suffered from TBI.    The person joining the lab will be tasked with study data entry and analysis, assisting with multiple study-related events (recruitment, consenting, appointments, etc.), and helping with other general lab duties.

Research Assistant 1 -OR- Research Assistant 2   We are looking for a candidate (1.0 FTE) to join our research team who is about to complete their undergraduate degree or is a recent graduate. This position is ideal for a candidate seeking to gain more experience relevant to human physiology, because the project involves work not only with a neonatal rodent model of brain hypoxia, but also with a large animal model of fetal brain hypoxia in pregnant sheep. These projects will provide excellent experience to launch a career in biomedical sciences as a physician scientist, a biomedical researcher or as preparation for medical school. The projects require a mature individual with excellent time management skills who will work intermittently for about half the year in an active sheep laboratory.  The remainder of time will be spent on projects focused on neonatal rodent studies.  Both projects are focused on complementary questions related to the impact of exposure to hypoxia on brain development. Both of these NIH-funded research projects will define mechanisms leading to disruption of neuronal development and disturbances in long-term learning and memory mechanisms.  The candidate will work with our chief sheep surgeon and must be comfortable with handling animals (mice and sheep) and providing surgical support in a large animal surgery suite with a sterile operating room. Prior small or large animal surgical experience is ideal but not required and training will be provided by faculty working in the sheep and rodent labs.   The projects will employ a range of approaches ranging from histology to advanced molecular approaches including single nucleus RNAseq.  These include analysis of neuronal morphology using advanced microscopic approaches for single cell reconstruction, electrophysiology, advanced MRI analysis and behavioral studies.  Some studies are on-going under the supervision of postdoctoral fellows or junior faculty in the lab. The candidate will work closely with these senior individuals on independent aspects of the rodent and sheep hypoxia studies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn a range of techniques that we routinely use including animal surgery, tissue sectioning/staining for quantitative analysis, western blotting and other molecular techniques. Responsibilities include designing and conducting experiments, data analysis, record-keeping and data presentation.  Attend weekly lab meetings and present your research.