ATSU - Fellow Postdoctoral Research

Description

A.T. Still University is seeking an exempt Fellow Postdoctoral Research on the Mesa, Arizona campus. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day coordination of clinical outcomes investigations organized and relevant to post-doctoral training.
• Identify, develop and implement a research study to advance post-doctoral training and expertise.
• Monitor recruitment and retention of research subjects.
• Provide and support research data handling functions such as collection, processing, quality monitoring, and entry.
• Support ongoing activities of the ATSU SalivaEpi Biobank by performing patient recruitment and enrollment. 
• Activities could extend to recruit participants, obtain participant consent, and perform saliva sample collection, sample storage, and data entry.
• Schedule research protocol activities.
• Coordinate start-up activities for clinical research protocols.
• Ensure that the goals, objectives, and activities related to research projects are achieved and evaluated in a timely manner; moreover, organize/facilitate appropriate planning, development, and implementation of assigned scholarly activities.
• Collaborate with community stakeholders to establish partnerships and engage the community in research initiatives, promoting community-based research principles.
• Assist in research dissemination including oral presentations, posters and manuscript preparation.
• Assist with management of fiscal and physical research resources.
• Assist researchers in the preparation and submission of progress reports and financial status reports.
• Monitor research grant programmatic activities for timeliness and appropriateness/accuracy.
• Assist in the production of activity reports from current clinical research projects.
• Assist in research grant proposal development.
• Support research protocol development.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Education & Experience:

• Demonstrated expertise in technical mentorship, specifically guiding students through the full research lifecycle by breaking down complex statistical modeling, overseeing reproducible programming workflows, and teaching systematic research methods. 
• PhD/doctorate in an oral health or other health professions field (e.g., DPH, PhD in Epidemiology, etc.)
• Be computer literate.
• Familiar with program evaluation techniques and budget management.
• Interact well with patients, including those with special needs, and their caregivers.
• Experience with laboratory procedures is preferred, particularly molecular biology techniques and workflows related to biospecimen processing, DNA extraction, genotyping, and other laboratory methods commonly used in genetic and genomic research.
• Team player who can also work independently
• Assertive, possess a positive and proactive approach, work's well under pressure, and highly professional.
• Possess the ability to work well with persons of diverse educational socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Outgoing and personable; detail oriented

A.T. Still University (ATSU) does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its programs and activities.