Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Foy Lab

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The University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology is a broad and dynamic department that strives for a consistent level of high achievement in all of its activities. The Department offers full diagnostic services in all areas of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology is a top ranked research organization as measured by research awards from the National Institutes of Health and offers an array of specialized educational training programs.

The UW Medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology brings together state-of-the-art technology and highly trained world renowned personnel to provide comprehensive diagnostic and personalized service to physicians community hospitals independent laboratories and other health care organizations. Our operations are based at the University of Washington Medical Center Harborview Medical Center South Lake Union Northwest Hospital and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Faculty members also serve at Seattle Childrens Hospital the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Healthcare System and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. These collaborative efforts have generated innovative translational studies in the basic mechanisms of disease as they apply to diagnostic laboratory medicine and pathology.

The Foy Lab has an outstanding opportunity for a 1.0 FTE Postdoctoral Scholar. This full-time 12-month position has immediate availability for an initial one-year appointment. The position will be renewable annually contingent on performance and available funding. The base salary range for this position will be $5705-$7083 per month ($68460-$85000 annually) commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Postdoctoral scholars are represented by UAW 4121 and are subject to the collective bargaining agreement unless agreed exclusion criteria apply. For more information please visit the University of Washington Labor Relations website.

The postdoctoral scholar will contribute to an exciting research program within the Foy Lab ( focused on developing computational methods to enhance how we collect analyze and use clinical blood samples to advance patient care. This role will involve developing computational models (statistical machine learning etc.) and using them to perform high throughput analysis of clinical data. The chosen candidate will collaborate with clinicians to drive impact from these models and use them to benefit patient care.

General Duties:

• Develop multi-modal statistical and machine learning methods for analysis of health record data for patient diagnosis and outcome prediction.
• Perform large-scale querying and analysis of clinical health record databases.
• Engage with clinical collaborators to place the analysis in patient-centered contexts.
• Contribute to lab culture and to dissemination of academic findings.

The ideal candidate will additionally have experience:

• Building and validating statistical and machine learning models.
• Working with extremely large multi-modal datasets.

Prior experience in analysis of clinical health records and time series data are highly preferred.

Requirements:

Education requirement minimum:PhD in Computer Science Biomedical Engineering or an equivalent field.