Postdoctoral Scientist – Behavioral Health Research (Hybrid)

About the role

Cedars-Sinai has an outstanding opportunity for an independent and well-organized contributor to serve as a Postdoctoral Scientist supporting the research program of Dr. Judy Tan.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain lab and study-specific SOPs
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to study team
• Delegate responsibilities to team members to efficiently execute research protocols and procedures
• Experience working in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams
• May assist in the preparation of grant proposals, but is not responsible for generating grant funds
• May participate in publications and presentations as author or co-author
• Designs and performs experiments
• Keeps appropriate experimental records and documentation and analyzes the results with the Principal Investigator (PI)
• Develops, adapts, and implements new research techniques and protocols
• Analyzes, interprets, summarizes, and compiles data
• Performs routine and complex laboratory procedures throughout the training period
• Operates and maintains equipment and instruments
• Makes observations of PI-patient or PI-human research subject interactions as it pertains directly to research being performed

Qualifications

• Doctorate (MD, PhD, VMD, DrPH or DDS) in area directly related to field of research specialization
• One to five (1-5) year post-doctoral appointment acquiring thorough technical and theoretical knowledge of research project and objectives
• Experience conducting and leading team on qualitative research, including design, recruitment, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation
• Experience in mixed methods research, community-engaged research and quantitative study design and analysis
• Experience with preparing manuscripts for submissions
• Previous work in a health care setting
• Develops and implements qualitative research methods and analysis
• Preferred skills in REDCap and qualitative data analysis software (Dedoose or Atlas)
• Proficient in conducting multi method and/or mixed-methods research
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Zoom, Microsoft Teams