Soc/Clin Research Assistant

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary:

The Social Clinical Research Assistant will be working with Dr. Guorong Wu and his team on an NIH-funded research education program focused on the application of machine learning and image processing techniques in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. They will oversee high school students in this summer enrichment program ensuring consistent staffing and adherence to established project milestones to ensure that grant conditions as well as any lab and/or University policies and protocols are met.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities:

Not Applicable.