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

Position Overview

Organization: Laboratory Medicine

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

Position Details

Position Description

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

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 Children's Hospital, the Veteran’s 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 $5,705-$7083 per month ($68,460-$85,000 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.

Qualifications

Requirements

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

Instructions

Applicants should articulate how their past experiences and/or future plans in research teaching, mentoring, patient care and/or service promote a sense of belonging and foster a welcoming and inclusive environment by providing a cover letter or statement of interest. Applicants should send (via Interfolio) their CV, cover letter, and contact information for at least three references addressed to Brody Foy, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - ***email_hidden***

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