RESEARCH COODINATOR
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Research
Posted on May 4, 2019
Req #: | 166027 |
Department: | PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES |
Posting Date: | 04/02/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience |
Shift: | First Shift |
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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. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 285 full-time faculty members, 515 clinical faculty members, and over 200 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $35 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development.
The Department currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Coordinator who will be responsible for the management of research activities and will drive recruitment for a recently funded NIH-funded R01 study using custom smartphone software to explore sensing stream correlates with self-reported experiences of auditory hallucinations.
The Research Coordinator will work closely with other research staff on a recently funded study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health using technology to better understand auditory hallucinations. Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVH) occur in the context of a range of mental health conditions as well as in individuals who are otherwise considered healthy. AVH lead to significant distress, impairment, and need for care in some, but not others. The project focuses on AVH as part of the broader construct of Auditory Perception and leverages an integrative multi-method paradigm leveraging measures from two RDoC units of analysis: Self-Report and Behavior. Our multidisciplinary investigative team proposes to use integrated mobile data collection techniques that we have piloted extensively (Ecological Momentary Assessment for self-report and automated multi-modal sensing to capture behavior) to study AVH experience and associated behaviors, as they occur in real-time/real-place in people with and without need for care. The project will use innovative online and community-based participant recruitment strategies that we have piloted in relevant populations to enroll a clinically diverse sample of individuals with AVH. Participants will be provided with an integrated smartphone data collection system and will actively self-report AVH experiences and associated variables as they occur in real-time using EMA. Smartphones will also passively collect multi-modal behavioral sensing data continuously. We will combine both forms of data to examine the extent to which temporal relationships between self-reported AVH and behavioral measures vary across both groups. Specifically, we aim to: evaluate whether clinical status is associated with how AVH is experienced in real- time/real-place; examine relationships between demographic, functional, and immediate social/contextual factors and AVH; and test time-varying relationships posited in a cognitive model of psychosis between AVH appraisal, affect, and behavioral response. The study will advance our understanding of the phenomenology of AVH and move us closer to understanding why some develop impairment and need for care, while others do not.
Duties and Responsibilities include:
Research: 40%
Administration/Management: 40%
Dissemination/Communication: 10%
Staff Supervision: 5%
Other: 5%
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