Clinical Research Tech - Jolley Lab

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A Brief Overview

Researchers in the Jolley Lab focus on the visualization, quantification, and computational modeling of congenitally abnormal heart structures using multi-modality 3D imaging.
Children with congenital heart disease have a broad range of anatomy, and there are few readily available (commercial) tools to facilitate image-based structural phenotyping and patient specific planning of interventions. As such, the Jolley Lab develops and applies custom tools built upon open-source platforms to help answer critical questions in this unique population. The group leverages medical image processing, machine learning, finite element analysis, computer-aided design, virtual reality, and 3D printing to achieve these goals. The lab collaborates with surgeons, cardiac imagers, interventional cardiologists, computer scientists, and engineers with the long-term goal of delivering personalized structural modeling to inform optimal interventions in individual patients.

A Research Technician in the Jolley Lab will be an essential part of this effort. This position offers the opportunity to build competencies in translational research and gain exposure to the practice of medicine, specifically pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac surgery, and pediatric cardiac anesthesia.

Lab website: https://www.research.chop.edu/jolley-laboratory

Recent work featured on Jolley Lab X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JolleyLab/

What you will do

• Utilize custom, easy to use software developed in-house for making computer models of pediatric heart valves from 3D ultrasound (no prior programming experience required)
• Consent patients and the parents of children for research studies
• Associate clinical database information with heart valve models to allow translational insight into the mechanism of dysfunction of abnormal valves
• Model existing and novel transcatheter devices
• Work with virtual reality, 3D printing, and other techniques for visualizing pediatric hearts and heart valves
• Participate in the scientific process of research study design, IRB approval, data analysis, and preparation of written reports, oral presentations, or manuscripts.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma / GED - Required
• Bachelor's Degree - Preferred
• Master's degree preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least two (2) years of related classroom experience or successful completion of a technical training program (eg. Wistar, WPSI) and research laboratory experience - Required
• At least three (3) years of related classroom experience or successful completion of a technical training program (eg. Wistar, WPSI) and research laboratory experience - Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• High level of initiative and ability to work independently
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Desire to be part of a team effort
• Proficiency in basic computer programs (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel) and willingness to learn to use new programs (REDCap database, custom valve modeling tools, data analysis)
• Basic exposure to statistics (class or portion of class) helpful
• Interest/experience in bioengineering preferred

• Advanced understanding of lab procedures, protocols, and equipment.
• Intermediate proficiency with lab specific experiments / techniques.
• Intermediate scientific analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong critical thinking / problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical skills

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SALARY RANGE:

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