The University of Toledo is now hiring Research Assistant for its Department of Psychiatry!

The Research Assistant will work full time (8:30 am to 5:00 pm) at Health Science Campus College. The salary will range from $38,100 to $47,667 on the basis of your experience.

Responsibilities

• Conducting and coordinating psychiatric research projects under the direction of Elissar Andari, Ph.D.
• Conduct recruitment and retention of subjects and collections of behavioral, physiological, clinical, and imaging data at UTMC and other collaborating institutes
• Also, she or he will be responsible for regulatory documentation and IRB submissions for all human research projects conducted in the lab.
• manage, organize, process, and analyze the data of studies in the lab, as well as summarize the results for publications and grants.
• In addition, developing imaging protocols, processing MRI functional, structural, and statistical analysis of brain and physiological/behavioral data.
• contribute to research administration including supervising Research staff in the lab.
• Moreover, assisting the PI in organizing meetings, helping with ICAN initiatives, and managing/supervising students and staff members in the lab.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life science, social behavioral science, psychology, sociology, research, or related field
• Prior work experience in a health-related field
• Also, completes IRB training and maintains training up-to-date
• Ability to effectively communicate with participants
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word as well as Excel
• Ability to maintain the highest level of patient confidentiality
• In addition, well organized, precisely follow the protocols and regulations
• Knowledge in the usage of statistical software
• Interest in writing
• Moreover, owns Management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic medical training, statistical skills, and/or research experience, preferred
• Also, a Master’s or doctoral degree in neuroscience, clinical, psychology, or related field
• Basic knowledge of human neuroscience is preferred
• Familiar with behavioral tasks and/or programming in Matlab on a Linux workstation for fMRI data analysis
• In addition, skills or experience in MRI scan processing and analysis using image processing software, familiar with Linux OS, basic programming, and large database organization and analyses.