The University of Michigan Medical School has established a comprehensive research program, the Michigan Resuscitation Innovation and Science Enterprise (M-RISE), focused on Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA). M-RISE, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences, is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for a two years postdoctoral research fellowship opportunity focused on the M-RISE population science project.

Responsibilities 

The candidate undertaking this research fellowship at the University of Michigan will do the following duties

• Provide exposure to the M-RISE basic and clinical science projects.
• Work with the established OHCA Learning Community in data collection and analysis to identify interventions to improve the OHCA “chain of survival”, and will also be engaged in implementing and evaluating these interventions.
• Conduct mixed-methods analysis on deliberative dialogues with the OHCA Learning Community, which will be instrumental in identifying and prioritizing interventions to improve pre-hospital response in the region.
• Help to implement and help analyze clinical simulations of OHCA scenarios designed to optimize time-to-first-treatment.

Requirements 

The University of Michigan calls applications from individuals holding PhD or equivalent degrees in public health, information science, or in one of the behavioral or social sciences. Applications from individuals with doctoral-level health professional training in an area pertinent to OHCA accompanied by an interest in research are also welcome.

 The University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is the public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.  Its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry. Michigan’s body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people. Also, it is one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world.  As of October 2018, 50 MacArthur Fellows, 25 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Turing Award winners, and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with the University of Michigan.