Posted
Tues., March 8
Organization
The Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Position Description
The Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a post-graduate student to join their team as a Research Assistant/Lab Assistant III.
Responsibilities include:
- Supporting translational research and quality assurance activities within the division
- Collecting and organizing tissue specimens in the operating room
- Collecting, entering, and retrieving patient data for the clinical database
- Preparing, apportioning, labeling, and transporting tissue to the various laboratories
- Completing correlative studies and quality assurance activities utilizing information learned from analysis of these tissues in the laboratory
- Gathering demographic and clinical data from patient charts and entering the information into the database
- Liaising with database vendors contact to coordinate specific changes/enhancement to the database
- Providing technical support for the Thoracic Surgical attending and research staff on database related issues
Position Requirements
- Knowledge of PC Word processing and clinical database software
- Basic knowledge of human anatomy and medicine a plus
- Solid wet laboratory skills with ability to examine, cut, and freeze tissue specimens
Time Commitment
Full-time with a minimum commitment of 2 years.
Compensation
TBD
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