Postdoctoral Scholar, Dementia Health Services
2 months ago
**Description**
**Area**: Dementia Health Services Research
**Duration**: 1 year
**Start Date**: December 2, 2024
**Salary**: $70,000
- 90,000 CAD per annum (depending on experience and qualifications), plus University of Calgary Plan C health benefits
The Postdoctoral scholar will be a part of research team using administrative healthcare databases and primary sources of health data to studies related to health services and quality of care for people living with dementia in Alberta funded through the Alzheimer¿s Association. The Postdoctoral scholar will primarily report to Drs. Seitz and Kirkham (Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine) in collaboration with other members of the research team.
The program of research involves studies related to identifying quality indicators for measuring the quality of care for individuals with dementia in community settings and operationalizing these measures for use with provincial administrative data. The research project involves a scoping review of dementia quality indicators, prioritization of quality indicators using Delphi methods, and analysis of provincial health services data for people with dementia.
The Postdoctoral scholar will be involved in the design of studies, study management (research ethics and compliance procedures), analysis of studies using observational and biostatistical methods, and knowledge translation activities related to research outputs including presentations and preparation of manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications. The postdoctoral scholar will also take a lead role in communicating and coordinating with other trainees, researchers and members of the research staff and stakeholder organizations. There will be opportunities for continuing education as part of the Postdoctoral scholar position.
**Qualifications**:
- Required: PhD in relevant field including: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Services Research, Gerontology or related field preferably with a focus on Alzheimer¿s disease or other types of dementia
- Required: Advanced knowledge of biostatistical methods and/or observational study designs
- Preferred experience with SAS and R
- Preferred to have experience with working with administrative healthcare databases (hospitalization, medication prescription, physician claims data)
- Preferred to have experience in scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and Delphi or nominal group methods
- Experience working with interdisciplinary research teams
- Familiarity with working with large complex datasets using secondary data, preferably health related but experience with data from other fields will be considered
- Familiarity or experience with conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently as part of research team
- Additional analytic skills in machine learning/artificial intelligence analytic methods would be beneficial
- Desire to learn new research methods and contribute to learning of others in research team
**Application Details**:
The terms and conditions of employment are covered under the UCalgary and PDAC Collective Agreement. To find out more about postdoctoral scholar program at the University of Calgary visit our Postdocs website.
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