Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Academic
Job Category
Faculty Non Bargaining
Job Title
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department
Hohl Laboratory | Department of Emergency Medicine | Faculty of Medicine (Corinne Hohl)
Posting End Date
January 30, 2025
**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
Jan 31, 2026
The expected pay for this position is $75,000.00 - $100,000 CAD per annum
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Summary
The Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Hohl Research Group in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine will conduct real-world drug safety and surveillance research using new adverse drug event data being generated by a technological intervention designed to improve clinical communication of patients' adverse drug events. The incumbent may also have the opportunity to participate in drug safety and effectiveness evaluation of treatments used for opioid poisoning in emergency departments using data derived from the Canadian Emergency Department Research Network.
The successful applicant will also participate in research opportunities through the Canadian Emergency Department Research Network (CEDRN), a newly launched research network in Emergency Medicine. This network will seek, as one of its first priorities, to harmonize data collection on treatments and harm reduction strategies used in Canadian emergency departments in 9 provinces for patients presenting with opioid poisonings. This new clinical dataset will be among the first to capture in-hospital treatments and services which are not available through Canadian administrative datasets.
Appointment Details
Reporting Relationships
The Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hohl Research Group reports to Dr. Corinne Hohl, Professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine.

**Responsibilities**:
Directs, supervises, coordinates data collection, linkage and analysis; including executing the research and surveillance plan.
Designs mechanisms to quantify system
- and provider-level factors associated with variation in ADE reporting
Identifies significant issues, barriers, or challenges that emerge in the post-marketing drug surveillance plan and develops mitigation strategies or resolutions.
Designs studies in drug safety and effectiveness of treatments for opioid poisoning and opioid use disorder using high-quality clinical datasets.
Maintains study documentation, including tracking and monitoring changes (adaptations) to post-marketing drug surveillance strategies throughout the implementation process.
Completes data analysis to quantify and compare safety risks and effectiveness between drugs.
Participates in and provides research updates at regular meetings with other researchers and research assistants.
Reviews other study protocols as assigned, and discuss logistics with Research Investigators and the Research Program Manager. Ensures documentation is consistently maintained as directed by the study protocol.
Develops progress reports and updates for stakeholders and partners (as per the communication plan).
Develops briefing notes and presentations for stakeholders including Public Health, government, and a health improvement network.
Completes other protocol-specific documentation as needed.
Acts as a mentor and resource to Masters and PhD students.
Acts as a resource to various research team members to identify real or potential problems and works to resolve these issues.
Contributes to and/or leads abstract, manuscript writing, presentations for submission to selected journals/conferences and grant proposals.
Other duties as required.

**Qualifications**:
PhD in a relevant discipline required
Relevant research experience in epidemiology; pharmacoepidemiology using quantitative or mixed methods; sociology and/or anthropology of medicine; health informatics; applied science, technology and society perspectives.
Ability and experience in the area of pharmacoepidemiology and clinical research coordination.
Experience collecting and analyzing quantitative or mixed methods data.
Ability to balance multiple commitments, short deadlines and sensitive clinical or research issues.
Excellent communication skills, including strong writing, research and interpersonal skills.
Innovative and creative thinking and a logical approach to problem solving are also necessary
Self-directed, self-motivated and independent work skills
Ability to work as part of a team.
Preference will be given to applicants with intermediate or advanced computer skills in the following software packages: MS Office (particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and NVivo (qualitative data software package).
Experience with information technology in