Research position at NIH Clinical Center

Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD and surrounding area

Our clinical team uses an integrative medicine approach to provide supportive care to patients in intramural research protocols at the NIH Clinical Center (please see http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/032310/page6  for background information). The core of this integrative approach is based on reducing noxious subjective experiences (e.g., pain, nausea) and increasing patients' adaptive responses (e.g., subjective healing, personal change). The research focus will be on development of questionnaires for predictive assessment, progress assessment, and outcome assessment of patients' adaptive responses based on prior research of highly successful adaptation. Final success will be determined by unsolicited routine questionnaire use by our clinical staff - not solely by statistical validation in research. First tasks will include amendment of our active subjective healing protocol for this next phase of research.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will have a PhD degree relevant to integrative medicine. Prior experience in assessment instrument development is highly desirable, and credentialing in patient care is strongly preferred. US citizenship is not required but proficiency in English is essential.

To Apply:

This position must be filled by September 30, 2012. To apply, please submit curriculum vitae and three letters of reference via email to:

Ann Berger, MD ,and Perry Skeath, PhD
Pain & Palliative Care Service
NIH Clinical Center
Building 10, Room 2-1733
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
aberger@cc.nih.gov ; skeathp@cc.nih.gov
(301) 594-9767

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FOR DETAILS, PLEASE REFER https://www.training.nih.gov/postdoc_jobs_nih/view/_31/1357/Assessing_Patients_Adaptive_Responses_to_Seriou_Illness