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One of Canada's Top 10 Research Hospitals, Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing innovations in care for the more than 1.3 million patients the hospital cares for annually. Sunnybrook Research Institute is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Research spans three Toronto-based campuses, eight programs and three scientific platforms. Our main aims are to understand and prevent disease, and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Our vision is to invent the future of health care. Each year, we conduct about $100 million in research across 500,000 square feet, including in the world’s first Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics. The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds is a Canadian multicenter cohort study of healthy participants with the aim of better understanding the impact of individual, socio-economic and other environmental factors leading to cardiac and vascular disease. Participants undergo deep phenotyping employing history taking, blood and genetic testing, and multi organ imaging with MRI. Clinical follow up and search of clinical administrative database will allow the integration of baseline data with various outcome measures. In addition, funding for further imaging has now been designated for a select group of the nearly 9000 initial participants likely in the order of 2500 participants. Sunnybrook Health Sciences is one of the main imaging sites in Ontario. Summary Of Duties This position joins other lab researchers to undertake the day-to-day running of the project. The RA will be involved in a number of tasks including patient re-contact and booking; interviewing; cognitive examination; blood draw; support for the participants during their visits to the hospital. Duties will also include administrative co-ordination and image post processing taking place in the Canadian Atherosclerosis Imaging Network lab previously funded through large CIHR and CFI research grants. Data from other sites across Canada will be received at the CAIN lab for processing and act as a processing hub for carotid artery images. The RA will take a lead in image analysis and organize and teach other members of the lab to help with these tasks. 1-2 years research experience Experience of interaction with diverse patient demographic; data collection, and image analysis Strong interpersonal, time management and organizational skills with prior experience of collaborating closely in interdisciplinary teams Evidence of strong oral and written communication with attention to detail. Demonstrated experience of one-on-one patient interactions in response to questions and concerns arising from the research study Demonstrated knowledge of electronic patient record, and proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and ability to organize and present large imaging data sets for sharing and processing. Ability to undertake high quality image post processing Qualifications The successful applicant should have prior history of clinical research activities. Experience in laboratory activities could include data handling, image processing and analysis. Candidates with prior health sciences experience and qualifications with exposure to the clinical research environment and evidence of research output are particularly suited to this position. An MSc in image processing development and application supporting the large volume required for image handling would be an asset.

What you’ll do

The Research Assistant will manage day-to-day project operations, including patient recruitment, interviewing, and clinical tasks like blood draws. They will also lead image analysis and post-processing for carotid artery images while training other lab members.

Requirements

Candidates should have 1-2 years of research experience, specifically in clinical environments with diverse patient demographics and image analysis. A postgraduate degree (MSc) in image processing is considered an asset.

Listed skills

• Microsoft Office · Preferred
• Time management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Patient Re-contact
• Cognitive Examination
• Blood Draw
• Image Post Processing
• Image Analysis
• Data Collection
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Electronic Patient Records
• Microsoft Office
• Time Management
• Organizational Skills
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication

Job areas

• Science & Research
• Healthcare
• Data & Analytics