Clinical Research Coordinator - Psychiatry - Behavioral Medicine - Sahlem Lab

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

About The Position

Participates in or lead day-to-day operations of clinical research studies conducted by principal investigator(s) at Duke Health; performs a variety of duties involved in the collection, compilation, documentation, and analysis of clinical research data. May oversee the work of junior staff and train or mentor others in clinical research tasks. The Duke Psychiatric Advanced Clinical-Translational Idea Lab (PACTiLab) utilizes a multidisciplinary collaborative team to focus on the translational development of new treatments for psychiatric illnesses (with a special emphasis on addictive and mood disorders). Our mission is to take mechanistic ideas into the clinical-research setting in the hopes of traversing the translational bridge (performing human laboratory trials, translational treatment trials from phase-1 to phase-3, and research aimed at more directly improving clinical care). Our group embraces the tripartite academic medicine mission. Lab-members are subsequently encouraged to advance science through research, teach what they know, and improve clinical care through treatment trials. The lab has expertise in the use of neuromodulation techniques including repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but is agnostic regarding treatment modality, focused rather on any intervention that has the potential to improve how we treat psychiatric disorders. We are excited to invite three new junior-colleagues to join a soon to be started project that is designed to improve our understanding of the neural-circuitry underling the addictive process in opioid use disorder. The project is investigating a candidate biomarker that we hypothesize might help us understand why a given patient responds well to buprenorphine (the most commonly used medication to treat opioid use disorder), while others might not. We are additionally investigating the efficacy of delivering a course of accelerated rTMS to a personalized brain target developed using functional magnetic resonance imaging. If you are interested in exploring the underlying pathophysiology of addiction and testing both a candidate biomarker and rTMS to see if they can improve clinical outcomes, this might be the team to join!

Requirements

Completion of an Associate's degree
Work requires a minimum of two years of relevant research experience. A bachelor's degree may substitute for 2 years required experience