Clinical Research Coordinator I, Neurology

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career! 

JOB SUMMARY
The Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center is a nationally recognized leader in the comprehensive management of neurological conditions.  Our vibrant department comprises more than 90 full-time faculty in 12 subspecialty sections, supporting a spectrum of complex and innovative approaches to neurological care, a broad range of novel research programs, and a panoply of educational opportunities for trainees.  The department offers access to the latest innovative treatments in one of the most rapidly advancing fields of medicine and features an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center and a Level-4 NEAC Epilepsy Center.  Through collaborations with the O’Donnell Brain Institute, the department is building state-of-the art facilities for drug and device testing and bringing current and new faculty together for collaborative research on brain disease therapy.

Dr. Elan Louis, the Chair of the Department of Neurology, is interested in hiring a full-time, paid, post-doctoral trainee who will be involved in the Essential Tremor Brain Repository and COGNET studies.  The goal of these clinical research projects is to understand the postmortem brain tissue changes that occur in essential tremor, comparing these changes to those seen in patients with other neurological diseases, and especially the degenerative changes that occur in the cerebellum.  At the same time the COGNET study will allow for the assessment in cognition as the participants age.  These studies, funded by the NIH, draw on the expertise of clinical neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and neuropathologists, and partners with a motivated essential tremor community.

This position is perfect for a motivated person who is interested in obtaining additional clinical research training and experience. The clinical research program interfaces actively with a basic research program.

As part of their educational experience, the post-doctoral trainee will learn about the cause of neurological diseases, the development of methods for clinical evaluation of patients with a broad range of tremor disorders, methods of analyzing clinical human subjects’ data for research purposes, and tools available for clinic-pathological studies of human disease.  The trainee will also shadow at the Movement Disorders Clinic and attend Neurology Grand Rounds.  These meetings will allow the post-doctoral trainee to learn to recognize a range of involuntary movements in the study participants and to learn about the other research studies that are currently being conducted by the department.

The post-doctoral trainee will learn about numerous aspects of clinical research from study design and planning, questionnaire development, and selection of appropriate methods to evaluate and track study subjects.  Opportunities for independent research will be available to the post-doctoral trainee and are strongly encouraged.  Thus, the post-doctoral trainee will learn about statistical analys