Department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Job Title: Research Associate

Position # 00844793 : – Requisition #: 38848

Job Summary:

This 0.6 FTE position is in a research program focused on the early developmental pathways to auditory development and the influences on perception. By understanding the impact of auditory access on perceptual development over the first year of life into toddlerhood, we hope to develop novel interventions for children vulnerable to language development. This Research Audiologist will be involved in the recruitment, tracking, and testing infants and young children with typical and atypical hearing.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Conduct Research with the Uhler Lab and faculty from the Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in a new state-of-the-art testing facility that includes dedicated space for psychophysical and evoked potential (ABR/EEG) measurements

·         Conducts comprehensive audiometry (pure tone and speech), middle-ear immittance measures, otoacoustic emissions, auditory evoked potentials; air conduction, bone conduction, electrically evoked responses, hearing aid and cochlear implant fittings, programming, and verification, unaided and aided speech discrimination testing

·         Amplification fitting, verification and validation

·         Executes psychoacoustic-based experiments including tonal detection, masking, spectral and temporal resolution, pitch discrimination, etc.

·         Completes data entry, data management and initial data analyses

·         Participates in data dissemination, assists in development and writing of manuscripts for publication

·         Assist in writing grants

·         Maintain and write new research IRB protocols as necessary for the work

·         Train and supervise junior research associates, students and post-doctoral researchers.

·         Actively recruit subjects across campuses

·         Oversees calibration including determination of calibration needs and timetables.  Completes hands-on calibration in laboratories where calibration is completed within the lab

Work Location:

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of 1-2 days on campus (pro-rated for FTE) and as needed for in-person meetings. Specific hybrid arrangements will be discussed with the position supervisor.

Why Join Us:

Thank you for considering joining our team. The field of rehabilitation believes in using your whole body to improve your human performance. The department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado (which we affectionately call "CU PM&R") is at the forefront of using team science, regenerative medicine, and exercise treatments. It is uniquely situated in the state-of-the-art CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the first campus in the nation to be built from the ground up to bring research, education, and patient care into one visionary collaboration. Like the Rocky Mountains that provide a backdrop of our institutions, CU PM&R is on the rise! We combine the discipl