Research Fellow, Digital Health Strategies/Pediatrics

Job Description

The Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Remote Health Monitoring at Wake Forest University Health Sciences are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic research fellow to join our multidisciplinary team led by Dr. François Modave.

Our mission is to empower patients with digital health technologies. The successful candidate will contribute to the creation, implementation, and assessment of effective digital health strategies for helping patients develop and sustain healthy behaviors. The ideal candidate will also contribute to projects across the research enterprise leveraging digital health technologies and have access to funds to support the development of new research projects that leverage resources of the Center for Remote Patient and Participant Monitoring and the scale of the evolving integrated healthcare system, which is currently caring for more than seven million patients in Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, and the Carolinas.  

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in biomedical informatics, computer science, computer engineering or related field, with excellent computational skills in mobile health development (preferably full stack) and Python. Experience with mobile app development needed. Previous experience in artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning is needed as well, as they apply to electronic health record data analysis. Experience in federated learning a strong plus. Experience in medical applications is a plus but not needed. 

As a research fellow, the ideal candidate will also be expected to be involved in manuscript development, grant proposal writing, presentation to conferences, and reporting.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. WFUSM, has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise. 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. AHWFB is an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians. Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all. 

It should be noted that while you are applying on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Career Site, you will receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process. Thanks in advance for your flexibility.