Olivia Woodrow

Research Teaching Specialist I - Rutgers University

Shared by Olivia Woodrow - 20 June 2024
Originally posted by Olivia Woodrow - 20 June 2024

New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Research Teaching Specialist I for the department of Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

The Rabinowitz lab within the Rutgers Addition Research Center (https://addiction.rutgers.edu) is seeking a Research Teaching Specialist I to contribute a number of projects that focus on understanding genetic factors and environments that pay a role in substance use onset and the development of a substance use disorder. Under the direction of Dr. Rabinowitz, the employee will be responsible for the independent conduct of a significant element of a larger research activity and will conduct highly specialized and technical research.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

  • Assist with writing and submitting IRB application.
  • Conduct data cleaning, processing, and analyses (e.g., linear mixed effects models, class/latent profile analysis, latent transition analysis), with a particular emphasis on genetic analyses.
  • Conduct research aligned with the scientific aims of the funded projects with an emphasis on the application of novel methodological and statistical approaches.
  • Present and summarize analyses in various formats including raw output, tables, and graphics, and oral and written reports for preparation of associated manuscripts for peer review and presenting at local, national, international conferences.
  • Provide support for research-related tasks (e.g., applications for publicly accessible data, funding agency project reports and communications).
  • Provide support and consultation to other members of the research team, to include staying current with latest theories and analytic methods related to the scope of the work.