RESEARCH COORDINATOR

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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development.

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a full time Research Coordinator. Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. This individual will report to the Associate Director of Human Resources.  The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.

Under the supervision of Dr. Jill Locke, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Research Coordinator provides support for behavioral science research studies involving human subjects.  Activities include taking a lead role on the coordination of one or more school-based research projects with community partners, including the development and monitoring of research procedures; responsibility for quality assurance systems to accomplish research goals; contribution to the analysis of research study results and the preparation of reports for review boards, funders, and publication.

This position will primarily support the implementation trial of a recess-based intervention (Remaking Recess) for autistic students and their classmates who are socially isolated or peripheral on the playground. The study will evaluate a multi-phase implementation strategy to support Remaking Recess use across different interventions for individuals with autism, settings, and ages.

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