Clinical Research Coordinator

We are seeking a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital / Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The CRC I will mainly record and analyze human electroencephalography (EEG) and MRI-navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) data. Other types of recordings may include MRI, fMRI, diffusion MRI tractography, MEG, and behavioral recordings. In addition, the CRC I is responsible for recruiting and scheduling participants, obtaining consents, maintaining files, data management, data cleaning, quality assurance, and some analysis duties, as well as generating correspondence, reports, and graphics. This requires training and experience, a detail-oriented personality, learning to use complex devices, and excellent organizing skills.

You will be working as an integral member of an experienced team, reporting directly to the Martinos Center TMS Core leadership. The position will give world-class experience in multimodal human brain stimulation and imaging.

This would be an ideal opportunity for someone bound for graduate school in fields related to neuroscience, or for a candidate preparing for a laboratory staff position.

The responsibilities may vary according to projects, but include the following:

• Identify potential participants. We mainly study healthy adults, but some projects may include neurological and psychiatric patient populations.
• Explain study to participants and family members, obtain informed consent.

• Prepare the TMS and EEG devices and laboratory space for each recording.
• Conduct safety screenings for EEG, TMS, and MRI recordings.
• Prepare subjects for EEG, TMS, and MRI recordings, including explaining tasks
• Record EEG electrode locations using 3D digitizer/navigator devices as needed.
• Record high-quality EEG and TMS data using our equipment.
• Record TMS coil locations using navigator devices.
• Assist in recording MRI data.
• Manage stimulus presentation (visual, auditory, somatosensory) and behavioral response devices and software (Presentation)
• Identify and correct for artifacts in EEG/EMG/ECG recordings.
• Monitor participants during and after TMS/EEG for possible adverse reactions.

• Assist in storing, organizing, and cleaning collected data as needed.
• Assist in conducting evoked and oscillatory domain EEG data analyses using existing software.
• Assist in conducting source analysis of EEG data using existing software.
• Generate reports detailing data collected.
• Conduct literature searches, distribute articles as appropriate.
• Participate in technological (data analysis software, hardware) development if needed.

• Participate in preparing and publishing manuscripts in scientific journals.
• Give talks and other scientific presentations if needed
• Attend scientific conferences if required.
• Attend internal meetings; take minutes as assigned.
• Assist in grant preparation if required.
• Assist in preparing data tables, graphs, and charts for presentations and manuscripts.

• Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, or related fields.
• Courses, knowledge, and hands-on experience with recording and analyzing neuroscientific data (1+ year of prior experience is preferred).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required after starting the position (offered at MGH).

Optional (competencies):

• Familiarity with matlab, python, and linux (CentOS, csh) is useful for data recording and analysis.
• Experience with stimulus presentation and behavioral response devices and software (e.g., Presentation) is helpful.
• Experience with research neuroimaging software packages (e.g., FreeSurfer, FSL, SPM, MNE, FieldTrip, Brainstorm) is useful.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written English) skills.
• Analytical ability is required to prepare reports, maintain data inventory, develop graphs, and identify concerns/responses of participants that require possible intervention.
• Strong interpersonal skills are needed to interact effectively with participants/family members, physicians, supervisors, post-docs, research assistants, and students for various research projects.
• Flexibility to coordinate scheduling with other staff is needed.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in assigned areas of responsibility.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Master's Preferred

Studies; Courses in neuroscience, signal analysis, mathematics, statistics computational modeling, physics, and/or experimental psychology are useful.

EXPERIENCE:

• Required: Some prior hands-on experience with brain recordings and/or stimulation (any species, invasive or non-invasive techniques) and data analysis is required.
• Optional: Experience with neuroimaging software (FreeSurfer, FSL/SPM, MNE, MNE-python, FieldTrip, and/or BrainStorm) is useful.